She has surged and i were, nearly ever taking joe biden and distancing herself and fellow progressive partys and. Guest its important to point out that this was within the margin of error, but it is notable that this is the first ball where she has surpassed joe biden. It shows that all of her groundwork setting up that infrastructure, those town halls and laying out the policy is helping. One thing helping is that there is a white progressive base in iowa thats very fired up about not something by does necessarily have in iowa or New Hampshire. Vice President Biden is popular in South Carolina due to that more centrist democratic vote or that africanamerican democratic population. Bidenk youll see team pump up infrastructure in iowa and New Hampshire to get the momentum going to South Carolina. Doing another campaign this, notably Kamala Harris, shes doing well in polls in iowa and shes pumping up infrastructure. Host she said she will be living in iowa, though she used some choice words, but senator harris will be spending some time in iowa. Guest its not necessarily the best time for campaign. I can think of example after example of the campaigns of the past two said they would go all usuallywa and that presides the end of the campaign. We also see a boom and bust with Kamala Harris, she had that good debate where she went after former vice President Biden and her polling jumped. Since then it has declined. Detailsts go to the from the Des Moines Register and the latest poll which shows senator Warren Holding a two percentage point lead with 22 percent of likely democratic caucusgoers saying that their first choice. This is the first time she has led into the pole, former vice President Biden who led the three poles previous follows her a 20 . Sanders has fallen to third place with 11 , and pete withgieg follows at 9 senator harris at 6 , senators klobuchar and cory booker at 3 . Those details definitely show that its going to go into saying whose going to stay in this race in the long term. You see cory bookers campaign put out a memo saying if they cannot raise enough money they will be dropping out of the race in the near future. It will be interesting to see where these candidates go, especially the bookers and klobuchars, and buttigiegs. He wrote this, senator warren appears to be growing her share of support from black voters who have been slow to warm to her campaign, three new polls showing that senator warren is getting a five to six point vote among black voters, biden dominates the field and he is the favorite to win the nomination unless that changes but warren is showing signs of life and senator sanders is feeling defeat as allies worry that he is getting eclipsed. Guest it has to be concerning for the Biden Campaign now that Elizabeth Warren is starting to go past her white progressive on and goingnclave of into a diverse population which biden has continued this lead continuously dominated. He will push infrastructure in New Hampshire and iowa, and the should be concerning to bidens campaign. I think they realized this would happen at some point, especially in the past couple of months. They have seen warren kleiman the polls. Warren climb in the polls. But i would say this is mostly concerning for Bernie Sanders. This is where he should be polling well and doing well with these white progressives but hes falling behind warren, hes makinging traction or pathways into the more diverse side. Sanders for a while was seen as the runnerup in this race. Host and this is a headline, the d c set to squeeze the dem debate stage again. Here are the details, as the head president ial candidates still into fall, they are looking for the most important events of the campaign, as they brace for another round of strict new debate criteria from the d c which has already dnc which has already have the list and could trinket drastically within weeks, even a month in november could spell the end of a number of campaigns hanging onto the debate stage. We saw bill de blasio drop out this past week. Guest this is what tom perez really wanted to see happen over , that there would not be a large number of Democratic Candidates polling near the very , and showinge pack no serious viability. Im a little surprised with how steep the climb has increasingly become. At the same time it seems to be an effective way of narrowing the field to the candidates that they seem to be responding to. Host but is it effective . At these belts have not been cast, there based on national polls. Guest and its still very early. This is why you have a lot of campaign say we have time to build infrastructure in the states. When you look at these debates im not sure how big of an on votingates have decisions go in. Theres so much that could and thattween now first iowa caucus. So we have to see Going Forward, and i think President Trump plays a role, and how candidates are able to react to him. We know that top concerns were democratic primary voters is who can be trump. So how these candidates react to President Trump, he will constantly be in the news making headlines and stirring controversy. Their reaction is going to play a huge role. The criteriae of is who can look at Amy Klobuchars photo, they took their turn at the grill flipping steaks and delivering speeches. Its on our website and there was a moment before the grilling began and the speeches began in which joe biden spoke to ,eporters about President