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The better than expected jobs numbers showed employees added a net of 128,000 jobs in addition jobs numbers in august and septembervi were d upward by 95,000. Unemployment rose to 3. 6 but is staying near a 50 year low. E Dow Jones Industrial average gained more than 300 points to close at 27,000. The nasdaq rose 94to point finish at a new high in the s p 500dd 29. Also reaching a record close. The first member oppresident ts cabinet has been called t testify in the impeachm inquiry. Rick perry has been asked to appear before investigators. A spokesperson for the ergy Department Said he would not no counsel present. Doors with he originally told the president he would step down by the end of the year. News from the campaign 2020 trail. Beto orourke idropping out. The former texas conga men congressman tweeted his campaign does not have the means to move forward. 16ti democrats are in the race including former Vice President joe biden. Will have that interview after the newsma s. 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E elsewhere, crews mre headway even as red flag warnings remained posted. To the east, in san bernardino, families have returned home but some found nothing left. We did not have a chance at all. I have ait laptop w my kids pictures on it. That is what hurts. In northern californias wine y,coun00 thousand people have been allowed back. Utilitiesor are ending me of the blackouts thatffected hundreds of thousands. Overseas in iraq, central baghdaditnessed its largest rally since antigovernment protests began one weeago. Thousands of demonstrators filled thequare, bringing traffic to a standstill. Ndthey called for ano vernment corruption and economic hardship. 350 people were wounded by security forces. Tens of thousands of people thrned out today in pakistan demanding that Prime Minister resign. Crowds chanted in the streets ae hu of vehicles flying the black and white flaf ais hardline lamist party arrived in the city. They charge that the government has let them down. We were told we would build a new pakistan but almost after one point five years, the government has failed to deliver so the opposition parties are demanding this government should resign due to his failure. He has said he is working to improve the ecomy and today refused to step down. President trump namedti new secretary of homeland security. Chad wolf is an undersecretary. He will be the fifth person to head the departmumt under mr. Also today, the president d nomina a doctor to lead the food and drug administration. He is currently chief medical executive at a Cancer Center in houston. The fda hasad an active commissioner since april and today was the deadline for a still to come, Judy Woodruff oneonone with former Vice President biden on why he is seeking the democratic nomination. Ouwhat ukrainians think their country being tied to an impeachment investigatioa world away. Revolting hope, a Community Organization in nashvilleer offs solace to survivors of trafficking, plus much more. This is the pbs from w eta studios in washington and in the west from the Walter Cronkite school of journalism at Arizona State university. Now toowa, where judy former former Vice President joe biden earlier today. Most of the Democratic Candidates for president are here in des moines, iowa tonight for a dinner to rally their party and fire up their voters. No one has more on the line then former Vice President joe ben, who is making his third run for president in this state and facing stiff competion from rivals who right now are ahead of him in the polls. I sat down with him this afternoon to talk about the challenges he faces. Thank you for talking with us. Lets start with impeachment. This is a historic week and house about. You are one of the few people who was around for the nixon and clinton impeachment. You know the seriousness of this. My question is, do you believe that the focus should be on ukraine and a conversation about investigating you hould it be broader, to include the Mueller Report, potential financial impropriety . S i think it included all. As you know, impeachment is a difficult thing for a country to go through. It is not like you know, there are potential violations of constitutional responsibility and the house has no choice but to look at all of the things they said they were to look at. I said at the outset a the things . All the things. Financial impropriety. Wh they have laid out, i think they have an obligation under the constitution. It could be difficult, but they have no choice. So that is different than the house approach. Right now, they are saying narrowly ukraine. Hatever they decide to do, they decide to do. There her areas that he has stonewalled the administration, including the Mueller Report a conflict of interest. Their jobto i take down the constitional responsibility. The pne call between President Trump and president of ukraine, now theree is a wouse aide saying there was material left out of the transcript of that call. Do you believe the president is involved in a coverup . Yes. You have some of the finest people in the administration eling they have to come forward and say exactly what they heard. The idea that someone could withhold apparently, the allegation withhold vital