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Nasa administrator bill nelson joined former texas republican senator Kay Bailey Hutchison for a conversation at the lbj president ial library in austin, texas. They discuss space exploration, research and development and foreign policy. Now onto tonights program. In 1967, president Lyndon Johnson said when we ask what expects to find from exploration in space, the answer is one word knowledge. Knowledge we need to maintain earth as a habitable environment for man. If that was trunasa, which lyndn helped to catalyze when he was e boundaries of space and increase our knowledge of the universe. Tonight we will get a view of our space efforts from the very top of nasa. Senator bill nelson has served as the 14th administrator of nasa 2021. Prior to his appointment he represented florida for 18 years in the senate and 12 years in the house of representatives. During his time in the senate, senator nelson had an impact on nearly all space, including lank nasa reauthorization act of 2010, which he our moderator this evening, senator kay bailey hutchinson. Senator nelson has also been in space himself, flying with the crew of the Space Shuttle columbia in 1986, which orbited the earth nearly 100 times in six days. Senator hutchison, a moderator, is a graduate from the university of texas. Elected to the senate in 1993 and remained until 2013. Vice chair of the republican as conference and chair of the republican policy committee. From 2017 through 2021, she served as u. S. Permanent resident in nato in brussels. Before brings outq senator hutchinson, senator nelson would like to offer some words please join me in welcoming senator bill nelson. [applause] mr. Nelson kay and i are going to have a discussion but we wanted to give you a glimpse throughqm video of not only what has happened and some very important times in the history we will recount tonight, particularly president johnsons influence senator, Vice President and president on shaping the space programha influence is still felt today. On the first video, it will be my voiceover into these are very short. This is a less than two minute video. I want to give you the setting. The setting is the 60th anniversary to the day of president kennedy n■ university with Lyndon Johnson sitting behind him. After the sovietus with sputnikn surprid again with the first human to orbit the earth before we could even get alan orbit, kennedy made a bold decision. W, johnson h ground. As majority leader, he had really shaped the future by passing in 1958 the nasa bill that set up nasa. Course johnson was quite concerned with what the soviets were doing and he was all over that. Bu kennedy to make that clarion call that we are going to the moon and return safely before the end of the decade. He did that after alan shepard hadwe were way behind. The soviets have the high ground and kennedy made this decision before we ever put john glenn into orbit. This was in the spring of 1961 after yuri guard darren had flown. I will tell you a secret that is no longer secret, but it was a secret because the soviets kept successful spaceflight was to orbit and then to land. But the soviets were afraid we would beat them. They went ahead and launched a herculean effort. He went into orbit but he did not land, he bailed out. They kept that a secret. A few months later, they put another man into ort y still ct land. It was later on that they got the ability to have retro rockets as the spacecraft was coming parachute and the retro rockets would ignite and soften the landing. Ey still used to this day. Kennedy makes the bold declaration, weve only gone into low ortho over it orbit, touching it without going into orbit with alan shepard. He makes this decision, he goes into a joint session of congress and he makes e declaration. And it gets some attention but it doesnt really resonate. It doesnt reil the following spring, 1962, when john glenn shimmies into that little spacecraft on top of the atlas rocket knowing there was a 20 chance the rocket was going to blow up. Of course the rest is history. America went nuts. So kennedy makes the decision to again issue this clarion call. He goes to Rice University stadium in september of 1962 and he makes this bold declaration. We go to the moon and do other things not because it is easy h. That became a mantra of the space program. As we will discuss tonight, we will talk about how it was johnson that not only as senator that started all of this but then as Vice President , i will tell you some of the sneaky things he did. The activity away from cape canaveral, as the turned around and half of it was taken by linden lyndon[laugh] and then of course as president , he pushed it and before he left office he was able to see us orbit the moon. Not land. On apollo eight, christmas 1968, just before he retired as president. I want you to have a flavor of that beginning and then i want you to see a two minute■ clip on where we are going in 2024. [video clip] throughout americas story there are defining days. Days when mines change, hartsville and imaginations sore. [applause] he trajectory of the american story, which is our story. Doing what is hard and achieving what is great. That is what stirs humankind. With inspiration and innovation, no herculean effort is too large, no moonshot is beyond our re and liftoff of artemis i. Mr. Nelson a new generation, the artemis generation stands ready to return humanity to the moon and to take us closer than ever before to mars. eunfold this universe and lets continue to find unity in our discovery. Together, let us continue to