for iowa hospitals. and like 39 other states, we've modernized our medicaid program. as a result, we've created a new system where more iowans have access to mental health services closer to home than ever before. more iowans have health insurance than ever before and more than 80 new value added services are now being offered under our modernized medicaid program. we've also replaced the medicaid system with a coordinated team of health care professionals to ensure that patients see the right provider at the right time. as a result of these reforms and innovation, we have improved the focus on health outcomes and saved taxpayers $110 million. our increase in education funding last year was made possible because of our modernized medicaid efforts. without these vital reforms, the budget choices before us today would be twice as hard. in order to grow iowa, we must also look at policies and reforms that will continue growing family incomes. one way to do that is to close the skills gap, which in many ways

iowa hospitals. like 39 other states we modernized our medicaid program and we've created a new system where more iowans have access to mental health services closer to home than ever before. more iowans have health insurance than ever before. and more than 80 new value-added services are now being offered under our modernized medicaid program. we've also replaced the old medicaid system with a coordinated team of health care professionals to ensure that patients see the right provider at the right time. as a result of these reforms and innovation we have improved the focus on health outcomes and saved taxpayers $110 million. our increase in education funding last year was made possible because of our modernized medicaid efforts. without these vital reforms, the budget choices before us today would be twice as hard. in order to grow iowa, we must also look at policies and reforms that will continue growing family incomes. one way to do that is to close the skills gap, which in many ways is the bigges

in total, iowa has over 600,000 manufacturers that contribute over $31 billion to iowa's economy and employ over 200,000 iowans. over the next few years, the economic authority will work with manufacturers to advance a year of manufacturing to help grow this important part of iowa's economy. we should also be proud that i what remains and agricultural powerhouse that fuels the world. next to the hard work and innovation of iowa's farmers and agricultural producers, we just set an all-time record for ethanol reduction. we set a new record for biodiesel production. we lead the nation with percentage of university oferated by wind -- electricity generated i wind. -- by wind. [applause] gov. branstad: we love wind. [laughter] over the past 30 years, we have added to our agriculture commodities should we have ever -- commodities. we have diversified iowa's economy with biofuels, wind energy, fertilizer plant, advanced manufacturing, insurance and financial services. these newer industries employed hundreds of thousands of iowans in rewarding careers. while i am pleased with his progress a

in iowa, four counties have independently voted for higher minimum wages but your colleagues in the iowa republican legislature want to take that back so everyone can have the same crappy wage. why aren't you supporting the working people for iowa, and why haven't you done so since 1975? and why aren't you pushing for a living wage for workers, including the 80% that are service economy workers? [applause] [cheering] sen. grassley: when did i quit beating my wife? >> you did? >> answer the question. >> poor barbara. sen. grassley: no, i'm going to answer him because i've got to do that. don't put your hand up yet. >> i don't think that is appropriate. as a woman, i am concerned. that is extremely disrespectful. sen. grassley: i apologize. first of all, he made some reference to my net worth. wouldn't you expect a person who handles his money well and gets paid we you guys pay me, if you other one- and the that i will wait until we get done here so everyone can hear me. the other thing is if you bought a farm 40 years ago and it appreciates 10 times what you paid for it, i've got nothing

>> that was not iowa nice. >> iowa nice, everybody is on board with that. >> yeah. >> i apologize if i offended you. >> you did. >> kind of an iowa warm winter. so i'm proud of the big turnout that we have considering that the roads are bad. not too bad, thank god. and everybody can come here safely. what i have done in other town meetings is i have -- and so -- and it seemed to work out okay for everybody that wanted to make a point of view -- i would ask maybe for one word from various people, maybe ten different subjects that you want to bring up so we cover as much as we can cover. and then -- and then a lot of you come because you want me to listen to you. that's perfectly okay if i just stand and listen to you. so yesterday i started out our meetings in charles city, maybe for 15 minutes, letting five or six people just tell me what they wanted me to hear one way from them. not asking any questions. and then we went to questions. so it seemed to work okay yesterday in charles city. so if that's okay with you, i'll start out by -- and i'll have my back to you, but i'll listen. b

