About Social Security versus republicans. However obamacare has put up so of thellions of Dollars Money i personally worked to put in. He talks about wanting to keep it. Then why did he vote to have the money taken out . If i vote for a republican im looking for Different Things and different people. I am totally undecided but i can tell you i am not going to go clinton. If he can answer that i would sure be willing to listen. Host john on miami john in miami. Caller hes a man of substance. I hear these things about the republicans talking about how is he going to raise the money for these issues . The republicans arent even talking about these issues. Hes the man talking about the important issues. The most important three issues have, global issues we global warming, the other most important issue to me is education, and the third is the economy. At least he is talking about these issues. He is a man of substance. You can hear he is very sincere about these things. Come up withng to the money . That is another issue, how are the republicans going to come up with the money . They are not even talking about the issues, they are talking about each other. Caller larry joins us from honolulu. Caller bernie looks like hes gaining a few pounds. He is santa claus. I dont understand. Santatough to defeat claus, but he uses every cliche in the book out there. He wants to expand Social Security, he wants to expand medicare to everybody, he wants to give free tuition to everybody, he wants to give student loans. Broke. Going we have 18 trillion in debt. We cant pay 18 trillion. And he wants to do this . He wants to put us over the cliff faster than we are already heading. The saddest part of it all is these huge crowds, santa claus will always draw huge crowds. Host jim joins us on the line for independents. Caller i would like to say one inng, the Democratic Party we wouldnt have all of this going on today, especially this 5 trillion iraq war. Bill clinton was a tremendous candidate. I am on the side of all of them. I think bernie is talking pretty good and i liked what he has been saying. [indiscernible] we would not be having on these problems we have in the world today. Host democratic caller is next, zach is on the line. Im sorry, its claude. Go ahead. Caller i just have a few the process that we are in today concerning the election. When you look at the different candidates from trump and on the other 16 or 17 republicans, they act like they were speaking from the past. If you look at what president obama has done and believe me, Bernie Sanders looks great to me. If you look at what president obama has done and when you listen to all the republicans, he is giving everything away. Wars, majork at two legislation concerning the Affordable Care act, in addition to so many other things that have benefited this country and , i would put president obamas record against any president that has come before him. I can tell you for a fact there there havefew been very few president s that had the accomplishments of obama. Trump will tell you this and constantlyat and is talking about how every other candidate is stupid and him. He has all these different degrading statements about him. How did that work out for them . People are following trump today. I prefer stevie wonder. Host you mentioned donald trump and an article comparing Bernie Sanders and donald trump. Kathleen hennessey writing in the l. A. Times now we go to zach on the line for republicans. Caller [indiscernible] both Bernie Sanders and donald p bringing in voters and bernie is bringing in a young crowd and a lot of firsttime voters. Donald trump is bringing in and a lot of republicans who are firsttime voters as well. I think this is maybe speaking toward host and republican caller, you are next. Caller i just listen to the Bernie Sanders speech. He is a socialist. He believes the government should control our society, our industry. I believe we need a smaller government. Make, we need to keep our own money. By doing that it will stimulate the economy. This is supposed to be a government of the people, not of the government. Socialism is the wrong way to go. We are a Capitalistic Society and we should stay that way. We should not be socialist and give our money to the government. How much does he want from the rich . He want 50 . Does he want 70 . These businesses give us jobs. Thats what keeps our economy going. I just dont believe in his ideology. Obamacare is socialism. Host Bernie Sanders appearing today at the Des Moines Register giving, the register candidates the opportunity to give a speech and two q and a with members of the public. Bernie sanders took most of that 20 minutes to not do any q and a with the audience. We would like to get your chance to react. Caleb in massachusetts on the phone, on the line for independents. What did you think of senator sanders today . Caller the reason im impressed with senator sanders is he is the only candidate speaking about canton about financial reform. I agree with it, but i also agree it is more fundamentally apolitical school. We must demand that all legal persons set appropriations. Think Bernie Sanders passion of campaignfinance reform is a passion we only need to share in order to take back power from all the people currently running this country. Host we go next to a malia. To amelia. N caller what that other color caller was talking about, 30 of young white americans are out of a job. Young latino americans are unemployed. Of African Americans are unemployed. Jobs,he is talking about i dont know where she is getting her job specifics from. Taxie sanders does want to that 1 , because that 1 is holding billions of dollars. And those dollars are going into creating jobs. We need infrastructure, we need these jobs to come back to america. Why is no disco going to why mexico . Co going to my dad lost his job because it went out of the country. Signed thatinton Free