Talk about the nfls big fumble. Then our political roundtable looks into the crystal ball to tell us what congress will look like next year. And if you build it, they will come, and this year no exception. This could be a great shot in the arm for us for both bill and hillary to be there. Before the 37th and last iowa steak fry, retiring senator tom harkin on his fundraising event thats launched many a president ial dream and the democrats dreaming this year. This is state of the union. Good morning from washington. Im Candy Crowley. Grim news this morning with another horrific video posted by isis, this time the beheading of a british aide worker. Prime minister David Cameron says the murder only strengthens britains resolve to confront the terrorist menace. There is no option of keeping our heads down that would make us safe. But in promising to support u. S. Military action against isis, Prime Minister cameron also said this is not about british combat troops on the ground. President obama also has ruled out u. S. Combat troops. With me is white house chief of staff denis mcdonough. Thanks for joining us this morning. Thanks for having me, candy. These are very purposeful videos put out for public consumption, sending a message. How does the white house, what does the white house see that message to be . Well, theyre trying to communicate any number of things, i have to imagine, but this is what we are going to do, which is we are going to mobilize International Coalition to take this fight to isil, to degrade and ultimately destroy them. That will be a coalition that includes not only our friends in europe and asia, but also our partners in the region, muslim states, sunni states, working with us to make sure that we make this a multinational effort thats one coalition. Two, were going to make sure that were using our unique capabilities, air power, intelligence surveillance, reconnaissance and our training ability to make sure iraqi forces on one side and Syrian Opposition forces on the other side of the border can take the fight to isil. Then were also going to make sure that were keeping the heat on them, so that the foreign fighters that are going there and want to come home cant do that and pose a threat to the americans. Since you bring up coalition help and a big coalition, number one, in any of the conversations that the president has had, secretary kerry has had, others have had, has there been a country that has said we will put combat troops on the ground . Any announcements from the country or secretary kerry in the region. We dont neat specifics. Has anyone said yes, we will put again im not going to frontrun any announcements. The president will sit down with john allen on tuesday morning. Secretary kerry is continuing to work this in the region. Hell be testifying in congress this week and well make sure that we build a coalition that is durable, that is sustainable, and that is focused on the fundamental goal of this effort, which is to degrade and ultimately destroy isil. Do you need troops on the ground other than Syrian Rebels that you can vet and then train and arm and iraqi troops and peshmerga . Ultimately to destroy eyisile need to have a force against which they will be pushed. Ideally sunni forces, thats why the Syrian Opposition is so important and thats why this proposal that the president has sent to congress to authorize us to train and equip the Syrian Opposition thats on the Ground Fighting isil today with better training, better weapons so that they can take the fight to them, thats why that effort is so important. Well do the same side on the iraqi border with the iraqis but ultimately, candy, we can bring air power to bear on this, we can bring isr and we can bring training capability. Its going to be iraqi and other boots on the ground that are bringing this fight to isil ultimately to destroying them. And sunni forces could include forces from many other countries in that region, because theyre obviously saudi arabia, others could put forces on the ground. The main thing i want to focus on today because of the importance of these votes this week in congress is the focus on the Syrian Opposition. The Syrian Opposition wants to fight, this is their fight. We should facilitate them to do that. Just last month, the president was talking i think to tom friedman and sort of described Syrian Rebels as former doctors and pharmacists and sort of said it was a myth, a fairytale i believed he used the word, that we could ever arm them and put them up against a russianbacked syrian government. Why are they now and trainable and able to push back against what everyone has said the most brutal fighting force america has ever faced . Look, i think that the question that the president was responding to at the time looking back a couple of years, weve had a relationship with these fighters now for a couple of years, theyre Getting Better and more capable and whats most important here is that the Syrian Opposition on the Ground Fighting isil can count on american and Coalition Air power to supercharge their effort. Thats important and ultimately what is called for in this strategy. What about blowback, which is the other thing people are worried about. U. S. Force used in the middle east has always seemed to arouse and radicalize other people, that there may be a chance here that, while trying to destroy isis, you create other terrorists that come in and take up the fight, that you will make more enemies than