The delegate lead from bernie and i think its really hes worried about metrics. Sanders. Have we been as successful as but he can live either way important that you try to take with it, so were okay. All the politics out of it on you know, this president talks i hope in bringing young people both sides of the aisle. This is not the first time i on and on about the deep state. In . The answer is no. Four candidates drop out, have been involved in crisis right . The deep state thats out to get communication. Leaving no women with a oith after i became governor, we him. There is a deep state in washington. Its called the government. We even have a union for it, plausible chance at the had the riots in baltimore. Nomination. One of the hardest parts is being transparent, being direct, called the civil service. All of the little girls who are these are the people who have keeping the public informed with expertise, who run agencies, who going to have to wait four more the facts is critical,
2020 president ial candidate joe biden talked to voters in iowa about his platform on agriculture and climate change. He was joined by a former agricultural secretary under the Obama Administration and former democratic governor of iowa. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Vice President joe biden joined by iowas own governor tom and christie vilsack. Thanks so much for coming out tonight. Merry christmas. Feliz navidad. Happy holidays, happy hanukkah. Its great to be here in perry again. The last time we were here with our family, it was the hottest week of july and we were riding our bicycles up from where we live and we stayed at the hotel. Ate good food and then got on our bikes and went back. Its nice to be here in december. Thank you again for coming out. And were Dallas County democrats, so were happy to be [applause] i met joe and jill biden 33 years ago when they came to iowa to campaign for president. I trust them as much today as i did then. Joe biden was rock solid. Go ahe
Please welcome to the stage Michael Bennett. Hello, iowa. You are a Patient Group of people. I didnt know how patient. And i want to thank you for allowing all of us to impose on you. I want to particularly thank you for the kindness that youve shown me and my family as weve travelled the state of iowa. I want to thank my friend, tom harken, my chairman who is right here, tom, thank you for your leadership. And thank you for your friendship. Ive been in the senate, as tom knows, for ten years. Its hard for me to believe its been a decade. Weve done two committees together. Tonight i want to talk to you not as a senator but as the only superintendent of schools who has ever run for president of the United States. I worked with kids in the Denver Public schools before i went to the senate. Its a School District thats got about a billion dollar budget. For reference, thats about three times the size of a certain municipality in the state of indiana. Im just saying. It has 95,000 children
First time i came was long before i got into this. It was probably sometime early april, may 2018 and had a great lunch with senator korn box, others and everybody said if youre ever going to learn anything about iowa , you have to meet this woman named jan bauer and i was a little nervous but shes been teaching me all the way along so i appreciate both your warm welcome, all your names and your endorsement for sure. About this time of year you get people from all over the country and they visit you and try to make some attenuated connections iowa so im not going to tell you that my great great grandparents settled in henry county in 1850. They did. Im not going to tell you my mom was born in on somewhat, yes she was because thats not why we gather, right . We gatherfor the sake of our country. For the sake of our country and in this world for the sake ofwhat were going to pass on to that next generation we gather to make sure donald trump is a one term president. It is not the only re
This crisis. This Opioid Crisis that has taken hold starting in Rural America and you do such a great job of telling the story maybe i could begin by asking you why the title dope sick. What is dope sick mean . Its kind of an inyourface title. We need a reality check on how bad this issue is gotten. I think a lot of our leaders and a lot of people in our country still dont have. Dope sick is the word that her number number from users. It is the word they use to describe the very painful withdrawal when they cant get the opioids that they are now addicted to. Its like the worst flu times a hundred. His diarrhea, vomiting, nauseating restless leg and somebody early in the book says, at the end of the journey, you are not doing drugs to get high, you just doing it not to be dope sick. I was in importance concept. The people and get. Says not only to get that but try to not get sick. In an ironic way. Right you started out this journey as a reporter in virginia. You discovered that there w