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Announcer this week cspan was on the road following candidates as they pressed into the final months before iowas first in the nation caucus slated for january 15. We will watch it nikki haley pick up a key endorsement from governor chris sununu, see Chris Christie at a town hall in the Granite State, the messages former President Donald Trump are sending to iowa caucusgoers. Also i day on the trail with president ial hopeful dean phillips as he met with the voters in New Hampshire. First conversation with the White House Correspondent for the associated press. She talked to us about President Bidens recent funded fundraising push. We do not know for sure what the numbers look like until the end of the fundraising quarter and the Biden Campaign releases their figure sometime in january. It is usually the middle of the month, so midjanuary we should have a better snapshot of what the Biden Campaigns fundraising looks like, but in the past couple of weeks he has done quite a few fundraisers. He just recently had up los angeles. His first fundraiser there after the actors and Writers Strike essentially shut down democratic fundraising in that part of the country. Liberal california is known as a atrium for democrats. He has more fundraising on his schedule. Is this usual for an incumbent president to be fundraising at this level, and is he on schedule to meet his goals . Yeah, it is definitely usual. Part of the burst of fundraising were seeing right now from President Biden is due to the fact we are entering the holiday season, and we are also coming up to the end of the fundraising quarter, so candidates want to make a final push and attend as many fundraising events as they can knowing that the last week or so of december is pretty much off limits in terms of Campaign Fundraising activity, so that is why we are seeing a burst of fundraising activity from the president. I mentioned the events in california. He had an event in california. I would expect to see him doing fundraising next week as well before we get into the crunch holiday week before around Christmas Eve time through the end of the year, and as far as what the numbers look like Biden Campaign, all president ial campaigns, all campaigns in general going to do think that their numbers are the best, but we will not know until the fundraising reports are made public. How was he doing compared to other president ial candidates just overall . How is it looking. He is about on pace with former President Donald Trump and his level of fundraising, and the Biden Campaign is banking on our former rematch with President Trump. With the biden campell one is to basically have as much money as the republican president ial candidate or the person they expect to be the president ial nominee so that they are able to go toe to toe with a 10 next year once the Campaign Starts in earnest. What are these donor receptions like . Give us an idea. I went to a couple of them recently. I was traveling with him while he was in boston. He had three fundraisers in that one trip. Most people have to be one did wanded by the secret service. They are in a room while he is speaking, keeping an eye on the exits and watching the donors as they would watch any person who has at any kind of public event the president is at. They are always scanning the room in case of something or being on guard. Unfortunately depressed is not get to see the whole thing, but the ones that i went into the donors are in a room, so in this case they were seated in a hotel, usual hotel seating. They were clustered around some roundtables and had bottles of water or send pellegrino. There were other cocktail tables where donors were mingling around. I think i notice 60 or so people, so it was very small and on the more intimate side, and someone will come in and introduce the president , and President Biden will enter to applause and speak for about 15 or 20 minutes, then the press is led out of the room, and there is more conversation. Sometimes there is q a with the donors that we are not allowed to hear. Often the president will pose for photographs for those who have contributed a certain amount of money. Surprisingly enough he did not stay to hear james stare james taylor playing his guitar. Who are the donors . They are people who gave to the Biden Campaign in 2020 or have given to the Biden Campaign. As soon as the president opens his remarks and gives them think use, he often says one of the reason he is there is to say thank you to them, because they helped him in 2020 and he is looking for them to up them again. For the most part they are people who contributed in the past and continue to attribute, and they might be people who may not have contributed but to see the president in the flesh and sized him up a little bit before they commit big money to his campaign. One of the fundraisers he went to last week, the top amount was somewhere in the 900,000 range, and i am not all that certain whether it was just for one individual or a group individual, but there are tiers, and tickets can go from anywhere between a few hundred dollars to hundreds of thousands of dollars. What did they get in exchange . They get to be able to say they were at a reception with the president , that they might have had their picture taken with him, it they got to ask him a question or had oneonone face time with him. They got to hear him speak, that sort of thing. It is kind of like the price of admission, and they get to be able to talk about being at an exclusive event with the most powerful man on the face of the earth. Will the president and his campaign go back to these donors over and over again leading up to the general election . There are some donors who can be tapped again and again. It depends on how much they have given, and there are limits on how much an individual can give to a political campaign, so if they have not maxed out the president can go back and ask for more money, and that is one reason why a lot of campaigns are interested in small dollar donors, because you can go back to those people again and again and again, 50, 100 until they had their maximum limit. What is the president saying to these donors at these receptions . He says lots of things. He will open by thinking them thanking them. She will talk about what he sees as the things he has accomplished since taking office. He will run through economic stats, low in unemployment, inflation coming down. At a recent fundraiser he was talking about investments in infrastructure. He will talk about what is going on in israel and the war between israel and hamas, the situation in ukraine, and he will talk a little bit about some of the things he wants to do if he gets reelected and given a second term. The Student Loan Debt issue is one he is stymied on right now because of the Supreme Court, and he would like to work on that a little more. He talked about wanting to bring down prices for consumers. Junk fees are another issue that are important to them in terms of the limiting those, and lately he has been taken to talking about former President Donald