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Hillary clinton has been in this state for six or eight months now. they hired the right people from the obama and clinton campaigns. they have both sets of people working it. they dont have yet the indoersment. as you remember the culinary union is about 56% hispanic. it is not yet indoersed. most people endorsed obama and clinton ended up winning the state. obama understood the caucus system and got more delegates. they learned now the caucuses are important, all the comments about how they do...

I think what trump has done successfully i would say is take that anger, take that anxiety about terrorism and say to a lot of people in this country, look, the reason for our problems is because of mexicans, or he says about the muslims, theyre all terrorists. we got to keep them out of this country. thats what we have to deal with to make america great. meanwhile interesting enough, john, this is a guy who does not want to raise the minimum wage. he has said he thinks wages in america are too ...

>> lets talk about this fact that martin omalley taking certainly a hit or swing at hillary clinton regarding this e-mail and what was perceived as a diss of the iowa caucuses and perhaps i guess trying to expose her in some way here, though obviously shes doing very well in the polling. >> some context here. among the thousands of e-mails that were released earlier this week went from hillary clinton to her friend sidney blumenthal when she talked about mitt romney and newt gingrich, mentioned ...

Rick santorum won the iowa caucus in 2012. why do we care so much about iowa? >> well, i mean, iowa is a great state. republicans, above all, appreciate tradition. its representative state in the general election. the problem is, the caucus system, taking 1/3 of the republicans, which is 1/3 of the state. it can have these unrepresentative results. the problem is, perceptions of iowa and the caucus distort candidates strategy. even the way they ignore general election electability or their true ...

If youre running for president. republican and democratic candidate for president traveled to iowa this weekend for annual iowa state fair and not to rise the ferris wheel, they are there to work. checking out their standing in the totally unscientific cast your kernel poll giving their stump speech atop a traditional "des moines register" soap box wearing aprons and grilling up pork burgers for the sweaty and hungry fair goers and, of course, checking out the 600 pound cow sculpture made entire...

But it was not a time for rest if youre running for president. republican and democratic candidate for president traveled to iowa this weekend for annual iowa state fair and not to rise the ferris wheel, they are there to work. checking out their standing in the totally unscientific cast your kernel poll giving their stump speech atop a traditional "des moines register" soap box wearing aprons and grilling up pork burgers for the sweaty and hungry fair goers and, of course, checking out the 600 ...

Candidates for president traveled to iowa this weekend for the annual iowa state fair. and not to ride the ferris wheel, they were there to work. checking out their standing in the totally unscientific cast your kernel poll giving their stump speech atop a traditional "des moines register" soap box, wearing aprons and grilling up pork burgers for the sweaty and hungry fair goers and, of course, checking out the 600 pound cow sculpture made entirely of butter. iowa is the first state in the natio...

Such as -- same-sex marriage being a human right not something tackled state by state. do progressives in iowa want to see ohmalley or another progressive person challenge clinton? >> well look i would just put it this way -- that our caucus system is wide open. we encourage everyone to come out and throw their hats in the ring do whatever they want to do. we want a wide-open caucus system. i personally am involved in trying to get more people to go to the caucus. both republicans and democrats,...

Thats where you really have to connect with voters. its a caucus system. those voters want to see you, touch you, they ask you questions. i remember it took me three visits to get one caucus member to support me. then in the end, he switched to obama. so this is a very tough state. and thatll be the ultimate test, i think, how she does there. >> well, listen if youd added president to your resume it would have been way too long to introduce you every time youre on the show. thank you very much f...

Its the next it lit race what obama talked about in 2008. >> paul talked about justice and opportunity and freedom. where is he headed to next? >> thomas, hes kicking off a early state tour hes going to head to new hampshire but first stop in boston then to south carolina where were expecting him to make a u.s. policy speech in front of the uss yorktown you heard michael steele talking about he didnt shy away from this slightly more hawkish version of himself. later on hell head to iowa and do a...