they are taking -- most people in iowa undocumented in iowa, about half of them have children who are u.s. citizens. the work, who pay taxes. i want to address your question. 40% of people undocumented came here by train. chuck grassley: you are right on that. >> i want you to address that. [applause] there is part of the program that addresses that. we put $1 billion into the biometric exit, entry system for people that come over here legally, you know who they are, and if they don't leave, we know who they are when they haven't left. that is being done for those 40%. >> the immigration system is outdated. it doesn't work for anybody. we all know there are people who are undocumented. their employers are not taking them for taxes. it hurts us as citizens, it hurts the state, it hurts the country. you voted against that, again and again against bills that really would help individual cases that you need to do what is right. this is not who we are. this is not who you have been for the last 20 years. you help iowans. [applause] do what is right. [applause] all, ifassley: first of peopl

most people in iowa undocumented in iowa are not criminals. iowapeople undocumented in about half of them have children who are u.s. citizens. ,they work, they pay taxes, and i want to address your question. 40% of people undocumented came here by train. chuck grassley: you are right on that. so >> -- >> a wall will do nothing to address that. [applause] chuck grassley: there is part of the program that addresses that. we put $1 billion into the biometric exit, entry system for people that come over here legally, you know who they are, and if they don't leave, we know who they are when they haven't left. that is being done for those 40%. >> senator, the immigration system is broken. it is outdated. it doesn't work for anybody. we all know when we go to restaurants that there are people who are undocumented. their employers are not taking them for taxes. it hurts us as citizens, it hurts the state, it hurts the country. you voted against that, again and again against bills that -- you have been really good at helping individual cases but you ne

it is not iowa night. >> we will go for iowa nice, everyone on board with that? i apologize -- [indiscernible] [laughter] chuck grassley: kind of an iowa warm winter. i am proud of the big turnout considering the roads are bad, not too bad, thank god, and everybody can come here safely. what i have done at other town meetings is i -- and it seemed to work out ok for everybody that wanted to make a point of view, i would ask maybe for one word from various people, maybe 10 different subjects that you want to bring up so we cover as much as we can cover, and then -- and then, a lot of you come because you want me to listen to you. that is perfectly ok if i just stand and listen to you. yesterday, i started out our meetings in charles city maybe for 15 minutes, letting five or six people just tell me what they wanted me to hear one way from them, not asking any questions, and then we went to questions. it seemed to work ok yesterday in charles city, so if that is ok with you, i will start out by -- and i will have my back to you, but i will listen, but hopefully eve

in iowa, we have sarah's law that we are trying to get passed. some of these regulations, in one way, helps the sarah law goal that her family could not get any information from the government. this is to make sure the information gets to the family. let's see. line, i better leave it at that. there may be more. plans to have any visit the higher populated towns in iowa?/ sen. grassley: of course. i had 30 q and a's with different groups of people. i have interaction just like i do here with constituents in the big counties all the time. in face, i'm surprised i don't get more criticism that i don't come to the extremely rural counties of iowa more than once a year sometimes. >> do you hope to change her mind on policy? what do you hear from people? sen. grassley: i think the thing that has been emphasized to me ofthe medicaid aspects obamacare and the importance of people that are not covered by the private insurance within obamacare. i think that has been brought home pretty strongly. that does not mean i have a policy i can enunciate as a resu

that is how i keep it up when i can't be in iowa. keep it up every day. >> is there anything you will take back to iowa to washington that you want to change? sen. grassley: this will be a repeat of what i told the national news, but basically the real concern about the affordable care act, how much time there is between repeal and replacement and the emphasis on my office since does not want to much light between the two. if it could be simultaneous, it ought to be simultaneous. the second is immigration issues and the third would be on medicaid as it relates to the obamacare expansion of medicaid. >> thank you, guys. that is all the time we have. >> watch c-span as president donald trump delivers his first address to a joint session of congress. >> this congress is going to be the busiest congress we have had in decades. theollowing the speech, democratic response given by former kentucky governor steve bashir and your reaction, followed by comments from members of congress. at 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span and c-span.org. next fromu

that's iowa. and prepare for fisheries risk that could shake the states' seafood industry from top to bottom. that's alaska. right down the row of republican senators who voted for this climate denying nominee, you have home state universities that say the opposite, that say that it's real, that it is beyond scientific debate at this point, that its effects are here, that its effects are worsening, and that it's going to shake industries like the fisheries industry from top to bottom and create significant risks and disturbances in agriculture. but not one of those senators stood up against a nominee who is the shameless tool of the industry that is causing all that harm. so i've got to ask how does that end? if you listen to what your home state universities are saying, this pressing and immense grand challenge, this greatest environmental threat, it doesn't go away. this is truth measured by science. god's and nature's truth. and truth always demands a reckoning. if we listen only to the fossil