Trump, who it is looking very likely the former president will be President Bidens opponent auntie is starting to draw contrast between himself and former President Donald Trump. She talks about President Trump being a risk and a threat to democracy. She will talk about some of the things former President Trump has said recently, the use of the word vermin to describe his political opponents, the fact that President Trump said he would be a dictator but only on day one, nt tries to draw contrast between himself and his approach to governing versus what he says President Trump would offer the country if he is reelected. Any well known names at these receptions as of late that you can think of or who are known to give to the bidenharris reelection bid . At one of the california fundraisers this past weekend Barbra Streisand was there. I mentioned james taylor at the event. Robert de niro has showed up at fundraisers. I do not want to say the usual suspects, but it is some of the names you can expect. Steven spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg is part of the campaign apparatus, so he was also on hand in calirn this past week and. The messenger reptethat in addition to fundraiser, the country president by reelecon ad in english and spanithis new targeting latino voters and comparing republican front runner donald trump to dictators hugo chavez and nicolas maduro. Lets watch. We start before the sun and after it is gone down. We are invisible, but not joe biden. He sees us, he invested us in our communities, our businesses, but republicans do not and like dictators they want to take things away, our health insurance, our right to freedom, and even our safety. The difference is clear, told with the biden. Republican congressman Randy Feenstra also listed president ial candidates in his distct last weekend. At the iowa capital dispatch reported nikki haley, torta governor ron desantis, ryan binkley and Vivek Ramaswamy all brought their families on stage at the event, which was billed as a discussion on family values in politics. Before the big event Vivek Ramaswamy met up with a local College Students for an athletic preparation session. [chatter] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 [counting] 30. [cheers and applause] a couple of minutes from the event itself with Casey Desantis what you want to tell every iowa voter about her husband, gop president ial hopeful ron desantis. Obviously he is a dead. I would talk about his military experience where he went through two very liberal universities but came more conservative on the versailles. He saw a and decided to commission as an officer and serve and go over to a rack because he wanted to give back and fight for a principles. I can talk about the fights, he has talked a lot about disney, delivering on 100 of its principles, and everything that he said he would do for the people of the state of florida. But if there is one thing i want you to know about ron desantis is that, and this is particularly highlighted during covid, because the world descended upon florida. The left was coming after them. At the media it was coming after them. It republicans and watching did were coming after them, cdc, nih, and it was relentless, day after day, it was not just coming up through remit one new cycle and don did the next thing. They never let up with some of the worst things you can possibly imagine about somebody, but he held true to what he knew in his heart was right. He stood up for the children to begin school, he nature of the people were able to work to put food on the table for the families. A key major families could be with their loved ones in the final moments of their life. Businesses, big businesses were able to stay open, but these little guys were getting pummeled across the country, but not in florida. He held the line, so i say this what you want in a leader in washington is someone who is going to stand up and fight for you no matter how hard they are getting attacked. You want somebody as Rush Limbaugh said on his final radio show before he passed away he said ron desantis has an ironclad spine of steel, and that is the gods honest truth. This guy will never waver, back down, give up, nt will stand for the values and principles that made this country great, and that is why i am out here every day of the week and twice on sunday fighting for him. It is not because i am married to him. I feel like i have an obligation from what i have seen of him in front of the cameras and bind the cameras, when it is tough, and i am turning on the tv and it is not wise, but he never wavers, nt was a rock, and that is exactly who you want fighting for you with this moment in our nations history. [applause] thank you. One of the candidates making a big push in iowa this week was former President Donald Trump. He had surrogates standing up to educate supporters on how to doing so. D get them to commit to among them was brenda byrd, the Hawkeye States attorney general. Here she is speaking to Trump Supporters in iowa. [applause] yeah you are fired up, arent you . Just like i have. You were ready to fire joe biden and get President Trump back in the white house. Yes, matt whitaker, what a great u. S. Attorney general, and i just realized something. We went to our first caucus the same year, 1988. I was 12. So i will tell you a few things about how to caucus and what it is important, but let me say this. A great big thank you deep from within my heart, because as i look at your President Trump has the best supporters, and i see people helped us defeat the longest serving attorney general and iowa in u. S. History. Thank you. [applause] i am here in a room full of hardworking freedom fighters, real patriots, and i appreciate that and appreciate your dedication. We are just one month out. It is now the time to let off the gas and going easy street . No way. We will work hard all the weight, and we know that the radical left will stop at absolutely nothing to target President Trump. They have been after him since day one, have they not . We see through it, and we are fighting back. It is never been more important for us to go out and caucus. You just heard about a big poll, a historic caucus lead for President Trump. We have never seen that big a lead in Iowa Republican caucus history, never, unprecedented, historic. It but are we going to sit back and realize we are headed to victory, we are headed to President Trump back in the white house and take it easy . No way. We know that it takes work. We know that we will do what it takes. We are going to win iowa big for President Trump, arent we . [applause] you know, they say iowa is where it starts. Maybe this year is where it all ends. The end of the Biden Administration. As attorney general it is my job to enforce your laws and constitution. I sure have been able i sure have been having to sue the Biden Administration to atf going after lawabiding firearms owners are what they are trying to do to pork producers, fighting crime, fighting everything that is wrong with the Biden Administration like the student debt cancellation. We took that when all the way to the Supreme