Trump the chretien leader, and his son. [video clip] [indiscernible] here is what i know. I know trump is nervous to be investigating. He is violating every basic norm of the president. You should be asking him the question, why is he on the phone with a foreign leader trying to intimidate a foreign leader if that is what happened . You should be looking at trump, hes doing it because he knows i will pay him like a drama drum, and the abuse of power and use of every president ial power to try to smear me. Everybody has looked at this and said theres nothing there. Ask the right question. And depending on what the house finds, he could be impeached but im not making that judgment. The house should investigate. This appears to be an overwhelming abuse of power, to get on the phone with a foreign leader who was looking for help from the United States, and ask about me and imply if that could happen, that is what appears to have happened. We know thats what giuliani did. This is outrageous. [indiscernible] one of her concerns with your family being involved in this race. Are you comfortable . I know what im up against, a serial abuser. Thats what the years, he abuses power where he can and he sees he threat to power if sees any threat to power he will do what he has to deal with this crosses the line. Release of for the the transcript of the call, let everyone hear what it is, let the house see it, let everyone see what he did. Host the president assad, depending upon what he did or did not do in a call to the ukrainian prime minister, there are questions about the Vice President s son, ukraine, and then he biden connection. Is what the trump Election Team would like to see, ethical questions lobbed at democrats and that would take the discussion away from the gop and the Trump Administration. And really since the beginning of this campaign we have seen the potential for bidens opponents to weaponize his son and his ties to foreign countries. Im still skeptical about how effective this will be, because its not something you can put on a bumper sticker, but it seems to be something that President Trump is interesting in following. Guest whenever you see candidate get that agitated, thats not good. That he is spending his time explaining this to reporters is not good. I assume hed rather be focused on Kitchen Table issues like health care, the state of the economy, how he can improve this. Im not sure how effective this could be, to daniels point. Also americans are fatigued by constant investigations, President Trump tax returns, the Mueller Report, both sides are going to have to be cautious in how they approach this. Host how do you think congress will respond . Guest its hard to tell. I dont think there will be any immediate action because congress is usually slow to react at all. That there will be movement in the house or the senate. Host this is the headline from the washington post, ukraine calls infused impeachment talk, there is this, when joyce when he first congressional testimony to Robert S Mueller deflated impeachment hopes from democrats, he President Trump claim vindication from accusations, and the next day he allegedly sought to collude with another foreign country in the coming election, the push by trump and his personal attorney, giuliani, to influence the newly revealsukrainian leader a president convinced of his own invincible, fairly willing and eager to taint a political flow and with confidence that no one could how him that whole tobacco. To hold him back. This illustrates the expansive view of executive power and what appears to be a cavalier attitude about the legal limits of his conduct. Is that a Fair Assessment . Guest it depends on who you speak to. Democrats will be going gung ho on this, especially those progressives in the house and those pushing towards impeachment. They will want to investigate this but i think this puts nancy pelosi another more monic moderate democrats in house leadership in a precarious spot. They dont want to move towards impeachment, these constant investigations are not topics the American People want to see focused on right now according to polling. But you will see democrats wanting to appease that progressive base and looking towards impeachment and investigating President Trump further. So they are in an awkward situation. Also questions from republicans on joe biden and his family. Guest and they are eager to pursue those questions. I dont think there will be an end to the drumbeat as we continue. Host Daniel Strauss and Julia Manchester are here at the table as we talk 2020 politics. We were and i will yesterday for the steak fry, lets go to steve on the republican line. Good morning. Caller good morning. Everybody thinks that trump won the election and he did not womb the election. He lost he did not win the election, he lost. And theyre going to switch from lean lenad lead moderate in the future. I think thats what you will see the polls showing, as long as he keeps playing to the base of both parties, the polls will be up and down but we are waiting for them to get into the middle of the election to get to the more important issues that affect everyone and thats what everyones waiting for. Host thank you. Lets go to the democrat line with juanita in ohio. Have two comments to i think mr. Of all, biden is upset because his sons name was brought up. Dont know anyone who doesnt children about their being brought