Advised the president. You know, i think americans who are doing business in every aspect of the economy want to know more about the world. I actually think its a good conversation for people to be having. You dont think they expect anything in return . Absolutely not. You know, first of all, i was a senator from new york. I took them on when i was senator. I took on the carried interest loophole. I took on what was happening in the mortgage markets. I was talking about that in 2006. They know exactly where i stand. And ill tell you, chuck, its really interesting to me that now karl rove has taken money from the financial interest to run an ad against me to influence democrats not to support me. Why . Ask yourself why. He knows number one i know what must be done and number two i know how to get it done to make sure that wall street writ large, not just the banks but the investment banks, hedge funds and everybody else, no longer can wreck our economy the way they did in 2008. Two more quick questions. The Des Moines Register editorial, in praising you and your experience, did bring up the email issue as one of those with how you responded to it. Let me just ask you this question. Last week you were asked about the fbi investigation. Are you concerned . You said you havent been contacted by them. Are you concerned this investigation is taking too long . That its putting an extra cloud over your candidacy and until it gets behind you, youre going to have these issues and Michael Bloomberg even cited it as a reason why hes thinking about running. No, im not concerned because i know what the facts are. I never sent or received any material marked classified. I cannot control what the republicans leak and what they are contending. And i thought it was interesting, chuck youll as a political observer understand why back a couple months ago Kevin Mccarthy spilled the beans that the benghazi investigation was all about bringing me down, something that i suspected but i went ahead, testified for 11 hours, answered all their questions, and even they and now senator grassley shows up at a trump rally yesterday in iowa. Hes the chairman of the Judiciary Committee who has and his staff have been behind and pushing a lot of these stories, and announces hes there for the simple reason, to defeat me. I cant control what the republicans are doing. But i know what the facts are and i will just keep putting them out there. This is something that i think is very clear about what happened and i know it will be over and resolved at some point. But i cant control what the republicans and their allies do. But i think its important voters know what theyre doing. And Michael Bloomberg . Your reaction to his potential candidacy . Hes a good friend of mine, and im going to do the best i can to make sure that i get the nomination, and well go from there. So youre not worried about him getting in . Well, the way i read what he said was if i didnt get the of that and get the nomination so he doesnt have to. Madam secretary, stay safe on the trail. Well catch up with you soon. Thank you, good to talk to you. Now lets turn to her chief opponent, senator Bernie Sanders, also on the campaign trail in dubuque, iowa. Senator, good morning to you. I want to start with getting your reaction. Ive not heard your reaction to this. Your colleague, senator claire mccaskell, said that republicans were licking their chops getting ready. Essentially they wont touch him right now because they cant wait to run an ad with a hammer and a sickle. What do you say to her . Well, what i say to her is that if she would look at the matchups taking place between Bernie Sanders and donald trump right now she would find that we were 15 points ahead of them nationally, that in states tossup states, battleground states like iowa and New Hampshire or even further ahead of them, that i would very much look forward to a race against want to raise the minimum wage but wants to give hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks to the top twotenths of one percent who thinks wages in america are too high and who thinks that Climate Change is a hoax invented by the chinese. Chuck, there would be nothing more in this world that i would like to take on donald trump. We would beat him and we would beat him badly. But as you know, a lot of democrats are concerned and not a single one of them has endorsed your candidacy, i just read through that. Not a single democratic senator has endorsed your candidacy. Not a single democratic governor has endorsed your candidacy. What does that tell you . It tells me that we are taking on the political establishment, were taking on the economic establishment, the financial interest in this country and were taking on the corporate establishment. That is what is unique about this race that, in fact, we are trying to make a political people into the political process that washington and all of these politicians have significantly turned their backs on. So yes we have the establishment supporting secretary clinton. Thats not a secret. But the reason that our campaign is generating so much interest and enthusiasm is people think its time that we take on the establishment. Take on wall street, take on big money interests. And