tweeting out this photo of him in action with the caption that steak made me angry. in the 2020 democrats were just putting their grilling skills on display over the weekend. several showed off their dancing skill. senator kamala harris joined a drum line while former housing and urban development secretary william castro touted bringing his own flavor dancing with fairgoers to the sounds of a local mariachi band. finally, democratic congressman ilhan omar says she doesn t think that joe biden is progressive enough to be the democratic nominee. omar, a member of the so-called squad telling the guardian the former vice president is not the candidate to tackle a lot of the systematic challenges that we have. president trump takes a major stand for religious freedom after slamming world leaders for hypocrisy. at the president putting his money where his mouth is. u.s. ambassador at large for international religious freedom sam brownback joins us life to react next.
race since day one and joins us now. you were on the ground there all weekend. which candidate seemed to wow voters most? kind of an unofficial metric of the soap box speeches that we host is the crowd size. so elizabeth warren and bernie sanders clearly had the biggest crowds there. joe biden of course had a big crowd and they were all across the fair. fair goers got a chance to try and get a selfie to try to pass through the madness that was surrounding them. so you mentioned elizabeth warren s crowd size. many have said, well, it s a lightning rod enthusiasm but it s not the majority of the party. so for iowa voters, as they are excited about new candidates, help us understand, you mentioned joe biden, sort of the enthusiasm around joe versus the other candidates. well, i think what s really interesting about elizabeth warren right now is you go to a lot of her events and talk with people who haven t seen her before and they think they ll see someone who is really very far to
immigration. when trump talks about throwing millions of people out of this country, not only do you not get away with that, if you did it, the entire economy of this country would collapse. this is the first weekend of the iowa state fair. they are tailoring their message to fairgoers, knowing that come february 3rd, they will be caucus show. the guy with the pea and the shell game, second time he comes back, you understand. everybody knows who donald trump is. it is sunday, august 11th. and this is apparently what prompted president trump to attack wacko comedian bill maher. dayton and el paso, reeling from two disasters. a mass shooting and a trump
this president says where he tweets, he tweets a lot of things. he says, makes a lot of bold statements that don t just come through. he doesn t follow through. he doesn t do the things that keep our nation safe and strong. we passed the background checks that are waiting for mitch mcconnell to put on the floor this summer. mcconnell can vote however he wants, but why doesn t he just put it on the floor so that every senator can be held accountable for their vote? all right. let s go now to our nbc news road warrior, vaughn hillyard, you can probably tell, as usual, with one of the candidates and, vaughn, bernie sanders there with you. watch it. reporter: senator sanders, you re live on msnbc. what is your message to iowa fairgoers here on guns here amid this conversation? well, if guns and everything else, message on guns, is we have to take on the nra. the question on the economy is that we have to take on wall street. we re going to have to take on the insurance companies,
elizabeth warren. it was huge yesterday. yeah, elizabeth warren sort of in prime time yesterday had quite the reception here. bernie sanders will be here this afternoon deliver ago speech to the fairgo ers. i want to bring in, introduce to you the miller family. you said hey, jason, i hope you re doipg well. jason johnson, i was with the cruz campaign and i found two cruz caucus goers from 2016. before i introduce myself, taylor and paul, i was following where you were putting your corn kernel. you get to pick which candidate you like the best and you put your kernel in for. kamala harris. you re looking at democrat this go around. why? tell me how you view yourself politically? what do you want? i m a lifelong conservative. i actually campaigned door to door for chuck grassley his