conversation about the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the larger reconciliation bill, what you ve probably heard about is how much these bills cost and what certain politicians in particular are willing to spend. what you re not hearing enough about is what s actually in these bills and what they mean for you. because here is the reality. this debate isn t about numbers. the debate is about what policies you, the american people believe should become law, and therefore are worth spending money on. and it so happens that the things in both of these bills are things joe biden campaigned on, won on, and vowed to deliver if and when he was elected. we re at a great inflection point in history. we have to do more than just build back better and build back. we have to build back better. well also need to make a once in a generation investment in our families and our children. trickle-down economics has never worked. it s time to grow the economy from the bottom and the middle
president biden say in his inaugural speech he was going to focus on uniting both parties and america. unfortunately, that is not happened. in my opinion, in fact, the parties in the country are more divided than ever. and i as a mom, as a coach of young children, and as an american i am tired of the fighting. what specific steps would you take as present to bring all parties to the table, and bring americans together to end the divisiveness in this great country. well, thanks for the question. . it s something that s very meaningful, as i share your aspiration for our country. look, i said before, i think democracy depends on heavy doses of civility. and over the last 20 years of my career, we ve always tried to aspire to that ideal. my faith requires me to treat others the way i want to be treated. and while earlier in the career, the first time i ran for office, i didn t live up to that. ten years later, when the opportunity came around, we thought to do just that. and q
good evening and welcome to iowa the 2024 a campaign for the white house is heating up. we are live at grand view university in des moines for cnn s town hall with former vice president mike pence. i am dana bash. tonight, we hear from a grand brand-new candidate in the republican field, former vice president mike pence, he announced his run for the white house earlier today, a move unprecedented in modern political history, a former vice president running against the president he served under. pence enters a race dominated by that former boss, donald trump, and he will be battling a growing number of rivals for the chance to take on joe biden. this evening s event is about the voters and the issues that will help them determine who wins the republican nomination. tonight iowa voters will have the opportunity to question the former vice president directly and i will have some questions of my own. this town hall is part of a republican primary process, and so by design in th
full cooperation, do you see his case as different? let me say this, look, i don t know the facts of the presidents case. i don t know the facts of the former president s case. and, but, what we have got to have in this country is equal treatment under the law. [applause] and dana, you may not know that. i mean, i was very troubled last summer when for the first time in history there was a search warrant executed at the home of a former president of the united states. surely you know all the years i served on the judiciary committee. that is when you and i i first met. there ought to be dozens of ways that that could have been handled other than that kind of behavior. i, mean when i informed the department of justice that we had classified materials potentially in our home they were at my home the fbi was on my front doorstep, the next day. but isn t the difference what we found out was when joe biden recurrently alerted the justice department, 80 days later. but sir th
Former home of a president of the red states. when i inform the department of justice that we had classified materials potentially in my home, they re at my home, the fbi was on my front doorstep the next day. but isn t the difference but we found out joe biden apparently alerted the department of justice 80 days later, they showed up at his office. that s not equal treatment. the question is an allegation of an investigation into obstruction, which you clearly did not do. if that is something that investigators see as possible, even enough to potentially indict the former president, do you think that should go forward? well, i would hope not. i really would, dana. i mean, there s several reasons for that. number one, i think it would be terribly divisive to the country. sir, i just want to clarify, what you re saying is that if they believe he committed a crime, they should not go forward with an indictment?