you will kill . Look, our strategy needs to be carried out in a disciplined, thoughtful fashion. Thats exactly what well do and also why it calls for a coalition to include our muslim partners from the region involved in this fight. This fight is as much theirs as it is ours. This is a fight within sunni islam and they want to make sure they do this. I want to be clear about one thing. Weve been reminded again this morning of their inhumanity, of their depravity, of their barabrity and the fact we somehow could have made them more so is faulty. When youre confronted with evil, sometimes you have to confront it. Absolutely, what im talking about is others who have yet to join the fight, that in fact the u. S. Presence has always been a selling point for radicals. Thats why again, were going to carry this strategy out in a very disciplined fashion. The overwhelming majority of muslims and the overwhelming majority of sunni muslims are shocked and outraged by the kind of activity that were seeing from isis. Which is why i keep asking if we can expect that they will put troops on the ground, that throughout the middle east, there are people who have more a stake in this fight than the u. S. Does. Thats right, but we have a lot at stake in this fight which is why the president s made the decision hes made, working and consulting with congress to do this and working with our allies to make sure that we have a durable, sustainable coalition. Confident that you can vet these rebels in syria to the extent that you know theyre not going to take the weaponry and use it against the u. S. . Weve been putting this plan together now for some time. We submitted it to Congress Late this spring, earlier this year so weve taken this seriously and we believe were ready to go with it. Thats why this vote this week is so important. Can you stage this war or this military action or this counterterrorism plan, whatever you want to call it, without american blood being spilled . The president said on wednesday night in his address to the nation that any time our people are in harms way, are in an effort like this, theres inherent risk in that. Thats why he has approached this decision with the prudence and the discernment that he has done, and as he said to many people over the course of these last many weeks, he will never apologize for being discerning and careful as he is preparing an effort that will put our troops in harms way. You must believe i think when i saw this, i did not see the whole thing but when i saw news of another beheading that were now sending another 400 u. S. Military personnel into iraq to help train and figure things out, hopefully stay out of combat, that there has to be a movement within isis to grab an american soldier and do the exact same thing theyve been doing. Is that a concern . Isil will do anything it can to strike terror and fear into its opponents, but ultimately thats why were going to beat them. They stand for nothing but what they can destroy, not for anything that they can build. Thats exactly what Prime Minister cameron was saying this morning and why ultimately the United States, with this coalition effort, muslim states, sunni states, part of that effort will ultimately not only degrade this capability with isil but destroy isil itself, because it really stands for nothing. White house chief of staff denis mcdonough, thanks for coming by. Thanks for having me, candy. Now that weve heard the president s plan, is it going to work . Well ask two generals who have commanded u. S. Forces in iraq, thats next. At od, whatever business youre in, thats the business were in. With Premium Service like one of the best ontime delivery records and a low claims ratio, we do whatever it takes to make your business our business. Od. Helping the world keep promises. 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Pleasure to be here. Let me throw the ball in the air and let you catch it. What youve seen of the president s plan, what they are trying to put together, is it going to work to destroy isis . It has every possibility to work. The proof will be in the execution not in the planning. It is execution not just in the military aspects but equally important what follows military success, supposing we get it. What are the actions were going to take diplomatically with the iraqis make sure following the isis defeat and withdrawal from iraq we have a better peace than we had prior to that. It is a political issue and we have got to, as jim described, weve got to be able to backfill the territory that ultimately were going to take, back from isis, and backfill it with credible, moderate muslims. You have been in that region, up know that region. The idea of being able to pinpoint okay, this group are moderate and this group is moderate and theyre fine, i think most americans minds turn to afghanistan where weve seen dressed in or belonging to the military turning their he weapons on the u. S. Military. Seems as reingy venture. It is a risk y venture but not impossible. We have to revive an iraqi army. We dont have to create an army. Weve done that. One of the first tasks is to create the political policies that have led to the erosion of the proficiency of the Iraqi Security forces. The office of the commander in chief that maliki created has to go. The policy that put loyalty over proficiency and selective command has to go. Needs to be a more inclusive government so it can stand when, you know, particularly i guess in the