poor iowa. i think governor walker has a few things going for him right now and one is that relatability. never forgets an opportunity to bring up that he shops at kohl's like iowa does a midwest discounting retailer. he served cheese curds and miller lite at his reception a few months ago. we love that in iowa. but also he's drawing support across a broad section of the party. social conservatives like the fact he's motivated by faith and his governing philosophies and economic conservatives like the fact he took the fight to the unions in wisconsin and can win in a tough state for republicans. now, the key is how do you balance that electoral calculus on the head of a pin all the way through the caucus process? because those are two groups that don't normally support the same candidate in the caucuses. >> and that's for anybody who's going to win the republican nomination. let's turn to the democrats. i wanted to play for our viewers something that hillary clinton said this past week. for the

there's a clear top tier in iowa. scott walker in two polls in a row, out in front and then you have a middle tier up at the top and then the lower tier that just is not breaking through in iowa yet, so it's going to be harder for them. >> it was so interestingng to motorcycle riders yesterday. i mean scott walker is from harley country and showed up in his black leather and out in there his boots. we were talking to a lot of voters and asking whether he had a leg up with those voters, and really people are still interested in all the different candidates so i do think there is an opportunity for somebody to break out and pass scott walker even though he has the midwestern vibe. >> yeah we are at the speed dating phase or the political version of that. very few activist are getting married. if you are a christian conservative motivated by social issues you have credible options. i think republicans in iowa are sampling what they have in front of them, and we don't see some of the national hand wringing and here in iow

he grew up in iowa. not only do people like that fact, but they are comfortable with him culturally and know his record in wisconsin not just from hearing about it across the border, but because he has been there enough that it is starting to burn through. i think walker right there is in a stronger position than our poll indicates in the sense that he has not been there much. john: the geography think, if you look deep in these numbers -- a lot of his strength comes from the northwest corner of the state, which is familiar because they get wisconsin media. he is making himself into an iowa candidate. his positions on immigration are popular with the iowa base. he is running as an evangelical candidate, not the establishment scott walker. he is running as the base pleasing grassroots version. that is part of the appeal. he is running straight to the heart of the iowa base. mark: he has not had much hand-to-hand combat. people have taken on other candidates. no one has taken him on yet. john: 17 is a good

i'm going to iowa right now. >> oh-- all the corn? >> iowa, there isn't a group of people in america more qualified to pick the next leader of the free world than iowans. just ask iowan stefan schmitt. >> it's an honor. it's a job. it's kind of a responsibility to be first in selecting or at least in voting for who we prefer for president. >> are you being very nonchall ablt-- chalant come on don't bull [bleep] me. you like being kingmakers don't you? >> we like being first because it's good for the economy. >> oh, look there's ted cruz. >> hillary rick santorum is here. >> it's interesting to see for political scientists how people change their message. >> you love it don't you? >> yeah. >> (laughter) >> i do love it. i headed out to meet the nonjewish chosen ones to see their in depth selection process up close. >> oh queens of the caucus keepers of the coin who will win the democratic nomination for president in the next election. >> hill rae. >> hillary. >> i haven't seen the face although-- i don't know how long it's been since h

as soon as they leave iowa they're done. john: those are iowa republicans. what is different this time? rick santorum: two things -- number one, i did win iowa. and i won 10 other states, even though the party leadership was against us and we were being outspent three to one. we had a strong message that was resonating with the voters that we needed to get. that is disaffected democrats folks in the middle who are in a middle america who are seeing their wages flatline, income falling, and neither political party addressing that. they are not talking about growing parts of the economy that employ people, the 74% of americans who don't have a college degree. i talk about manufacturing and energy. i am the only one talking about having pro-worker immigration policies. there was a pro-worker immigration group that rated all the candidates. there was only one that got an "a" and that was me. what's different is the country has been in stagnation for -- 4 more years. we have an economic platform that will not only unite america, but win this election. john: anoth

are you the new iowa kingmaker? >> no i wouldn't say that. i'm an advocate for iowa. i have invited every republican candidate that's been participating in different events throughout the year. >> reporter: serns making a pitch for iowa. including its beleaguered straw poll. jeb bush has no to the straw poll. are they making a mistake? >> i would like to see them here it's a great opportunity to reach at will of voters in a very fun atmosphere. >> but it did a terrible job last year in predicting who was going to win. michele bachmann won the straw poll she came in dead last. >> it's a good opportunity for our candidates and for our voters. >> what is it going to take to win the iowa caucuses? >> someone who's going to express conservative views and i'm looking for somebody who's very reagansque. >> a big tint. >> a big tint. yes, a big tint. >> reporter: advice from someone who knows what it takes to win in iowa, back in washington ernst was barely sworn in as a freshman senator when she was tapped to give the republican response to the state of the union. she came t

