Donald trump agreeing to that or sticking to that, not to mention that promise will be a problem for current candidates who have already said they would never support trump if he gets the nomination. And then there are other republicans about to jump in, including chris christie, trumps number to bike and north dakota governor doug joining me now on the road, nbc news correspondent Vaughn Hillyard in des moines. , this is the first time we have seen a lot of these gop hopefuls on the same stage, why are these events crucial for these candidates . Hey, right. This really was the Summer Campaign kickoff here. But you just laid out why it is extra important. It is because the debate is just two and a half months away. And in order to spread the message for so many of these candidates to a broader part of the electorate, being on the debate stage is going to be key. You just laid out, they are not 45,000 unique donors. Some of these candidates, they are going to have to work to get to that. 45,000 donors from around the country, also coming consistency with a good percentage numbers. So we are looking at really two months of intense campaigning across iowa this summer, a of the iowa caucus which is eight months away now. Which is why it is notable that each of the candidates were here today and i trust the about 1000 iowans and the crowd, except former the former President Donald Trump. I think we were just talking about visavis this debate and the pledge to support whoever the eventual nominee is, and in as much as this is about iowa, in as much as this is about a presentation to a national audience, where they carry their remarks, there is also the dynamic among the candidates. Do you have a sense, vlaun, of how the candidates interact with each other behind the scenes . Right. We saw the likes of nikki haley and mike pence who were waiting to have his announcement on wednesday. We saw them interacting backstage, both of their spouses were in attendance with them. This is a group that is quite cordial among one another. They only a couple feet separate them as they mingled table to table, tim scott and ron desantis, and that is the part of iowa here. Being an off putting individual is not something that necessarily resonates with the people here that are coming to meet these candidates. Person after person, were demanding to us saying we havent made up your mind in this. But for these candidates, it was kind of an old sort of Republican Party event type of a feel without donald trump here. You didnt have the secret service, it wasnt the big man in the corner, right . It was republicans that otherwise got along and see eye to eye on most things, just without the presence of donald trump and all of them feeling a little bit more separated from him now that theyre running against him for the president ial nomination. He might not have been there, flynn, but the fingerprints of trumpism, i think you would agree, are all over this gop feels. And he remains the elephant in the room. Governor desantis of visiting three early voting states this week including iowa, talk to me about the needle he is trying to thread here, working to build a case against donald trump. Understanding of the challenge of peeling off some of those voters without alienating other voters entirely. Each of his critiques of donald trump were in response to attacks from donald trump. So it was sort of have to fence half offense for him. When donald trump suggested that ron to santas had taken eight years to turn around the country, it took me six months. While ron desantis turned that on his head and said that donald trump had four years in the white house, why didnt he turn around the country enough that. And even just today, ron desantis, when asked about donald trump congratulating kim jongun in a social media post yesterday, ron desantis responded to that post by saying it was interesting to him because kim jongun is a thug and a tyrant. So that is the one way that ron desantis is justified going against donald trump, in sort of the defense of himself and creating that contrast. But we should note that we did not hear the name donald trump spoken a single time from the stage among any of these candidates today. We are eight months out from the iowa caucus and the reality is that donald trump still has a stronghold on pulling. So at what point do they start to turn the needling into really bringing out an ax and trying to comfort donald trump more aggressively as a unit . I think thats the question that is outstanding. Nbcs ron hilliard, thank you as always fawn. Speaking of Florida Governor ron desantis, todays events in iowa wrapped up his first week on the Campaign Trail as unofficial candidates. He spent much of his time at work shopping in new attacks against donald trump, pointing to his work in florida for a model for how he would run the country. Heres how the New York Times puts it. Desantis promised to aggressively wields the power of the presidency in order to rescope that nation in order to which he says he is done in florida. He has often pushed the boundaries of executive office. So what does florida look like under the strong armed leadership upfront desantis . Taxes against the Lgbtq Community, the states dont say gay law, new abortion restrictions, crackdowns on Immigrant Communities to make it more difficult for undocumented immigrants to find work and see a doctor. Just this week, hundreds of students and teachers defended a teacher who is now under State Investigation for Playing A Disney Movie in her classroom. The parents reported the teacher for possibly violating the states dont say gay law. The report of violation, the movie happens to have an out gay character. Among the other Desantis Isms that even desantis knows wont fly in some early primary states is the sixweek abortion ban he touted in front of ivan jellico voters in iowa, avoided altogether in new hampshire, the state with more moderate voters. Thank you so much for taking the time. I wanted to talk to you, because here you have ron desantis out on the stump in iowa, in new hampshire, bragging about his time as governor, trying to sell his time in the Governors Mansion as a success story. What should the rest of the nation know about what it is to have desantis lead the place you live . Its a disaster. Not only is it a disaster, it seems like every single day hes rolling out policies that really are fighting our everyday freedoms. We see that with the abortion sixweek ban. We see that also with the Immigration Policies that you talk about. And really, what he tries to do is strongarm the American Public to following what he wants you to do. And it really causes attention in our state and among our business communities. Because as you see, he keeps exacerbating this fight he has with disney. And hes sticking to it, and hes starting to alienate some of our other businesses and people. Everyone tells me theyre afraid to come to florida, they feel like they wont be accepted in