Court and won, did we not . We are fighting back against the u. S. Where the epa wants to tell farmers at a farm. Not on my watch. Not on my watch. [applause] the truth is the number of times that i should have to sue a president ial administration should be zero, right . They should just follow the law and the constitution like the rest of us to. Help is on the way, is it not . Things are going to change, and we all remember how much better we were when President Trump was in office. The border was secure. We were safe in the world. I dont think what happened on october 7, at that horrific terrorist attack by hamas, it would not have happened if President Trump was in office. We know farmers were better off, Law Enforcement was respected. We were safe, and we can make it happen again. We can make America Great again by electing President Trump in the iowa caucus january 15. [applause] i told you i went to my first caucus when i was 12, so i know how to do this, right, but i want you to know something else. I and a trump caucus captain for mike precinct and guthrie county. Who else here is a caucus captain like me . Thank you, you were the ones who will make it happen. We have the commit to caucus cards, fill one out. There are people here who have not filled out one of these cards. We need all of you. America needs you. Your country needs you, because the polls do not matter. The one that really matters is caucus night, is it not . And that will be determined by you showing up on caucus night ready to vote with your friends and family, at least 10, and i have got a hat here for somebody who is going to tell me they would get 100 people to a caucus. I mean it. I want to know who you are and i will find out. He was going to do it . [cheers] right there, stand up sir. What is your name . Chase . 100 people that caucus. This is for him. We will get it for him. Whitaker is good at throwing the ball. We will make sure you have it. Fill out your commitment card. Make sure you go to caucus. If you have never been to a caucus before now is the time to start. This campaign is the best organization i have ever seen. To get involved, bring your friends, make sure they vote, bring your id, and you can go online and sign up. Because with your help on january 15 we are going to make America Great again, arent we . [applause] and why is Chris Christie<\/a> at a town hall in the Granite State<\/a>, the messages former President Donald Trump<\/a> are sending to iowa caucusgoers. Also i day on the trail with president ial hopeful dean phillips as he met with the voters in New Hampshire<\/a>. First conversation with the White House Correspondent<\/a> for the associated press. She talked to us about President Biden<\/a>s recent funded fundraising push. We do not know for sure what the numbers look like until the end of the fundraising quarter and the Biden Campaign<\/a> releases their figure sometime in january. It is usually the middle of the month, so midjanuary we should have a better snapshot of what the Biden Campaign<\/a>s fundraising looks like, but in the past couple of weeks he has done quite a few fundraisers. He just recently had up los angeles. His first fundraiser there after the actors and Writers Strike<\/a> essentially shut down democratic fundraising in that part of the country. Liberal california is known as a atrium for democrats. He has more fundraising on his schedule. Is this usual for an incumbent president to be fundraising at this level, and is he on schedule to meet his goals . Yeah, it is definitely usual. Part of the burst of fundraising were seeing right now from President Biden<\/a> is due to the fact we are entering the holiday season, and we are also coming up to the end of the fundraising quarter, so candidates want to make a final push and attend as many fundraising events as they can knowing that the last week or so of december is pretty much off limits in terms of Campaign Fundraising<\/a> activity, so that is why we are seeing a burst of fundraising activity from the president. I mentioned the events in california. He had an event in california. I would expect to see him doing fundraising next week as well before we get into the crunch holiday week before around Christmas Eve<\/a> time through the end of the year, and as far as what the numbers look like Biden Campaign<\/a>, all president ial campaigns, all campaigns in general going to do think that their numbers are the best, but we will not know until the fundraising reports are made public. How was he doing compared to other president ial candidates just overall . How is it looking. He is about on pace with former President Donald Trump<\/a> and his level of fundraising, and the Biden Campaign<\/a> is banking on our former rematch with President Trump<\/a>. With the biden campell one is to basically have as much money as the republican president ial candidate or the person they expect to be the president ial nominee so that they are able to go toe to toe with a 10 next year once the Campaign Starts<\/a> in earnest. What are these donor receptions like . Give us an idea. I went to a couple of them recently. I was traveling with him while he was in boston. He had three fundraisers in that one trip. Most people have to be one did wanded by the secret service. They are in a room while he is speaking, keeping an eye on the exits and watching the donors as they would watch any person who has at any kind of public event the president is at. They are always scanning the room in case of something or being on guard. Unfortunately depressed is not get to see the whole thing, but the ones that i went into the donors are in a room, so in this case they were seated in a hotel, usual hotel seating. They were clustered around some roundtables and had bottles of water or send pellegrino. There were other cocktail tables where donors were mingling around. I think i notice 60 or so people, so it was very small and on the more intimate side, and someone will come in and introduce the president , and President Biden<\/a> will enter to applause and speak for about 15 or 20 minutes, then the press is led out of the room, and there is more conversation. Sometimes there is q a with the donors that we are not allowed to hear. Often the president will pose for photographs for those who have contributed a certain amount of money. Surprisingly enough he did not stay to hear james stare james taylor playing his guitar. Who are the donors . They are people who gave to the Biden Campaign<\/a> in 2020 or have given to the Biden Campaign<\/a>. As soon as the president opens his remarks and gives them think use, he often says one of the reason he is there is to say thank you to them, because they helped him in 2020 and he is looking for them to up them again. For the most part they are people who contributed in the past and continue to attribute, and they might be people who may not have contributed but to see the president in the flesh and sized him up a little bit before they commit big money to his campaign. One of the fundraisers he went to last week, the top amount was somewhere in the 900,000 range, and i am not all that certain