or support from democrat martin o mally, because of a snowstorm, only one voter showed up at an o malley event in iowa. even that voter would not commit to him. we had a whopping total of one person show up. by god he was glad to see me. and donald trump responded to gowdy s endorsement by tweeting, i hope he does better for rubio than the benghazi hearings. trump once tweeted gowdy could make a good attorney general some day. doug? ed, a report has just surfaced about one gop candidate planning to drop out of the race. what do you know about that? george pataki, we ve got an statement from his campaign saying he s going to have a special message on tv affiliates in the key markets of iowa, new hampshire and south carolina. the boston globe says he s going to say that he s getting out. they haven t confirmed that yet. he s the respected former governor of new york. helped get the nation through 9/11. but even in his time of the renewed terror fears he could not get any moment
from the first in the nation iowa caucuses. and for the democratic presidential candidates, there is no bigger event, perhaps, than tonight s jefferson jackson dinner. all three major democratic candidates still standing, hillary clinton, bernie sanders, martin o mally, scheduled to speak in front of a crowd of 6,000 people. make no mistake, this is not your typical fundraiser. but an event the past candidates have used to turn the race upsidedown. joining me now from des moines, iowa, where sanders will hold a campaign rally in a few hours. no votes being cast for 100 days, but we are exactly 100 days out from the iowa caucuses, why is this dinner so important? and has actually been sort of a pivotal moment for change in past campaigns? what is it about this dinner? well, poppy, this dinner really comes and marks a time where the campaign here in iowa is really shifting to the more intense phase. the candidates tonight and in the past at these dinners, they re on the same stage, bac
this is totally unprecedented in our party s history. this sort of rigged process has never been attempted before. whose decree is this exactly? where did it come from? to what end? for what purpose? what national or party interest does this decree serve? how does this help us tell the story of the last eight years of democratic progress? democratic presidential candidate martin o mally is questioning why the national committee will hold only four debates before next february s iowa caucuses. dnc has sanctioned six in total so far including two after iowa but that is not enough according to o malley. friday the former maryland governor speaking at the d.c. summer meeting told party leadership to their faces, not only are they wrong but limiting
broader democratic party has woken up to this injustice and we re going to have more debates. martin o malley on friday saying the dnc had stacked the deck in favor of hillary clinton. jess mcintosh, msnbc contributor, sam, host of the majority report podcast. jess, let me start with you. to me there s a real question, obviously, facially, it s an open competitive process, but we all know the reality of the democratic party. the clintons are massively influential. we ve already got 20% of the total delegates locked up in the clinton campaign. can you honestly say the institutional democratic party is neutral and looking for an open competitive primary? yes, absolutely. as someone who works for an organization that has endorsed hillary clinton that is openly supportive of hillary clinton s
which is part of that establishment. reporter: notably absent from the meeting, vice president biden who was expected to announce this fall whether he ll join the democratic field. president obama said if biden decides to run, it will be up to the voters to decide. what i would say is that both are joe and hillary are wonderful people, great friends. joe s been as good a vice president as i think we ve seen in american history. hillary clinton was one of our best secretaries of state. the truth is, though, the great thing about american democracy is it s not up to me. i m just one voter. it s going to be up to the american people. reporter: while the wait continues for vice president biden to make up his mind, the return to the stump for some of these candidates is almost immediate. lincoln chafee and martin o mally going to iowa tomorrow for an immigration forum. joe johns, thanks very much.