northern and eastern part of the country, but to the question as you all trained iraqi troops for however long youve been combined, im not sure, but years, right . Yes. Now were told we have to send 400 more people in because we have to train the iraqi troops. Why will it work this time when it didnt work last time if. There is a sense you build a soldier physically, you give them military skill sets to operate in the context of a rifle squad and to be able to use his kit, but theres what the british call the moral component, and thats where you create a soldier who feels resilient, that he believes in his chain of command, that he is a legitimate actor on behalf of a legitimate government. Thats the issue and it goes back to what general dubik was talking about, this political legitimacy that we have to build in a vertical structure in iraq in order for our iraqi soldiers to understand they are legitimate actors. So they can fight if they didnt want to, is that what youre saying . That existed by 2010. There were a series of unnoticed but very important Security Policies that the Maliki Administration took. First, he created this office of the commander in chief and took from the regular chain of command responsibility for conduct of operations and gave it to this relative so the chain of command was eroded. He, maliki became the defensive minister of the interior, he stopped proficiency of development in those two. When you look at the u. S. Risk here theres always risk. Air assaults sound like oh, well just run over and drop bombs or shave places. What is the risk here to American Life and limb . Well, youre right to say candy that the air strike is necessary but efficient. They have to be in conjunction with three other campaigns, special operations campaign. U. S. Special ops. U. S. With iraqis, iraqis primary but with our advisers thats a risk. The second is an Unconventional Warfare campaign that arms and helps both the kurds, the peshmerga and the sunni tribes that are willing to fight counter to isis and the third is with Iraqi Security forces, the army themselves. Initially theyll be at Headquarters Level relatively safe, but once the counteroffensive begins i think theyll be at risk, too. There will have to be u. S. Special ops somewhere out in the field. Weve had few problems of green on blue in iraq. Im unaware of any american soldier hurt by an iraqi soldier. But were bringing in now these unknown Syrian Rebels, i think thats where the worry begins. Different issue though. Im sorry i didnt mean to interrupt. Indeed but military planning is all about Risk Mitigation and thats what the chain of command does and we will have the patches in place to be able to buy down that risk. So let me ask you, as we close this off, first of all, does isis or do the syrians have the power to bring down american planes, or do they have that equipment, is that at all doable . I would expect that surfacetoair missiles are in the hands of people who would want to bring down u. S. Aircraft, and again in both countries . Or its sort of one country now. Im not sure they know the boundary. So that is a risk, but our air force understands risk management, our air force is brilliant at conducting what were asking them to do, so i have great faith in our air forces ability to prosecute this. But in the end you see it certainly is going to, both of you agree, going to take special forces in the field at some point, u. S. . It does. It will take special Operation Forces in conjunction with the iraqis and it will take conventional forces, too. The advisers for many of the units now are conventional, captains, majors, lieutenant colonels, senior sergeants. This is exactly the kind of advice that they need from conventional, not just special Operation Forces. I want to thank you both for coming by. I hope youll stop by again as we kind of move forward with this. Look forward to it. Major general paul eaton and Lieutenant General james dubik. Coming up a billiondollar industry in crisis between abusive players and nonothing executives. 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First of all im a former prosecutor, candy, and i think you need to look at the evidence, the fact, bob mullers integrity is on the line here, and hopefully hell get the facts out. I have a feeling theres a lot of people that know stuff, what went on here. You have a situation where a man knocked a woman out cold on an elevator. Theres a tape that clearly shows what happened. I think moat reporters would look for all the evidence, maybe you give a temporary suspension while youre looking at the evidence but the fact that they gave only a twogame suspension and then turn around and after the evidence goes public say oh, oh, we made a mistake. Now were going to let him go. I think thats problematic for the nfl and deeply concerning about how they handle these kinds of cases. As a prosecutor youre waiting for the evidence. Im waiting to see if there is a major coverup, if it shows he lies, there could be many factual situations where, in fact, he should step down. Id like to see what the facts are. And im going to jump the gun on the senator. I think Roger Goodell does need to go, and for a myriad of reasons but at the very least, candy, hes going to come out of this investigation at the very least incompetent. At the very worst, maybe duplicitous and lying about what he knew regarding the videotape. The thing that bothered me, not because of the transparency issue, the