are you the new iowa kingmaker? >> oh, no, i wouldn't say that. i'm an advocate for iowa. i have invited every republican candidate that's been participating in different events throughout the year. >> reporter: ernst is making a pitch for iowa, including its beleaguered straw poll. >> i think it's important. >> reporter: mike huckabee isn't going to participate. jeb bush has said no to the straw poll, are they making a mistake? >> i would like to see them here, it's a great opportunity to reach a lot of voters in a very fun atmosphere. >> but it did a terrible job last year in predicting who was going to win. michele bachmann won the straw poll, she came in dead last. >> well i would say that i think it's a good opportunity for our candidates and for our voters. >> what is it going to take to win the iowa caucuses? >> someone who's going to express conservative views and i'm looking for somebody who's very reagan-esque. someone who can reach all aspects of our voting population here in america. >> so a big tent? >> a big tent. yes, a big tent. >> reporter: advice from som

you spent a lot of time in iowa people know you there. we did a focus group with iowa republicans. we talked about a variety of things. one thing we talked about was you. i want to play in video and get your reaction to what the iowa republicans said. john: crystal, you are not interested in rick santorum? >> he didn't win. so why would i put all of our energy behind him again? what is different this time than last time? >> with santorum and huckabee they are too conservative for the country. as soon as they leave iowa, they're done. john: those are i what republicans. -- are iowa republicans. what is different this time? rick santorum: i didn't win until 3 weeks later. i won 10 other states, even though there party leadership outspent is 10 to 1. we needed to get disaffected democrats, folks in the middle who are in a middle america who are seeing their wages flatline income falling, and want a political party addressing that. we are not talking about growing parts of the economy that employ people, the 74% of americans who don't have a college degree. i am the only one talking ab

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in a split field, you could win this iowa caucus with north of 20%. if you add up those percentages down at the bottom of the list, the tenderloin eaters, the fairgoers, you could spend your time doing that, eat pork chops on a stick, you would be in a good place in iowa. mark: the other thing on that list is questions from the media. hillary clinton has not gone on the record in terms of an extended interview. those iowa voters and new hampshire voters -- you have seen that in the culture there -- they expect -- not because they are selfish or want to be catered to, but because they understand the role they play in the process. i hope all the candidates look at that poll and recognize that this is what iowa voters want. they want to hear the candidates speak to citizens, reporters and editors. john: we have a piece of this poll the talks about the iowa straw poll, two voters go into a straw poll matters a lot less than putting yourself -- at least in iowa and new hampshire -- accountable. i do want to challenge you to eat a pork tenderloin and all 99

whole country right now, is that iowa is conducting some excellent polling of likely voters in iowa but as a way of helping us all to narrow down the viable field or at least better organize our thinking about this giant field. the "des moines register"/bloomberg politics poll, has not just been asking people who they like for president, they are also -- and this is crucial, they're asking people who they would never support for president. and in that part of the iowa polling, donald trump is doing really great right now. in the new poll out today, likely republican caucus goers in iowa were asked if they could ever support a particular candidate or never support a particular candidate. the candidate who most republicans would never support is donald trump, the 58% of iowa republican likely caucusgoers saying they could never support donald trump. new jersey governor chris christie does well on that metric. 45% who say they're going to go to caucuses say they could never ever support him but on this one donald trump wins. on the other side of the ledger, the candidate iowa republica

she will not let iowa slip away from her again. not in the democrat-on-democrat battle for the caucuses. she is touting coming here freakily. she is gives the first interview to the iowa reporter. >> she is defending the report of her husband and old boss, the current president barack obama. saying people forget the problems that the gop left the country with. >> the volume of her voice rose a bit. she got calmly indignant talking about the problems that gop presidents left for barack obama and bill clinton to deal with. she defended them as she said i'm not running for the third term of anyone. i'm running for my first term. i'll have my own ideas. >> jennifer for the first time jeff zeleny said she weighed in on the trade discussion. that is sharpening lines in the democratic primary discussion early on. >> yeah. she said that she does come down on the side of nancy pelosi and those democrats rebelled against the trade agenda. later in burlington iowa she said i held my peace because it is important for congress to have a debate

