I made it clear we will conduct this campaign with the highest standards. That has been how weve conducted it fromomay one. It has been why when other camapigns have attack us personally, i dont respond in kin none of you have heard me throw the kind of insults at marco rubio that he throws at me every single day. Rubio sees it differently. He says this is beyondust one or two instances going all the way back to when the Cruz Campaign said ben carson was dropping out after iowa. Its incredibly disturbing i mean you guys have to be seeing this now i mean ery ngle day there is something that comes out of the Cruz Campaign that is deceptive and untrue and in this case goes after my fait and i guess one of their spokesmen has appologized and i guess i accept his apaplogy but this is a pattern now and i guess were at a point where we start asking about accountability. Cause of what he said but some people questioned if he should have appologized at all. Lets listen to most of the entire statement. I went to washington, following my mothers advice. Ive been in the legislature before thahaat the age e 26. And how did i get elected . Nobody wasa i didnt have anyone for me, we just got an army of people whoa and many women who left their kitchens to go out and go door to door and put yard signs out all the back when, you know, things were different. Different. Women leaving their kitchens was what got kasich in trouble. Supporters point out that he was referencing the 1970s where many women did spend a lot of time at home and many women didnt have careers. They also point out that a comment like kasichs pales in comparision to some of the things that donald trump has said. Back in washington dc there was some governing going on. Closing guantanimo bay has been a priority for president obama since he was just a candidate himself. He presented a new plan to deal with the 91 prisoners still being held on the base in cuba. 35 of them would be sent to another country and 56 would come to us soil landing in some of the most secure prisons in the country like supermax in colorado and Fort Leavenworth in kansas. Its counterproductive to our fight against terrorists because they use it in their efforts to recruit. I dont want to pass this problem on to the next president , whoever it is. Is. The catch is he would need congress to go along with his plan and if past results are any indication of the future that is going to be a tough sell. Case in point republicans on the Senate Judiciary y committee made it Crystal Clear to the nation where they stand on president obamas pending Supreme Court nominee. After iowa senator Chuck Grassleys position migrated over a few days from not considering any nominee to waiting until that nominee was picked back to not considering one republicans on his committee put pen to paper writing a letter to mcconnell saying. Saying. Because our decision is based on constitutional principle and born of a necessity to protect the will of the American People this committee will not hold hearings on any Supreme Court nominee until after our next president is sworn in on january 20, 2017 with all that happing just before tuesday night repupuicans in nevava finally made it to their caucus locations. Locations. Donald trump came into the night with a huge lead in many of the states polls but the big story of the night had more to do with reports that p pple were able to vote twice and that caucus locations were even more chaotic than in iowa. When the dust settled donald trump won but marco rubio and ted cruzuzcocod still declare victory. I mean its going to be an amazing two months. We might not even need the two months to be honest. The undeniable that the f fst four states have shown is that the only campaign that has beat donald that can beat donald trump is this ampaign. A few days later the candidates took the stage in houston and the biggest story was about how donald trump was the target more than he had ever been in debates before. Before. The race for second place took a back seat for both marco rubio and ted cruz who aimed their sights at the billionare frontrunner. They attacked him on everything from siding with democrats on policiesesike the wall street bailout and Affordable Care act to delaying releasing his tax returns because of an ongoing irs audit. I know youre embarrassed, i know youre embabassed, but keep swingigi man. Youre the only person on this stage who has ever been fined for hiring people for your project illegally. Im the only person whos hired people, you havent hired anybody. You dont have the endorsement one republican senator and you work with these people. You should be ashamed of yourself. Donald, if you want to be liked in washington, thats not a good attribute for a president. The next day new Jersey Governor Chris Christie who race dropped a lot of peoples jaws when he backed donald trump. The two live fairly close to each other in new york and new jersey and christie had told voters in iowa that he and trump would get dinner with their wives from time to time before the president ial campaign started. Bernie sanders and Hillary Clinton went head to head in their latest town hallllent d last one before they square off in South Carolina. Bernie sanders even got a few laughs while highlighting one of the fundamental differences between him and Hillary Clinton the fact that he says he never gave paid speeches to wall street companies. This is about whether i have the best plan to go after wall street. Whether i have a record that already demonstrates my wililngness to go after ll street and financial interets and theres no question about that. What secretary clinton has said is that i will do it if everyone else does. Well i am very happyto release all of my paid speeches to wall street. Here it is chris, there aint none. I dont do that. Carolina voters went to the polls s what was expected t t be a referendum on both campaigns ability to reach out to black voters. Clinton won big taking an overwhelming majority of that states 59 delegates. For years clinton has created a Good Relationship with minority voters and that was the driving force behind her big win