whether it was just for one individual or a group individual, but there are tiers, and tickets can go from anywhere between a few hundred dollars to hundreds of thousands of dollars. What did they get in exchange . They get to be able to say they were at a reception with the president , that they might have had their picture taken with him, it they got to ask him a question or had oneonone face time with him. They got to hear him speak, that sort of thing. It is kind of like the price of admission, and they get to be able to talk about being at an exclusive event with the most powerful man on the face of the earth. Will the president and his campaign go back to these donors over and over again leading up to the general election . There are some donors who can be tapped again and again. It depends on how much they have given, and there are limits on how much an individual can give to a political campaign, so if they have not maxed out the president can go back and ask for more money, and that is one reason why a lot of campaigns are interested in small dollar donors, because you can go back to those people again and again and again, 50, 100 until they had their maximum limit. What is the president saying to these donors at these receptions . He says lots of things. He will open by thinking them thanking them. She will talk about what he sees as the things he has accomplished since taking office. He will run through economic stats, low in unemployment, inflation coming down. At a recent fundraiser he was talking about investments in infrastructure. He will talk about what is going on in israel and the war between israel and hamas, the situation in ukraine, and he will talk a little bit about some of the things he wants to do if he gets reelected and given a second term. The Student Loan Debt<\/a> issue is one he is stymied on right now because of the Supreme Court<\/a>, and he would like to work on that a little more. He talked about wanting to bring down prices for consumers. Junk fees are another issue that are important to them in terms of the limiting those, and lately he has been taken to talking about former President Donald Trump<\/a>, who it is looking very likely the former president will be President Biden<\/a>s opponent auntie is starting to draw contrast between himself and former President Donald Trump<\/a>. She talks about President Trump<\/a> being a risk and a threat to democracy. She will talk about some of the things former President Trump<\/a> has said recently, the use of the word vermin to describe his political opponents, the fact that President Trump<\/a> said he would be a dictator but only on day one, nt tries to draw contrast between himself and his approach to governing versus what he says President Trump<\/a> would offer the country if he is reelected. Any well known names at these receptions as of late that you can think of or who are known to give to the bidenharris reelection bid . At one of the california fundraisers this past weekend Barbra Streisand<\/a> was there. I mentioned james taylor at the event. Robert de niro has showed up at fundraisers. I do not want to say the usual suspects, but it is some of the names you can expect. Steven spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg<\/a> is part of the campaign apparatus, so he was also on hand in calirn this past week and. The messenger reptethat in addition to fundraiser, the country president by reelecon ad in english and spanithis new targeting latino voters and comparing republican front runner donald trump to dictators hugo chavez and nicolas maduro. Lets watch. We start before the sun and after it is gone down. We are invisible, but not joe biden. He sees us, he invested us in our communities, our businesses, but republicans do not and like dictators they want to take things away, our health insurance, our right to freedom, and even our safety. The difference is clear, told with the biden. Republican congressman Randy Feenstra<\/a> also listed president ial candidates in his distct last weekend. At the iowa capital dispatch reported nikki haley, torta governor ron desantis, ryan binkley and Vivek Ramaswamy<\/a> all brought their families on stage at the event, which was billed as a discussion on family values in politics. Before the big event Vivek Ramaswamy<\/a> met up with a local College Students<\/a> for an athletic preparation session. [chatter] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 [counting] 30. [cheers and applause] a couple of minutes from the event itself with Casey Desantis<\/a> what you want to tell every iowa voter about her husband, gop president ial hopeful ron desantis. Obviously he is a dead. I would talk about his military experience where he went through two very liberal universities but came more conservative on the versailles. He saw a and decided to commission as an officer and serve and go over to a rack because he wanted to give back and fight for a principles. I can talk about the fights, he has talked a lot about disney, delivering on 100 of its principles, and everything that he said he would do for the people of the state of florida. But if there is one thing i want you to know about ron desantis is that, and this is particularly highlighted during covid, because the world descended upon florida. The left was coming after them. At the media it was coming after them. It republicans and watching did were coming after them, cdc, nih, and it was relentless, day after day, it was not just coming up through remit one new cycle and don did the next thing. They never let up with some of the worst things you can possibly imagine about somebody, but he held true to what he knew in his heart was right. He stood up for the children to begin school, he nature of the people were able to work to put food on the table for the families. A key major families could be with their loved ones in the final moments of their life. Businesses, big businesses were able to stay open, but these little guys were getting pummeled across the country, but not in florida. He held the line, so i say this what you want in a leader in washington is someone who is going to stand up and fight for you no matter how hard they are getting attacked. You want somebody as Rush Limbaugh<\/a> said on his final radio show before he passed away he said ron desantis has an ironclad spine of steel, and that is the gods honest truth. This guy will never waver, back down, give up, nt will stand for the values and principles that made this country great, and that is why i am out here every day of the week and twice on sunday fighting for him. It is not because i am married to him. I feel like i have an obligation from what i have seen of him in front of the cameras and bind the cameras, when it is tough, and i am turning on the tv and it is not wise, but he never wavers, nt was a rock, and that is exactly who you want fighting for you with this moment in our nations history. [applause] thank you. One of the candidates making a big push in iowa this week was former President Donald Trump<\/a>. He had surrogates standing up to educate supporters on how to doing so. D get them to commit