what led to the iowa straw poll's demise? >> what led to it, david was the fact that nobody was going to come. they were going to throw a party this no one was going to attend. it's a very costly thing for these campaigns, and the campaigns saw that the iowa straw poll was never a bell weather for anything. there was not a great deal of success associated with t and it comes at great expense not just getting there but getting your supporters there and to get your people to come out and scream loudly at what you had to say to attend your speeches. and candidates this year said they were not going to do it. >> we just saw pictures of michele bachmann, one of your, well, form congresswoman who won the iowa straw poll in 20122021 and then crushed in the caucuses. is it fair to say that the republican party said that maybe the straw poll is not useful afterral. >> yes, going back to 1979 when it first started gorge h.w. bush, at that time just gorge bush he won the straw poll and but he did not win the presidency. the year that bo

i am so done with iowa. 50 years ago iowa made sense. it was representative of the demographic for this country. i pulled out my little census fact check. only 30% of african-american. 5% are latino. that is not our country. if we look at the demographic for our country going forward, iowa is becoming less and less relevant. i'm done with it. i'm ready to go on to super tuesday. >> iowa is a blue state. it's not just a conservative -- >> it's a partisan thing. >> i would like to see a lot of states play the roll. to the extent that iowa is still has a roll in helping to winnow the field. it's been interesting to watch the candidates have to go to the state fair and eat the fried food and meet people. i like in a way that there's pressure on candidates to not just do big mass media things. they have to go meet real people and talk to them about issues. i think as long as they're doing that in a variety of different states that's good. think about the straw poll in '12. you had some who did not do very well and that knocked him out of the

>> it's great to be back in iowa. everyone wants to meet the candidate two or three times before making up their mind and that's good. >> governor o'malley is trying to get interest, he is making rounds in the hawkeye state. >> i'm running for president of the united states. >> reporter: this meet and growth in iowa city is o'malley's third of the day. >> the candidate has to be willing to have hundreds and hundreds of the meetings like the ones here and more that will follow in the days ahead. >> reporter: so far four democrats senator sanders -- >> where billionaires are literally i able to buy elections. let's not kid ourselves. >> three have them have been pressing the flesh and first in the nation caucus state overshadowed by the presumed party front runner hillary clinton who has spent little time here so far. outside a heavily scripted listening tour after she announced her candidacy doesn't seem to have hurt clinton. less than 57% of des moines ftc caucussers said she would be their candidate. >> it's importan

hillary clinton will hold her first formal campaign rally and then off to iowa. there are still more than seven months before the iowa caucuses but it could be a tougher fight than many first thought. ash-har quraishi is on the campaign trail with more. ash-har. >> good evening, jonathan. we are at drake university, where you can see behind me, the presidential hopeful bernie sanders is speaking to the crowd. we're at about capacity. sanders arrived here just a short time ago to loud applause and a standing ovation and it is that kind of energy that these candidates are trying to generate moving into caucus season. for presidential candidates, the run up to the iowa caucus is all about momentum. trying to build it when you're behind. trying to maintain it when you're ahead. >> i'm going to do something extremely radical which is to practice democracy how's that? >> reporter: out of nowhere vermont senator bernie sanders has be captured that elusive mojo looking on capitalizing on that with a slew of events this weekend. >> senator how does it feel about being bac

a few days after they returned to iowa, michael stopped breathing again. tony collins and the other paramedics were baffled and their logbooks showed it. >> things didn't fit together that a kid would hold his breath long enough to make him have seizures or quit breathing. >> then, on sunday, february 7th, while ray reid was relaxing downstairs -- >> come upstairs. michael's in trouble! >> he heard tanya's screams from the master bedroom. michael was having another breathing episode and was rushed to the hospital. >> the nurse on duty noticed something unusual. on michael's cheek was some red parallel scratch marks, scratches that looked like they had been made by the boy's fingernails. to the nurse, it looked as if michael had tried to remove someone's hands from around his neck and mouth. just a few moments later, an interesting coincidence. tanya reid asked the nurse to look at her finger. it was bleeding. >> i don't think i probably would have noticed if this had been my child, that i had a scratch on my finger, and i certainly wouldn't have mentioned

o has that iowa strength. there is no one pulling ahead but scott walker has a great biography and great resume. people thought that was a good speech he made. it has been sustained. longer than that. and people were excited about the potential candidacy. and i think you have to consider it a top of tier 1 contender. and rick has such a great story. i don't have such a great story. i'm really cooked. >> actually a lot of them do. that's interesting. i don't know how much they will all stand out but he gets the neighbor discount okay? everybody in iowa knows him. he has a great record in wisconsin. >> he actually -- he is not too popular right now with that in wisconsin. >> he is running on hi record of accomplishments in wisconsin. has a lot of fans in iowa for what he has done there. it is clear that jeb busch will not win iowa. scott walker might. but that could change. looks like there is room for others to grow. not good news for marco rubio or jeb bush that rand paul and ben carson come right behind scott

