Kristen from spokane, washington on the democrats line. Go ahead, please. I watched miss williamsons speech. She is spot on on things. What i would like to see in a i would is not debates, want to see all the leaders, all the president ial people that are going to move on in the debates. Lets sit down and have a consortium and see and do a bullet point. What is our most important thing . Vote him outis to at the ballot box. Steve the next debate is scheduled for houston, texas, airing on abc. Jared from waterford new york waterford, new york, republican line, have you been watching much of the fair . Yes. I would like to say Marianne Williamson is a wingnut. I hope democrats nominate her so trump can win in 2020. I want to talk about one of the most important issues to me, gun rights. All guns should be legal. Democratsublicans and fight for the Second Amendment. And to all the republicans supporting red flag laws and universal background checks, you will lose more seats in congress in november if you do that. Steve why do you oppose the red flag laws are background checks . Because they are tyrannical. If you look at red flag laws, the idea that any Law Enforcement member can just bust down your door and demand you people your guns is of the something out 1700s. The idea of background checks is ridiculous. Again, it is against the Second Amendment. Toast in a license to the toaster on my in my own home . I think not. I dont think you should need to go through a background check to get a gun. Steve how do you strike a balance between preserving the Second Amendment and also not seeing what happened in el paso, texas, dayton ohio, parkland, florida, las vegas, nevada, or Parkland High School . It starts with arming yourself. We need to get rid of gunfree zones to prevent Something Like parkland, but i also think it is a mentalhealth thing. We need more mental health, we need to discover why this is happening. I dont think gun restrictions are going to help. There look at california, was a shooting there. California has some of the most strict gun laws in the countries at that couldnt prevent that. Steve thanks for the call from waterford, new york. If youre keeping track of this inl courtesy of channel 13 des moines, our colleague nate hearst with the very latest, it is the colonel paul the poll, jill biden leading with 29 , followed by mayor pete luta judge, senator elizabeth, senator Kamala Harris and senator bernie sanders. Among republicans, 97 support donald trump, 3 support governor bill weld. Governor weld will join us tomorrow on the cspan bus. He will also be at the Des Moines Register on the political soapbox, speeches by the candidates. You can see a huge crowd getting ready for kiersten jello brand, coming up in seven minutes. Florence next, joining us from ohio on the republican line. Good afternoon. I would like to say i would i would likeee to see miss williams on the circuit next time. I would also like to see them talk about issues instead of talking about each other or one ient trump the only would look for right now for the democrats i vote either party, not just one party, and i vote for the best person that. As the best answers to issues either pete to see buttigieg or Maryann Williams on the ticket. Steve the president taking aim at the new york times, writing on twitter, Maggie Hagerman reported i was annoyed by the lack of cameras at the hospitals in dayton and el paso when in fact i was the one that stated strongly i did not want the fake news inside and told my people it to let them in, calling fake reporting. Next, from covina, california, good afternoon. Good afternoon, cspan. And thank you so much for showing the iowa therapy. I live all the way in california , so there is no way i could go to iowa right now. Steve do you feel like you are there through our coverage . Yes i do, yes i do. I wish, though, that Democratic Candidates would disclose right now all the corporate funds that they are getting read Pete Buttigieg that they are getting. Kamala harris, joe biden, cory booker, they all have a lot of Corporate Companies in their pockets. Bernie sanders doesnt. Elizabeth sanders doesnt and neither does miss williams son. Neither does miss williamson. It is important to disclose now who is paying all their funds for going around the country and saying, please vote for me. Because if anything is true through this poll i have seen, Pete Buttigieg, yes he has a lot of good points, but he is deep in the pockets of corporate america. Why would we want that . Why would you want somebody knowing somebody . The only people they should be yelling is the American People who voted them in, believe in their statements at what they are going to do for the country, and support them to get it done. Thanks for your comments. Pete buttigieg will be live at the iowa state fair tuesday at 2 30 here on cspan. Do you have a final point . Gunse person talking about in california, the gentleman that went to shoot the poor people up north, he cut through a metal fence and went through some water that was blocking anyone from going into the area where the garlic festival was. It wasnt that he just walked in , they had security, im pretty sure they had no idea somebody was going to cut through the metal fence and go through water just to shoot people. Steve thank you for the call. We moved to diane in new hampshire, where it begins, first of the nation caucus. Are you going to participate when you vote . I am. , i would like to say i think the most very important thing is the environment. Trump doesnt believe in global warming. Very, very, very important point. All these democrats that are to beg they seem wonderful people and i hope they really focus on the environment big time. Steve we have vicki from oregon, republican line, what are your thoughts . Are, i am ats registered democrat but i am backing trump, i voted republican lately, the last few years, but i am concerned, and i wish democrats and all of the country would concentrate