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Congressman incumbent, republican congressman steve king and joni ernst, the senator from iowa. Yeah. So congressman steve king, hes a nineterm incumbent from the Fourth District which is the northwestern corner of iowa and he has long been a very controversial member of congress. Hes got a history of making statements that border if not cross into pretty openly racist territory and he has a history of supporting White Nationalist candidates in europe and in canada and has long been a thorn in the side of the Republican Party. Hes never really had a tough election until recently. In 2018, he was actually dropped by the Republican Congressional Campaign committee. He was called a racist by their chairman and his corporate sponsors all pulled ....
Discusses his book. And the federal response to the coronavirus with democratic congressman jamie raskin. Video from yesterday of President Trump announcing further federal and military intervention in the aftermath of the killing of george floyd. After those comments, the president strode through ofayette park cleared protesters to briefly visit a historic church, st. Johns church, which had been partially burned the night before. Welcome to washington journal. Getting your thoughts on what you heard it from the president to end the continued unrest in cities. For those of you in the eastern and central time zones, 202 7488000. 202 in and pacific, 7488001. You can send us a text at 202 7488003. We welcome your comments on twitter as well. That is http twitter. Com cspanwj. About 12dent speaking hours ago in the rose garden before he made the trip to st. Johns church. Here is the reporting of the washington times. Forces onilizes ....
i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. we have a new poll. and basically here s what it says. americans are ticked off and they re pointing fingers. it shows millions of voters who are frustrated, who are increasingly furious at folks in the other party, believing the other side s agenda could end america as we know it. right now president biden is preparing to speak at the dnc. he s one of the folks arguing that democracy is at stick next month. so, what s really motivating voters? is it anger or issues? or is it impossible to separate the two? if so, what does that mean for candidates s closing arguments? plus, a major townsment from merrick garland is moments away. it s not about trump, but they say it involves a foreign nation trying to spread its influence here in the u.s. we will have that as soon as it starts. finally, anyone with kids in school, knows the pandemic was absolutely brutal. but new nationwide test scores show the impact is ....
do you see a change? i think the consciousness level has been raised, but i think, like the experts said at the hearing today, people are being rewarded for advocating this race replacement theory, and they are using their cable news shows, they re using their political pulpits to make it popular, get more ratings off of spreading evil. and we have to call that out. we cannot put politics over people anymore. and we have to, like garnell said, deal with the issue of white supremacy. we need to pass the antiblack hate crime bill. it needs to be very straightforward to the black community that keep bailing out the democrats to say speak to this issue directly on our behalf. garnell, before we go, is there anything you want to say about your mother, ruth, that you didn t get to say today? i ve been wonderfully blessed to have an opportunity to share memories of my mother with a pretty large audience. my mother was a great person, a great woman. she was my hero. she w ....
am while he. polls are now close in the seven states that actually had elections today. many results are still too early to call, but here are some of the primary races we are following closely at this hour. and california, we are awaiting a call in the mayoral race in los angeles, congresswoman karen bass running against rick caruso. a lifetime of businessman. turned democrat, a special recall election in san francisco lost his job as additional guitar any of that. city in south dakota nbc news projects that accompany republican governor christine all has one parent mary for governor. over and iowa democratic michael franken excuse me there, difference crane that from what we are seeing, defeated former congresswoman abby finkenauer. frank you will now look to updating and convince senator chuck grassley, come november. and in montana, ryan thank, you donald trump secretary of the interior, is leaning in his campaign for congress in close race though that we are wa ....