as we sit here today in iowa where do you stand? >> i think we ought to have a path to legal status and the people the kids that were protesting frankly, i think they ought to have a path to citizenship. dream act kids kids that are here because their parents came they had no control over it there ought to be some recognition that we're not going to send them back to a country they know nothing about. >> so a path to citizenship for them? >> absolutely. >> and not their parents? >> not their parents. >> on iraq president obama authorized an additional 450 american troops being sent to iraq. would you send them? >> we need a strategy in iraq. this president has admitted twice in the last year that he doesn't have a strategy yet he is kind of sending troops without a strategy. >> some of your republican opponents right now in the primary have weighed in. scott walker doesn't rule out boots on the ground. lindsey graham suggesting 10,000 ground troops. can you rule out boots on the ground? >> no. i think we have boots on the ground alr

now iowa will get just one bite at that apple. the iowa republican party will miss the money. political reporters will certainly miss the circus. but the process should gain from this decision. that's it for "inside politics." we'll see you soon. a special hour just ahead, "state of the union" with new host jake tapper starts right now. >>> hillary clinton makes the case for moving back in to the white house. >> i've been called many things by many people. quitter is not one of them. >> as she swaps her low key scooby van for a massive rally in new york city. bill didn't take the mike but he had plenty to say to us. defending hillary as americans question her trustworthiness. >> i trust her with my life. >> and rating her republican rivals. >> well, they got a lot of youth, they've got a lot of energy, they've got some significant diversity. and they're no dummies. >> plus jeb bush makes it official tomorrow. but first he faces our questions about his shaky start. and the baggage that comes with that last name.

john: let me shift from isis to iowa. tomorrow, the iowa republican party will decide the fate of the straw poll. you said you will participate. rick santorum: i do not say i will not go. john: would you be happy if they kill it? would that be a good thing? rick santorum: it is up to the voters to make what is the best decision for the caucus. the straw poll or part of the process of the caucus. if it is additive-- john: but if they kill it off you won't be disappointed. you won't say, i was looking forward to going. rick santorum: the last time i ran, i ended up winning the caucus. why? because i focused my attention on what mattered which was winning the caucus. john: you mentioned your very important victory was not clear at the night. we were out there a few weeks ago and did a focus group with iowa republicans and spent a long time with them talking about a variety of things. one of the things we talked about was you. i want to play a video for you. john: crystal, you are not interested in rick santorum? >> he didn't

we've polled iowa and new hampshire at the same time. the numbers on almost every question are identical. john: these are the places where people are paying most attention. mark: interesting stuff, take a look. coming up, we talked to bernie sanders who responds to us about claire mccaskill. next up, bob ordered offers -- bob woodward offers hotcakes on the obamacare rolling after this word from our sponsors. ♪ ♪ john: we are joined now by greg store. some are casting this as a bad day for john roberts. you say this is a good day for the chief justice. why? greg: this was always going to be a tough case for john roberts. either he makes conservatives mad at him or he runs a risk the court undercuts obamacare in a decision heavily criticized for being partisan. john roberts cares deeply about the institutional legitimacy of this court. so he went with the decision that backed obamacare. the reason it is a good day for him -- first of all unlike three , years ago he is not alone. he has kennedy in the majority. secondly, this is a ruli

two-day tour through iowa. i get my rental car drove back and then got up this morning and drove to cedar rapids. it has been busy, starting with a speech on on education at iowa state university, retail stop where the governor meets with people at a restaurant the shakes hands takes pictures and then spoke at the gop dinner and hosted one of his tell it like it is town halls. we had a chance to ask the governor questions. one thing i heard him say a few times lately is campaigns are about changing lives. so he immediately corrected me. >> no. if i get into a campaign i'm actually able to change lives. >> it would not be a chasing trip without the local culture. one local i/o and told i had to stop by the bakery in cedar rapids, place the president bill clinton stopped and 95 command i tried something that was new a pastry a pastry filled with a poppyseed filling. it really wasn't my cup of tea. one of the things that was on my mind you hear it time and time again. governor christie style will not translate an

it's iowa rt report roar officials say iowa is far more than that. provideing a positive setting to innovate and to work. >> why but the billboards there along this section of vine street. one block that way is the pennsylvania convention center. and next week, they'll be 20,000 or so people there. the iowa government specifically wants to target. they'll be here for a biotechnology convention. and pennsylvania has taken notice. >> we lead with our talent. >> matt with select greater philadelphia which helps bring business here. he says while iowa might have lower taxes businesses look at a bigger picture. >> ultimately it comes down to the complete package of transportation infrastructure work force development. distribution channels. educated work force. >> billboard and a battle for business may the best state win. matt rivers cbs3 "eyewitness news". >>> hmm. >> i know who i'd pick. >> we welcome our friends from iowa to visit philadelphia any time. >>> yes. >> 80 years after her disappearance there's new video of amelia earhart. >> coming up we'l