up, even donald trump. Number two, im quite old. I want to keep my energy up. The president of ts must understand that if biden becomes president , he will have some answering to do and the only way that ukraine has ever gone along with russia, they have learned to play both sides. Host thank you. Your reaction to either call . Guest in terms of polling and how this impacts polling now, to the first call from steve, i think democrats are very much catering towards democratic primary voters, which can be concerning. More moderate voters are independent voters. I spoke to a number of voters from my hometown of florida of orlando, florida in their critical i4 corridor. You see their reactions to watching the debates. They dont like trump, but they dont necessarily like all of theircandidates raising hands to support the Green New Deal or more progressive initiatives. So there are concerns about moderate or independent voters about how the democratic primary candidates are swinging towards the left. But that does change with the general election as we see a pull towards the moderate voters. Steve was definitely right in that regard. On the ukraine situation, this is something that biden will have to answer for in the future , despite whether he had a direct role in this or not. You are going to see republicans continuing to press this issue. If biden becomes president , it depends on who controls the house or senate. Ifause i think republicans they control either chamber, they will be pushing for investigations into this. Manchester, our political reporter for the hill newspaper, previously with cnn. And Daniel Strauss, graduate from the university of michigan. Fry,ere live at the steak among the speakers, 17 of the Democratic Candidates, senator Elizabeth Warren was one of the speakers. [video clip] upim here today to stand for the constitution of the United States of america. Law, not above the even the president of the United States. Out the Mueller Report came , it showed three things. Foreignhat a hostile government attacked our 2016 election system in order to help donald trump. Thend that donald trump, candidate, welcomed that help. President , when the federal government tried to investigate those activities, donald trump did everything he could to obstruct justice. I read all 448 pages, when i got to the end i called the impeachment of donald trump. Congress failed to act, now donald trump is shown that he believes he is above the law. He has solicited another Foreign Government to attack our election system. Its time for us to call out this illegal behavior and start impeachment proceedings right now. Were hearing from the Democratic Candidates, but also from more moderate house members who worry that the impeachment drumbeat will cost them the election. Guest this is a bit of a residual impact of impeachment efforts in the 90s. But i really think the situation is different. The critique of the president is different than it was in the 90s. Isthe same time, the fear the battleground for control of the houses in the moderate districts. Its understandable that moderate members of congress would worry going too far towards the impeachment effort would lose them control of that chamber. And i dont think were going to any change in that hesitation or fear in the coming months. Host and i mentioned this a moment ago, but julia, your colleague warned that the end is without aory booker fundraising search. Guest i have not seen a campaign released a memo like this saying were almost out of money. At the same time, senator booker has struggled to gain traction in the primary, its understandable that its going to get even harder in the next few months unless he can prove that hes competitive and viable. The democratic electorate has not seen him as a viable option to nominate against President Trump and the general election. So far there has been an agreement between the warring campaign and the sanders camp the Warren Campaign and the Sanders Campaign knots go after each other. But at what point will the Sanders Campaign go for supporters . Guest thats what we are all asking. I believe it was the second debate when they were on stage together there was some question as to if they would when were the gloves coming off . But nothing came off and even during the last debate when they were flanked on either side of vice President Biden, they were civil and they were defending each others policies on medicare for all. In his strategy is that he needs to be the godfather of these issues, Medicare Fraud, universal free college tuition. I saw times article the other day and the headline was something along the lines of young progressives still feel they are nott necessarily feeling Bernie Sanders. He is very much been inspiring to alexandria because your cortez and other progressive primary challengers who won in 2018. So he needs to establish himself as the creator of these policies and push this idea that he will absolutely follow through because hes being eclipsed. Host steve, on our independent line. Good morning. Caller i have to say, im wondering how hunter biden got , especially after he was addicted to drugs and and after his brothers. Eath from cancer its just funny. And about climate change, the thate out in the country two we need gas at dollars a gallon because these windmills are coming into our area and its tearing up our roads and our cars, our total infrastructure is being