thats why i believe were doing as well as we are. Well, you have been calling for Political Revolution and there have been some critiques over it, though, that youre sort of narrow in where you call for revolution. Tanehisi coates, one of the more respected thinkers in the Civil Rights Movement these days wrote in the the atlantic why arent you for reparations for having to because of slavery for africanamericans when youre calling for Economic Justice on so many other levels . Why do you stop short on that well, for the same reason that barack obama has, the same reason i believe that Hillary Clinton has. That is that its absolutely wrong and unacceptable that we have so much poverty in this country and it is even worse in the Africanamerican Community. That africanamerican kids between 17 and 20 who graduate high school have unemployment rates and underemployment rates of 51 . That 36 of africanamerican children are living in poverty. This is an issue that we have got to address. And my intention as president of the United States is to be very aggressive in dealing with those issues. To put our kids to work rather than see them go to jail. To improve our schools. Thats what we have to do and i think thats what the American People want. I understand that. But you didnt understand the question why you were why you werent in favor of reparations. Well, again, the same reason that the president is not and i think Hillary Clinton is not. What is that reason . We have got to invest in the future. What we have got to do is address poverty in america, something that very few people poverty in the Africanamerican Community and the latino community. If you look at my record, and if you look at my agenda, raising the minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour, focusing on high rates of youth unemployment, i think our candidacy is the candidacy talking to the issues of the Africanamerican Community. Well, let me ask you, though, many africanamericans hear that and some will say okay, hes talking about major Economic Justice but an africanamerican raises his hand and says cant get that through congress, cant deal with this because its politically very difficult, a lot of your other plans will be politically difficult if not impossible. Well, look, this is what i think that is looking at Politics Today as a zerosum approach. And what i am try dog in this country is say, you know what . In the last election, 63 of the 80 of young people didnt vote in the midterm elections. That is why the rich get richer and that is why billionaires were able to buy elections. What we are trying to is do the say that in american democracy maybe its a radical idea but congress should represent working families and the middleclass rather than just wealthy campaign contributors. So, chuck, what i am trying to do now is change the dynamics of american politics, bring millions of young people, working class people into stand up and fight for their rights. When you that, yes, we can raise the minimum wage, we can create jobs. We can make public colleges and universities tuition free. That is what we have got to do. In 1988, you talked about a major difference between yourself and, at the time, the sort of insurgent candidate on the democratic party, Jesse Jackson. And you simply said jesse believes that serious social change is possible within the democratic party. Do you still believe that . Well, obviously not, im running for president of the United States in the democratic party. And, by the way, when you talk about my relationship to the Africanamerican Community, check out how many white public officials, elected officials, supported Jesse Jackson in 1988. I did. And he won my state of vermont, he came to vermont, Jesse Jackson is a friend of mine. I thought he ran a brilliant campaign. But what my view is right now and the decision that i made as the longestserving independent in the history of the United States congress, i said if we are going to win this race, we have to do it within the democratic primary process, thats what were doing. And if you win, apparently youre going to have a third candidate in the race. Michael bloomberg has vowed if you are on your way to the nomination, hes running as an independent. Whats your reaction . Well, my reaction is that there will be if donald trump wins and mr. Bloomberg gets in, youll have two multibillionaires running for president of the United States against me. And i think the American People move toward an oligarchy where billionaires control the political process. I think well win that election. Bernie sanders, ill leave it there. From dubuque, iowa, well see you next week, i imagine, as we head to iowa to find out what happens. Thank you, sir, stay safe on the trail. 