thing that bothered me most is, Roger Goodell at one point tried to play essentially a marriage counselor with the victim and the perpetrator, jany and ray rice. He put the victim and the perpetrator together. Every Domestic Violence agency, every Law Enforcement agency, thats a nono. She is sitting telling her story in front of the person who essentially abused her, and its the tone deafness of those types of things that show me that this commissioner does not take Domestic Violence seriously enough. I want to read you something from the Police Report, which everybody had access to. It was public, its available to the public, where it said the complainant says that, to the best of his or her knowledge, the named defendant, that would be rice in this case, committed assault by attempting to cause Bodily Injury to j. Palmer, his fiance at the time, specifically by striking her with his hand, rendering her unconscious. Umhum. All right, so they knew that the blow he gave to her rendered her it wasnt that she knocked her head against something when he pushed her. So they already knew that. So it does say to me that the evidence was right there, and they couldnt stand the pr of that video. Exactly and that appears to be the case here and this is why theres an outcry from around the country, and when you think about the nfl, these cases as you know, candy, happen all the time, every minute 24 women are beaten and the fact that the nfl puts out their players as role models, which they are for so many young men, they can make a real difference here by putting in place tougher policies, by changing the culture within the nfl. I know that mike would tell you theres not just one player that has done this. No, its alarming when you see the number of players that have been, you know, arrested and charged with 56 just under Roger Goodells watch. Only 13 games have been, hes suspended 13 games total of all these players, so the numbers are alarming. Everything about it and i understand people are upset also that the District Attorney and the Prosecutors Office in Atlantic City and Atlantic County did not get involved in new jersey. Thats a separate argument. Every player signs a moral conduct clause with his contract, and if you dont abide by that, youre essentially, youre beholden to the rules of the commissioner. I want to read you something from a letter john conyears, congressman john conyers along with others wrote a letter to the commissioner asking that this be a transparent investigation into whats gun on, and he wrote in part we believe these highroh file professional leagues are in many ways in a position of public trust and should be at the forefront of handling such incidents appropriately. So you think back to someone like Singer Chris Brown who publicly also beat his girlfriend at the time, rihanna. Nobody called on the Music Industry and said dont put him on the grammys, dont do this. So wheres the line where youre a public figure and therefore were idolizing you and you therefore have to behave in a serb way. If a newscaster was charged with this, would you then say dont put him on the air again . Where is that line . Zbl its a a tough one. There is sort of if youre sort of laying dry wall at a construction site are you beholding to the same laws of people. There is something about a public figure and also which public figures. Exactly which public figure, what entertainment. People went to see Robert Downey jr. s movies even after his Substance Abuse problems but would cry wolf if Lance Armstrong took another drug and got on a bicycle. I think there is a double standard there. When i was a prosecutor we had a poster outside of the door so everyone would see it when they came in, a picture of a woman beaten up, with a bandaid over her nose holding a baby boy, the words read beat your wife and its your son that goes to jail. Twice the number kids that get in trouble under domestic abuse, witnessed it and seen it happen theyre twice as likely to commit it themselves. Does the nfl who plays out to youngsters all across the country have an obligation, yes. In a lot of places if they had a video theyd dismiss an employee without a doubt. However they have this obligation when they are putting out their players as role models to set a different culture. The best thing about this whole thing thats come out, one of them is players current and former, including scott fujita and others have taken up to social media and written columns for different news organizations and said enough already. We dont want this to reflect us. We believe in respecting women, we dont hit women and we dont think any of our peers should either, and we will support a lot as a teammate and the whole ethos of having someones back, if they earn the right to be part of our family, thats, that disqualifies you. Senator klobuchar i have to do this, we have seconds left, because adrian peterson, member of your beloved vikings, has been arrested and charged with child abuse i believe. He spanked his child with a, this rashed his child with a branch and left visible and bloody streaks. First of all, im a big vikings fan. I group up with the vikings, my dad had a job similar to mikes and nevertheless this is a 4yearold child, candy. This is a 4yearold child. This is very serious allegations. Zero tolerance . I am very glad the first thing that happened is different than the rice case. The rice case doesnt come out during the season but the ravens didnt do something immediately. The