>> reporter: in iowa, senator charles grassley confronted with questions about president trump. >> i am so unsettled. it feels like we've got a juvenile running our country. >> here here. [ applause ] >> reporter: iowa's other senator joni ernst jeered at her town meeting. >> do your jobs! >> reporter: leaving after just 45 minutes, protesters following her to her car. >> shame on you! shame on you! >> reporter: the common theme, concerns about republican efforts to repeal and replace obamacare. >> let me explain to you what the problem is. the problem is obamacare has just collapsed. >> no way! boo! >> no, it hasn't! boo! >> reporter: the senate's top republican confronted in kentucky. >> the veterans are sick. the veterans are broken down. they're not getting what they need. if you can answer any of that i'll sit down and shut up like elizabeth warren.

that is how i keep it up when i can't be in iowa. keep it up every day. >> is or anything take away you will take out of washington at all these meetings? sen. grassley: this will be a repeat of what i told the national news, but basically the real concern about the affordable care act, how much time there is between repeal and replacement and the emphasis on my audience does not want to much light between the two. if it could be simultaneous, it ought to be simultaneous. the second is immigration issues and the third would be on medicaid as it relates to the obamacare expansion of medicaid. >> thank you, guys. that is all the time we have. >> i think a lot of these kids look at these huge ideas. you take twitter, uber, airbnb, and they seem conversationally but a seinfeld episode. they felt like, oh, i could do it like this. it was so much harder. >> tonight on q&a, alexander wolfe looks at the world of startups in silicon valley and the young people who have entered their with hopes of becoming the next big success story. in her bo

boone, iowa, on flat land just north of des moines is a company town. headquarters for one of the largest grocery chains in the midwest. fareway. it's a family owned company, and rick beckwith is a third generation ceo. he and his wife cindy raised a family of five here. their youngest daughter emily, the sweet, but quiet one. kind of a shrinking violet? >> the oldest sister said that she never got spanked. >> she didn't. she just remained silent and look at me with those big, brown eyes, and it was over. >> even though emily was from a prominent wealthy family, her friend lisa says emily never flaunted it. >> everyone knew that emily was a beckwith, but i never felt less of a person in the presence of emily or any one of her family. >> emily was the girl everyone wanted to be friends with and every boy wanted to date. according to friends shannon and sarah. >> could have had any -- >> oh, anybody. >> any boyfriend. >> all these boys were gaga over her. i mean, she was gorgeous. you've seen pictures of her. even in high school, she was gorgeous. it just

. >> up next maryland hon horz 2002 national championship team as they take on iowa. >> they look for a much needed win and golfer gets almost naikdz ed on the course. all that and more ahead in sports. pass passion pass passion. terps are not ob the bubble but if playing the way of late they will lose. terps fans worried could turn it into a bubble ready to burst. this year maryland squad has yet to take care of business yet they honard aa team they did everything needed to get to ncaa. they honored 2002 national championship team mashing anniversary of great title run. gary williams and his team knew they had something special. >> determined by hardest working team in country and one of the hardest working coaches and he taught us and molds us to a point where we were just fit sog well together. >> there's probably ten teams good enough. so we were special because we had to overcome things in 2001 that took us to a different point and making it little tougher all that builds into being good enough. >> that was steve blake and cigary will well yumz. terps taking on iowa team that rat

for me i live out in the country in iowa. we have gravel roads every mile. in the flat country at least. so from where i live, my west road runs a mile out there to the intersection where it goes on and four directions, gravel road. and so let's just say that general kelly, secretary kelly, came to me and he said, steve, i want you to guard your west mile and i want to you secure that border so that 25% of the people that are trying to get across there will be interdicted and won't be able to get across that border. so what would you take to give me that level of security for a mile of road, say a mile -- the west gravel road for from my house? i have a bid. i'll give you $6.7 million. that's the average rate for a mile. we do they're year. we do our budgets on a 10-year average. on a 10-year contract. so i'll give you $67 pll to secure one mile -- million to secure one mile of iowa gravel road. do you think i can secure that border for $67 million for 10 years? and do you think that i would hire a lot of people to sit there in their humvees and talk back an