so much more on the movies and videos that desensitize and are so harmful, instead of putting all the gun and violence going to trump. These movies today, and stuff, you just sit and look at, i cant believe it, but they are feeling kids and young peoples minds. I think a lot of it is coming from that. Farm thank you, prineville, oregon. In about 30 seconds you will hear from somebody from the des thens register and senator kiersten jello brand. You can see a huge crowd. If we get her from the soapbox to the bus, she will be here to take your calls and hear your comments. You are watching live coverage from the state fair in des moines. All our video coverage on cspan. Org. Welcome to the political soapbox. Who has been here all day . Whooo. You know what iowa nice means, tell your friends and neighbors. Everyone, wear sunscreen, drink water, it is getting mighty hot. And now, senator kiersten jello brand. hello,gillibrand everybody. I want to introduce the director of fun, henry gillibrand. This is the driver of the rv, jonathan jello brand. Hi, everyone. Gillibrand henry loves your state fair, so thank you. Henry won that, no joke, it was a little frisbee thing, anyway, it is such a pleasure to be here. I cant tell you how exciting it is. I got my start in politics in a community not unlike this. My grandmother was a woman who loved politics, started working at age 18 as a secretary in our state legislature. 75 years ago, she looked around, all the legislators were men, all the staff were women, so she wanted to have a voice. She did not know how, she knew her voice was important, but she figured the voice of all the women was even more important. So she learned to work on campaigns she learned to organize, she taught women had to go door to door, how to stuff envelopes, how to make phone on a, and my first Memory Campaign was when i was henrys age, it was a hot august day, the women were wearing dresses not unlike mine, sleeveless, cotton dresses to keep cool, and there were stuffing envelopes. And i am thinking, i am , theirzed by their arms jiggly arms, and i am saying to myself, i want to be just like those ladies someday. Arms forgh, jiggly everybody. I loved my grandmother and how much she loved politics, because it was an extension of her values, who she was, what she wanted to accomplish and who she wanted to help in her communities. So i followed in her footsteps. But the one lesson my grandmother taught me was i should never give up. That there was nothing i couldnt do, and there was no such thing as impossible. I took those words to heart. If you need to know anything about me, anything at all, you tell me something is impossible, i get it done. I have done it my whole life. 2006, ran for congress in i was told i could not win by upstate new york congressional district. I went to my poster and i said, i want to run in new york 20, can i win . He said no. I said really . He said no. And i said, i have been helping campaigns for a decade, i know how to raise money, i could raise 2 million to get my message out. Could i win then . He said, no, it is toone 21blican it is republican. And i said, what if i run a Perfect Campaign . And he said kiersten, there are more cows than democrats in your district and you cant win. And i said, i am frustrated, what happens if this guy gets indicted . I could beat him then, right . He says, it depends what he gets indicted for. [laughter] red district. D, the only person who thought i could win was my mother. That tells you a lot about my mother. My mother was raised by her mother, my grandmother, to be strong, brave, my mom was one of only three women in her law school class. When she came to be an albany lawyer, a lot of people in the gayrights community did not have lawyers, so they came to her. She helped them. If she wanted if they wanted a house, if they want that he will, she helped them. By the time she was my age she was a Second Degree black belt in karate. My mom didnt just cook the thanksgiving turkey, she shot that thanksgiving turkey. I grew up in a family of strong women, so want to rent for this congressional district, nobody thought i could do it but it did. Madene mistake my opponent is he never took me seriously, not wants. He demeaned me, dismissed me, called me names, just like trump will do. At one point he said, you are just another pretty face. I said, thank you. Then i talked about all the ways i was different from him. I talked about why we need to get our troops out of iraq erie. Talked about why health care should be a right area i ran on medicare for all in a 21 republican district and i one. [applause] i ran for reelection. My opponent again didnt take me seriously. In that campaign i was pregnant with henry. Isad a toddler at home, who at camp canoeing in the wilderness, and im Walking Around the district and he runs all negative ads, really mean ads, so mean i had to turn the tv off because i had a toddler at home. I did not want him to see his mothers face and read with flames coming out of my head and a dark voice saying, she is not who you think she is. So we learn something in politics that day. You cannot win a Congressional Campaign against a young mother with an infant and a toddler, with negative ads. No one believes you. I beat him by 24 points. [applause] so it was not impossible. When i got to the u. S. Senate, i met with a soldier, a man who said, i joint of the military because i believe in the honesty, integrity, the character of people who serve in the military and i wanted to be one of them, but not for me because i am forced every day to lie about who i am and who i love, and i cannot bear it. Repeal i will help you dont ask, dont tell. I will help you lift up your voice. I went to the advocate and said, we must repeal this i went to the advocates and said, we must repeal this now. They said, the military wont let it happen. The best we can hope for is that president obama doesnt and force it. And i said that is not good enough. We have to repeal