dream the impossible dream that now becomes real. Lets traverse the untouched terrain of the once unreachable stars. [applause] it is a new day in space exploration. As wesee, there is so much to l. There is so much to be excited about. American companies will soon land payloads on the moon for the first time. These missions are really challenging and risky. You will help us conduct new science. Artemis is different from anything humanity has embarked on before. We will discovercience and technology along the way. Science can be achieved by humans working together with robotic capabilities, and future infrastructure to secure a longterm presence on the moon. [uplifting music] to perform science. We will have two companies, it will change the way we look at how we fly into space. The more we learn about the earth and understand what affects it, the better we can defend the future. Mr. Nelson the needle nose wile aviation industry. We will show what is possible when we dare to reach distant cosmic shores. This is absolutely breathtaking. [music intensifies] [applause] latest engineman, please welcome senators bill nelson and kay bailey hutchinson. [applause] welcome. I want to add a couple of thingm so happy all of you are here, to just do the amendment to what bill said about the kennedy speech at Rice University, because what he said in full was why do we want to send men into space . Why play texas . [laughter] not because it is easy, because it is hard. [laughter] thats the quote that we all know. [laughter] i want to say before we start that bill and i are soul brothers. En he was the senator from florida and i was the senator from texas, we bonded over nasa. Were a lot of people that said it is time for us to stop the shuttles, and end the shuttles, we should go full private end nasa. Thats where we were. Bill and i felt it wasmportant to have the private sector for the investment and creativity, but we knew the bases had to be nasa. It had to be the people who had built the first space stations and the background to work with the private sector and that would be the best results. The result was the nact that bid and passed. I think that nowt bill was appointed administrator and that was a Perfect Choice me whs and you said the president just called me himself and said you have to do this. End of course it probably your dream, i would say. Mr. Nelson i turned him down. [laughter] ms. Tchison how did we end up where we are . Mr. Nelson because i started talking about it grace, my wife and came to the obvious conclusion, who can say no to the president under the circumstances . So here we are. Ms. Hutchison you had bought out role in this. In the history i have read about the lbj role, it was really after, of course sputnik landed. Lbj said now this is really big, we cant let russia have a technology edge. His quote controls the world is who controls space. He said that. While he was in the background, because of course president kennedy was the president , he so wrote a memo to the president that is in the archives that says he was the chairman of the and he had all e studies done and he wrote a memo to president kennedy saying we can do thiby the end of this decade. That was when kennedy said ok, im going to make the speech and we are going to do it. Mr. Nelsoe enthusiast was johnson. Kennedy realized the strategic goal of we could not let the soviets master the high ground. He looked at it as a space race by the way, weve got another space race today. China. We should be landing on the moon before them,■ . Very Aggressive Program in their budget. They got a lot of room to grow and of course we are dealing with budgets and a very tumultuous time that congress cannot even pass an appropriations bill for the existing fiscal year. But kennedy understood that america needed a higher calling, a purpose. That is when he came upon it. Nteresting. As johnson was, what you said, the chairman of the National Space council. An arm of the white house. But he was not a johnnycomelately done all of these things back in the 1950s when he was the majority leader, the master of the senate. Appointed himself chairman of the newly created committee on space. The result of that was the nasa bill that set up nasa. As he became president , he implemented interestingly, he always give kennedy credit for having had that vision of goi to the moon by the end of the decade and return safely. Ms. Hutchison interestingly, also in the history, that was correct and it was a neutral decision that as we were building then on what kennedy and johnson started, we needed to have a separate where the astronauts would be trained, where they would build the whole to go into space. For all of the different factors, the houston area was chosen, clearly. And johnson died before that got started. It was roy benson who introduced the bill, to name it Johnson Space center. Mr. Nelson itctually dedicated while he was still alive but he was called the manned space flight center. And you are telling me what i didnt know, benson changed the name. Ms. Hutchison and johnson was already dead. He knew everything johnson had done in the senate because theyve been serving together all those years. Im sod we can talk about that here because that history wasnt really known. I want to talk about one other thing in history that you and i did. That was when we were working on the and we were at the end but e was what was called an alternate in case we lost one that was still available. And a doctor came to us and the committee and said i have to have the alpha magnetic he was a Nobel Prize Winner in physics. At m. I. T. He