soil conditions are as fertile as you see in iowa, so it depends. the size of the farms run the gamut. really small farms that you would see in india and china, all the way up to large farms with thousands of acres. laura: so, i wanted to ask a question. you know, about using software in tractors. and i don't know where this issue is now, but i went to visit some smaller, somewhat smaller farmers, who were complaining because john deere and all the tractor companies don't want them to be able to repair their own tractors anymore, because of the software. so, essentially the copyright law criminalized breaking into the software to try and fix it themselves. and i don't know if you're aware of this issue, but it does seem like putting all this software, computerizing tractors, does change that idea of the farmer fixing things themselves, something that's important to them. ganesh: so, at john deere, we always respected the right of the farmer to fix the equipment. we've always supported that, and we supported that in the form of publications online as

because of iowa law. anybody on paper or parole can never visit anybody while they're incarcerated. >> yvette and doris gay know all about that. since our visit to the north carolina correctional institution for women, doris has been paroled. the soonest she will be allowed to visit yvette is when her probation expires. brad and michael love have more time. brad is currently eligible, but has not yet made parole. >> so we're going to spend as many years together here as we can. i love him to death. i'd do anything for brad. anything. short of killing somebody again. >> coming up on "lockup: raw." >> these cats is their kids. and you mess with one of the cats, i mean, these cats is their family. that's all they got. >> the special bond between prisoner and pet. >> it's like anything. show them respect they'll treat you with love and respect back. # >>> the social center of almost every prison is the yard. it's the rare space where inmates socialize, exercise, and occasionally fight to the death. but "locku

the senator refers to it as iowa night. we welcome you as guests, from somewhere else. what we expect is that you do not interrupt. use your inside voice. i know it will be hard because it will be hard to get questions. and be respectful of others.

in the flat country in iowa we have a gravel road every mile. let's just say general kelly came to me, and i would have said janet napolitano or maybe jeh johnson, came to me and said, visa proposal for you. i want to you secure a mile of country road. a gravel road out there. and i'm going to offer you $6.7 million a mile to secure that. for each year on a 10-year contract. so here's $67 million in contract and you're going to have to guard this mile for a year and you can let 75% of the people through that are trying to get across that road. and i'm still going pay you. that sound like a good deal? there's not hardly any american that wouldn't take that deal. that's not a very good deal. and i'd point this out to -- president trump will recognize how bad a deal that is. it's a terrible deal. yet we're stuck with that. $13.4 billion, 5% efficiency, $6.7 million a mile. these numbers probably are blurring some people in their minds, mr. speaker. so i'd take it back to this. $6.7 million a mile. we have built a four-lane highway, 20, across iowa,

the senator refers to it as i/o at night. -- iowa night. we welcome you as guests, from somewhere else. what we expect is that you do not interrupt. use your inside voice. i know it will be hard because

i want to go to cnn's ryan young, live in charles city, iowa. it appears to be the beginning of republican senator chuck grassley holding a town hall. and i know, ryan, it's actually -- or has been rather quiet as you are as evaluathe h taking some questions. so use your golf commentator voice. >> reporter: he's actually talking as we speak right now, addressing a question about the supreme court. people wanted to know why the supreme court nominee was held you want last time. he is explaining why he felt it was necessary to hold up that last supreme court nominee. a lot of the questions people have been talking about have been health care, they've been talking about the wall, and they've been talking about the economy. we had one woman stand up and say she feels she would die without obamacare, she wanted to know what he planned to do with the health care initiative. this has been going on for 20 minutes. he came out five minutes early. he has indicated to us he has other meetings throughout the day, that he will make time to talk to us. but i