florida, there are too many rules in florida and theres a lot of people hate for people in florida. And thats what hes been able to do in these last years. Hes grown the feeling of hate, hes been fueling the fire amongst communities, picking cultural wars, and he hasnt really been doing everything he would say hes doing about making florida more free. He is actually limiting us in florida. His playbook looks a little bit more like a dictatorship, where he believes that his ideology should be assumed and embraced by everyone. And this is definitely terrible for america. It strikes me that you start with this idea of freedoms, as you said, given the fact that ron desantis is championing for right. This idea of florida as a bastion of freedom while fundamentally taking freedoms away. And i guess the question weve all been asking is that what point does that begin to tip . Because this is why i was intrigued, there was a School Board Meeting and you had parents who actually defended that florida teacher whos made National Headlines because shes under State Investigation, Playing A Disney Movie, happen to have a gay character. The Washington Post writes quote, remarkably, this backlash to the backlash is gaining momentum in some of the reddest parts of the country. The School Board Meeting in Hernando CountyFlorida Captioned what is striking about this new phenomenon. Seeing future teachers pointedly declaring that right wing attacks, driving them to quit. Even as parents and students forcefully stood up on their behalf, demanding a halt to the hysteria. Does that comport with what you are hearing from your constituents as you travel through your district . Do you feel we are reaching out for it, where floridians are realizing the impact that these policies are having her on our lives . Yes, were definitely here. And i think its because of the implementation. When youre looking at the policies we passed, i think people thought that they wouldnt be that bad. But its the implementation that it is starting to hold people and startle everyone, because now it is changing our everyday lives. When we are free to talk about our backgrounds, African American history, immigration issues, we are free to talk and live as americans. But now you are being interrupted every step of the way, even in education as you mentioned. In the classroom. Now you have your governor with his hand in your classroom telling you what you can and you cant teach, and in fact hes bringing his wars into the classroom. Disney is a direct war that hes in right now, so anything that youre touching the has to do with disney, now you have the governor saying i dont want you to do that. Its so interesting to me that a republican governor, we start seeing republicans who believe in business and believe in making sure that we dont have big government. Now he is pretty much tooting his horn saying i believe in big government, to the point where im going to strongarm you to believe what i believe. And thats whats making most flirty and say hey, this is too much now. This is extreme. And quite frankly, i think all americans are over these extreme policies, we are over the extreme maga republicans. Now we have this extreme dictator desantis and that were kind of like over, but its scary because if you think about it, most of the world to saying hey, i dont want to come to florida. If he was ever to be a president or even a republican nominee, we would now have the International Community saying hey, i dont want to go the United States. This president is dangerous. And thats what we have to make sure everyone is aware of, of what were going through here. He will put his hand in your everyday lives. In your bedroom, in your doctors office, in your schools, in your businesses, he wants to puppeteer everyday lives for americans and floridians, so we have to get that narrative out now and stop him in his trucks. Because he will be a disaster for us. I want to ask you before i let you go, President Biden signing the deal raising already shunts a debt limit into law today at the white house. Im sure you watched as that unfolded. You voted for the deal, you were not happy with how it went down. I think the question, the forwardlooking question now becomes how democrats, how the nation avoids having republicans hold the nations economy hostage in the future. We are going to have to really Start Talking and negotiating and making sure that all republicans will step up. Because it seems like the moderate republicans have allowed themselves to be led by these extreme republicans. So thats really going to be the biggest fight that we have. And it was really disappointed that they brought us to a point where we would negotiate on our most vulnerable. We were negotiating, whose taxes should be not cut because there are so many tax cuts for the rich, but we were negotiating our veterans. We were negotiating our families, our seniors, people who have paid the price and served our country for years and its debt we need to repay. So thats startling. Moving forward, we are looking to make sure that our republican colleague step up, say something, dont allow this Republican Caucus to be written by these extreme maga republicans and these extreme republicans who dont care about American People. We took this job to serve the American People, for families, and we have to remember that. Its not always about these Talking Points and being glorified for being so rigid. We need to come together and make sure that we can make it happen for the American People and families. Congresswoman, thank you so much. Coming up, the leading contender for the republican nomination could be criminally indicted in even more investigations in the next weeks. How that should shake up the field. And President Biden somehow ekes out a debt limit. Makes good on the campaign promise. Plus then, a super majority in the state senate. How are republicans managing to lose this . We will explain. 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And we are facing a stark reality that Police Believe it is likely that the three people missing were at home at the time of this partial collapse. We are also told that the search for survivors, as well as people who may have been presumed to be dead, those searches have wrapped up and this is now a recovery effort. That is how this has been described by officials now. The city says that schools to control falling hazards. We are told this is to help First Responders with the recovery effort. The city also says that it is providing funding and will be providing money to residents as well as businesses impacted by this partial collapse, and all of this is happening as there are still numerous questions out there about how this happened and if it could have possibly been prevented. And we are seeing potentially numerous instances where there may possibly have been red flags. Thats been coming out, those revelations in recent days. 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