there s no actual description of the weapons but you re seeing the video now of the protesters today after they were told. we might say by president trump to go over to the capitol to protest the effort we should say constitutionally mandated mandated effort on the part of the joint session of congress to affirm the presidency of the next president of the united states something which is kind of a routine process usually doesn t even get this much news barely even gets covered with this type of thing happens but today it was an important event partly because there were those in congress who is going to be who are going to be resisting the quote unquote fairness of the election against president trump and there you see people these are just protesters they somehow got into the capitol building itself there they are in the capitol. that s when police realized they had a real problem on their hands because these weren t the only ones there were too many of them and not enough. a
welcome to the 238 members and welcome to the teamsters. it is great to have you here. [applause] teamsters local 238 negotiates 270 contracts across the state of iowa, both the public sector and private sector. it is safe to say there is not a single aspect of the iowa handsy that teamsters do not touch. we are everywhere. as the first caucus in the nation, teamsters have also been everywhere dogging these candidates. we have been following them around for months asking them questions and educating them about our issues, as well as our brothers and sisters in north carolina, south carolina, new hampshire, nevada. we have done a great job of coordinating our messaging to candidates across the country. some members from those states are here and we would like to welcome you and thank you for traveling across the country to be in iowa today. today we bring you the candidates. and we bring you the candidates with the help of the storm lake times added the guardian, our sponsors
first candidate was going to tell us why we should elect him. former great senator from the state of delaware, former vice president joe biden. [applause] .. .. mr. biden: ok. welcome. mr. biden: thank you. it is good to be home. vice president biden, we are in a room full of teamsters and i want you to tell all of them here and all of them watching, why they should vote for you. but no malarkey. [laughter] first of all i should thank you. the only reason i m sitting here is a 1972, i was losing in the polls the sunday before the election. the newspaper went on strike.ct the printers, you guys put in a gigantic insert in the sunday paper to go out on the republican party. wouldn t cross the picket line, and i won by 3100 votes. [cheers and applause] you guys don t like secondary picket, you re wrong. we, the reason is, look, i am as my grandfather say, labor from belt buckle the shoe soul. i understood very basic notion. wall street didn t build the united states of a
continuing coverage on al-jazeera the latest stage of the impeachment hearings in the house judiciary committee the 1st time in today s proceedings that we have had questions for both republican and democrat lawyers 2017 or 2080 iole did it the year before his lection in 2020 when both he and vice president joe biden were leading candidates is that true sir i think what happened is the president saw this video of the former v.p. and i think it. coalesced in his mind or please answer my question he didn t raise any of these issues in 2017 or 20 i don t know that he did he did or he did i mean that is not something that we ve looked at you know evidence that he did or you did you know i would have no evidence he did not i mean this video is pretty a let me ask of the let me ask you this you talked about lieutenant colonel then and it was a highly decorated purple heart recipient and worked in the trump administration correct. it s or he had a reaction to the called an e. he did
iowa. the first candidate to speak his former vice president biden. ok, i want to introduce our first candidate who will tell us why we should elect him, former senator from the great state of delaware, former vice president joe biden. [applause] [cheers and applause] mr. biden: ok. welcome. mr. biden: thank you. it is good to be home. vice president biden, we are in a room full of teamsters and i want you to tell all of them here and all of them watching, why they should vote for you. but no malarkey. [laughter] mr. biden: no malarkey. i tell you why. first i should thank you. the only reason i am sitting here is that in 1972, i was losing in the polls the sunday before the election, the newspaper went on strike. you guys had put on a gigantic insert in the sunday paper to go out on the republican party. you guys would not cross a picket line. and i won by 3100 votes. [applause] if you think i don t like secondary pickets, you re wrong. the reason is, i am, as my gra