Now remarks from south bend indiana mayor pete buttigieg. President ialc candidate speaks at a town hall meeting. This happened in des moines, iowa. Souch. What a wonderful welcome. I am thrilled to be with you. It has been a great day back on the trail. We took a beat. Had a lot of not quite so healthy food over the last few days. Buddy got a christmas present. Our rescue puggle. My fatherinlaw made a step ladder for him to get on to the bed, because he does not have the vertical leap to make it on his own. If we dont put him on the bed, he will cry all night. [laughter] anyway, we had a great christmas holiday. I am so thrilled in the middle of the holidays and some interesting Football Games on television, youre all spending that is all i will say about football this evening, i promise. So glad to be here with you. Really coming together to discuss the future of our country. And the role that iowa is going to play in 37 short days in deciding the trajectory of the nomination, and th
A boycott of the country saying its absolutely not say. A top story supporters of iran backed groups in iraq withdrawn from the u. S. Embassy in baghdad after they laid siege to the complex for 2 days the countrys Popular Mobilization forces ordered the demonstrators to leave washington has dispatched extra troops to the iraqi capital after the protests with president on all trumped threatening reprisals against iran and blaming it for the attack so mona fulton reports to us now from baghdad. They left just as they had arrived a day earlier determined and angry but also pleased that they had managed to deliver a message to the us supporters of the iranian backed Popular Mobilization forces who had defied the Prime Ministers orders to withdraw just a day before now heeded the call of their leaders while some dismantled tents and ferried away supplies used to camp the night out the more defiant ones staged a final showdown in front of the embassy gates burning tires and flags to the soun
Are registered to vote as a democrat . Ok, thats a good sign. We at Grinnell College have new democrats every four years here. We want to make sure you have an opportunity to register as a democrat. It just makes it so much easier no matter who youre supporting that well be ready for you on caucus night. We have three of the campus democrats, copresident s out here tonight. Olver, ali, they were holding clipboards. And nat all the way in the back. If you are registered as a democrat, it just makes everything go so much better. If you can register on the way excited tol be so see you back, many of you on february 3. Without further ado, i wanted to do a quick introduce of someone who were very excited to welcome back to grinnell. Hes been here three times. I dont know if you were here the first time. It was a group of 20 students who were interested in meeting a young mayor from south bend, indiana, who president obama said might be a new leader of the Democratic Party. And so we got to
Caucuses are monday, february 3. Hello. So i am the cochair of the Democratic Party and we are the volunteers who have the exciting challenge of running the caucuses. So i just want to see a show of hands, how many of you are planning to caucus . Whoa. That is both inspiring and terrifying. Because we are going to have to handle all of you when you come in. So the second show of hands i want to see is how many of you are registered to vote as a democrat . Ok, thats a good sign. We at Grinnell College have new democrats every four years here. We want to make sure you have an opportunity to register as a democrat. It just makes it so much easier no matter who youre supporting that well be ready for you on caucus night. We have three of the campus democrats, copresident s out here tonight. Olver, ali, they were holding clipboards. And nat all the way in the back. If you are registered as a democrat, it just makes everything go so much better. If you can register on the way excited tol be
Terrifying. Because we are going to have to handle all of you when you come in. So the second show of hands i want to see is how many of you are registered to vote as a democrat . Ok, thats a good sign. We at Grinnell College have new democrats every four years here. We want to make sure you have an opportunity to register as a democrat. Because we are going to have to handle all of you when you come in. So the second show of hands i want to see is how many of you are registered to vote as a democrat . Ok, thats a good sign. We at Grinnell College have new democrats every four years here. We want to make sure you have an opportunity to register as a democrat. It just makes it so much easier no matter who youre supporting that well be ready for you on caucus night. We have three of the campus democrats, copresident s out here tonight. Olver, ali, they were holding clipboards. And nat all the way in the back. If you are registered as a democrat, it just makes everything go so much better