said this is the genesis of the study of dark matter that i want to make. We have to have shuttle to takea magnetic spectrometer, which was a hugebg the dark matter pings out of the space station. Bill and i you can tell this story as well said we will do this and we jointly went to nasa and said we have to have the extra shuttle. There was a lot of hesitance. ■no one really thought the shuttle would still be safe, they were aging all that. U were the one that talked them into that. Mr. Nelson i want to brag on kay a low bit. No, you did this. [laughter] mr. Nelson you today, they cat along . The two of us get along. [applause] kay would be chairman and then i would be chairman depending on whose party was in the majority. First that landmark bill shed mentioned in sent nasa in the direction its on now. Coming into the first year of the obama administration, it was chaos. They were way over budget and way behind on time going back to the moon on a program called ares. It was canceled outright by the obama administration. What we did is try to create a dual track for the future of nasa. The government track, which would still be and i today, the space launch system, the monster rocket you saw on the scene that was artemis i on its test flight, no crew, testing out all of the systems and hardware. That crew, we Just Announced yesterday there will be another delay. There named. The crew looks like america. Its also a canadian f18 pilot. We go back to the moon now after a halfcentury. We are going back in a different way and to a different place. We are not going to the equator of the moon, were going to the south pole, where we think there is water. Unfortunately also two days ago, a new rocket that is critical that we have in our stable of rockets, a brandnew rocket called the vulcan it was perfect but spacecraft, the lander had a valve problem and it is lost. ■abut within another couple of weeks, another commercial lander with a Spacex Falcon heavy, and if it ldssful, it is the precursor to a number of these commercial lenders that willct as commercial landers that will act as scouts for us when we send humans to the south pole. Why gthe south pole . We think there is water there, we know there is ice in the creves of if there is water, ts hydrogen and oxygen and we have rocket fuel. We could have a gasmind you, lah pole is not like landing on the equator where you have constant li pole if this is the moon and this is the bottom of the moon, the south pole in the nl angle, there are permanently shadowed areas. There is this pockmark with a lot of craters and you have to be very precise when landing. A couple of weeks we will have this next one from a houston company, a private, commercial company. It will launch and we will see if it can successfully land. That will be one of many more to come. Im saying all this about commercial because as we go back to the moon, we dont go just as the u. S. Government, nasa. We go with our commercial partners as well. The other big difference, we go back to the moon after a halfcentury with our international partners. Boy, are they beating on us, they want to be on that flight. We are doing a little horse trading with them get them to. Then we will give you a Flight Opportunity for an astronaut. Ms. Hutchison i want to Talk International but first i want to ask the basic question why are we going back to the moon . What is the big picture . Mr. Nelson because we dont know enough now to go all the way to mars. We cant do it and have the safety we want. The moon is three or four days away. Is 7, 8, 9 months away depending on where the planets are. We are going back to the moon to prepare to live, work in that hostile environment in order to be able to get to mars. Thats why we are going back to the moon. Ms. Hutchison what can you learn from the development of living on the moon that you think will apply to mars . How much do we know that is capable on mars moon is helpful . Mr. Nelson a number of things. Just a couple, i will give you an example. We are going to learn how to build things on the moon. We will apply se magic formula to moon dust and make pad so you dont stir up all of that dust when you are landing. We will build structures on the moon. We will learn how to protect our astronauts from a solar explosion, with all of that radiation through space. As long as we are in low earth orbit, we are generally within the magnetic sphere of the earth , which protects us from the radiation of a solar flare. Get outside of earth and you dont have that protection and weve got to learn how to do that if we are going toend astronauts all the way to mars and beyond the other do, we cay do a mission to mars and guarantee we will have astronau cg back now. You cant send astronauts for eight months, get the, cant stay on the surface for a short time. The planets have been realigned. Youve got to stay on the surface a year or two to bring them back with thashso weve gow propulsion that will get us to mars faster and we are working on that on nuclear thermal and nuclear electric propulsion. Ms. Hutchison one thing, again, is one of the members of our nasa Advisory Council, which bill hascmointed, is an expert in Hydrogen Propulsion and he is the ernest cockrel in the department of engineering at the university of texas. Dr. Jp clark. Remember that name, he is a real star at ut. Chaiof one of the committees on the Advisory Council on getting there faster, exactly as youve said. Thats a priority. Mr. Nelson i want to brag on you some more. [laughter] ms. Hutchison by the way, i invited dr. Clark to come tonight but he is out of town. He was