saw this up in iowa as well. yesterday when up with chuck grassley, rural, rural counties here, people coming together. finding out on line. coming together. sharing questions. sharing the conversation points. and when, you know, donald trump referred to them as liberal activists. if you want to call liberal activist, chris peterson, farmer from clear lake, drove an hour to be at the townhall, or susie who drove an hour from eureka to be here today for the event. runs a nonprofit health clinic. talking liberal activists, i guess up for interpretation exactly what that means. but inside of this place, there are 2,200. who voted for trump. don't think donald trump would be wrong. one person among the group that, jeered, and did not, did not warmly receive my question to the entire group. i think it comes done to also, also the point of -- tom cotton from the state here tonight. he said, listen, there is 2,000 of you here. 3 million in arkansas. i representative everybody. elections have consequences. >> vaughn, a l

saw this up in iowa as well. yesterday when up with chuck grassley, rural, rural counties here, people coming together. finding out on line. coming together. sharing questions. sharing the conversation points. and when, you know, donald trump referred to them as liberal activists. if you want to call liberal activist, chris peterson, farmer from clear lake, drove an hour to be at the townhall, or susie who drove an hour from eureka to be here today for the event. runs a nonprofit health clinic. talking liberal activists, i guess up for interpretation exactly what that means. but inside of this place, there are 2,200. j who votefotrump. don't think donald trump would be wrong. one person among the group that, jeered, and did not, did not warmly receive my question to the entire group. i think it comes done to also, also the point of -- tom cotton from the state here tonight. he said, listen, there is 2,000 of you here. 3 million in arkansas. i representative everybody. elections have consequences. >> vaughn, a lot

city told her to say it louder. >> a veteran from iowa city. did you hear that? i want to get my panel's take on this. a veteran from iowa city. president trump tweets, so-called angry crowds. when i hear a veteran from iowa city and look at those impassioned people, i think of the trump rallies. the fact that i am saying what could be going on in president trump's head -- but these are americans that most likely voted for him. >> it's the same mistake that democrats made in 2009 where they are trying to claim the tea party was astro turf and the koch brothers, and they ignored what was bubbling up out there. the republicans cannot make the same mistake. and you show up and stay light, and you don't walk out and get confrontational, but show up and do your job listening to these people, because at some point the republicans will have to address these concerns, and sway a lot of these fears. >> there's a high wire act they have to perform, and they have to show up and stay late and answer the questions, while the question, who they are standing

it happened at a raucous water in waterloo, iowa. when police tried to shut it down he grabbed one of the police officer's pistols. >> i shot the man three times, right. everybody broke and run and the other police, he was still down, right so i ran over there and then i shot him three times. it wasn't cause i was on no drugs or no alcohol. you know, i wasn't impaired. >> and afterwards? >> trying to get away. it wasn't no remorse or nothing when i tried -- as i did -- i wasn't even thinking about turning myself in or nothing like that, right. you know, i hid for about like five or six days in the cornfields, right before they caught me, right. they give me a natural life sentence, you know, this charge back there. >> for the next 20 years taylor was transferred between various prisons due to his gang activity and predatory behavior. the aging inmate landed in anamosa in 2002. he chose to participate in a victim impact program. not out of remorse. he was hoping it would earn him a transfer back to his favorite prison. >> first i was

both iowa senators in that montage of clips. you always have to worry about this stuff because you can't gerrymander an entire state. so the big question, will these town halls translate into votes and how serious should they take them? joined by republican pollster and strategist glenn, public opinion strategies which is the republican side of our bipartisan nbc wall street journal polling team. let's take a look at the issue of health care, glenn. in general, we've seen, and that was always the warning sign to republicans. ian when you have a majority of oppose percent. >> there were 40% plus that supported. and there are people who are helped by it. there are also people hurt by it. and you have to understand it, once you give people something, it's a much harder to take it away than it is to not give it to them in the first place. >> we put up this graphic here as we've seen as the affordable care act, good idea, bad idea, this is from the poll. and it has been -- you see there, and for the first time. in our polling, in ear

nacional acÁ podemos ver el sistema de baja presiÓn que esÁa dejando precipitaciones por sectores de iowa y chicago. kansas, tambiÉn tenemos bastante inestabilidad. hacia el otro lado estamos hablando de todo un poco posibilidades de inundaciones fuertes rÁfagas de viento y con un tremendo sistema de baja presiÓn hacia el norte centro de nuestra naciÓn tenemos aire Ártico dejando una sensaciÓn tÉrmica bastante complicada. >> mientras tanto podemos esperar tormenta invernal.