this corrosive, horrible, discriminatory policy, and i got to work. I went first to democrats and i said, we have to repeal dont ask, dont tell. But democrats said, why are you doing this now . It is not convenient. When our civil rights ever convenient . [applause] the democrats on the bill, i found a republican i found the republican allies i needed, worked together, we got seven republicans, we stood up to the pentagon and we repeal dont ask, dont tell. It was not impossible. [applause] and then i am asked as a freshman senator, you have to help, we need to pass the 9 11 health bill. Well, i was told it was impossible because it was dead on arrival. It sat in the house of representatives for seven years, 20 hearings, no progress, in the senate it had not even been introduced, not even written, not even a hearing. So i got to work. I wrote the bill. I introduced it. I got a hearing. I found a republican. He cosponsored it. I went to friends in the senate, my women friends, and said, how do i pass a big bill like this . And they said, we will help you, we will tell you to pay for it in a way republicans cant say no. They helped behind the scenes. We asked First Responders to come to washington over and over and over again. Within a year and a half, everybody was talking about it. We had msnbc, of course, we had cnn, of course, we had john stewart, of course, two episodes on the 9 11 health bill. But we did not have fox news. So i went into the lions den and men with and i met with roger ailes. And i said, you say you are the party of First Responders, where are you . I convinced him. We learned a second think that is true in politics. When you have jon stewart on one side and fox news on the other site, you are going to win. It passed unanimously. Not impossible. I had to bring it back up five years later, because the money permanent, and just two weeks ago we made it permanent, and just made it permanent forever, not impossible. Questionhe number one is, can you be trump question the number two question is, can you be trump . Number three, can you be trump . The answer is yes. It is not impossible. I will tell you how, because i have always represented everyone. It doesnt matter who you are, where you live or who you love. I have your back. I will represent your family as if you were my own. It is who i am. It is what i have done. My three mate my three races in new york, i have the highest vote percentage in the history of the state, higher than obama, higher than hillary, higher than trump. I just want to a bunch of counties thats i just wanted a bunch of counties where trump won in the last election. So i winning red places, i winning blue places, i bring people together and they get things done. President trump does not know he signed my bills into law, but he did. So i get things done. [applause] got to tell you, President Trump is dividing us. Hate crimes have gone up under him. Racism, homophobia, misogyny, antisemitism. And he has emboldened white supremacists. He has emboldened racists. He has emboldened hate groups. He finds moral equivalencies where there are none. He said there were good people on both sides after charlottesville. He laughed when an organizer in florida, when he is doing a big rally and he said, what do we do with emigrants and someone shouts out, shoot them, and he laughed. He is giving permission for hate to flow. I decided to run for president because we need someone who will remind this country we are so much stronger when we care about one another. We are such a better country when we believe in the golden rule. [applause] when we treat others the way we want to be treated, when we love one another, when we care about the least among us, that is who i am. I am a person of deep faith. I believe in matthew 25, i believe in matthew five, that we are the light of the world, meant to be on a hill so all can see, that is the beacon of light and hope in america. We are meant to be the light of the world. Also know what to do thing i am going to do when i am elected president , i am going to clorox the oval office. [applause] the second thing i am going to do is restore our moral leadership on the world stage, signed onto Global Climate inords, lead, lead the world a worldwide conversation about how we attack local climate change. It is an idea that is big, but we can do it. When john f. Kennedy said i want to put a man on the mood in this moon in man on the this decade, not because it is easy, but because it is hard, it is a measure of our effectiveness as a country, he knew a space race with russia would galvanize the country, to want to be an astronaut, to want to be an engineer, and it worked, and we can do the same thing with green energy, our farmers can be part of biofuels, carbon sequestration, Rural America can lead the way and how tackleck all how we climate change. Our farmers and scientists are the best in the world, they can invent a way out of this problem, make sure you award innovation, we can do this. I will do this as your president. Is it impossible . Not impossible. Past health care as a right, not approved Pass Health Care is a right, not a privilege, take on the insurance companies, not impossible. I will deliver health care as a right. And when people have lost loved violence,n suffered through it, survived gun violence, it is crippling. One of my best friends in the house was gabby giffords. I watched what happened when she a cornerake went to to serve the public and a little girl who showed up was shot and killed. Gabby survived. Dow many others dont . So i will take on the nra, get money out of politics, because it is not impossible. Thank you so much. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [inaudible] iowansow you care about with disabilities. We are worried about the virtual caucuses because they are not making sure people with disabilities can use them. Can you push the Democratic Party to do that . I have beenibrand meeting with people here in iowa. One of my favorite youn