sorry to miss you. Mr. Nelson on the interNational Space station, this is a fully person deplatform, usually there are at least seven astronauts. They are international knots. There are russian astronauts that are on the interNational Space station because theres a whole segment of the space station that is russian and the russianslt the space station with us. There are various u. S. Components and one of the u. S. Is a national laboratory. She is the one. K did it. Kay did it. [laughter] ■zo its a fe, albuquerque, out in california, new york. These national treasures. Theyre doing the research. They are finally getting to the point of having some breakthroughs and particularly protein crystal growth, which by the way was my very crude experiment early eight years ago on the Space Shuttle and its finally getting to the point where it is paying off, particularly in Cancer Research and Stem Cell Research kay is the one that insisted on the nasa that it was going to be a designated national lab. Thats where most of the science is being conducted on the interNational Space station. Ms. Hutchison it was really exciting because the Cancer Research is very■l different in space from here and you can only see certain growth of cancer ces in space that you cant see in our gravity. Really, with our md anderson and the private companies that wanted to have this abilitygo ta going of having a national lab so that the companies could participate, again, with funding but having the designation of the national lab that allowed fosomef these experiments that they really couldnt do in microgravity conditions on earth. Im glad to hear some ofspeakint from the alpha magnetic spectrometer, he said itndbreak. The dark matter potential source of energy. I went to the Johnson Space station with him once■t was loot this bigscreen with little lights kind of out there. Black screen and little lights and he acted like he was in church. He was so excited looking at all of these Little Things and this was. Tell me how importan i am going, whatever you say. [laughter] but it was really fun to see his exme interestingly, to show you how all of this comes together, we got up there and million miles from ear telescop. [applause] this is in a position that its always on the opposite side of the earth from the sun and always looking into the dark of space. Therefore, 300 625 days, as the earth goes around the sun, it will scan all of the heavens. Uch as this telescope in the infrared spectrum looks back even as far in time as to about 300 million years after the very beginning. The very beginning, named by a scientist who got the nobel prize, is 13. 8 billion years. Think about this the telescope is capturing light that has been traveling at the speed of light, 180 6000 miles per second, and it has been traveling for 13. 5 billion years. Thats a long distance. [land it has opened so many understandings that we did not have of the1o■ . I am bringing this up to tie it back in to dark matter. With the telescope, we are bout dark matter as well, along with the doctors instrument attached to the interNational Space station. Sooner or later they will figure it out. Ms. Hutchison the doctor came as academy of science engineering and medicine and made a presentation and probably we would have the 20th anniversary of the texas and he came up and said the most important thing about this kind of research is not what you get that you are looking for, its all theu get that you were not looking for. He named some of the use of the mris. The mris was the offshoot of what the omginal purchase purpose of going to space was. All of this medical research and productivity is the offshoot. It wasnt the purpose. He made a great talk to the members of our texas academy, which are all members of the National Academy of science, engineering and medicine. He was a wonderful advocate for the things we are doing. I want you go back tot it was astounding about the telescope that finally got out there and saw this. What else has come out ofhad thr civilizations that have come and gone . What w one of our purposes is to look for life. Now, its not truet i have discovered an alien civilization in the amazon rain forest. [laughter] however, when you think about how universes and how many stars or suns there are out there not just a billions in our galaxy, which is the milky way but billions of galaxies with billions of stars each and so one of the things with the telescope, followed up first by the hubble earth, james webb is in a fixed, neutrally buoyant point million miles away. Is the fact we are discovering other planets that are revolving suns or stars. They call them exoplanets. With the james webb telescope, we just discovered on a star that is Something Like 250 lightyears away, a gaseous exoplanet. Its not to be too they are going to find in exoplanet that is not too close to thethe star, not too far, just right, that probably is tild on an axis and revolves, and by the way, that they can elements carbon and water. You get that, youve got the elements for life. Thats one of the ways we are looking for life. Thats why we are digging on mars right now. Weve got 40 titanium tubes about the size of a cigar filled with with that dirt. It has a scout, the little helicopter on mars. It is flying and we didnt know if we could do it, this was to see if we could do it. In a 1 atmosphere, we have 100 on earth. 