Trade Agreement a lot of people lost their jobs in the 90s who are in their 50s and 60s, including my father and my aunt. Bernie sanders is going to bring these jobs back. I dont think people understand how much money these 1 are hiding and need to be taxed for the 99 to have a decent wage, a decent living, decent medical care. It is ridiculous. When you are an american and dirt poor it is inadequate. Tweets reacting to Bernie Sanders remarks of the iowa state there, bernie continues to talk about the issues, something no republican has as of yet on the campaign trail. Bernie looking good and making some great points on climate and racial issues as well as economic justice. Bernie sanders, our last chance at an america we knew growing up. A few more of your calls and reaction to burning to Bernie Sanders. Cindy in north carolina, republican caller area go ahead. Caller my point is he is a socialist and he does love to promote the government and promote welfare programs. He was talking about Social Security, but Social Security we should not get rid of Social Security. Those people worked hard for their money and they were progress they were promised Social Security. My feeling is he does not understand how upset this makes the elderly people. President , he used prejudice and preparation for the failure of our country. He never listened to a constitution, never listened to the people. He does not care or understand. Concerned, none of the people of understand all the issues. Trump seems to be the most he seems to be a businessman and make good decisions. I feel like any circle he would be an, his levelheaded could help make a decision once everything is laid on the table. My heart goes out for this country, because it is in an emergency state. We dont get our act together we are going to have some upset people in the world. We are not even thinking about the future of the basics. Few of money, we lack we lack food. Get their act together and get farmers back, get people working, people arent even going to have any money to eat. Joy mary joins us next. Go ahead. Caller i have never been so excited about it president ial candidates like donald trump. I think he will turn this whole country around and i dont think we have to be dealing with iraq, whatever, because he will handdelivered all. Hes not afraid to speak his the things he says are things we are thinking ourselves. He has the initiative. He is just great. Are concerned about our people in this country, we should give donald trump the vote, because he will not take any garbage from anybody. Obama, i feel like he does not like america. To give us israel for iran is completely stupid. Kerry and joehn same are also in the category as obama is. Host your thoughts about senator Bernie Sanders and his remarks today. Caller i tried to think of a good way to say it. Its like santa claus, he will give us everything we want. If youderstand raise the minimum wage to this living wage and it is 15 per hour, then everything is going to go up or you and the price of everything is just going to go up. Unless you are going to cap how much the people at the top can potentially make they are used to their money and they are going to want to keep that the same. Go up atre going to everything is going to go up. He wants to put more and more money into education. Child. Ady spend more per it is a ridiculous amount per child. Everything is failing as it is. That doesnt make any sense. Host we hope to hear all of todays coverage from the iowa state fair tonight starting at 8 p. M. Eastern here on cspan. You can watch it on our website, cspan. Org the iowae back at state fair tomorrow sunday at 5 p. M. Eastern time for ben carson on the Des Moines Register soapbox. That is followed by 5 30 p. M. , the governor of lew york of new york George Pataki will be there. Our live coverage continuing then on cspan. Now we are going to reair some of todays coverage. Well start with Hillary Clintons meet and greet and show you the speeches from the Des Moines Register soapbox. And hisald trump conversation with reporters before he allowed children to arrive on his helicopter. We start off on the meet and greet as Hillary Clinton made the rounds at the iowa state fair. So happy to see you. You got it. Glad to see you, hillary. Hillary clinton i knew johns sister. A we had so much fun together when we caught up at fayetteville. She was postmaster general at the attorney generals office, and then bill convinced her to go to washington for a while. Great to see you. Wonderful to see you too. Me to be sure i give you this information. Hillary clinton we need to get a picture we can take together. If you have a phone we can get the senator and me together with you too. John is going to be in it. Here we go. Yourself . Want one by we will take a couple. That is wonderful. Hillary clinton she and i used to run little potlucks together winning in a avail. We will have people over and have these little potlucks. Iowarought with her from how do people come together for and k we live just north of lucas and we have a native business. The program said not just during the campaign but afterwards. [laughter] them it is so good to see you back here. We have to get together. It sounds like it will be wonderful. Then it happens to you and it is like the best. You are worse than the rest of us. Of them we are crazy. We are way over the top. We are crazy. We are way over the top. Thank you, take care. Hillary clinton you should have heard him. Thats my. Thats my daughter. Two years now. It was in eastern iowa and then decided i wanted to join the forces with my father. Husband had teed good job so she quit hers and joined had two good jobs so she quit hers and joined. Family farms generation after generation. Go howy years you many years . Them over 100 years. Im a sixth generation. My two kids are back from college. I have three little grandsons. Hillary clinton six