military aid voted for by the in use during ukraine inng eastern ukraine, in order to take on russians who are there killing these people is just it is one of the things that no tpresid has ever thought of doing. Rs there a dan in this process that now we see the vote was almost entirely along party lines, President Trump is saying this is about demoakats trying to up for what happened in 2016, they are out to get him, that they are trying toel overtn thtion, plus he is saying it has never been done in and onelec year. Could this end up hurting . T it could, b house has no they have a constitutional responsibility. Imagine if you didnt investigate this. What does tt do to future president s . Free up a person like trump. The one thing George Washington warned us about in his farewell address was republics fall robecause of intervention foreign powers. Foreignra powers in our elec process. That is exactly what apparently happened here. They have to investigate. Letal about this campaign. We are in iowa. You know this state well. You ran for president twice. You ran as Barack Obamas vice twice. You have to win here. I think i will win here. Right, nwans are there is a basic pattern. They take a long time to make up their minds. I think they are facing ahe dead now in the polling. But you are running third or five points behind elizabeth warren. And behind pete buttigieg. Be honest, it is a statistical tie. You know tter than anyone. There is a margin of error three or four points ithis poll. The point is that it is not unusual. That is how these primaries always work. Nationally, i am beating elizabethit warren double d in most places. I am not looking at the polls. I am looking at do we have the resources, the organn and am i getting around enough to be able to make my case . Your favorite question, your age. You were asked about president jimmy carters comment not long ago that he does not thi someone should serve as president that the job is too demanding. You said, the experience counts. The New York Times had a story yesterday saying that a numbe of democrats are worried and im just going to read aut what it says have been your uneven stagemances on the debate and verbal miscues as a campaigner presenting preventing you from presenting a strong and confident presidency as a candidate. Ok. The fact of the matter is that they went out and found people who sa that. I have not there is a significant number ofeople who havent been worried about any miscue. Thiss for the voters to decide. Look at me, see if i have the energy, see if i know what im talking about. It is as simple and as complicated as that. The economy. New jobs numbers out tod look good. On a plummet rate is staying low. As low as it has been in 50 years. Go back to your own neighborhood. Find me middleclass folks who think they are better off. Y find me anybt there who thinks they are truly as well off as ty are. Do you think they are able to benefit from whais happening here . We are in a positionhere wages are stagnant. They are going up slightly but not enough. Parttime workers are being counted. The numbers i dont look at. What iat look at is hear in the what i look at in my own neighborhood. All the studies show if a middleclass pern got 400 one month, they would have to borrow the money or sell something. That is not security. That is what the voters will decide. I think the middle class is being left behind and working people are being left behind by these polici. Democrats in the past have been identified as a wors ng peoplerty. You are lunch pail joe. That is how you have run in the past. Look at the democratic already and say it has become the party of the elites, academics, well educated urban folks while the republicans have got the wealthy business owners, but they have also got the working class. That is not aurate. They havent got the working class. They dug into some of the working class in america, because they felt like they were not being paid attention to. They felt like they werent paying attention to their concerns. D what has happeound america is look at the efforts to prevent unions fm organizing. Look at the efforts that now you have to sign noncompete agreements to work for a fast food cha so you wont go across town to get another job. The American Workers are being stifled. It has to end. What the mideclass and workingclass do well, everybody does better. The poor do better, the middlelass are able to maintain themselves and the rich well. Mpoint is, the Democratic Party is not seen as exclusively the home for working class. Joeic bidens democrarty is. That is what its going to be. Look at the numbers, however be trump in pennsylvania and ohio middleclass workingclasse states. Thats what he doesnt want to run against me. Health care. Elizabeth warren put out an estimate of the cost of her medicare for all plan at around 20 trillion over a number of years. In the past, e timate had been 34 trillion. She is talking about making it up with targeted defense spending cuts, wealthax cracking down on tax evaders. She is making it up. Look. Nobody thinks it is 20 trillion. It is betwe 30 trillion and 40 trillion. Every major sdy that has taken a look at this, there is no way even bernie talks about the need to raise taxes. He c ot even meet the co it. We dont have to go that