1 atmosphere and they designed a helicopter and blades that has now flown over 60 times and it has become a scout for the rover as it checks out something. These 40 tubes are up there. Were trying to figure it out within the budget constraints, how to get them back. Thats another part of looking for life. Another example of looking for life. We snuck up next to an asteroide out and it had a gas pressure hit it that suckedof the stuff. All of that was put in a capsule and miraculously, you saw it land in the utah desert. It landed conveniently about 10 side of a road. They now have it at the Johnson Space center in houston. Bolts they couldnt get open. All the material they had all the extra material that was in qcjexcess of what we were lookig for today, on the outside. Yesterday they got the bolts off and this was a complicated procedure because they didnt want to contaminate the stuff inside. Material that, again, we are examining. You are member also the asteroid that we wanted to demonstrate if we found a killer asteroid that is coming for us, like the movie do up, armageddon, spacecr, we intercepted it at the closest place to earth, 7 years ago. We hit it at 14,000 Miles Per Hour and we wanted to see if we could move it. Then with our telescopes, we confirmed that we not only moved it, we changed itsje know, if wd something we are afraid is going to hit us, avoid the fate of the dinosaurs, which were hit by an asteroid that was six miles iniamete, then maybe we might have a chance to save us if we can get it far enough away and know its coming and get at there and land it. These are all of the things. These are just some of the havent even talked about what we are doing with climate. All of those instruments up therets happening to the earth. For example, we put up an instrument that is measuring the elevation of fresh water the first time. We can measure the elevation of the oceans, but now lakes, rivers, streams, reservoirs, we can do that from space. We are just putting up with the indians and instrument that will help us understanding what is the shifting going on on earth. All of this going into a continuum of information to give us a 3d, comprehensive understanding of what is happening to our earth. So we can be better stewards of the earthndts climate and save our earth. [applause] ms. Hutcson ■j we said we are doing this with india. You Just Announced that qatar is going to make an orbiting many space station in partnership. One of the key things this administrator has done is real l partners. For several reasons. You mentioned money. But also it is a soft power. Bringing in partners that work with usortant ways that make them then allies. We set up trust with each other, we do more experiments, more research together. I want you to talk about that because one of the things bill has asked me to do on the nasa Advisory Council, is to work on the International Things we can do together. We went together last. Summer to argentina and colombia. Bout that me think about this s focus of yours, its one of your priority items, but also it is helpg countries. Once we have the capabilities to have satellites that can look at the water, the land, we are helping countries, for instance, in south america, put satellites up amazon and start helping farmers no win to plans, went to harvest. ■you will have that information if the soil is right for planting, or wait two weeks. Why did you pick that as one of your priorities and i know youve traveled a■v lot to other countries besides south america, which i am so supportive of over the world making partners. You mentioned india, qatar. Talk about that. That trip, and we had not had members of the national Advisory Council go, a great addition, ba unique addition because when we are sitting wpresident in colue. He has a totally different styla president and we thought maybe we will have 15, 20 minutes. We were there for two hours. He was absolutely riveted when we got into this stuff. We also had our four star commander of the u. S. Southern command on that particular visit. It is amazing how the general and senator hutchinson added to that visit. Of the things, instruments we have, how we can help him because hes trying to save the rain forests and the upper amazon region, which is in southern columbia. We did the same thing with president lula in brazil, who normally will not see anybody unless it is another head of state. But he will see nas here is general richardson, who starts talking to him about some of the joint military to military activity weve always had with columbia, which then kay and i and richardson went with the Colombian Air force. They were so proud to share their new satellite command center. Then kay is there as the former ambassador to nato to start telling about nato and columbia is a nonmember, but affiliate membernadir was in the news becf whats going on in ukraine and russia. The stars had all aligned at the same time. Ms. Hutchison what it did is it rethe president , it was the previous president of columbia that asked to become an official partner of nato. Its the only southnh American Country that is. It was just a very Different Party from the present president. We were reinforcing along with general richardson the importance of staying in the because now argentina is also looking at that, as is brazil and that will be of value added for america to have, and candidate supportive as well, to have more partners of nato in south america. Where we can start working with their and do joint exercises to show the importance of a military that is positive and honest and welltrained and can do joint activities. Become more with us andntina, the American Ambassador asked us to talk about nato and we did. Now with the new president of argentina, it will be something that will be put on the table. Its not a done deal but it could be