to among them was brenda byrd, the Hawkeye States<\/a> attorney general. Here she is speaking to Trump Supporters<\/a> in iowa. [applause] yeah you are fired up, arent you . Just like i have. You were ready to fire joe biden and get President Trump<\/a> back in the white house. Yes, matt whitaker, what a great u. S. Attorney general, and i just realized something. We went to our first caucus the same year, 1988. I was 12. So i will tell you a few things about how to caucus and what it is important, but let me say this. A great big thank you deep from within my heart, because as i look at your President Trump<\/a> has the best supporters, and i see people helped us defeat the longest serving attorney general and iowa in u. S. History. Thank you. [applause] i am here in a room full of hardworking freedom fighters, real patriots, and i appreciate that and appreciate your dedication. We are just one month out. It is now the time to let off the gas and going easy street . No way. We will work hard all the weight, and we know that the radical left will stop at absolutely nothing to target President Trump<\/a>. They have been after him since day one, have they not . We see through it, and we are fighting back. It is never been more important for us to go out and caucus. You just heard about a big poll, a historic caucus lead for President Trump<\/a>. We have never seen that big a lead in Iowa Republican<\/a> caucus history, never, unprecedented, historic. It but are we going to sit back and realize we are headed to victory, we are headed to President Trump<\/a> back in the white house and take it easy . No way. We know that it takes work. We know that we will do what it takes. We are going to win iowa big for President Trump<\/a>, arent we . [applause] you know, they say iowa is where it starts. Maybe this year is where it all ends. The end of the Biden Administration<\/a>. As attorney general it is my job to enforce your laws and constitution. I sure have been able i sure have been having to sue the Biden Administration<\/a> to atf going after lawabiding firearms owners are what they are trying to do to pork producers, fighting crime, fighting everything that is wrong with the Biden Administration<\/a> like the student debt cancellation. We took that when all the way to the Supreme Court<\/a> and won, did we not . We are fighting back against the u. S. Where the epa wants to tell farmers at a farm. Not on my watch. Not on my watch. [applause] the truth is the number of times that i should have to sue a president ial administration should be zero, right . They should just follow the law and the constitution like the rest of us to. Help is on the way, is it not . Things are going to change, and we all remember how much better we were when President Trump<\/a> was in office. The border was secure. We were safe in the world. I dont think what happened on october 7, at that horrific terrorist attack by hamas, it would not have happened if President Trump<\/a> was in office. We know farmers were better off, Law Enforcement<\/a> was respected. We were safe, and we can make it happen again. We can make America Great<\/a> again by electing President Trump<\/a> in the iowa caucus january 15. [applause] i told you i went to my first caucus when i was 12, so i know how to do this, right, but i want you to know something else. I and a trump caucus captain for mike precinct and guthrie county. Who else here is a caucus captain like me . Thank you, you were the ones who will make it happen. We have the commit to caucus cards, fill one out. There are people here who have not filled out one of these cards. We need all of you. America needs you. Your country needs you, because the polls do not matter. The one that really matters is caucus night, is it not . And that will be determined by you showing up on caucus night ready to vote with your friends and family, at least 10, and i have got a hat here for somebody who is going to tell me they would get 100 people to a caucus. I mean it. I want to know who you are and i will find out. He was going to do it . [cheers] right there, stand up sir. What is your name . Chase . 100 people that caucus. This is for him. We will get it for him. Whitaker is good at throwing the ball. We will make sure you have it. Fill out your commitment card. Make sure you go to caucus. If you have never been to a caucus before now is the time to start. This campaign is the best organization i have ever seen. To get involved, bring your friends, make sure they vote, bring your id, and you can go online and sign up. Because with your help on january 15 we are going to make America Great<\/a> again, arent we . [applause] and why is President Trump<\/a> going to win big . We know he is going to do the right job on day one, that he knows had to do it, he will run on his record, we know he will secure the border. We know he has the absolute best supporters helping them out here in this state, dedicated. People who on a cold, dark night in january. If you think it is cold now, stay tuned for about a month. You have the fire of patriotism burning in your heart, and you were going to show up, you are going to work hard. You were going to make sure you have your caucus won for President Donald Trump<\/a> . Am i right . Are you going to do it . Are you going to make America Great<\/a> again . Are you going to fire joe biden and send President Trump<\/a> back to the white house . [cheers and applause] all right, thank you very much, and i have Something Special<\/a> for a caucus captain. When you fill out a card you get entered into a lottery to a very special hat, so i will announce the winner of this very special had signed by President Trump<\/a>. Fill out your card. Do we have beth mcbride here . Right there. There she is. [applause] thank you. Do not forget, caucus, bring your friends, relatives. You have at least 10 cousins if you are like me. Then to the caucus. With just a month to go until iowas first in the nation president ial caucuses, the States Republican Party<\/a> was out this week recruiting and training volunteers toun the january events. Next coverage from kcc i of caucus preparations. Efforts are underway to make sure iowans know exactly what theyre doing. Kayla james takes us to where the county gop is in training this evening. There are people behind this in the West Des Moines<\/a> marriott. Training for captain caucus of volunteers and for republicans both in and outside the counties you want to make sure there are no problems come january 15. We need to be on guard. Which is why mark came to the caucus training tuesday night, joining many others who plan to caucus. Iowa caucus is we the people. It is the people of the Dallas County<\/a> chair said that she and her team are helping prepare for january 15. Volunteers spending time packing materials needed for the big night. Putting together the box in different forms, the signs, instructions. We have 18 caucus site locations. Does her concerns she wants to address now. People still think their polling place or voting location is actually there caucus location. Which she says is not the case. The Dallas County<\/a> gop