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Something that was pretty special. i loved her. everything i think she said. to me she didn t come off as being extreme right. to me she came out as being pragmatic for the people, for the regular people. and joining our discussion now adam riley, reporter for wgbh news covering senator warren s presidential campaign. he followed her to iowa this weekend. adam, you ve seen elizabeth warren, i assume, campaign many times in massachusetts. what was different, if anything, about seeing her campaign in iowa? i think the level of enthusiasm that she generated going back to her first run against scott brown, people were very excited about her, but there s, i think an intensity that comes when you ve got your eye on the presidency that ....
That. i think warren s approach is going to play incredibly well in venues like iowa and new hampshire that put a premium on retail politicking. and adam, it seems to me when i see her in iowa that she s got two big advantages going for her. one is that she s from oklahoma. this is not alien territory for her. this is not the typical massachusetts politician going out to iowa, and you can feel that midwest, that oklahoma kind of connection that she makes, and also, it turns out this being a teacher, this being a professor for all this time makes seems to make her very comfortable in interactions with questions audiences which is to say in her previous experience, student questions in the middle of her lectures. i think you re right on both counts, and she brought up her oklahoma roots at every stop. that s a key part of her stump speech. it s one of the ways that she s trying to convince people that she is able to or will be able if she is in the field to appeal ....
when a voter named molly asked a question, it wasn t about likability. i would like you to tell us a little bit about your what you have done in the senate that would make you a good president. ooh, what a great question, molly. and it was a great question, and one of the stories that senator warren told in her long response to that question was how she has helped lower the cost of hearing aids for the 44 million people in america who suffer hearing loss, and it s a bipartisan story about how she first engaged the help of republican senator chuck grassley and worked, as she put it under the radar to get more republican support for her bill to change federal regulations that have helped keep the cost of hearing aids much too expensive for most people with hearing difficulty. ....
I think warren s approach is going to play incredibly well in venues like iowa and new hampshire that put a premium on retail politicking. and adam, it seems to me when i see her in iowa that she s got two big advantages going for her. one is that she s from oklahoma. this is not alien territory for her. this is not the typical massachusetts politician going out to iowa, and you can feel that midwest, that oklahoma kind of connection that she makes, and also, it turns out this being a teacher, this being a professor for all this time makes seems to make her very comfortable in interactions with questions audiences which is to say in her previous experience, student questions in the middle of her lectures. i think you re right on both counts, and she brought up her oklahoma roots at every stop. that s a key part of her stump speech. it s one of the ways that she s trying to convince people that she is able to or will be able ....
i think the room was full of chills, and i think that was something that was pretty special. i loved her. everything i think she said. to me she didn t come off as being extreme right. to me she came out as being pragmatic for the people, for the regular people. and joining our discussion now adam riley, reporter for wgbh news covering senator warren s presidential campaign. he followed her to iowa this weekend. adam, you ve seen elizabeth warren, i assume, campaign many times in massachusetts. what was different, if anything, about seeing her campaign in iowa? i think the level of enthusiasm that she generated going back to her first run against scott brown, people were very excited about her, but there s, i think an intensity that comes when you ve got your eye on the presidency that ratchets everything up. i recall positive responses in that race against brown, for ....