in South Carolina winning roughly 85percent of the black vote while bernieie nders beat her among white voters. Together, we can break down all the Barriers Holding our families, and our country back. We can build ladders of opportunity and empowerment so every single american can have that chance to live up to his or her godgiven potential. And then and only then can america live up to its full potential. Were nearly a month removed from the iowa caucus but how the 2016 election affected iowas party affiliations. Affiliations. Just in the month of february dedecrats picked up more than 29 thousand members more than 21thousand people became republicans and most of that is credited to shifting around for caucus night. Secretary of state paul pate says the likely driving force behind the increase is the fact that iowans need to be registered to take part in the caucus for either party. Every week well be going inside iowa politics talking about the people not trying to move into the white house. What was supposed to be the last week until iowas medicaid system transferred over to private hands got a little more hectic when federal officials kicked the start date back one more month from march first to april first becuase they said thats when the three private companies and the state would be ready. A group of concerned iowans was already planning on showing their opposition to the move in the State Capitol wednesday with former governor chet culver and made it that much more important. Important. I have a total of four kids and all of them have some kind of special need. Medicaid covers heathcare costs for most of teresas household. Just a few weeks before governor branstads managed care plan was originally supposed to take effect at the start of the year the nightmare senario became teresas reality. I just got a letter in the mail. Thank you for being a patient, i am no longer accepting your insurance as far as medicaid goes. It was very simple, to the point. It was from the eye doctor who takes care of her son troy one of the only eye doctors in the state who works with a lot of kids who have autism. Thats when she started scrambling. Because theres even more at stake for teresa. My daughter was born with a soft cleft palate so shes in speech. Speech therapy since revee revay was ten months old keeps her on target with her kindergarten class. For the first time she finally got a break from therapy but she may not be able to start back up again because of the changing state of medicaid in all these changes if that therapist continues with medicaid or not especially after the eye doctor no longer takes any medicaid at all. Former governor chet culver says hes come out of private life to fight for the more than 550thousand iowans who depend on medicaid. He says oversight like the kind being worked on the state senate could help. But its up to the Governors Office if to see if its a success. Or failure. The people that have pushed this through will have to answer that question. I want to see how much money we saved where we saved it. The pros and cons. I want a full and complete account for the impact that this is going to have. We spent a lot more time with former governor chet culver. Thats right around the corner. Other lawmakers in the state hohoe are moving ahead with some legislation that is raising some eyebrows this session. The republican controlled house passed a rights in iowa allowing children younger than 14 to use handguns with supervision and another that would keep the public from accessing information about people who own guns. While apple battles the fbi iowa lawmakes are trying to protect the privacy of cellphone customers when the house unanimously passed a resolution adding new rules for how authorities can search and seize Electronic Communications and data. It would mama any electronic record only accessible with a warrant and could be put to voters in 2018. Theyre also working on a law to make iowa drivers move over for bicycles. The Senate Passed legislation that would keep drivers from getting too close to people riding their bikes on roadways and in bike lanes its heading to the house now. In cedar rapids mayay ron corbett delivered his state of the city address where he spoke partially about the violence in cedar rapids and his efforts to learn more about whats causing it. It. The killing of raymond ursinin make the call to get involved in this issue. Maybe its time for you to make the call to get more involved in your city. City. He says through collaboration identifying and then solving problems that cedar rapids faces everyone can help make the state of the city even stronger. After the break. We talk to one of the most recognizable faces in iowa speaking out against medicaid privatization. Mom seriously . Culligan man problem water. Im on it. Anncr a culligan wholehouse water softening system turns your problem water into culligan water, pure and simple. Nd simple. Dad hey, culligan man. Culligan man hey anncr a culligan wholehouse water softening system turns your problem water into culligan water, pure and simple. Welcome back to iowa in focus. This week were joined with former iowa governor, chet culver. Governor culver thanks for joining us. A lot of what youre working on is working against medicaid privatization. How did you get invovled . For expanding teacher pay increase, expanding healthcare to kids, for making iowa number one in the nation in renewable energy. Im really here for 560,000 iowans on medicad. Were calling ourselves aim. Aim. Is privatization itself a problem . Its happened elsewhere elsewhere its important to understand the facts. Republicans are saying that 40 otehr states are already privatized, well iowa privatized part of its system. Only five states in america have tried to privatize its entire program. Im doing the best i can to get the facts out there. Our Current Program is the number one in america. We have been recognized as being the most effecient and effective in under the new contracts were going to quadruple our adminsitrative cost. That is supposed to be a good deal . A good deal for who . Who . Whats the importance of these federal