demolished from these windmills. Host thanks for the call. This is a story from the new yorker that came out this past july, will hunter biden jeopardize his Fathers Campaign . He opened up to the new yorker talking about his own addiction and personal story. He was injured in an accident in boy, he datedung the spouse of beau biden after beau biden passed away and was married for second time. But clearly the Biden Campaign knew there were stories that would come out. Guest they did and im sure they have assembled their talking points on how to deal with that but i think what biden needs to do to try to reverse ignore these or more personal questions is very much focused on these issues. I think they have very much been running this twoway race between him and trump. It seems like he is very much in a general election mindset. He needs to be prepared to answer these questions from we know thate President Trump will absolutely bring up these questions in the gloves will come off when it comes to personal family issues. Host daniel . Guest weve seen him go after weve seen President Trump go after family issues before and it seems to be a strategy here as well. I dont think in the primary former vice President Biden has to worry about attacks from his competitors. Its really going to be a republican chorus thats going to keep highlighting hunter biden. Host lets go to dennis, in indiana, on the republican line. Caller i would add to the reporters to speak to the fact that what they are now trying to accuse donald trump of, abuse of power, we have the video of joe biden admitting that he threatened to with hold money from the ukraine about firing a prosecutor. Host thank you for that point. Guest i think were going to hear a great deal more discussion about vice President Biden, ukraine, and President Trump and ukraine. The one more moment from steak fry. It rained in the day but it held off for most of it and the crew did a terrific job showing you what it was like. Heres mayor Pete Buttigieg, pulling in the Single Digits in the iowa caucus courtesy of the Des Moines Register. [video clip] lite by one of the best moments on this campaign, i was in the backyard and the girl came up to tell me what my campaign meant to her. She said because of her campaign i feel like i can be myself. I can go to school and talk about what i believe and i dont have to be ashamed of who i am. I thought i knew what she was about to tell me but i didnt. She said i dont have to be ashamed just because i have autism. And i thought now this campaign is getting somewhere. [cheering] answering the crisis of belonging in this country means making sure that Everybody Knows where they fit in americas Everybody Needs absolutely everybody. Thats what the presidency can do if it is in the right hands. Thats whatthats what im happg for your help with. We could be proud of what we did in 2020. We can look into the eyes of the same kids showing up at events with tears in their eyes asking us if we are going to keep them safe from gun violence, or do something about climate change, and tell them im sorry it got that way but we got together and we changed the trajectory in 2020. That is my hope for our future. I know hope went out of style for a little bit in american politics, but are you ready to spend a spread a sense of hope required to stay involved in politics and make the country better . Host thats from Pete Buttigieg. Julia, based on the polls, he seems as if he is stuck in the mid to high Single Digits. Especially in iowa. Guest thats very concerning to his campaign. He should have higher name recognition in states like i would because hes a midwestern mayor in iowa because hes a midwestern mayor. See that you did pianist and name recognition and there was a lot of media interest in him. But he has been eclipsed by vice President Biden and especially Elizabeth Warren. People judge did an interview earlier this week, he called Elizabeth Warren answer on her expedition of Medicare Fraud scheme basis. O you are starting evasive so you are starting to see the gloves come off as to how Pete Buttigieg will address progressive standpoints. Hes not necessarily a moderate but hes not a progressive and he will continue to cater towards that section of the democratic primary electorate but im not sure how good that strategy is. We saw the iowa poll yesterday with Elizabeth Warren, progressive, leading. Host and the mayor of south bend is weakest among africanamerican voters, he hired a strategist but is it enough . Guest this is the latest example of the buttigieg improve hising to standing with africanamerican voters and he has not seen much traction. He released the douglas plan on black improve entrepreneurship, and it has not really helped him at all. Ins very interested improving his numbers with that constituency. Host well he has to. Guest everything they have tried so far has not worked. Augusta,s go to georgia, lewis, on the democrat line. Say is what i wanted to that the pelosi position to hold off on impeachment, based on poll numbers, will historically be viewed as a major mistake. We already sell reports on your show that trump is emboldened by the fact. Most criminal investigations will be following this president through his administration and the republican party. The other issue i want to cover is that there are too many candidates in the democratic process. I would love to hear from the governor of new