addressing the crisis and now is flooding us with information. two pentagon briefings, and we expect to hear from the president today as well. allie batali, the house, they held an all-member briefing within the last hour on the situation there in afghanistan. we know some top democrats have serious doubts that the united states can complete its mission by august 31st. what are you hearing on the hill? craig, mike talked about the allies of the president who are urging him to ignore or renegotiate the deadline, and that briefing that you mentioned for the full house is happening right now, and it should be ending in about 15 or so minutes, so we are waiting for that to wrap up, and as they were going in clearly a lot of questions from lawmakers about how this pullout could be done
allie batali who was with albert the bull living large over her shoulder. that town of iowa. tell us about your conversation with senator klobuchar there. yeah. we were on her campaign bus with her for about half an hour. she was just here at the foot of albert the bull who is watching over our live shot. the whole crux of amy klobuchar s campaign in iowa has been getting out and doing grass roots campaigning. showing up at diners and coffee shops and talking with voters. retail politics. she s hit over 90 of iowa s 99 counties. there s an amount of bragging rights in that, getting to all 99 counties here. it also speaks to the way you build an organize in a state like this where socievoters wan see you and hear from you directly. that s something voters across the state has told me is important to them, and it s
for an individual they feel connected to. a large part of that, he wins that because of his midwest roots but elizabeth warren you often hear people talk about her own story, it resonates with them and also the idea of having a woman being the nominee to take on donald trump. we re hear just down the road from the university of iowa campus here. this is a crowd of several thousand here for pete buttigieg. we re eight weeks away from this and folks are engaged in a level we have not seen to date here. what you see is inside of a large place that just a month ago bernie sanders and alexandria ocasio-cortez were here as well. i should note along with the big cities just a little bit ago he was in a town of 7,000. pete buttigieg is making a case to go everywhere across the state. he s still racking them in with about two months to go. vaughn hillyard there. if this road warrior thing doesn t work out, that s a good audition tape to be a golf announcer. allie, in the meantime, is over
welcome back. 2020 democrats are hitting the stump today flocking to early voting states across the country including iowa, new hampshire, and south carolina. in the meantime, a tit for tat between the top polling candidates, pete buttigieg and elizabeth warren. the senator called on buttigieg to release the names of his finance committee s members and those of his major donors. in the meantime, mayor pete s campaign is calling on warren to release decades of tax returns from her work as, quote, a corporate lawyer. joined right now by john hillyard following pete buttigieg s campaign at a big event, and allie batali following elizabeth warren. i want to start with vaughn and
the trump campaign has not dealt with. and that is, i think, obviously, that is the what is incredibly offensive beyond the other stuff that is offensive to so many people. and many of the critics watching this, chuck, are saying you did not apologize to the women that are subject to the acts that he was alluding to in his he didn t even apologize to his own wife in that video statement. that s a good point. and we re seeing the word twice here, katy, apology, right from melania. she use as the word apology, she uses the word apology. would ivanka come forward? is that a possibility, too, here? that is the question. we are waiting to find out if any of the kids come forward. we so far have not heard from them. allie batali, our embed at trump tower, did just see don jr. and kellyanne conway going up in the elevator, presume appably up to donald trump. but we have not heard from the kids. and they have been so far his strongest supporters, his strongest allies. when pe