what makes you prepared for it. is interesting you say is, make obligated. in the way the presidency is currently being exercised, doesn t have to do with the area where it s complicated but with the area should be far more simple. fdr said the primary role of the president his moral leadership. he said administrative aspect is secondary. as a moral equivocation that we see is it too much in politics including the presidency. what is prepared may, 35 years, working up close and personal with people whose lives are in crisis. i ve seen what it takes to move from crisis to transformation and opportunity. have also seen up close and personal that public policy on people his lives. several of the passion. for what has gone wrong and a lot of clarity for what is gone wrong. i think sometimes as politicians who don t seem to exercise as much moral fortitude about what is gone or become strategically apt in the u.s. government. i understand people talking about experience. there a
senator kamala harris and then ohio congressman tim ryan from the youngstown area. time, senator amy klobuchar of minnesota. senator kirsten gillibrand. governor john hickenlooper at 4:00 eastern time. then senator elizabeth warren, and that would be followed by senator court worker senator cory booker of new jersey. bit of political news from south carolina, senator tim scott says he will run for reelection in 2022, but that will be his last political race. he took over when jim demint resigned the position. he was appointed as a member of the house to the senate seat by then-governor nikki haley. he will step down when his term is completed. he is up again in 2022. this is an aerial view of the iowa state fair. coming up from this morning, julian castro, housing secretary in the obama administration, former mayor of san antonio, among the speakers this morning at the des moines register political soapbox. [applause] mr. castro: good morning. alls great to be with y in
from minnesota where we can say we can see i will from our porch. there are some comparisons made between better. but i am very much looking forward to your letter cal. iowa. we will see how it compares to our princess of the milky way. and the revolving refrigerator of the 12 butter of the princesses. i once asked one of the dairy princesses what she does with her butter carving after the fair. she says that she brings it home and they use it in the corn fast, ok? that is an image. i have been all around iowa the last few days on a 20 county to her. let s say it is a little warmer and when i announced my candidacy in the middle of that blizzard. [applause] but i should that would be good to show that i have grit, but ended up with four inches of snow on my head. and the hairdresser became an icon. i announce my candidacy there because i wanted to make the point on the mississippi river that it is time to cross the river of our divides and get to a higher plane. stood outside
this from yesterday at the iowa state fair. thank you. williamson: this is an extraordinary experience. and i m very aware, particularly as a woman, that we cannot do this everywhere. i m very aware, particular as a woman, that if i sent a fraction of the things that i say and critiquing our government and governmental policy, that there are countries that i might be taken off to prison, even tortured. so i m not only a very aware of the profound right that we have to say what we think. but at this point in our history, i think we need to remember that we also have a profound responsibility to say what we think. i m running for president because i think some things need to be said. and the things i believe need to be said or whatever but i know assange. i believe that our politics itself is not a conduit for the energies that we need to be expressing in order to move to the next phase of our history. is stuck somewhere in the 20th century. our hearts are in the 21st century
black history month to deflect from the criticism. the dishonesty doesn t end there. jamaal bowman the new york city mayor eric adams both caught maskless after telling everybody to follow the rules and doubling down on mass mandates for schools. new jersey governor phil murphy offering his party a breath of fresh air announcing his table finally end the school mask and eight in a return to normalcy. in other states like delaware and connecticut, following suit. the white house s remaining defiance. our advice to every school district is to abide by public health guidelines. it continues to be at this point that the cdc is advising that masks can delay, reduce transmission. there are number of other mitigation measures that we have put in place with that. it continues to be cdc guidance. we understand and we have seen that the public is tired of covid. we understand that. so are we. our responsibility is the federal government is to rely on data and science being analyzed b