york, california, and some of these individuals polling in the Single Digits. These people are not the best in the Democratic Party. The position of going after corporations, and having these programs, medicaid for all, who will pay for that . How many workers will be lose when these industries are broken up and dissolved . Those are questions that need to be answered. Im not a big Bernie Sanders fan , simple because of the negative impact he has had on the Democratic Party process the last time around. Host thank you you for the call. Guest this is a concern i have heard from democrats in the south very much on these progressive candidates that have been gaining traction, like Elizabeth Warren. We are making a big deal about this iowa poll, but i what is the first in the nation contest, but how is just i were going to matter Going Forward after this . Democrats have been gaining traction slowly in states like georgia, North Carolina, its an uphill climb but they are trying to gain traction and i think thats exactly the fear much of the party has right now about these progressive policies. One difference i would say between Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders and maybe why Elizabeth Warren is more palatable to more moderate democratic voters is that she calls herself a capitalist. Bernie sanders calls himself democraticsocialist. Ive spoken to people close to his campaign who said they dont like that label, its not necessarily the best. We know it might seem silly to democrats, but a lot of is aboutn platforms calling them socialists. And it makes those democrat fears that seem weird but its a good messaging point to get their base turned out, and potentially persuade independent voters who do not find the Green New Deal or medicare for all feasible. , this isia and daniel a story from the washington post, congressman kennedy announcing a primary challenge to senator ed markey. Joe kennedy the third was two years old when ed markey was first elected to the house of representatives. Wisely challenging him . Guest his argument is that its time for new leadership. Ed markey has been there for a long time and joe kennedy is one of these democrats that the party finds exciting. He sort of the next generation. They are not actually that different, issue wise. They are both in the same part of the political spectrum, so this is a fight over name id and the sense that voters either want someone there familiar with, or change of leadership. Host senator warren has endorsed ed markey but has good things to say about joe kennedy who was a former student when she was teaching. Guest i think this race is going to be very awkward for progressives Going Forward. You are seeing a number of progressives wanting to stay out neutralace, or staying at this point. I think thats important because they are in an awkward position. But on the point about name id. Ed markey is known as a figure in washington, d. C. He is very much a washington institution, hes been here forever, hes worked to get proposals passed through, hes essentially another creator of the Green New Deal along with alexandria because io cortez, but one area he could be attacked is his presence in his home state. Some massachusetts democrats say that ed markey is not necessarily a constant presence in visiting the factories in lowell, or going to western massachusetts. So i think you will see joe moredy try to do that traditional campaigning, facetoface, making his name id known. But there was an interesting article that i read earlier this week. It had joe kennedy and pete cover and itthe was entitled the rise of the entitled millennials to minutes so telling. You see a lot of progresses looking at joe kennedy and saying really . And senator markey has challenge host and senator markey has challenged his opponent on the debate based solely on climate change. Before. Es a whole year melinda is joining us on the republican mine from ohio. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. I think it is sad what this whistleblower stuff has come out. Biden was the only democrat chance, he would only run one term. I dont think people caught that. Thats his business. But i think it is sad, whoever started this whistleblowing thing, theyve got so much against this president that this country is in such a mess. I used to be a democrat, im so upset, they left me, i did not leave them. I think people need to calm down, quit watching one side of the news, quit reading from the left ring, make up your own mind. These two people you have, they are smart people, they ought to be able to figure out to do both sides of the news instead of beating on one side. Cspan does real good, but you need to quit reading so much out of the leftwing newspapers and do more of both sides. Which you are doing, you are a good station and you do a lot of good news. These two people are smart, i just wish these people on the hill and these newspeople would do both sides a little more. Thank you very much for taking my call. Host linda brought up the issue of the whistleblower, heres what the president said on friday as he was joined by the australian prime minister. [video clip] whistleblowerisan , it should not even have information. I have conversations with many leaders that are always appropriate. Highestppropriate, the level, always appropriate. I fight for this country. I fight so strongly for this country, its another political hack job. Thats