issa won his district only by two points in 2016. beth foy joins me now from san juan capistrano, california. is he sensing he needs to reach out early on to keep his seat? reporter: yeah, he definitely wasn t hiding from protesters today, sheinelle. he just finished up a town hall meeting. in fact he s in there talking to a few more constituents and will hopefully do an interview with us a little later. but there are still protesters out here. a lot of people showed up this morning very fired up, very angry about congressman issa s support for donald trump, for his vote to support that republican health care plan, which as we know has been quite unpopular akwaus tcross the cou particularly here in california. there were questions about president trump s decision to pull out of that paris climate deal. the environment of course is a big issue here in california. so congressman issa heard a lot of complaints. he also heard from one
in iowa are hoping to get a boost today from a white house vip for senator joni ernst s annual roast and ride. vice president mike pence will speak at the event within the next hour. vaughn hilliard is at the central iowa expo. vaughn, what do they want to hear from the vice president? reporter: yeah, sheinelle, joni ernst has done a 50-mile bike ride with 50 other bikers. they re coming in from des moines. the vice president will show up as well. this is quite the cast of characters, sheinelle. you ve got to look at iowa. they have a new lieutenant governor who is now the new governor, kim reynolds. she ll be up for election in 2018. they have congressman david young, the moderate. he s going to have a stuff race. you ve got steve king, the p provocative conservative, but you ve also got joni ernst and chuck grassly, the two senators who have been critical of donald trump. joni ernst hosting this event for her super pac says donald trump should release his tax returns.
republican who made a very interesting point that drew a lot of attention from the other folks in that room. let s listen. i have been a republican for many years. i voted for reagan, i voted for both bushes, and i never voted for obama. however, i am afraid of president donald trump. i was out of the district campaigning all over for rubio. he was my first choice. reporter: yeah, that was interesting that congressman issa made the point that actually donald trump wasn t his first choice, that he liked marco rubio better. he s definitely distancing himself a little bit from donald trump in this district where he won so narrowly in 2016, sheinelle. a couple of democrats have already lined up to run against congressman issa. so he s not embracing trump. he can t exactly walk away so it s a tough position right now. he s trying to see if he can dance on the head of a pin.
it s off to a bit of a slow start. sheinelle. scott cohn in los angeles. ali vitali in washington, thank you both. ali, are you ready for us? what can you tell is, ali? reporter: well, so around us things have really quieted down. everyone has really dissipated. we re still at the washington monument but a little bit about today. we had about a thousand people out here, multiple speakers, and i think there s a really good picture of why folks are out here for this march and other marches in the past. oftentimes people think we come out because we re talking to the president. we re sending a message to members of congress that when you go back to your sdringt, you better be standing up for the right things, saying the right things, voting for the right things or you will be voted out in 2018. so the message here goes way beyond this administration, they are not our main focus. this is about creating a resistance that s going to be hyperlocal in the communities
riyadh. kelly, the administration wants a win for this leg of the trip. are they getting it? reporter: well, good to be with you, sheinelle. they are identifying areas where they can claim victory. in part you heard both the secretary of state and the president talk about the economic arrangements, the defense arrangements here and the saudis in particular welcome a trump administration after more difficult ties with the obama administration. so there are things for president trump and his team to say are in fact wins at this early stage. the biggest test comes tomorrow when the president addresses the muslim world and the representatives of close to 50 countries. we expect that that will be a real challenge for the president to undo some of the rhetoric of his campaign self when he talked in harsher tones toward the islamic world and using phrases like radical islamic terrorism. a few of us after we saw secretary tillerson sort of followed him out the door here. we were asking him i