[applause] please welcome our county chair. Hello, iowa. Fellow democrats from across america. All 50 states of america, welcome to polk county. Celebration for our Democratic Party. Together, we will get to meet 17 candidates who are leading a conversation about the future of our party and our country. One of these 17 people will be our next president. They say bad weather brings good luck, and it rained like heck at last years steak fry, and then we won back the congress. I hope the weather we have today is going to win us back the white house next year. Before we get started, please join me in welcoming the elected officials and candidates who are here today. Usually, we read all their names at our events, but obviously this is a little bit eager, so we are not going to go through all hundred of them. Please join me in welcoming them here today. Welcoming join me in five of our newer steak fry leaders. Lindsay paulson and peter crane are our steak fry chairs. Our executive director
County democratic steak fry. We are going to show you some of the comments now beginning with Michael Bennet and former hud secretary, julian cstrastro. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Family here today, iowa democrats, if we do our job, 400 days from today, we can send donald trump back to maralago long,d, and end, the National Nightmare we are facing and save our democracy. I am Michael Bennet and it is great to be here. Thank you. [cheers and applause] i am not a career politician. I was in business saving jobs and then was the superintendent of the Denver Public schools, a large, urban School District where most of the kids live in poverty but have the exact same dreams as my kids. I have been in the Senate Facing tough elections in a purple state. 10 years ago, when i got back to washington, i thought what i would find is the bedrock of our democracy. The government of the people, by the people, and for the people. And instead, what i found was steve king. And mitch mcconnell. Characters
One of the most powerful people in the white house is now out of a Job National Security adviser john bolton insists he resigned but u. S. President donald trump says he was fired because of disagreements of a Foreign Policy bolton was known as a hawk who wanted the u. S. To take a hardline stance against countries like iran venezuela and north korea trump says a new advisor his 4th in 2 and a half years will be appointed next week ellen fisher has more now from washington d. C. If youre going to do a fantastic job and i appreciate that there had been growing divisions between john bolton that his boss but the end was brutal even by the standards of this white house donald trump tweeting i informed john bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the white house i disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions as did others in the administration there. I asked for his resignation which was given to me this morning bolton tweeted not the usual thanks for being able to s
A stampede during assurer commemorations in the holy iraqi city of karbala. Nigerias military is accused of Holding Thousands of children captive in its fight against boko haram. So in the past u. S. National security advisor john bolton has been fired by President Donald Trump in a tweet the us president said he had numerous policy disagreements with bolton as date apparently others in the Administration Bolton was trumps Good National security adviser live reaction from washington in just a moment 1st our mike hanna takes a look back at both ends time in office we think the sanctions are biting john bolton was with the National Security adviser appointed by President Trump since taking office and hes the 3rd to resign after much speculation of imminent firing bolton brought to the white house decades of experience in Foreign Policy and a hawkish disposition that had never wavered. He served as ambassador to the United Nations under george w. Bush from 2005 to 2006 and use that positi
I was responsible to coordinate our Nations National Security Strategy to bring together all of the elements of our power. ,he power from our idea together with the power of our military. I most love going to see. I will never forget walking out of the pentagon, and minutes later, a plane slammed into that building. I rushed back and looked upon the scar. Thereafter i found myself on the ground in afghanistan. Then i came out. When my Aircraft Carrier battle crews and 10,000 sailors and marines arrived in the arabian ia, we all experienced what had seen across this vast global canvas of ureter of your United States navy. They are waiting for us. We are nations that send ships from all over the globe. Attacked, anden we will be there for you. We have the world with us against evil. Power as itsatest power to bring together nations and people of the world for common causes that service all. Thats what america have been doing. Weather was human rights atrocities, global recession, a colle