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Tonight president trump hours away from marking the one year anniversary of his inauguration made possible by wins in crucial swing states like iowa. are the voters who pushed him over the top to victory, still into him or starting to sister? bill weir is out front. reporter: they still wind the clock by hand. so great to sit at the table of knowledge in monticello iowa. this county went for obama and then swung over to trump, why? ....
So this was embarrassing. i was not there, i was humiliated by proxy. hillary clinton was in iowa today. she was on the first leg of her presidential campaign, right on the ground meeting people one-on-one. at about 2 p.m. eastern today in iowa she set off by car to go to an event in monticello iowa. and if you happen to be watching cable news at the time this is what you would have seen. here it is. there she goes and secret service following behind her. okay they re going around to the back so we re not you can see the media running behind me here to chase the scooby van. wow. she s going around to the back. wow they re we ll see her, we re going to see her soon. the guy in the orange pants is quick. alex i m looking at these people. wow, orange pants is really outnumbered now by all of the people racing around the back. ....
The point where the press is literally chasing their cars around iowa like a bunch of 6-year-olds playing soccer. but one benefit of all that outsized attention is that it is still early enough in the process that these candidates are going to get asked questions when they have not worked out coherent answers to them. they are going to be working this stuff out out loud talking about issues they would rather not be asked about. and that turns out to be a lot of fun. joining us now is robert gibbs former white house press secretary to president obama. thanks for being here. thanks to for having me. how does the cultural war play in this election or how is it playing thus far? well i mean look i think you pointed it out in your segment there are going to be a lot of issues, some local, some national that candidates are going to want to jump on until they don t want to jump on it and don t want to answer it. so, look i think there are and i ve said this before for presidential can ....
On the primary and general with the same message. can he find his place in a very crowded republican field, michaela? second week of baseball season, kind of like the first official week of campaign 2016. tiepd e time to have some fun. i guess your point is we have to pace ourselves, right? it s a long few months we ve got ahead of us right, john? pace pace pace. marathon not a sprint. caffeine big friend of that. meanwhile, big day for hillary clinton as he re-introduces herself to voters in iowa. what challenges she ll face going forward with clinton s one-time chief of staff. he joins us next. shopping online. .is as easy as it gets. wouldn t it be great if hiring plumbers carpenters and even piano tuners. were just as simple? thanks to angie s list now it is. start shopping online. .from a list of top rated providers. visit angieslist.com today. most of the products we all buy are transported on container ships. before a truck delivers it to your store, a container ship d ....
Cork rker coming on this morning to talk about what does congress hold as the chips on the table here? we ll break it down and see where everything falls. michelle thank you very much. so hillary clinton s scooby van has arrived in iowa. that s where she s going to hold her first event from the campaign. brianna keilar s live from cedar rapids this morning. why isn t it called the mystery machine? that s what it was called in the cartoon. what is this scooby van? reporter: this is her takeoff. we understand this has reminded her of the mystery machine so she calls it her scooby van, which is arguably a cute little phrase. but already chris, it s pretty fascinating, republicans, rnc have seized on this saying didn t she have the scooby van in 2000 when she was running for senate? they re trying to say she s ri e recycling ideas and recycling this concept of the scooby van. ....