i m aishah hasnie. and they ll feast on a big banquet of barbecue. the main hall where the candidates will be speaking later today, but the g.o.p. presidential front runner donald trump not expected. rich edson joining us on the ground in des moines with a special guest. hi, rich. hey, good afternoon, aishah. the barbecue is coming a little later today. we ve got some speeches coming up and that includes senator tim scott who recently declared he would be running for president. senator, thank you for joining us this afternoon. it s a crowded stage, a crowded field. how do you break through? easily, the optimistic positive message when i take it on the road, people are starving for optimism as long as it s anchored in conservativism and you have backbone. and i have both and that s good news for the american people and the campaign trail. you ve talked about the positive message and explicit about it. what do you think of the tone from some of the other candidates so f
grandchildren and fueling inflation. we see the work requirements, people that can work, should work. if you re getting snap dollars, medicaid, we think you should work. we lost any type of benefit and hoping to get from the work part of this and then the regulatory regiment that we re hoping to improve upon, that turned out to be dust in the wind as well. there wasn t enough there for me to get behind, but i don t condemn, i don t condemn speaker mccarthy, i think he did the best he could. this is what americans gave us. they gave us only one of the three levers. you think he didn t get outsmarted, didn t lose that leverage with the big house g.o.p. bill. some folks on your side of the aisle thing he let it go. they need to walk a mile in his shoes. speaker mccarthy did the best with the hand he had, he didn t have much. we knew that kevin had the best he can, and this is what we
long as you are willing to take risks to do the right thing and president biden just this week took a risk to do the right thing for the country in compromising with speaker mccarthy to avert a catastrophic default so i think that president biden s record of bipartisan achievement jake, jake, forget his record. he s clearly a man of his age, the fall is concerning, are democrats going to ignore the age thing even though polling suggests it s 60-something% quinnipiac says he s too old, but a concern for a fall. he s fortunately okay, the white house says he s fine, but as everybody knows, with our elderly citizens, if he had a serious injury, that would be bad. are democrats going to ignore this reality and just move on and hope that it doesn t come up between now and november in 520-something days? i think elections are choices not referendums on any single issue and the choice on