The final pitch before Iowa Democratic president ial hopefuls make their closing arguments before voters head to caucuses and welcome to your world this morning im stephanie. And im dell and bake on the campaign trail after making their case at a town hall meeting in des moines. Bernie sanders sharpened attacks on Hillary Clinton and Hillary Clinton says she is the proven fighter and michael shore has more from iowa. Reporter in des moines at Drake University the three remaining Democratic Candidates got their chance at final arguments, a chance to make their case to the voters of iowa and even beyond, it was a forum not a debate so it was a town hall style conversation anchored by chris and mcmcand Martin Omalley and Bernie Sanders were on stage separately answering questions and talking with a moderator and what exists are foreign policies and Bernie Sanders tried to answer those who may think his experience does not match those of Hillary Clinton. Sanders says that you can look at j
New york city. Wall street just beginning trading and it is heading up after that huge selloff in china overnight. The shanghai composite plunging 6 , other asian markets closing down, all of this despite oil prices climbing back up. Patricia sobga is here to help us sort it all out. The markets are up, the markets of down. There is volatility because there is uncertainty. All eyes are focused on the Federal Reserve policy meeting that kicks off today. Really investors going to be looking closely to see what language the fed uses with rewards to the weakness each seen in china and basically also the extreme weakness in oil prices. The dow over the last few weeks since the first of the year, what goes up can also come down in the same day of trading. Even if they are ticking up now, that doesnt mean anything for the close. Exactly. Weve seen a lot of bouncing around, but what we have seen is definitely a bias to looking at the glass half empty as opposed to the glass half full. Some bla
Nosedive and so does the weather. Elizabeth tonight, the gop candidates will square off for the last time before the Iowa Caucuses but it will be without donald trump who is boycotting the event. Nikole killion is in washington with more on the debate drama. Nikole donald trump not only dislikes moderator megyn kelly but also claims fox news crossed a line and thats why he is bowing out. Tonight in iowa, the final debate but there will only be seven candidates instead of eight with donald trump mia. The gop frontrunner explaining his decision to boycott a foxnews debate on the oreilly factor. Donald trump i was not treated well by fox, they came up with a pr statement drawn up by a child and it was a taunt and i said how much do you take . Nikole donald trump plans to go on with his own event a few miles away to raise money for veterans. Veterans whereas fox is not giving anything. Nikole the debate has drawn criticism from rivals. Ted cruz his hair could stand on end. Marco rubio this
Ted cruz does have momentum over his fourpoint win over the donald. Yall treat politics in New Hampshire like we treat football in texas. Reporter fresh from a convincing within in iowa, ted cruz told us hes feeling confident about the future even though he believes the country sin terrible shape. What were seeing is so encouraging. Its what were seeing in New Hampshire and all across the country is were seeing that old reagan collision coming back together. Were seeing conservatives and evangelicals and libertarians and reagan democrats all uniting. Cruz had the crowd reeling when he said he checks his cell phone for trump ion results. They came to see cruz, yes, but also his wife heidi and one of their two daughters. My overwhelming feeling last night was like his imgrace policy immigration policy. Reporter momentum is great but can cruz overcome a 24 point lead trump has over him in a tracking poll. Well talk to him at 6 00. Jonathan hall, 7 news. A lot of people talking about Donal
And jailing dissidents and bloggers and journalists will turn to its historic enemies and treat them with magnanimity. Its a silly contention. But that said, i think the way that the issue was used in the soviet context was that it was a tool to help bring about the end of the soviet union, not merely to contain the soviet union, but to end the soviet union and so, too, it can be used in the iranian context. When you look at the boldness of someone like senator jackson who confronted the soviet union and directly linked most favored nation status to improvements in human rights and free immigration, that was a tool which drove the soviets absolutely crazy, and if you read the memoirs of any of these guys, you see when carter and reagan would bring up the names of dissidents, they really, really hated it, and i think thats one sign that its the right approach. I think that human rights is actually a real achilles heel of the Iranian Regime because they are dependent upon external actors