today, mar iowa needing win to seal ncaa at large bid and they'll honor maryland's national title team at that game. that squad had something special. >> it's probably hardest working team in country. one of the hardest working coaches he taught us and molded us to a point where we were just fit so well together. >> there's probably ten teams. so we were special because we had to overcome some things in

rajini: we met chris at his rural farm in iowa. it is not just trump supporters dissatisfied with the political class. chris voted for hillary clinton and hopes the town halls will give people like him a voice. >> people are waking up. that is the one thing i can say positively about trump. he is waking people up. we are tired of getting screwed. senator grassley: i heard someone say impeachment so i will write that down. rajini: at a later event, the pressure was still on. >> it is time to put country over party. [applause] rajini: and that is a demand being heard at town halls across america. es likeike this -- scen this are reminiscent of the tea party in the early days of the obama administration, where conservatives packed townhall to put pressure on your congressmen and women and senators when it came to mr. obama's policies. there were a lot of grievances in the town hall. how will you take it back to president trump? senator grassley: i won't take it back to trump. i take it back to my colleagues. i don't think you should s

this is in iowa. senator joni ernst facing a

we met chris at his pig farm in iowa. it's not just from supporters chris at his pig farm in iowa. it's notjust from supporters that i disillusioned with the political class. this man voted for hillary clinton. people are waking up. that's the only thing you can say positively about president trump. people are waking up. we are tired of being screwed. at a later event, the pressure was still on. it is time to put country over party. that isa time to put country over party. that is a demand hurt as town halls across america. seems like there is reminiscent of the tea party in the early days of the obama administration. conservatives packed out town halls to put pressure on their congressmen and women to put pressure on the obama administration. how will you take this back the president trump?|j will take this back to my colleagues. i don't think you should see this as challenging trump, you should see this is me doing myjob and the president doing hisjob. should see this is me doing myjob and the president doing his job. the job is challenging and it's about balancing the agenda of

we have showed you that system starting to develop across nebraska, iowa that will be making its arrival here and intensifying coming our way. in the meantime i want to get you out the door on this hit. the police stick with us for much more on the storm for thomas we go through the rest of the broadcast here but for now clouds will begin to clearly very well detine back edge to the cloud cover. they will thin out with time here. let's talk about this storm system. that is moving out. the don't worry about that one say for lingering shower. look at intensification that takes lays out of this. we will just be in the the wheat spot to see heavy snow tall into tomorrow morning, starting as early assay hid night, that is when winter storm warning will take effect the there is significant accumulation expect out of this. stick with me for more on this throughout the rest of the broadcast but for now, total opposite, record time warmth, mid 60's, cool breeze out of the midwest but we will see a ton of people out doing kelly drive marathon when you get outside for first time when it the is supe

. >> why would you vote to jeopardize iowa's quality of education and how is betsy devos a qualified candidate for your vote? >> the president gets elected and has to carry out the responsibilities of which he was elected, that that person ought to have the team that they need to get the job done. >> don't you believe she should be qualified? >> yes. >> yes. >> then we would not have tillerson being [ laughter ] [ applause ] >> reporter: and that was when a lot of people were shocked -- jake, you've been here several times. i was caught off guard by even though the fact people were having disagreements in this crowd they were able to talk to each other and they really appreciated the idea that senator grassley showed up. in fact, when i was talking to him afterwards, he said he thought the tea party republicans were much tougher on him and he was happen toib able to talk to the constituents. i can tell you a lot of people said they plan to go to more meetings over the next few days. >> ryan young, thank you so much. appreciate it. did associates of president trump meet privately with

i spent all of those days looking into elections and iowa law. i was in the state senate at the time. i found a lot of fraud and narratives of fraud and people that had investigated fraud. a book has been written on it, and i took the data that was available and the surveys that took place primarily in virginia and just did a little calculation and came up with what was a calculation that produced -- it was an extrapolation that said what could the scope of this be in what we've seen in the surveys of the people who confessed to being illegals who are voting in the state of virginia if you extrapolate that across the country, what could we be talking about? and i came up with a number of 2.4 million. i did that well before president trump made his remarks. in defense of extrapolations, polling is an extrapolation, and tv ratings are extrapolations. >> sure. >> so i think that's in the zone. we'll find out with some more solid data. it's too important to turn a blind eye to it, and i've been completely convinced when i've tried to clean up the vot

