Welcome to the 238 members and welcome to the teamsters. It is great to have you here. [applause] teamsters local 238 negotiates 270 contracts across the state of iowa, both the Public Sector and private sector. It is safe to say there is not a single aspect of the iowa handsy that teamsters do not touch. We are everywhere. As the first caucus in the nation, teamsters have also been everywhere dogging these candidates. We have been following them around for months asking them questions and educating them about our issues, as well as our brothers and sisters in north carolina, south carolina, new hampshire, nevada. We have done a great job of coordinating our messaging to candidates across the country. Some members from those states are here and we would like to welcome you and thank you for traveling across the country to be in iowa today. Today we bring you the candidates. And we bring you the candidates with the help of the storm lake times added the guardian, our sponsors today. We
The son of rosie castro a prominent activist. He and his brother joaquin now representing san antonio were going off to stanford and harvard together. Secretary castro was elected to the council at age 26 the youngest in that citys history and became mayor at 35 and the youngest mayor of a top city in the United States. At 2012 gave the keynote at the Democratic National convention, the same speech that put barack obama on the national map eight years earlier and in 2014 president obama asked him to serve as secretary of housing and urban development, a department with a 48 billion dollar budget and 8,000 employees that worked to expand housing opportunities for americans. As a candidate for president , Julian Castro focused on the needs of the most vulnerable, a leader in the field on policy and take bold positions, including the role of iowa and New Hampshire in our voting process. Last night he made news by being the first candidate to say out loud that iowa and New Hampshire should
The states first in the nation caucus. Mr. Castro advocated changing the primary and caucus system to better represent the broader electorate. Secretary castro was born on the west side of san antonio, the son of rosie castro, a prominent activist. He and his brother joaquin, now in congress representing san antonio, were in School Together before they went to harvard together. Secretary castro was elected to the council at age 26 the youngest in that citys history and became mayor at 35 and the youngest mayor of a top 50 city in the United States. At 2012, he gave the keynote at the Democratic National convention, the same speech that put barack obama on the national map eight years earlier, and in 2014, president obama asked him to serve as secretary of housing and urban development, a department with a 48 billion budget and 8,000 employees that worked to expand housing opportunities for americans. As a candidate for president , Julian Castro focused on the needs of the most vulnerab
July 25 phone call, fiona hill who was in a meeting between sondland and the ukrainians in the white house who have testified that they raised concerns about the president s conduct and people around the president s conduct regarding ukraine. Do you share any of those concerns . Do you think anything you have seen or heard so far from these fact witnesses is alarming and inappropriate . Rep. Walden the question is whether we deserve to have the president duly elected removed from office. That is the threshold of impeachment. When i went through the transcript, i was not happy. I probably would have done it differently. But no one said there is a crime, nobody who does this kind of law said there is a crime. I dont think it rises to the level of taking a president out of office, especially with an election coming up. Nor does it rise to the level of what nancy pelosi said earlier this year, which is she would not move forward on impeachment unless it was overwhelmming, compelling, and b
Force them to investigate political rival joe biden and his son hunter. You dont need a quid pro quo. You just need the quid, and the quid was there. Brennan democrats say thats an abuse of power that could grow into a case of obstruction of justice. Not so says President Trump. The leadership, they have no clue. Theyre just very officials people. Actually, theyre sort of mentally violent people. But weve got itelps when you dt do anything wrong. Brennan well talk with two top house leaders, majority leader steny hoyer and minority leader kevin mccarthy. Plus well ask california democrat Jackie Speier whats next in the impeachment inquiry. Then with exactly one year until election day 2020, well check in with cbs Political Correspondent ed okeefe from first stop on the primary parade. Im all in in iowa. Im all in. Brennan but there has been movement in the field in both iowa and beyond. Im not saying it is a twoway. You think its coming into focus, you and warren. Im certainly aware we