route. All we have to do is restore obamacare, make it provide a public option, further subsidize and my plan will cost 750 million over 10 years. It does not cost 4 trillion pe year and it can be done now, not in four yes. If the democratic nominee forxt president ear supports singlepayer medicare for all,ut is that anatic loser . Let me put it this way. I think it is going to be difficult to even a g Democratic Congress to vote for that. I think it is going to be demo it is going to be difficult to get democrats. Hethe cost is,et increase in what they save in care counting cost is going to be up exponentially. Some studies show you have to increase the tax by 25 to geter another subject, the president s soninlaw. Rthe told a re this week asking about yourricism of him that he has spent a lot of time in the white House Cleaning up the messes that you left behind and in particular, i am quoting, the reforms enacted by this administration he said rollback a lot of the hars laws that were created and partially lit in bypa ially written by ve president biden, which put africanamericans in prison and destroyed a generation. Ug i t he was a Foreign Policy guy. I didnt know he was a criminal justice person. I guess the best way to answer the question, why is that i get overwhelming support from the Africanamerican Community . Why was it that members of the black caucu why was it that the black mayors of the country support me . Y is it that i have more support from the africanamerican comnity today than everybody else combined . Back to the ukraine controversy, your son hunter you have been asked a lot of questis about this. Both of you have said you would not have your children have him and your children involved in foreign countries. If it is not appjopriate i bidens president , why was it appropriate when you are Vice President . Number one, no one has established that he did anything carried out the policy of the United States of america, our allies, the International Monetary fund, the eu and dealt with a corrupt prosecutor. I did not know hd was on the bo that company and no one o has assertthe board he did anything wrong. If y had known, would you have said dont . It is not wrong. His words speak for hielf. He wished he had realize how dogs like rudyi giuli thugs like rudy giulianiinould try to him. The reason for my saying my children would not be involved in Foreign Affairs or any affairs isas because what happened in this administration. I wanto makeer sure ne understands that there is going to be a hard, fast rule. Nobody in my family will be involved. They will not have offices in the white house. They will not sit in cabinet meetings. They will not have foreign the fact is all t has been said im not asking you to agree, butou have observed has been mainstream reporters say trump said but it is not true. Why is he doing it . He doesnt want to run against me. Period. We also talkeabout several foreignpolicy hotspots he would have to deal with as president. There is news this week to the democrats are saying that because of israel, they would look at cutting off military aid to israel as a result of that. That would be a tragic mistake. I strongly oppose israels settlement policy on the west bank. I have made that clear when i was Vice President , i made it Crystal Clear to the israelis, but the idea that we would cut off military aid to an ally, our only true ally in the entire region, is absolutely eposterous. It is beyond my comprehension. This is an administration that, as you know, advocated moving the capital of israel to jerusalem from tel aviv. If you are elected president , would you reverse that . I wouldnt have done in the first place. On last ques campaigning in iowa, youre been campaigning in the state a long time, running for president. Have you changed the way you reach out to people . I havent. Everybody kns i mean what i say. What i find is that the values of iowa people are like what ied was ra they do think honesty matters. They do think a straigforwardness matters. It matters whether or not you treat people with respect. I just think that fore, i am who i am. The good newss Everybody Knows who i am and the bad news is they know who im. My weaknesses are real. My strengths are real. Right now, i hope that the strengths i bng to this contest are ones that are most needed by thisountry right now. We will see. This is a marathon. Thank you. Thank you very much. The Eastern European nation of ukraine has feared in much of the coverage of the u. S. House impeachment probe. At home, ukraine is consumed with war against russia. Have been fighting for control of ukraines eastern flank. It is the newest challenge for the new president. Nick schifrin looks at the situation on t ground. Ukraine is the only country in europe at war. For the last five years, ukrainian soldiers have faced off against russian backed separatists. They have fought in fmland and muddy trenches. They are throwbacks to wars of 100 years ago. ,000 people have been killed, millions have fled their homes, families separated across the front les in ukraines east along the russian border. Ulnow, ukrainian srs are showing their weapons to international inspectors. Th pulling back from one and possibly two spots along the front lines. It ise an effort byhe new president to co