S is it is saturday. I hope you are just waking up and starting your morning off calmly and slowly. The death toll in hawaii rises to at least 80 people after a devastating wildfire. And as a grim reality sets in for survivors, some are question ing the states response before and how much was done to warn residents to get out. Plus Hunter Bidens legal troubles heat up. The Justice Department elevates the u. S. Attorney investigating his case to Special Counsel after plea talks fall apart. Republican president ial candidates descend on iowa. Today all eyes will be on the ah state fair as donald trump and ron desantis go head to head. Well have the latest as the candidates make their pitch to voters ahead of the crucial and critical Iowa Caucuses and the first president ial debate. And get ready for an Out Of This World show in the sky as a Meteor Shower is about to rain down. Well tell you when to look up. Good morning, everyone. Good to see you. Good to be here. Were going to begin wit
almost every instance that they want abortion to be legal and available. all of these candidates have been sort of talking about what is, in effect, a national ban on abortion. not popular, not going to win, divides voters, and yet they seem to cling to it because that s what the donor class wants. i would love to see if they are going to continue to do that in iowa, because it s really a losing issue. and yet, it s really what you have to do in order to win with the evangelical base in iowa. perfect wedge issue. very much worth watch ing. mike pence has certainly been out front and consistent about where he stands on the issue. also happet the iowa state fair today, we will see nine congressional floridian republicans traveling with the former presint trump and not with the current governor ron desantis. erroll, how do you interpret this? is this just political jabs and
about the wall. the wall and anti immigrant sentiment, he would have been another reality show star. quickly to follow up, enough with what the donor class wants, enough of that let s hear what their ideas are and who they are surrounding themselves with as policy advisors so that we know the type of policy prescriptions that all of these candidates are prescribing for this moment. not taking money from the dow narcotic class was big and revolutionary. wh who else is going to be doing that you look at kamala harris, she raised $1.5 million, 35,000 of the donations came from individuals. this is becoming a sorts. it is a major point to make one of the things that people liked about bernie sanders is he was able to raise a lot of money from grass roots people, people that never before participated in politics and not take money from large corporations and i
threat to localism. so what you see with the candidates is some folks are going with that more grassroots conservative that critique of the common core. and others are sticking with what the donor class wants. this critique of the common core, there is a lot of grassroots activists on the left and the right and there are lots of people that don t like it. a lot of with it the implementation, with the way it has been tied so tightly to standardized testing parents have rebelled against. if you just canvas a neighborhood in upstate new york. people don t like the common core. it has a bad reputation. are you surprised by how much traction it has gotten? if you go back to no child left behind which is the first time the federal government pushed big on these yearly standardized tests. you saw big opposition. more from lefty type parents who thought there was overtesting in
they wanted people at that time to have an elementary school education. so there is a donor class in the gop. business business folks who really are invested in common core. what has been happening at the grassroots level that that is now threatening? you think about the other people in the sempt coalition, for example, christian conservatives. they have a whole different way of thinking about education. they prioritize the education in the home. the parent-child relationship. when it comes to schools, they re really into the idea of local. local, local, local. that s a big idea on the left as well. this weird place where the far left and the far right are coming together in a critique of the common core. it seems to some people to be a threat to localism. so what you see with the candidates is some folks are going with that more grassroots conservative that critique of the common core. and others are sticking with what the donor class wants. this critique of the common core,