vikings immediately deactivated him, hes not playing in the game with the patriots today and im sure theyre gathering the evidence, looking at it, hearing what he has to say but mostly looking at the pictures that are out there and everything and they will make a decision and the pros cuter will pursue the case. Again, this say 4yearold boy. Having a 4yearold son myself i understand theres a logic out there, if you spare the rod you spoil the child. This has nothing to do with an argument about corporal punishment. This boy was beat with a switch until he was bloodied. End of story. Sports columnist mike weiss, the Washington Post, thanks so much. Senator Amy Klobuchar thanks for bringing the fact youre a female, former prosecutor and u. S. Senator you are a triple hit today. Thank you very much. Our Political Panel is next, we thought it would be interesting to see how the question cuts across party lines. Theres a reason no one says easy like monday morning. Sundays are the warriors day to unplug and recharge. What if this feeling could last all week . With centurylink as your trusted partner, it can. Our visionary Cloud Infrastructure and Global Broadband network free you to focus on what matters. With Custom Communications solutions and dedicated support, your business can shine all week long. No question about that. But your erectile dysfunction that could be a question of blood flow. 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Ask your doctor about cialis for daily use and a free 30tablet trial. This say question we never expected to be discussing less than two months before the 2014 elections. Should nfl commissioner Roger Goodell stay or go. Joining me jay carney former White House Press secretary now on the cnn payroll, lonnie chen, former adviser to mitt romney, s. E. Cupp and l. Z. Granderson, thanks, all. So thats kind of not that there arent politics in the nfl and certainly there are. Let me start over here, s. E. , what do you think, stay or go . If it turns out Roger Goodell saw the tape and is lying about it, thats clear hes got to be fired. Theres got to be a trust between the commissioner, the players, the owners and the fans, and clearly there wouldnt be if it turned out hed been lying about it and covering this up. The problem i had the Police Report said clearly he struck her in the face and caused her to be knocked out. I know were a visual nation here but how much video do we need to see . Theres a hierarchy to our outrage and i think were skipping over. We should be First Talking about the judicial system and how in the world did this tape get seen by the prosecutors, by the judge and everyone and then he gets a slap on the wrist. Then we can work our way down to Roger Goodell, who has had 55, 56 arrests for domesticviolence relatedic dents not him. Not him, right. Clearing that up, during his watch, and so why are we isolating ray rice when with he had 55 other incidents and what to you do with the players who this convictions of Domestic Violence today. It comes back to the fact there are role models here. Young kids look at folks in the nfl and we need to have some confidence that the league is doing things to prevent this from happening and i dont see that happening and thats the primary people think goodell ought to go. They have a point. Youve got young kids. I remember my kits thinking doc gooden was the neatest guy in the world and he ends up in the slammer on all kinds of drug charges. Its hard. It does matter. The world is complicated enough you dont want to spend time explaining to your kids why you are heroes about the opposite. L. Z. Says about the systemic problem which wont be resolved simply by replacing the person at the top is a bigger issue. There are other models in professional sports where the top has taken action with a lot more quickly and with a lot more clarity in terms of the morals of it, than weve seen here and its a real problem for the nfl. You know whats interesting, candy, we are focusing a lot on the nfl but i is it some research and the department of labor says theres only 12 of u. S. Companies even have policies about addressing Domestic Violence. Exactly. I agree with you on that, that this cant just be about the people you see. Right. It has to be about the people you dont see as well. Let me move you on to 2014. Midterms coming up, and the reason i want to talk about it today was i read copious numbers of articles this week, one of which, two of which said wave election, republicans are going to control the house and the senate and its going to be a big wave and then i read in the New York Times well, you know the democrats now have a Clear Pathway to win this. So i thought id. You the that to you all. I think youre referring to the nate kohn piece in the New York Times which i found really interesting. Because it does, it lays out what he thinks is a clear path for democrats in states like alaska and colorado and michigan and north carolina, and what the polling that he offers doesnt take into account is the fact that midterm elections are going to favor republicans anyway, just for turnout, and all of these incumbents in these states should be up significantly by virtue of the fact that they are incumbents. The fact that it is so close is not good news for democrats, regardless of how tight the races are at this moment. I think you cant, this is not going to be a good year for democrats by definition, right . The last time an incumbent president s did