delays . Does that validate this side . Side . Yes. This idea that a couple of us are here alone on a partisan mission is just not true. We ahve a state senate that has voted against this plan. Healthcare providers from across the state are federal govnernment has delayed this three times because people are speaking out and speaking up with concerns. We want any system to work. Work. Can this one day be succssful . Succssful . I think that the people that have pushed this through will have to answer that question. Every year from here forward i want to see exactlyhow much moneywe saved. Where we saved it. The pros and cons. A full and complete account. Coming up next. We get ready for super tuesday by looking welcome back. This is the real story were going to take the time to give context to some of the events that will go on during the 2016 race for the white house. House. Today we explore the history behind one of the most important days in the election season so far. This big superbowl day of primaries was basically created to help mitigate whats called the iowa syndrome when any of the early states fall in love with a candidate whos been paying them a lot of attention without the chance to go national. John kasichs performance in New Hampshire this year would be an example of that. That. Its meant to be sinkorswim time for campaigns forcing them to do well in early states but then go nationally quickly. Over the last few cycles the parties have been trying to backload when delegates are of delegates were given out by super tuesday. In 2012 only a third of delegates. This year its down to a quarter. Its done by picking a day the first tuesday of march and before then no states are allowed to hold primaries. If they go early they lose a big chunk of their delegates and therefore influence so they dont do it. Thats as soon as they can happen and they all want to be big players in the process so they say, lets put our primary early on in the process, as early as we can get it. This year its called the sec primary after the College Football conference because so many states are in the south. Right after Hillary Clinton gave her victory speech in nevada she held another event that night in texas getting a jump on super tuesday campaigning. The system as it is allows some weaker campaigns a long runway to get off the ground like marco rubio who needed months to become known to many voters but it can have an adverse effect too. But at the same time it also people voting in super tuesday are not going to have their opportunity to support jeb bush. When he says the people of the United States have spoken, what hes really saying is one percent of the population have spoken. The people of iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina have said that im not good enough. Just as important as the candidates are who they will try to reach. Ted cruzs comefrombehind success in the iowa caucus was credited partially to the fact that there are a lot of evangelical voters in iowa. Gallop says the Hawkeye State is the 22nd most religous state. On super tuesday about half of the States Holding primaries are even more religous than iowa. This is a make or break for cruz because he if cant win in the south with evalgelical convervatives, similar to South Carolina, if he cant in the south, then he appeal nationally is very limiteds. On top of cruzs need to show his home state of texas is up for grabs on march first. Its hard to justify why anyone else should vote for you if your own consituents dont. Between that and the fact that trump is leading in most of those states its also time for marco rubio to shift into gear. On march 15th most primaries become winner take all meaning that marco rubios second and third place victories will get him no closer to the white house like they have so far in iowa and South Carolina. Still to come. The latest action from the campaigns on welcome back well close the show each week taking a look at what happened on social media. Media. We posted the story you saw about the fight against medicaid privatization on facebook and it sparked a lot of conversation. Conversation. Debbie says this is really wrong if these companies are going to take on these patients, they have an obligation to ensure that these patients are able to see their usual doctors for care shawndra says sadly i think its only going to get worse now we look at their voice what the candidates and their campaigns are posting on social media. Media. Former republican president ial nominee mitt romney is staying in the discussion this week by attacking donald trump himself over finances this even became an issue in the gop debate. Romney tweeted. Tweeted. No legit reason realdonaldtrump cant release returns while being audited, but if scared, release earlier returns no longer under audit. Audit. And realdonaldtrump taxes for last 4 years are still being audited. There are more bombshells or he would release them. You can follow along on twitter and facebook all week long. See our interviews as we do them chime in with what you think send us your favorite pictures from events you go to. Every week well end with the week ahead. Ahead. Its a chance for you to see what the campaigns are up to. To. Tuesday is super tuesday and this year its being called the sec primary since most of the States Holding president ial primaries are in the south. Well know a lot more about who is still a viable candidate after super tuesday and before the five more states head to the polls. Thanks for watchingbe sure to tune in next week to get the focus. Announcer the following is a paid presentation for the nuwave oven pro, brought to you by the makers of the nuwave precision induction cooktop. Stay tuned. To celebrate the amazing success of the nuwave oven pro, with over 5 million sold, today were offering an incredible deal. Order right now and well upgrade your order to the allnew nuwave oven pro plus for free. The pro plus features advanced temperature control for perfect meals every time. It also has new features like delay cooking and warm, so your meal is ready when you are. 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