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Announcer president ial candidates have been speaking at the iowa state fair for the last couple of days. Here is kristen gillibrands remarks. It is about 30 minutes. Senator gillibrand hello, everybody. I want to introduce the director of fun, henry gillibrand. This is the driver of the rv, jonathan gillibrand. Hi, everyone. Senator gillibrand they have made the trip amazing. We have loved it. Henry loves your state fair, so thank you. Henry won that, no joke, it was a little frisbee thing. I dont know. Anyway, it is such a pleasure to be here. I cant tell you how exciting it is. I got my start in politics in a community not unlike this. My grandmother, she was a woman who loves politics. She started working at age 18 as a secretary in our state legislature. 75 years ago, she looked around, all the legislators were men, all the support staff were women. So she wanted to have a voice. She did not know how, she knew her voice was important, but she figured out the voice of all the women ....
Jonathan gillibrand. Hi, everyone. Senator gillibrand henry loves your state fair, so thank you. Henry won that, no joke, it was a little frisbee thing, anyway, it is such a pleasure to be here. I cant tell you how exciting it is. I got my start in politics in a community not unlike this. My grandmother was a woman who my grandmother was a woman who loved politics, started working at age 18 as a secretary in our state legislature. 75 years ago, she looked around, all the legislators were men, all the staff were women, so she wanted to have a voice. She did not know how, she knew her voice was important, but she figured the voice of all the women was even more important. So she learned to work on campaigns she learned to organize, she taught women had to go door to door, how to stuff envelopes, how to make phone calls, and my first memory on a campaign was when i was henrys age, it was a hot august day, the women were wearing dresses not unlike mine, sleeveless, cotton dresses to keep c ....
Henry won that, no joke, it was a little frisbee thing, anyway, it is such a pleasure to be here. I cant tell you how exciting it is. I got my start in politics in a community not unlike this. My grandmother was a woman who my grandmother was a woman who loved politics, started working at age 18 as a secretary in our state legislature. 75 years ago, she looked around, all the legislators were men, all the staff were women, so she wanted to have a voice. She did not know how, she knew her voice was important, but she figured the voice of all the women was even more important. So she learned to work on campaigns she learned to organize, she taught women had to go door to door, how to stuff envelopes, how to make phone calls, and my first memory on a campaign was when i was henrys age, it was a hot august day, the women were wearing dresses not unlike mine, sleeveless, cotton dresses to keep cool, and there were stuffing envelopes. And i am thinking, i am mesmerized by their arms, their j ....
Kristen from spokane, washington on the democrats line. Go ahead, please. I watched miss williamsons speech. She is spot on on things. What i would like to see in a i would is not debates, want to see all the leaders, all the president ial people that are going to move on in the debates. Lets sit down and have a consortium and see and do a bullet point. What is our most important thing . Vote him outis to at the ballot box. Steve the next debate is scheduled for houston, texas, airing on abc. Jared from waterford new york waterford, new york, republican line, have you been watching much of the fair . Yes. I would like to say Marianne Williamson is a wingnut. I hope democrats nominate her so trump can win in 2020. I want to talk about one of the most important issues to me, gun rights. All guns should be legal. Democratsublicans and fight for the Second Amendment. And t ....
With congress back we looked at what theyll be working on it, entering coming weeks. This is one hour. Any days a good day to have bob with us but especially as Congress Returns from its august recess. Of busy fall agenda. Childhoo well start with the announcement today on the deferred action for childhood arrivals program. T we expect that at 11. We expect the president to say hill and that program with a sixmonth delay. How do you expect that to go over on capitol hill . It will be really difficultve to pass any type of gmac, even a conservative to. Years ago john boehner, then speaker had a secret group of bipartisan members trying to get some type of deal. They met on and off for over a year, could not come up with a solution that could pass the house. The dream act when president obama did pass the house if fewer than ten republicans supported and they couldnt get the 60 votes in the senate which led to the daca program. So ....