trump one in alden, iowa, by a two to one margin. what are you hearing from theress departments there, vaughn? >> reporter: voters flipped from obama in 2008 to president trump in 2016. it's one of the places that won obama in 2008 and then flipped over to donald trump by a 2 to 1 margin. we talked to farmers last night, stopped by the volunteer fire department's fund-raiser and talked to a couple of the guys. >> everybody's pretty supportive. it seems like he's trying. he's only been here one month, so he's had eight years. it will work out. >> i think he will be an absolute wonderful president if he could just tone things down a little bit and be a little more reasonable about stuff rather than blow it up and some of the stuff that comes out on tweets. >> reporter: so this is why alden in the fire department community is important. on the issues of trade, here in iowa it's big. a quarter of iowans are involved in agriculture. you talk toll farmers here, they say we actually like nafta because iowa is the biggest corn producer in th

only one of our bordering rates is iowa. >> south dakota and wyoming have more income tax. they all have lower tax rates. our high tax rate hampers our ability to grow our economy over the long term. it discourages investment and chases away great people. if we want to out pace other midwestern states we have to be more competitive. do you know it's been 20 years since middle class nebraskans have seen a cut in their income tax rate? in effect we will have a trigger when we hit 3.5% growth to take that income tax rate from 6.84% down a little each year until we get it under 6%. if our revenue doesn't grow fast enough the tax rate doesn't come down. it's that simple. it is caught in this highest tax bracket. folks, $29,831 is rich. it is middle class. for married couples taking $59,661 they are also caught in this top tax bract et and that's more than half of them. nebraskans look at us and wonder why it's so hard for us to keep more of their money. the only way to have sustainable tax relief is controlling spending. it is fundamentally the difference between spending restra

very rough meeting of the minds in iowa for senator joni ernst today. here's the thing to take away from that experience, from just seeing how that went today. that happened in a place called maquoketa, iowa. i've been practicing saying it. maquoketa is population 6,000 people. that's the reception she got in maquoketa today from that mostly older mostly white crowd. it's easy to get bowled over with what's going on in washington with the radical shift that's happened in our national politics with this new presidency. but there's as radical a shift in the rest of the country in the opposite direction. it's an equal and opposition reaction. it's just everywhere. it's in the courts, it's in the streets, it's in the lives of our elected officials. it's everywhere to the point that even that dynamic is starting to feel unpredictable and starting to feel a little overwhelming as well. but watch this unfold over the course of this week. watch what it's going to be like for these reprentativeand senators at home this week. this whole week is going to be like t

can you explain for us why you felt that iowa should join the fight? >> well, i think iowa should join the fight because of the enormous principles nar at play here. the whole question of the authority of the president in this context. the effects on the state and on the world. and also, you know, the rule of law. it's really important that this be decided by the courts. and that's one of the things that makes this a great one country, that we have the rule of law, that we have the courts. so i thought it was very important for iowa to weigh in with our colleagues on our side and present arguments together in support of the attorney general of washington and our colleague. >> you represent a state, sir, that voted for trump, for president trump. do you feel you are going against the will of your voters? >> i don't think so. i think that people vote for a candidate for many, many reasons. and i think the muslim ban was one of the smallest number of reasons in terms of numbers it wasn't supported as much as other claims he backed off of it from time to t

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. >> watching video of a town hall in iowa have senator joni ernst was forced out. she had to cut it short by 45 minutes and ran out in the parking lot where she was chased by protesters. frankly, we haven't seen this much influence from democrats in some time. we didn't really see anything like this during the campaign. what do democrats now do to try to translate this into votes in 2018 and 2020? >> well, i think it will be interesting to see to what extent this has to do with obamacare specifically. as republicans really try to take away that signature achievement of president obama. are these protests related to that, or are they just partisan sort of grass roots being frustrated? or can they really turn it into opposition, to a real policy agenda that donald trump and the republicans are going to have? i think that will be really important for them going forward, if they can sort of keep that energy focused. you'll remember after 2009 which is the last time we saw this kind of energy at town hall meetings where democrats are trying to pass obamacare. and now re