well in 2002 which was a strange midterm in the wake of 9 11, so the sixth year of a presidency is always particularly bad for the president s party. You couple that with the fact so many seats are defended by democrats in red states where mitt romney did very well against the president , double digits in most cases and theres no outcome in november that anybody could say would be great for democrats, except for barely holding onto the senate. Its going to depend on how localized the races are. Theres a National Wave the democrats were in trouble, if not, theres a way where the democrats hold onto the senate, but its going to be hard. We cant say its a wave but honestly when you look at some of the wins, the president s approval rating, right track wrong track, more than 60 of the country going wrong track, wrong track, i mean, how is the president handling the economy . How is he handling International Affairs . All the wind is very much in the face of democrats. The thing is, the republicans dont need a wave to get to 51. Theyve got so many pathways to get there. You look at the different states that are in play right now. I think the map is expanded for republicans with oregon and minnesota potentially coming online so my sense is that the republicans never needed a wave, that they were always institutionally as jay was saying the states that were going to be up this cycle were going to favor republicans more anyway and the fact that theyve managed to expand them beyond that and defend in georgia and kentucky by the way. I think this is hapg up to be a great cycle for the gop. L. Z. , let me start you on answering my favorite question which is lets assume that the republicaning do take control of capitol hill. Which is it . A time that republicans will then have to show that they actually can lead and do something, or will it be a recipe for gridlock for the last two years in the Obama Administration . Which will it be . Yes. Okay. I definitely think its going to be a recipe for both, because, and we know this is going to happen, once they get power and im going to assume that they will have power, one of the first things theyll try to attack is the Affordable Care act again. Regardless of what is going on theyll try to attack that, they will pass it and send it to the president and hell of course veto it. The policies the president put in place is going to try to be overturned by the desk and veto it and theyll use it as a platform to springboard into the general election in 2016. I think what will be the best Case Scenario the democrats on it keep the senate not because i tend to represent liberal viewpoints but because i think its healthier for the National Conversation as we deal with the isis crisis. If you start having group think, the next thing you know we repeat the errors that we had in iraq, no one is challenging anything because were all pushing along and theres no voices thats going to oppose. We need to have oppositions necessary for democracy. I hope what republicans do when they win the senate is avoid the sort of midterm trap that they usually fall into. Great midterm year and they cant pull it around for national election, because theyve swung to the right and then they have to rebound to the center and it doesnt work. What im hoping and what im optimistic about is that they go after things like prison reform, demilitarization of the police, overthecounter birth control, all efforts were seeing in small pockets among some republicans and particular libertarians, i hope they remember that those are the kinds of efforts and policy proposals that are going to speak to the center and the rest of the country. They didnt have them before, though. The tea party came in and they were supposed to be focusing on the economy and the first thing they started doing is addressing Everything Else but the economy. I dont see them doing what they say theyre going to do during the campaign season. Once they get into august its not about obama. Let me get lanhee and jay in on this. I think this is the challenge for republicans is that you know, weve seen this movie before where they do well in the midterm, they do well in these local elections but they have a national problem. Im not sure they can 23 fix it with the proposition you laid out although better than the are he peel of the Affordable Care act as more and more have good experiences with the Affordable Care act which i think they will. I think either outcome produces terrible gridlock, the experience the last two years has been i think record gridlock more of the same. The problem for republicans if they win, its true that americans begin to think we hate congress and it is now clear that one party is in control of congress. They probably still want it. The shortcut. Governing agenda is key and we can come back to that. Republicans need to govern on the Affordable Care act, need to govern on the economy and those are going to be keys as people look toward 2016. Lanhee chen, l. Z. Granderson, jay carney welcome to the show. S. E. Cupp, great tv, let us know. Our next stop is in iowa, a steak fry and of course 2016 is on the menu. Well sit down with the host, u. S. Senator tom harkin. 