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Christie has questioned rubios work ethic saying dude, show up to work. Donald trump ridiculed bush for being low energy. Bush called trump a jerk. And then the nonaggression pact between trump and ted cruz crashed with each attacking the other. In fact, heres the latest trump ad going after cruz on immigration. Sounded like you wanted the bill to pass . Of course i wanted the bill to pass. What my amendment to pass. What my amendment did is take citizenship off the table but it doesnt mean it doesnt mean i supported the other aspects of the bill. And heres a cruz ad hitting trump on greed. I think imminent domain is wonderful. It made him rich, like when trump colluded with Atlantic City insiders to bulldoze the home of an elderly widow. Trump wont change the system, hes whats wrong with it. Joining me on the phone right now is donald trump. Mr. Trump, welcome back to meet the press. Good morning, and i have to tell you, his ad is wrong because i never knocked down that house. I wanted to get the house to build a major building that would have employed tremendous numbers of people but when the woman didnt want to sell ultimately i said forget about it. So hes got me bulldozing down a house, i never bulldozed it down. Its false advertising. All right, i think the accusation was thats what you wanted to do no, the accusation was i wanted to and did do it. You know, if you didnt have havent highways, the Keystone Pipeline because they need it if its going to be built. You wouldnt have roads, schools, hospitals, i mean, i dont love imminent domain but you need it or you dont have a country. This race between you and ted cruz, hent wants to make it about whos the real conservative. Heres what he said yesterday when it comes to you and conservatism. I want to get you to react to it. Here he is. Perhaps one of the reasons that the washington establishment is rushing so quickly behind donald trump is that donald has been an active supporter. He gave 100,000 to the clinton foundation. Hes actively supported Hillary Clinton as a political candidate. He supported chuck schumer, he supported andrew cuomo, he supported emanuel eded rahm emanuel so they know he will cut a deal. I know youve embraced the idea of cutting a deal but some conservatives fear youre not a conservative, that 60 years you werent a conservative, youve most conservatives love me or i wouldnt be having the poll numbers fox just came out, their numbers are through the roof. I would havent the poll numbers i have that. I am a conservative but i get along with people. Ted cannot get along with people at all. The biggest problem he has, hes a nasty guy, nobody likes him. Not one republican senator. He works with them everyday. Not one republican senator endorsed ted cruz. When you think of it, thats impossible to believe. Not one. Im curious. Youve been theying into cruz the last ten days on this issue. For six months you talked about how much you liked ted cruz. He was very nice to me and i kept saying when is it going to happen, ted . I was waiting because i want to counterpunch. I dont want to be the first one. And during the debate which everyone said i won he got nasty and started hitting me and i hit him back. Anything i said was okay to him. Anything i said and he was really look i had people that i like the candidates on a personal basis. During that period of time i said come on, ted, when is it going to happen . I understand ted, ted is a nasty guy who is not a very wellliked person. It sounded like you said you wouldnt vote for him if hes the nominee. Is that true . I talked about the fact that im not sure that i can vote for him because as you know, he has a major issue. In fact, illinois is looking at it seriously. I dont know if hes going to be okay to run in illinois in the state of illinois. He was born in canada, he was born on canadian soil, he was a citizen of canada can you sign a pledge . Chuck, chuck can you sign a pledge that you will support the republican nominee . That was relating to canada. The question was that and relating to canada. The question is whether or not he can run. I tell you something, from the standpoint of voters in iowa and New Hampshire and all these places that have to vote, how can you vote for a candidate even know if that candidate is able to run. Laurence tribe from harvard said its totally unsettled law. A number of top constitutional lawyers have come out recently over the last few days and said hes not allowed to run, he was born in canada, he cant run. So theres a real question and i said he should get a declaratory judgment. He has to do something because how can you have a campaign when its very possible you are not allowed to run. Let me ask you about National Review, ive seen your tweets, i know how you feel about the magazine and how you feel about this issue. Let me get you to respond to one quote from erick erickson. He writes this like the angels in heaven who rejoice for every new believer, we should rejoice for Donald Trumps conversion to conservatism, but we should not put a new conservative in charge of conservatism or the country. What do you tell conservatives that will make them believe you convenient or unpopular. Well, thats not an insulting quote. It really is. I was going to hit him hard. It wasnt an insulting quote. The National Review is a failing magazine and you get that. They did it because ill get nice publicity. Ill say this, Ronald Reagan, he was a somewhat liberal democrat and over the years he evolved and became a fairly conservative not overly but fairly conservative republicans. He became a great president also and ive evolved and a lot of people changed positions on things over the years and by the way,