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Is up to this weekend. >> reporter: good morning. there's been a lot of activity to warrant being here for a month. this is her first weekend here though as a presidential candidate. she appeared in that cnn town hall a couple weeks back. this is essentially her introduction to the state here at the iowa state capitol right now speaking to the asian and latino coalition. she has three other stops on the day, a soup supper with a democratic group and a town hall in ankeny and visiting the eastern part of the state tomorrow. cedar rapids were long time democrat and swung in favor of president tr...

Was your leading reaction to what you heard from the president tonight? >> good evening, brian. let me just say as an american citizen, one of the things that i noticed was looking out at that house chamber how white and male the left side was and how diverse, inclusive and representative of 2019 the right side was. that contrast was stark. it was stark in terms of the same thing that i saw with donald trump and stacey abrams in terms of the look, the style, the vision. but i think all presidents use the state of the union address to score political points and to bring to mind our history, a l...

But i think donald trump raised to a new level the demagoguery, the hyperbole, the shochauvinis and even the national security on a policy front. he said if it wasn't for his election, we would be at war with north korea today. well, nothing could be further from the truth. he, in fact, helped to increase the tension between the two countries last year when exchanging the rhetorical broadsides with kim jong-un. one thing to be sure since his election is kim jong-un continues to have the arsenal that he had when he entered office. now that this photo op has come up in vietnam, i don't think the...

Result. anytime they come up against another funding deadline later in the year, if they give him anything on the policy front now, he'll likely go back to this strategy and they want to disabuse him or of that notion. that being said, house democrats will vote on their own proposal, a package of six bills, plus about a billion dollars in border security that doesn't include wall money. saying look, we can pass things to reopen the government. they've done it multiple times, they're going to do it again and emphasize their border security priorities. bottom lip line, this is still at an impass...