team make sure people knew where they had to go come january 15 or directed them to the iowa secretary of state website. I tell people know before you go. Go to the Elementary School<\/a> or wherever you are going to caucus the week before. Look at the parking and the front doors and plan before you go. More than training she says, tuesday nights event was to help republicans who may not have caucused since 2016 back into the game. We are at a time where things are surreal and we have got to get things done to this country. Next we are at the Mcintyre Ski Area<\/a> lodgen manchester, New Hampshire<\/a> chris sununu, the four term republican governor officially endorsed gop president ial hopeful nikki haley. Here is governor sununu telling people why he is supporting her run at the two of them talking to reporters after them. [indiscernible] this is the first in the nation primary. This is pretty awesome. This is the home of live free or die, right . This is where we are granite strong, six 03 proud. I have had an awesome time during the entire process. I have been able to travel to state, be able to talk to folks, and that absolute opportunity has been absolutely amazing. I do not know where she is. There is a sweet older oh hey, how are you . It was not you, but i will get to you in a minute. There was a sweet older woman who has come to a lot of events, and i saw her coming in here, and she said so are you going to finally endorse nikki haley for president . You bet your ass i am. Lets get this thing done. We are all in our nikki haley. [cheers] and you can feel the energy. You can feel it. [applause] look, you can feel the energy. You can feel it across the country, people are getting engaged. I always told the national media. Dont worry, everything picks up after thanksgiving. People are getting involved, people are coming out of what work come to town halls, to fill the room and see what is happening here, and when you look at her poll numbers in the ground gained that nikki has laid it is absolutely remarkable. It does not just happen because you spend money and run ads. This is New Hampshire<\/a>. We have a higher threshold than that. So we want our candidates to travel the state, look us in the eye and talk about the issues and listen to what we are discussing. Live free or die, i say this a lot, but it means so much. What nikki gets, it is not four cool words on a license plate. It is what we are here, at low taxes and limited government, local control, individual responsibility, all of those things that we cherish as a republican, and when i have seen her interact with the folks that is what it is. It is that intangible. To finally have a republican in washington, and in washington that is not some Big Government<\/a> mentality, someone who can sit in the white house and say how do i put individuals first . This is not about a Big Government<\/a>, control. This is about working with congress to get them to understand it is about the states and localities and most importantly individual families that have to come first. It whether it is a policy decision, executive action, driving forward, mental health, the drug crisis, securing the border . Do we remember that promise . Lets get it done not because of the party says so but because it is the best thing for the United States<\/a> of america. To see her out there connecting with folks, to feel that momentum, it is real and it is tangible. Now, there is a lot of work to do. Whos going to talk to when you go home tonight . Your friends, family, weird uncles. We will get them out to vote. This is not just a section of the party. This is not just an aberration. This is an opportunity for New Hampshire<\/a> to lead this country and say we are not looking in the Rearview Mirror<\/a> anymore. I do this a lot as governor, but as we have been campaigning, we talked to a lot of folks on the manufacturing lines come up folks in small farms, military families, veterans. These are the individuals and families that built this country, and they are sick and tired of the elite in washington d. C. Telling them how to live their life. They are frustrated, and that crosses the political spectrum, which is unbelievable, and the rest of the country is looking to New Hampshire<\/a>. We always take prized pride. Look, governor, we were like you and with trump in 2016, 2020, but things are too critical. So we will say a polite thank you for your service. We are moving on, because this is New Hampshire<\/a>, and we go forward. [applause] so lets not let this opportunity. The entire country is watching. With all due respect to iowa, it is a caucus. Please, this is where the voters come out in droves. We will have a Record Number<\/a> of voters in this election. While the rest of the country is going are we just going to settle for the same old thing . Lets talk about settling. Does america ever settle for yesterdays news . No, we are built on innovation, the next big idea, the next generation of leadership. That is in our dna as americans, so to think for a second, well, we will go back to the way it was because that was ok, not really, but better that we have. No way. There was a lot of frustration out there in the country. People are frustrated over the last eight years. We have a president more concerned about nap time and a president worried about his jail time. We have got to move forward. That is drama. That is chaos. Do you think we will have a president that can tackle inflation, secure the border, fiscal responsibility, draining of the swamp . That will take 120 of any president s time. We are not as a party going to bring somebody forward constantly distracted with whatever nonsense and drama that the former president brings to the table. That would be a responsible on our part, and New Hampshire<\/a> is where it starts. Who are you going to talk to . Your coworkers, neighbors, whoever it is. We have independents who will vote here, the undeclared, the republican base, so take it on yourself to say how doe i be part of knotty campaign. This is not a campaign, everybody. This is a Movement Across<\/a> this country to get things moving, so let me bring out my friend, someone i could not be more proud of, someone who looks people in the eye, answers their questions, most important lee has taken the time to earn the trust of the citizens and voters of this state, the next president of the United States<\/a>. Nikki haley. People are excited because the governor connects. She connects with the folks at every level, and i mean that sincerely. All of the other candidates to do fine. Understand it is a movement, not just a campaign and candidate to galvanize the republican party. And you see people coming out that have not voted before, because they care about where the country is going, but they want to see a new generation of leader. They went to see us get back to what is going to make government work for the people again and not the people were for government. [indiscernible] hard pass. Out is the endorsement fit into your campaign . Is huge for us. There were a couple of reasons, not just because he was the governor, he was the