generations, how far back does that go . As far back as we can go, it traces to europe. I have a strong love of agriculture. Hillary clinton so great. It is so wonderful having the chance to sit down and talk with you all and have you here. That was wonderful over there. Thank you for hearing us. When you said that wonderfully signed letter, it was so perfect. You folks put that together. It came from listening. I know it doesnt bring. Eadlines wanted to introduce myself, say hello, thank you for coming. Longtime dairy farmer. Im a mother of a severely disabled child if she is on 14 different medications right now. Methadone, morphine. She is only three. Her name is quinn. She is so severe that she has epilepsy, hard seizures, they cant stop. She is on a feeding tube. Not expected to live very long, but i have been advocating for medical cannabis on a nationwide level. We would love your support for a real medical purpose. Clinton entity research so we know. On owlmeds that she is probably kill her faster than the disease. I wanted to introduce myself and coming out to the state fair. I am in iowa native. Bob, weood friends with love them. Thank you for all you do. Hillary clinton i will continue to support it. And i want to get the Research Going on. She is part of a Clinical Trial right now. Im looking at alternatives. She is only three, she is gorgeous. She deserves so much. Thank you. Who are we following . Following eric. Have to start from scratch. Its going to take a couple of years, but they are coming back. Our farmers are resilient. They are focused and dedicated. i eat a lot of eggs, so i hope they will come back. He was telling us about covenant back from all that. 30 million. Could you take it please . Hillary thanks a lot. You got it. Hi, how are you doing . Harry going to be over here . Are we going to be over here . How are you . Grade. Great. Hillary wow. Our next speaker is former senator rick santorum, running for the republican nomination for the president. Mr. Santorum was first elected to the u. S. House of and will serve two terms in the u. S. Senate. The2012 winner of republican iowa caucuses. Senator rick santorum. I apologize from being a few minutes late. I just came from a rally at the state capital. I was very proud to be the only president ial candidate who not only stood up there and talked about how we have to defund planned parenthood, but talk about the reality of what planned parenthood is doing. I know this because i wrote the law. Planned parenthood was described by the doctors in this videos at something called a partialbirth abortion. That was done to protect the vital organs so they can harvest the organs for research and other types of nefarious rings. Planned parenthood shouldnt be defunded. Plan parenthood is breaking the law, federal law, and needs to be prosecuted under federal law. Runningsked me why i my , because we need someone in washington dc who can get is done. Everyone knows the leadership i have applied on the issue of marriage. A very important piece of legislation. The Supreme Court said that banning partialbirth partialbirth abortion was unconstitutional. Most people when they have a Court Decision that are against what they believe, they do what most president ial candidates have done. They said it is the law for the land, it is time to move on. It is not the law of the land and the last thing we need to do is move on. We need to stand up and fight. And i did. , he went to the United StatesSupreme Court. In that law we laid out and we laid out how the court was wrong. Government f when i took my old of office pledgedoffice to i to uphold the constitution. Has asenator, president obligation to be faithful to the constitution. When the Supreme Court gets it wrong, it is the responsibility of congress to fix it. I am the only one who has done that. We need leadership another issues. Time where what is happening around the world, the threats resmed against america , inising against america russia and south america, this president has deliberately empowered the enemy through his actions. He has empowered russia by not holding up to our treaties. He has empowered syria, iran, isis, china. Every step of the way, he has been very harsh to her life. We need our allies. We need a leader that will stand with the principles of our country. That will stand with our allies to make sure our interests are defended. There is no one in this race that has the record i do on national security. About three months ago, isis published a magazine. I took notice. Three months ago, my picture was in their magazine. It was under the headline in the words of our enemy and it was my picture underneath that next to a quote where it laid out who they are and i laid out why and how they can be defeated. Enemyut me on the isis list. There is no one else in this race who has been on that list and unfortunately. Why am i on that list . Time and treasure to understand the nature of our enemy. The sanctions that brought iran to the bargaining table that i was the author of those sanctions. We want and those sanctions were put in place won and those sections were put in place. Whoeed a leader who can do will stand up to isis, has a plan to defeat isis, not contain them fo. All we do is empower them to recruit more people here and around the world. We must take back their land, we must destroy their states. If we do not, the incidence you here and see about hear about, they will accelerate. They are accelerating. Threatsake these seriously. I will make sure isis is not spending more money on weapons. Onir spending their money body bags because that is what will happen if you make me the president of the United States, we will defeat isis. We did leader who will stand up for the men and women in this country left behind. The difference between four years ago and today, we have seen a continuation in the decline of the state of living in the middle of americ