and she s already told me that if it s snowing or ice you re going to come pick-me-up in your four-wheel drive pickup. we know what cold weather is, just have to warm the car up and put another coat on. the weather never stopped us, blizzards, cold, rain, snow, it doesn t make any difference. neil: they re a hearty bunch, the iowans. but not the airport. and there s great food. that was not meant to be and we had to stay in new york, which isn t a bad alternative, it s beautiful here, but the backdrop in midtown manhattan is slightly different than the beautiful state of iowa and des moines where we will be because we re flowing out after this show for the big event on monday and all weekend coverage. in the meantime, there s this nasty cold wave that you ve heard a lot about, not only affecting iowa. in michigan, it s one doozy of a storm and certainly record low temperatures and in grand rapids, max. it s not as cold as iowa, but chilly temperatures in the 20 s and qu
you think about that. if you look at the history of endorsements in iowa they don t go very far. i actually was on the staff of bob dole in 95 and 96. 95% of all the republicans state legislators, then governor branstad, senator grassley endorsed mr. dole and in spite of that he only won the caucuses by three percentage points and then look at eight years, then governor branstad vote for anybody except for ted cruz because of the ethanol thing that didn t mean anything. the one you just mentioned if you look at the iowa poll, 13% said it was a good endorsement, 13% said it was not a good endorsement. 74% said it didn t really matter at the end of the day i think that iowans may think a lot on a lot of the issues across the board, but they want to make their own decision who they re going to support in the iowa caucuses. neil: do the candidates talk to you. what s that. neil: and say, please, please, consider me?
rally around our agricultural communities? we must support our local and we cannot let regulations kill off our foodd supply. private well, that s right. orit private equity deals with the ethanol thing is really shafted. i think a lot of farmers it hurt us more than we know. that s another topic. , i appreciate t your firsthand account of that . hathank you . so it s hard to remember, amaia, more intentionally destructivetive, reckless than i lightfoot of chicago once great american city in decline. so at least one reporter in that city has pointed it out and chao is term particularlyri on her policies on crime and that enraged lori lightfootu st so we thought we draight talk to that reporter who joins us straight ahead. all of this humanitarian aidfu that 5% from israel directlyge into ukraine. this will feed the people inside of ukraine and the refugees from the border food,
that motor who no matter who wins the election, the president, if he wants to avoid onslaught he has to do what? make it easy to get a job. try cutting taxes. cutting ethanol subsidies. and making the consumer inflation end. neil: we will go through a couple of these and then the four points again but you ethanol thing, what did you say about that? why does that matter? explain why ending the subsidies could be productive. guest: well i talk to a lot of farmers and a woman said she is no longer in the farming business but in the paperwork business and that is what i do, fill out forms to get federal subsidies for ethanol. so the money that would be made