live free or die governor that cut taxes and lowered unemployment and fought for the northern border and protected First Amendment<\/a> rights and all of those things that where we want to take the country back. He is one of the most beloved governors in the country, and the people in this state love him. We have got the momentum on our side. We are excited about going and going fast, and we are just grateful. [indiscernible] chris has his own style. He is great, but his entire campaign has been about Going Nuclear<\/a> against trump, and there is a lot of truth there. What nikki has been able to tell you is what i will bring to the table, and that is what you want in a candidate that gives you the details and is not afraid to take on the questions. Engage folks on what is affecting that family or small business. That is what the candidate should be doing. [indiscernible] i had a great working relationship with trump but he put us a trillion dollars more in debt. I do not think our kids will forgive us. You look at what is happening. He tried to focus on trade but did not focus on fentanyl, intellectual property, the money going to our universities, the fact that they were building up a military, so there are a lot of issues that i do have differences on. There was an opportunity. The first thing you do is clean up your office and get rid of the red tape. [indiscernible] i put my truth out there. Republican Chris Christie<\/a> was also New Hampshire<\/a> a day after nikki haley picked up the endorsement of governor sununu. At a town hall in londonderry at the former new jersey governor took aim at ms. Haley, saying she was unclear in her stance on abortion and also answer the questions from reporters on the previous days endorsement. First, lets start off talking about an issue that is a really difficult one, emotional one in this country right now, and it is abortion. And i went to start up with that because of what is going on in texas in the last couple of weeks. Some of you may have read about it, and a woman who was 21 weeks pregnant, her child unfortunately was diagnosed with a terminal disease while in utero, and all the doctors she saw told her that there was absolutely no chance that her child would be born alive. It would either be stillborn or it would die within hours after she gave birth. And so she lives in texas, and she came forward and said i did not want to carry this knowing that i am going to be here another 18 or 19 weeks, and my child is just going to die anyway, and i would like to just have an abortion now so my husband and i can begin the time of recovery and hopefully try to have another child. Well, given what the law was in texas, she had to go to court to get permission. The initial court gave her permission to have the abortion, and then the texas Supreme Court<\/a> came in and told her she could not, and she then had no choice but to leave the state, which she did, to go have the procedure done in another state or she would not be held up from it. Now look, i am prolife, and i believe we should try to save every life that we can, because i believe every life is a precious gift from god, but there was no saving this like. Everyone was told, every doctor she spoke to told her that this child would either be stillborn or die within a few hours of being born. Imagine for any of us to be the woman who is carrying that child and has been carrying that child and now knows what is going to happen, to have to live and suffer for another four months and carrying the child not long knowing there was no hope. That is not would being prolife means to me, and we should always be concerned about the health of the mother, and by the way carrying the child longer could threaten her own life, and we have to be concerned about the life that we have in front of us especially when there is no hope for the life being carried in the womb. It seems to me that should have been an easy decision, and the texas Supreme Court<\/a> got it wrong, but what im concerned about in the context of this race as we have all been gotten asked about this. Donald trump will not comment on it. Nikki haley got asked about it, and she said we should deal with this with compassion, and my heart goes out to the mother. Then they asked her, was the texas Supreme Court<\/a> right or wrong . And she said, well, i am prolife, and we should have compassion. Look, this is a continued disturbing pattern on Governor Haley<\/a>s part. If the question is really hard, she wants to make everybody happy, and i understand that inclination. If you are in this business, you like to make everyone happy. In most of our lives you want to make everyone happy, but you cannot sometimes. Just have to answer the question. Last night at her own town hall they asked about whether she thought abortion should be governed by the states, or there should be a federal law on abortion . You all know because you love heard me enter this that i do not believe and or what i signed as president any kind of federal ban on abortion. This should be decided by the state and more particularly by the people of that state. I do not think politicians should be making these decisions in washington d. C. And that is the way that is the way the constitution intended it. That is why i thought roe v. Wade was wrong because it took it away from individual members of each state. I trust the individuals to make this decision and not a group of politicians in some state house or worse yet in congress. Imagine, see those guys and women. They took three weeks to pick a speaker, that they had the president of ukraine there and they could not even get together to try to help them. They cannot vote on border security. They cannot vote on aid to israel, and here is the great news. They decided to cannot get any of this done, so we are going to go home for dismiss. Excellent, thank you very much. Thanks for your dedicated service. Its crazy. We do not want to turn this over to them, but last night Governor Haley<\/a> said i had no problem with the people making this decision. There is some progress, but then she said is there they said is there room for federal law . And she said i think there is room for federal law. Which one is it . [indiscernible chatter] thank you so much for coming. I appreciate your support. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. I graduated from the academy in 2015. [indiscernible] we are a little bit older. [indiscernible chatter] cant complain. It is wonderful what you said. [indiscernible] [indiscernible chatter] thank you so much. Thank you. I appreciate that very much. Thank you. This is my mother, she is from texas, and she has never experienced an town hall. I appreciate you spending the time. Thank you very much. [indiscernible chatter] all right, guys, what if you got . Governor, governor. Are you concerned at all that the unaffiliated and independents will draw more people away from you . I would to be more concerned if you were on the ballot. You wash me a lot when i was having these endorsements for me. I have been saying that since august. I am not going to turn anyones support down and if chris wants to support me, i wouldve appreciated his support but it only wouldve meant one vote. It wouldve been nice to hang around him, but in the end these voters are not going to be told by anybody who devote more. You have got to go out and earned their vote, and that is what i will do. I will use that to make the choice. He made his choice, and good for him. I am disappointed. It is disappointing not to get it, but on the other hand it does not change my strategy here one bit. Last night, governor sununu said he did not give you a heads up on the endorsement to haley, and also we asked him whether you and the others should stay in the race and he said no. I would like to get your site. On the last one, that is coming from someone who never run for president. It is not his job to tell anybody went to get out of the race. That is their own personal choice to make, and i am not going anywhere, so lets be clear about that. On the first part, i do not know that i have anything to say beyond what he said. I learned about it online. It is not the way i would have done it, but everybody has to account for their own sense of what represents integrity and what does not. Last a day on the campaign trail with congressman dean phillips who staged a challenge to President Biden<\/a>s reelection bid for the 2024 president ial nomination. Cspan caught up with him beating voters in New Hampshire<\/a>, part of a push through the Granite State<\/a> spending a week. I am a jewish man who loves israel and believes in its safety and security, but i also love the palestinian people, and i intend to be the first jewish president to sign papers to help establish the palestinian state for the first time, because it is important. [applause] it is not just important for the palestinians who deserve selfdetermination and safety and security just like all of us went for our families and still do. It is integral for the safety and security of israel, and that is why this continues to happen. Yes i support israel i guess i support palestinians. I do not support hamas. Hamas is a terrorist organization. Some of the most atrocious attacks on humanity i have ever seen in my life. At the worst against the jewish people since the holocaust. They are an enemy of israel and palestinians. They are holding eight american hostages right now. I would expect the president to be in front of the cameras every single morning and night using every single tool, diplomatic and leverage with all of our allies around the world to ensure their release. It is been two months, and eight americans are still being held hostage, and it is not even in the news, so i despise hamas and they have to be eliminated, but i would say the same thing about Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a>. He is a tragedy for israel, and his rightwing government is a significant problem. With that get me in trouble for a lot of people right now . Sure it does, but it is the truth. Hamas must be replaced with the government of peace, and Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> should be replaced by is really voters israeli voters. At the Palestinian Authority<\/a> is a corrupt disaster. They pay money to terrorists who would kill israelis. Hamas is dedicated to the destruction of the jewish people. It release the hostages with an immediate ceasefire, leave gaza, replace the Security Forces<\/a> with a Multinational Security<\/a> force not to include israelis and american soldiers, ensure hamas is eliminated with the National Consortium<\/a> of likeminded nations, and start investing in Civil Society<\/a> so that they can vote for change. We need two nations. With ukraine, in 2014 when joe biden was Vice President<\/a> , Vladimir Putin<\/a> entered ukraine and took crimea, which was his first volley to see how we would respond, and you know what we did . Nothing. We did not do anything before, during or since, so are we surprised that eight years later he would continue to march . Of course not. You have to be living in a cave did not know this is how the mind operates. He takes an inch, and if there was no response he will take a mile. All of this is preventable if we had the courage to look ahead. If you do not look ahead and plan for it and have a strategy and the resource for it, you will always lose. And the government everyone around me is only trained to do was something when it gets to our backyard, so i would be a president of peace through strength, because there are sometimes that diplomacy does not work, and the only time diplomacy does work is if it is backed up with the Strongest Military<\/a> in the world, and i think we can spend a lot less and get a lot more, and when i am president we will do a lot more. I promise you i will not let your grandchildren or my grandchildren grow up in a world that is as dangerous as the world we live in right now. It is my lifes mission. I promise you. [applause] [indiscernible chatter] cheers. My family settled in manitowoc. They came over in 1895. Thank you. [indiscernible chatter] i dont think the opportunity will arise, but i think it would be foolish for anybody to not consider. [laughter] thank you. [indiscernible chatter] that just made me hungry. Nice button too. One lives in New Hampshire<\/a>, and one is in chicago. I love it. We used to live in minnesota a long time ago. [indiscernible chatter] there was a congressman in richmond. Tim was a good man. [indiscernible chatter] i remember have now. Him now. Do you know the auditorium . [indiscernible chatter] that was a long time ago. Good luck to you. Thank you. Thank you. [indiscernible chatter] on a womans right to choose, where are you want that . 100 percent prochoice. How do you feel about states right. A woman should have the right to choose. No matter what anyone else thinks in this state. [indiscernible chatter] they had the house in the senate and the white house for four months. They couldve codified a womans reproductive right to choose. Which is what the Supreme Court<\/a> said is necessary, and they did not even try. That was a massive failure, and now look at what where we find ourselves. She knew she knew she had cancer. That is the culture in washington i am trying to fix. I will go and do much more reading. I really appreciate it. Do you have a phone . You got too much going on. I am from minnesota. That is where i live. Come on. Minnesotas Third District<\/a> in the house. I love it. I live on black oaks lane. I did not realize that. They are lucky to have you. My father died when i was 10. My mother moved us all where she grew up in tulsa, oklahoma. That is a contrast. Nice to meet you. Thank you. You too. You said all the right things. How do you get the money to get out there in front of people . I need the support. It is an expensive endeavor. You have a very good message. I want you to know i am still going to be working for joe biden until it is not going to work. I respect that, but i tell you it is not working. But i respect that. I tell him what he does wrong. That is so great. Nice to see you. Thank you, guys. I am loving New Hampshire<\/a>. 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