all it is. [indiscernible] it doesnt matter what i discussed, but i will say somebody ought to look into joe bidens statement because it was disgraceful when he talked about billions of dollars that hes not giving to a certain country unless a certain prosecutors taken off the case. Somebody ought to look into that. And you would not because hes a democrat, the thickness does not look into things like that. Its a disgrace. Host julia . Guest this is President Trumps usual reaction. You are seeing his allies and supporters very much say this is a case of the deep state left over from the obama administration, or the Fake News Media pushing the story. On the democratic side of the isle you are seeing more the same thing, he needs to be investigated and it shows hes unfit to be president. We are seeing more of the same reaction, i was not surprised by anything the president said on this. To thing im looking forward is how this will play, if the story continues, and i think the democrats in the house will launch this to continue and let it be a major storyline in the news, how this will play on the general election stays stage between President Trump or joe biden. It could be a younger person like a buttigieg or harris, they might not have as many skeletons in their closets, if you will and it will be harder for President Trump to go after them on those issues. But if its biden and trumpets going to get ugly and personal. Host lets go to North Carolina on the democrats line. Good morning. Caller good morning. That whenmention people call in and they make a statement thats not true, and you have the information, that you could read them at the time. One person called in and said moneyiden had withheld with an investigation. Those are two different points. The Vice President did visit ukraine and threaten federal dollars, and the call that the president reportedly made involved hunter biden. They are separate issues but they are being combined because of the politics behind it. Caller but other news reports are saying that biden was becauseing that money there were several countries that wanted him to do that and because of individuals not doing investigations. Behindthe motivation discussing this is very much that there is an election coming up. The fact that both President Trump and vice President Biden are hoping to face each other in the general election. And i think we will see more discussion. Host lets go to new york on the republican line. Caller good morning, thanks for taking my call. I want to say, im a proud trump supporter, hes doing an excellent job of being our president , these democrats are mad because he won the election. Get over it. As far as whats going on with it is truekraine, that he made the statements and hes trying to protect his son donteing prosecuted, why you reporter start turn around and investigate each and every one of these democrats, Elizabeth WarrenBernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, you will find out there so much corruption behind their baggage and what they have to hide. As far as biden, he should not even be running, because hes as corrupt as obama and Hillary Clinton. And im tired of you onesided reporters are attacking our president the way you are not going after and investigating democrats. Once you start doing that you will have a lot of people respecting the news media and start watching the news media and start coming back to it. Because im telling you now, the democrats are so fixated on trying to get their power back into the office, they will lie and say anything they want to get back in there. It will never happen, because their own parties turning against them. Guest i respectfully say that the news media has definitely looked into the histories of Kamala Harris and a number of the other candidates. Im sure they Harris Campaign and a lot of the other democratic campaigns have not necessarily been thrilled with the coverage theyve gotten due to some research. But i think the issue of corruption is a point that both sides are very much making. And something that a lot of americans outside of washington, and the coastal bubbles are concerned about corruption, whether its republican or democrat. And that there is a major disconnect between the establishment elite and the every day american. I think that is something President Trump masterfully ran on. Even though he is a millionaire, he is seen as part of the elite and was very much able to connect with bluecollar voters and voters who are not necessarily part of the elite. Of are going to see a lot other candidates on the democratic side trying to distance themselves from the elite, even though vice President Biden is very much a part of the democratic establishment, hes done a good job of trying to align himself with the bluecollar groups from scranton, and to visit communities that are more bluecollar or less elite. You are going to see democrats paying more attention to states like michigan, wisconsin, and pennsylvania. States that Hillary Clinton ignored in 2016. Host and the cspan campaign 2020 buses making its way across the midwest to a number of key states. The battleground states that will likely decide the election of 2020. Tomorrow we are in wisconsin and we hope that you tune in. Lansing, michigan, is our local contact vehicle. But the bustle be in wisconsin tomorrow, making its way through ohio and into pennsylvania. We hope you tune in. Mike is