a real beginning of security for ameca china is all over south america. They are in, they are very active in argentina and colombia. Also brazil. Plting our flag was very important. I think that what you are doing ois going to other countries in south america, showing our satellites, and partnering on the satellites helpful in the rural areas. But youve also been to other countries, like the partnership mr. Nelson ■cl one of the rural areas, the last stop we had in columbia, we nasa have a joint with usaid and its basically to help poor farmers be able to production from their land by giving them the information that we get from our satellites. For example, we can tell them the moisture content of their soil. We can predict droughts. We can tell them these things so they will know whether or not they need to go ahead and irrigate. This information is unbelievable and is now available to you realtime on nasa. Gov, and on that website look at the earth information center. Or you can go to earth. Gov. You can get the same information and more. Ms. Hutchison its really amazing. I know we are going to be running short on time, but the other major area i think we need to talk about is security and the technology, the satellites and something i didnt realize until i started getting back into it is one of the big problems with space debris. We had to adjust the space station because of space debris. You are doing something very important with the artemis accords. Talk about that, to try to bring people into what you are trying to do that i see, which is that youre trying to bring partners in so that we share and have more in global leadership. With so many other countries. Also you are trying to help everyone in this new paradigm of space be responsible partners and at nato, we declared ace as a domain of war. ■meaning we now are going to be looking capabilities of we have satellite guided Missile Systems already, now we need to is, and i think it is important that what youre dng on lets all be Good Neighbors in space, and report when we put satellites up, report when we are going to dismantle them, make sure we dont blow them up. Talk about that. Mr. Nelson together. Nasa brings about unity. Certainly in the spirit of Lyndon Johnson, as one of his famous speeches, he said, as the good book says, come let us reason together. Domestically nasa brings people together. They are a little hardheaded when it comes to the budget but that is a side matter bse cantr because of other issues. Internationally, that is true as well and that is what kaynasa in come together in unity. We are in the middle of a war a sickly with basically with russia over ukraine. We built the space station together with russians. They had the first space. They invited us to bring our Space Shuttle and dock. Thene built this space station together. We are still together. The astronauts and cosmonauts. Its very professional and they dont miss a beat. Ms. Hutchison is there always on yes. Thats why we send integrated crews up. We always have an american astronaut going on the so use souyuz and we always have a russian cosmonaut going on the spacex dragon, which is the commercial spacecraft delivering crew for us to the international so, nasa brings people together. Thats why we have been doing a lot of this traveling. Trying to utilize that. It has become a tool of u. S. Foreign policy. Our soft power. Tell us about the artemis accords. Karmic they are common sense principles followed up by the space treaty. Lyndon johnson,where around 196e was president. He oversaw the passage of the space treaty. It was ratified by the senate. It is a declaration of t peaceful use of space. The artemis accords, named after artemis, the twin sister of apollo. Which is the name of the program that itakings back to the moon and on to mars. The artemis accords are a declaration of common sense principles of the peaceful uses of space. And thus far, we have about 33 countries that have signed it, and there will be a lot more. We are out of time, and i want to end by giving you a book that everyone here knows im in orange and white bleeder. One of our past chancellors of the university of texas system, he was a deputy administrator of nasa one smart guy. He was awesome, he was so interesting, and he talked about , in this book that was written, the space station, a personal journey, and he talks about a lot of the inside things that went on that is the his o nasa n it, he became secretary of the air force after he left nasa. He was at nasa and then the secretary of the air force, but he was so interesting astayed id away. He gave me this book in 1987 just active that was before i even went to the senate. But this nes be in your library, in the national library. Was 1987 when you are a cheerleader at ut . [applause] a little bit after that. Bu to be in your library. So im giving that to you. Thank you. [applause] thank you. This is the end of the program, and thank you for and giving us all of these insights. Thanks, guys. I appreciate it. Saturday, Florida Governor in 20 24 gop president ial candidate ron desantis kepart in a meet and greet with iowa voter in west moyne. Live coverag begins a3 00 p. M. On cspan, cspan now, and online at cspan. Org. Watch cspan, campaign 2024, live coverage of the Iowa Caucuses as the candida all of the featured Campaign Analysis with iowa reporters and caucus experts. We will get your social media reaction. Watch our live Iowa Campaign coverage on monday on the cspan network. Cspan now, our free mobile app or online at cspan. Org campaign 2024. 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