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To help, sleep train is collecting donations for the extra activities that, for most kids, are a normal part of growing up. Not everyone can be a foster parent. But anyone can help a foster child. Welcome back. We want you to take a look at preparations for an iowa political tradition. Senator tom hearkens 37th annual steak fry and, yes, Hillary Clinton will be there. Its the final steak fry before senator harkin retires and thats why we sat down with him earlier. When you look back over your 37 years, who was the easiest president to work with . I think two were easy to work with. George h. W. Bush, first president bush. Of course, he signed my americans with disabilities act into law so i have great esteem for him and he was just good to work with and then bill clinton. I mean, we had a great relationship, and, you know, bill clinton only had a Democratic Congress for two years and then it was a Republican Congress from then on. Then he had the impeachment and all that, but even in the face of that, we had one of the best economic growths weve ever had in this country. Most difficult . Well, it would be a tie. George w. Bush or jimmy carter. Interesting. Thats very bipartisan of you. Its true. Youre retiring and what that means to folks in iowa is the last steak fray. The 37th steak fry. Its a fundraiser but more than that its been a huge draw for president ial candidates. This year youre big headliners are bill and Hillary Clinton. Will you be a Hillary Clinton supporter . Are you a Hillary Clinton supporter . Were very close friends. Both bill and hillary have provided i think Inspiring Leadership to our country for a long time. I served on the committee with hillary when she was in the senate. I think her performance at secretary of state was amazing. She has energized women and girls all around the globe. Shes given them hope and new aspirations. She is a global figure. That falls a little short of tom harkin jumping on her bandwagon at this moment. Tell me about the newcomers in the republican in the Democratic Party. Who is the new face of the Democratic Party . Who is out there that can take her on . Well, i dont know. I mean, im sure that different people will come to the forefront. I have had governor omalley what do you think of him . Hes a liberal certainly could be seen as a progressive. A great governor, done great things. Hes certainly out there as a viable person. Hes there. I think you may see one or two senators that might come up that might want to do something in this regard. I think of people like mark warner from virginia. Hell win his reelection this year. Others that are out there that i think that might be coming up, younger new democrats coming up like that. Do you think it will be a race or is it a little bit of a done deal if hillary decides to run . Lets be honest about this. If hillary decides to run, i think its going to be very tough for anyone else. Thats not to say they wont do it. They might. Some other democrats may pop up or you might get a bernie sanders, for example, as an independent might pop up. I dont know. I think you may have people come to the forefront that maybe want to stress certain issues in a campaign, but i think if hillary decides to run, its going to be very tough for any democrat to get ahead of her. Im not saying it cant be done, it will be very tough though. You served a long time with joe biden. You were liberal voices together on many, many things. Is he going to run for president and would you support him . I love joe biden. In fact, he spoke at my steak fry just last year. Got a great reception. I mean, everyone loves joe biden. In fact, i was quite frankly surprised in the 2008 race, i thought he was going to do a lot better than what happened in the Iowa Caucuses because everywhere i went, people love joe biden, but obama was just running through iowa and he was up against obama and hillary. And hillary both. I think joe biden would make an outstanding president but i just dont know if hillary gets in the race, will he run . I dont know. Ask him. But you know him. Oh, i love joe biden. He is great. He is just hes just good all around. Hes got everything it takes to be a good president and hes been a great vice president. There are lots of people that have run that probably would have made great president s over time. I guess the question is now for someone youve worked so long with and you see the Hillary Clinton bandwagon sort of growing as it goes along, whats your advice to him . To joe biden . Hang in there. You never know what tomorrow brings. Keep doing what hes doing. Hes been around the country campaigning for democrats, supporting our Democratic Candidates around the country. Hes been out front on a lot of good issues. And my advice is hang in there, joe, because you never know what tomorrow brings. And if joe biden and Hillary Clinton were in the race, what would tom harkin do . Love them both. Senator tom harkin, weve known each other a long time. Im so glad you came by. Thanks, candy, good to see you always, always. Thanks. Well be right back. Let me get this straight. [ female voice ] yes . Lactaid® is 100 real milk . Right. Real milk. But it wont cause me discomfort. Exactly, because its milk without the lactose. And it tastes . Its real milk come on, would i lie about this . [ female announcer ] lactaid. 100 real milk. No discomfort. Come on, would i lie about this . Frommy family and is to love ice cream. However some of us cant enjoy it without discomfort. So we use lactaid® ice cream. Its 100 real ice cream just without the lactose. 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Then will the president s plan to combat isis work . If you threaten america, you will find no safe haven