joining us on the republican line in texas. Julia, i wanted to followup on something the gentleman from new york said. Media andats are the the media are the democrats. Chris matthews, chuck todd, george stephanopoulos, there are so many, there mustve been about 11 or 12 journalists who joined the obama administration. Donnelly,las, john they have a mission, they have a political agenda, and any time something positive about trump, there is a mission. Its bias by omission that you are neglecting. And to the empirical evidence of their bias, julia, their financial donations. If you cannot believe your eyes with what you see on tv, believe the donations that the media gives to don lemon to cnn and so forth. They are a Political Action committee for the democrats. I think theres definitely feeling on both sides of the aisle that there is political involvement from the news media. I think its important to differentiate don lemon or chris matthews, who are very open about this and are opinion hosts , they are liberal hosts. On the Trump Administration there is also a revolving door with conservative media like fox news. Maybe this is an issue thats all encompassing, and may be the news media needs to work out whether its conservative or liberal media. The media obviously has to be careful with how they pursue stories Going Forward. But as i said, being a Campaign Reporter in 2020, and this is my perspective, we get a lot of backlash from the democratic side as well. So i think this is an allencompassing issue. There is a revolving door not only in Democratic Administration but also republican administrations. Host lets turn to the gun debate. I want to share a clip from beto orourke. [video clip] the people of el paso the one to gain the voice to say hell yes, were going to buy back every ar15 and ak47 and get those off the streets and out of our homes so no one has to be her that again. To fear that again. [cheering] and people ask us, they will say, beto, arent you afraid you gone too far . That youve really paced off the thethis time pissed off nra this time . Im not afraid of that, i would be afraid if i was a schoolteacher in the kindergarten classroom, and for those kids, for whom i have already sacrificed so much, were up against a gunman with an ar15 because we did not have the courage to stop and while we had time. For the congressman orourke doubling down on taking away assault weapons. Guest this is really distinguished him in the primary field, a lot of candidates try to take a step back from criticism that they would go too far on gun control. Orourke has stuck out as someone who has said yes, we were there limit the availability of certain guns and assault weapons. That has endeared him, to an extent, to activists who are really active right now in the primary. Host this is an advertisement that has been getting a lot of attention, it runs a minute and is put together by parents thatved in sandy hook, shooting that resulted in the deaths of 26 people, including 20 children from the kindergarten and first grade. [video clip] my mom got me a perfect backpack for after school. These binders help me stay organized. This is just what i need for studying. And the sneakers i what i need for the new year. This jacket is a musthave. Its just what i wanted, its pretty cool. [screaming] this could be a real lifesaver. This will help me stay in touch with my mom. [footsteps] host the organization is called sandy hook promise. Guest absolutely chilling. Matterer sandy hook, no what side of the gun debate you stand on, a lot of americans were left wondering why more wasnt done after kindergartners were killed in that horrible shooting. And we have seen shooting after shooting happen after this. A good jobt that shows how these shootings have almost been normalized in American Life and society. We were going to see when it comes to the politics of the gun violence and gun control debate is the senate and those campaigns playing a huge role. We know that a number of different gun control organizations are targeting senators who are facing uphill reelections like cory gardner in colorado, or Susan Collins in maine, they are running ads and tying them to Mitch Mcconnell and accusing Mitch Mcconnell of inaction on this issue. You will see it become much more political. I would not be surprised if you saw more ads like this play as we get closer to 2020. New york times has an headline, looking at the faces of those who survived Mass Violence and violence and gun shooting and Mass Shootings the summer. We have a call from scranton, pennsylvania, from rosemary. Caller i have initiated want to speak about, with regard to gun. Iolence, i dont understand if people cant get behind background checks and with the red flag laws, if its due process, they should have that. The comment that i wanted to talk about was with regard to mr. Kennedy running against senator markey. If you look at new york, look at how highly respected representative crowley was, and he was defeated by aoc. Host thank you for the call. Guest its true that its not unheard of for incumbent politicians to lose a reelection to insurgent candidates. Differenceres a big between a causal cortez oh cortez, and ocasio andley, versus kennedy marquis. The gulf was a little wider, and alexandria because you cortez was completely new to the political scene and has introduced yourself. I think theres a difference, but kennedy does paul