401(k)s, worrying about filing for bankruptcies. i mean this is stuff we hear about all the time on top of prescription drugs. you make it sound as if this presidential race is swirling around, and then there is real life. yeah. and they are not interacting, intersectioning as much as they should. they re doing their best. they have huge teams here and exciting and a lot of energy folks turning out in huge numbers. that s great. but at the end of the day is not how you win in february, but how do you win in november of next year and make sure that we don t lose my state? we are democrat, people who care about health care, making sure every person in the country gets it. we may have different ideas of how to get there. but our values are the same. and that i hope comes across these next months until the caucuses. the values have to be there. ahead on the axe files. holy smokes. i know. this has change. where were you in here when you jumped on the table the
element of your campaign. the iconic events. so you just lit people up at the wing king ding. yeah, that was fun. and the issues driving caucus goers. so it strikes me at least from now to february i m sitting with some of the most powerful people in america. welcome to the axe files in iowa. iowa is the gateway to the presidential race. and a bunch of people aren t going to make it. pretty much you throw a stone in the state and you ll hit a presidential candidate. they re all over the state. they ve had thousands of meetings and events. and by august you begin to see the contours of the race. there is nobody in this race, save perhaps vice president biden who knows more about the iowa caucuses than you. what is unique about this first
reminded me of another guy. john mccain. tomorrow marks the one year anniversary of his passing. i remember sitting at his funeral in washington, d.c. listening to moving testimonials from his colleagues, politicians and presidents from both parties, friends and family. it was a hand picked list, each of whom mccain thought would reflect him accurately, even if that meant some affection it ribbing. in the years that passed i reflected on mccain ska s legacy more times than i can count bowing perm and politically. but i noticed how big a hole he left. how noticeable his absence in the senate. how conspicuous the silence where his voice should be, how important the clarity of conscience, how absent the decency and civility. tomorrow i know i ll reflect on his legacy yet again. and i hope that if just for a few minutes you will too. that s it for us. david axelrod hits the campaign trail in iowa. stick around for the axe files
friendly. don t get me wrong it s a vigorous appear fierce competition. people expect you and by the way your support tors interact well with each other. i think there is a kind of ethic about it i appreciate. and theres just a kind of spirit to the whole thing that i think really does bring us down to earth. off of the tv airwaves out of of the national picture and into a room with a bunch of other fired up democrats wanting to see where the future is going to be. inquiring democrats. you see them sometimes three and four and five times. yeah. these people are not signing on the dotted line. i m talking to a lot of people. saying i think you re fantastic. you re in my top four. well, i guess that s what you get from being in a field of 25. top four is pretty good. exactly. i ll take it. but they re not giving out the vote easily. they want to we go and poke and product your ideas and i think your character. coming up on the axe files, . this is a state that s overwhel
that s all stuff a voter can determine by him or herself. broken promises. go through what he said his presidency was going to be like and where he s fallen short because that s concrete. frank, david, thank you very much. i appreciate it. be sure to watch david axelrod on the axe files saturday night at 7:00 eastern right here on cnn. i appreciate it. the president s attacks on jewish voters are still making waves. my next guest calls what he said breathtakingly cynical and buffoonish and he knows what he s talking about. he s the former u.s. ambassador to israel. he s next. we re pretty different. we re all unique in our own ways. somos muy diferentes. muy diferentes. (vo) verizon knows everyone in your family is different. there are so many of us doing so many different things. (vo) that s why verizon lets everyone mix and match different unlimited plans. sebastian s the gamer. sebastian. this is my office. (vo) and now with more plans, everyone gets what they need without pay