The elephant in the room was the man who boycotted and held his own event to raise money for wounded american soldiers just miles away. He said he was skipping the debate because fox news toyed with him. While he wasnt there he couldnt be ignored, starting with the first question of the night. Lets address the elephant not in the room tonight. [ laughter ] donald trump has chosen not to attend this evenings president ial debate. What message do you think it sends to the voters of iowa . Let me say im a maniac and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat, and ugly. Ben, youre a terrible surgeon. Now that we have gotten the donald trump portion out of the way [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] i want to thank everyone here for showing the men and women of iowa the respect to show up and make the case to the people of this state and the people of the country why each of us believe we would make the best commander in chief. [ applause ] here were jeb bush and marco rubio talking about the c
While he wasnt there he couldnt be ignored, starting with the first question of the night. Lets address the elephant not in the room tonight. [ laughter ] donald trump has chosen not to attend this evenings president ial debate. What message do you think it sends to the voters of iowa . Let me say im a maniac and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat, and ugly. Ben, youre a terrible surgeon. Now that we have gotten the donald trump portion out of the way [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] i want to thank everyone here for showing the men and women of iowa the respect to show up and make the case to the people of this state and the people of the country why each of us believe we would make the best commander in chief. [ applause ] here were jeb bush and marco rubio talking about the candidate who wasnt there. Lets be clear what the campaign is about a. It is not about donald trump. Hes an entertaining guy, the greatest show on earth. This campaign is about the greatest country in the
Its also been a day for fox news, which used to be a gop gatekeeper to scramble to fix things for trump and for trump not to care. He unveiled what hell be doing tomorrow night. Our jim acosta is traveling with the Trump Campaign. He joins us now. So what about this event he says hes going to have tomorrow night . Well, i understand the Trump Campaign made it official earlier this evening, putting out a press release, announcing that donald trump will essentially be holding a counter programming rival event across town in des moines, at drake university. And its going to be benefitting veterans organizations, according to the Trump Campaign. Now we should point out, were at this event with donald trump behind me in south carolina. He has not really addressed this debate controversy at all. He has only touched on it a couple times, saying he refuses to talk about it. He noted the fact there have been a number of debates so far, and that he feels like he was treated unfairly in that deba
God bless the great state of iowa. Thank you so, so much. Thank you, thank you very much. Reporter in the final hours before the Iowa Caucuses, candidates are crisscrossing the capital city to build support. Iowa democrats, are you excited about the future . Reporter but after scores of events in des moines over the last several months, there is one community that is still waiting for candidates to ask for their votes. They avoid this neighborhood like maybe there may be ebola around someplace. They never come here. Reporter in a state thats more than 90 white and covered in cornfields, reverend bobby young ace neighborhood is mostly black and latino in des moiness iner city and the people here are poor. In their months of campaigning across the state, reverend young says the toptier candidates in both parties have largely ignored their votes. This is my district. Reporter abule samad represents this district in the statehouse. We have two schools here that are 100 free or reduced lunc
What is the administrations take on the delay. Delay is the right word. They ultimately think it will go to the senate. That is clear from what a lot of what happened over the sunday talk shows, but when you look at the argument that the white house is trying to make, they have always been making a process argument and they prefer the argument, just moments ago, that gives you a sense they see an advantage in your position right now. Pelosi gave us the most unfair trial in the history of the u. S. Congress. And now she is trying for fairness in the senate. She lost congress once and jans, how can they argue process . In the beginning the white house would not participate because they said until nancy holds it to a vote we wont provide any information or any people. When the testimony was private we heard from republicans going on and on saying these testim y testimonies need top be put in public. Because the witnesses they wanted to call were not questioned. The other point they make i