competitively even now, which is unusual for a primary challenger. Moment in iowa from Kamala Harris. [video clip] the fight that we have is to get the current occupant out of the white house. That, iuccessfully do suggest that we successfully prosecute the case against four years of donald trump and it will take a prosecutor to do it. And i think we are working with a pretty good long rap sheet. Because lets think about it. Joe has got ago go. Got to heres a fellow who came into the office, talking about making America Great again, and that because a lot of us to ask again exactly for whom . And all of us realized he was talking about going back to something. Back to what exactly . Before the Voting Rights act . The Civil Rights Act . Before the Fair Housing Act . Before the ada . Wade . Roe v. Because we are not going back. We are not going back. And he came in making a lot of promises to a lot of folks. He made promises to farmers, to working families, and he prayed people. Its look at what happened. He betrayed our families when he said i see you, ive got you, i will take care of you and honor your hard work and he taxes a tax bill benefiting the top 1 and the biggest corporations in america. Spike inator harris, a the polls after the first debate that she has fallen back. Guest her Campaign Calls this a sugar high after she fun race so much after joe biden. Spoken to a number strategists who have said that she is in an awkward position. Biden is already seen as the establishment candidate and you have Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders were progressive. Ownneeds to carve out her lane to differentiate herself because this is a crowded field and it seems shes gotten lost. The next debate is in midoctober, and walter is next on the republican line from indiana. Good morning. Caller thank you for taking my call. Always appreciate opinions without being thrown under the bus if you disagree with someone and people call each other racist and the white noise comes in. So a quick story. Im a disabled u. S. Army veteran. ,hen i had to go to the v. A. Because of the overbooking i would have to wait weeks. One time i had to wait six weeks to get in there. Now because of donald trump and his presidency, about nine months ago i had to get into the v. A. And they were saying they were booked really bad and i went to my local doctor and they took care of it and they found out what was the problem and everything was taken care of within five days. I want to speak to whats important for americans, the average american, not the people in the bubbles and the white ivory tower. The regular joe of all colors. We want jobs. In indiana you trip over the helpwanted signs. You want low taxes, property taxes are superlow, we want secure borders and a safe community. I watch the democratic debate and its embarrassing for all of them. The first night when they asked who would be in favor of giving to illegall services immigrants, everybody raised their hand. Who would be for taking Illegal Immigrants and making them not a crime. Everyone raise their hand. Host im going to stop either because were short on time. We give our test just a chance to respond. Guest walter makes an excellent point when it comes to jobs and the economy. That is something President Trump has hammered home, from his argument from the macroeconomic level you are seeing quite a bit of growth in the economy. He constantly tweets about job numbers, stockmarket booms, but on the democratic side, they essentially said that you are not necessarily seeing that movement on main street and the microeconomic level. Depending on probably going to get a different perspective. I think walter makes a good point in saying the focus should be on jobs. To see whatt senator warren does with this new poll numbers showing her head in iowa. I want to see what former Vice President joe biden does in response. I want to see if cory booker can raise that money that he is hoping to keep this campaign going. Host last word . Guest i think this week im going to focus on the u. N. General assembly. We know President Trump is slated to meet with the president of ukraine. I think, given the whistleblower controversy and the news surrounding that, there will be focus on that meeting. There will be hearings in the house on that issue. Host we will follow your work. Eneration of unfunded bridges that generation of leaders will up that left our infrastructure and worse john rse condition than they got it. And put peoples work of the same time, that is the great thing about investing in infrastructure in this country. The use of credit schools be determined on the Auto Insurance rates, life insurance. It, yourhem realize insurance has monitored your credit score the new driver record. You not ask for a loan. If you are a graduated college , your credit score will be quite low. Not even how much money you are bringing in. Score determines everything and it is putting everyone out. Something i would like washington, d. C. , to discuss more is bipartisanship. I think we in american we americans probably have more common than we disagree on. The only way we can really moving nation forward is to work together. Part of cspans battleground states tour. President trumps friend former Campaign Manager went before the house judiciary ofmittee to answer questions the mold motor report. This includes questions by the attorney hired by the committees democrats