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Want to show you have a good operation on the ground. you want to be strategic in the day you pick to be there so it's not too crowded. it's certainly the biggest event of the summer and the kickoff to looking ahead to the fall. >> and it is always one of my favorite events. >> i love it. >> i don't think i've been there since they built the band shell. >> it's fixed seating. i was very surprised to see the sale thing. >> out of this world. joe crowley, on a more serious note, while the fair is something with this more fun tone, obviously what happened this weekend, beto o'rourke isn't going. ...

Still a big deal. it is one of the -- iowa state fair is the station of the cross. this is the way iowa goes. you have the first big event of the summer, hall of fame dinner in june, then iowa state fair. this is really the kickoff to the homestretch for the last five or six months of the iowa caucus. that soapbox is a big deal. back in the day when i started in politics it was literally a soapbox. the candidates would stand on a small platform now it's a band shell with fixed seating that the candidates speak at. but it is your opportunity, you're able to deliver a message but more so show yo...

Well, that's what happens. >> yeah. >> and you came out here, and you looked out at this vast expanse of field on the boston common from this band shell and -- which was filled with people, and you made this comment as part of your speech. i will not engage in the politics of fear. >> and that's because fear is poisonous. all through history, it's been used to hold back progress. and limit fundamental fairness. only hope defeats fear. it always has. >> you know, there's this theory now that in order to defeat the president that one has to be as angry and as pugilistic as he is. and there's a c...