this town meeting in iowa, with senator joni ernst is one of many. voters are demanding to know what is the replacement for obamacare if it goes. others investigating who is investigating russia's meddling, and voters putting these missing signs on milk cartons to call them out. tonight t white house is calling some of these voters professional protesters. president trump with a different description. abc's matt gutman leading us off. >> reporter: across the nation, scenes like this. long lines of people filing into town hall meetings venting their frustration at the republican congress and the republican president. >> you work for us! you work for us! >> reporter: in iowa, senator charles grassley confronted with questions about president trump. >> i am so unsettled. it feels like we've got a juvenile running our country. >> here here. [ applause ] >> reporter: iowa's other senator joni ernst jeered at her town meeting. >> do your jobs! >> reporter: leaving after just 45 minutes, protesters following her to her car. >> shame on you! shame on you! >>

only one of our bordering states is a higher tax rate than we do and that's iowa. south dakota and wyoming have no income tax. colorado, kansas, missouri, all have lower tax rates. our high tax rate hampers our ability to grow our economy over the long-term. it discourages investment and chases away great people. if we want to outpace over midwestern states, we have to be more competitive. do you know it's been 20 years since middle class nebraskans have seen a cut in their income tax rate? the hard working people of nebraska deserve better than for their elected officials to treat cutting income tax rates as a once in a generation event. partnering with senator jim smith, chair of the revenue that top income tax rate down roughly .1% per year as long as our revenue growth is 3.5% or higher. in effect, we will have a trigger. when we hit 3.5% growth, to take that income tax rate from 6.84% down a little each year until we get it under 6%. if our revenue doesn't grow fast enough, the tax rate doesn't come down. it's that simple. now, i want to take a minute to addre

this is in iowa falls, iowa. iowa falls is a community about an hour or so north of des moines. it had an immigration issue for a long time. these are not issues that are sort of new. these are engrained in communities there. i think that the question is will any lawmakers come back and change their mind over this? the reality is probably not because things are sort of locked in here, but when you were saying before about immigration, the worker permits and other things, i do think that hearing from your constituents could foster some type of compromise here. they're hearing earfuls on health care and other things. from democrats mainly. not entirely, though. republicans and trump supporters -- i don't know why things aren't done already. you said they were going to repeal obama care. you have it. >> we can show you some pictures outside of a town hall. lawrenceberg, kentucky, the senator majority leader mitch mcconnell is back home. you see there welcome home, mitch. there from progressive groups greeting the majority leader. you'll get that. you expect that if you are mitch mc

voters shouted at senator joni erinst as she left a town hall in iowa today. so many members of congress are getting it from both barrels during this break. republicans more than democrats. today, two powerful republicans in the senate faced some passionate constituents. >> i want to thank you for 30 years of public service. that you have to acknowledge that we got too damn many people on food stamps in kentucky. and last i heard, we're the leader, and that is not where we want to be the leader. and the last i heard, these coal jobs are not coming back and now these people don't have the insurance they need because they're poor. and they work those coal mines and they're sick, the veterans are sick. the veterans are broken down. they're not getting what they need. iffing you, answer any of that, i'll sit down and shut up like elizabeth warren. >> i am on obamacare. if it wasn't for obamacare, we wouldn't be able to afford insurance. i'm an insulin-dependent diabetic. so lots of other people have health issues. over 20 million will lose coverage. and with all d

very rough meeting of the minds in iowa for senator joni ernst today. here's the thing to take away from that experience, from just seeing how that went today. that happened in a place called maquoketa, iowa. i've been practicing saying it. maquoketa is population 6,000 people. that's the reception she got in maquoketa today from that mostly older mostly white crowd. it's easy to get bowled over with what's going on in washington with the radical shift that's happened in our national politics with this new presidency. but there's as radical a shift in the rest of the country in the opposite direction. it's an equal and opposition reaction. it's just everywhere. it's in the courts, it's in the streets, it's in the lives of our elected officials. it's everywhere to the point that even that dynamic is starting to feel unpredictable and starting to feel a little overwhelming as well. but watch this unfold over the course of this week. watch what it's going to be like for these representatives and senators at home this week. this whole week is going to be li