. >>> and destination iowa. hillary clinton and bernie sanders making a strong push today as primary season kicks into high gear. good morning. we are so grateful for your company as always. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell always a pleasure to be with you. let's start with the investigation and the investigators who in dallas are digitally mapping the crime scene where suspect james boulware allegedly unleashed his violent attack on police officers this weekend. before he was shot and killed in his van during a standoff that followed. you see the end of it here. officials are expected to hold a press conference with new details on the investigation very soon. of course we'll bring you the latest right here on cnn. live when it happens. >> you know who is talking is boulware's father. he did speak to cnn giving us a better sense of who his son was. now he says he knew that his son was angry with police. and that he was even desperate. but he never expected anything like this to happen. cnn's sara sidner

mark: in our latest iowa paul -- iowa poll with the des moines register, we asked publicans and democrats what the candidates should do when they visited the hawkeye state. here are the results. the top answer, take questions from voters. after that, take questions from reporters. mark, if you were a candidate, would you change your behavior-based on what i once told us? mark: the two things low on this list that i would do, i would go to the state fair and eat a pork tenderloin sandwich. the voter question is key. over 90% of people in both parties want voter questions. there are a few people out there who\ are taking a lot of -- you are taking a lot of questions from voters when they do events. hillary clinton is not doing that. i think they are smart to go out there and show you can take it. that is what iowa and new hampshire are all about. john: i agree with that. in a split field, you could win this caucus with north of 20%. if you add up those percentages at the bottom of the list, the tenderloin eaters, the fairgoers, you could spend your time doing that, eat pork chops on a stick

. >> a midwestern express from iowa. >> there is no when you're in iowa but i will say there is a lot of room for him but i think one thing that happened. >> did you like that performance. >> that's too traumatizing. >> my mom thinks driving for me now, i think that marco rubio, the more primary voters, he made a big appeal he's the jfk of the republican party. >> i knew jfk. just kidding. >> he made the point and adopted the new frontier with new american century and early 40s. >> did he fight in world war ii? did he save his crew? >> this is his campaign. >> what is his connection to the john f. kennedy. >> primary voters and i think it's more and dynasties and making a pitch. >> and young voters, pulled particularly well. >> he's young that makes him john f kennedy. >> i think it's so problem with the generational argument, bush or walker or perry, we just elected a guy as a first term senator. >> how come republicans can't sight see that? >> he's bringing the jfk contrast because he's not trying to be compared to barack obama. >> rubio -- >> dane try that once. rubio beyond his ge

they do it recently in iowa because they have a tradition. but this event will probably be poorly run, poorly populated in terms of turnout and it's possible other candidates won't even try to plate there -- play there. particularly if rand paul comes into the state. john: you remember the famous nevada caucuses back in 2008 -- one of the more corrupt caucuses or voting exhibitions -- mark: let's call it problematic. john: corrupt, problematic -- but that was because you could pay up the unions to show up for you. and on the republican side, you're going to have a lot of hispanic voters, so it makes for a more complicated game than it does on the democratic side. you have to start organizing nothing today to have a chance of winning -- start organizing that thing today to have a chance of winning. mark: big win for rand paul, bad for the establishment. today, walt disney world, the happiest governor in florida rick scott, hosting some of the usual republican prospects for president, they all spoke at the economic growth summit and used the st

let's stick in iowa. governor chris christie of new jersey is heading to iowa. he spent a lot of time in new hampshire lately and a lot of people say to write him off, but he hasn't been to iowa in months. and the question is wide open out there, scott walker has it slightly this is his first time out there to give an education speech. he said he wanted new jersey to pull out of a common core supporter at one time now he's going to pull out. chris christie is down at the bottom of the pack. i hate to say this with you, governor but down there with donald trump in the 4% range at the bottom of the pack but thinks the power of persuasion will help him. chris christie to make a play in iowa? >> at this point it is very difficult to see how chris christie can revive the candidacy. the poll numbers really speak for themselves both nationally and in iowa. he's pullolling at 4%. if you are polling at or near donald trump, that's not a good sign. one thing to watch out for with christie is how the donors talk about him. is there going to be a change in tone among the do

before an iowa caucus. he has 17 points in the polls right now. he was higher about a month or so ago. the truth of the matter is he hasn't had the greatest month, but what you should look at in that is a lot of candidates bunched, 17 you go down to a couple at 10 a cupouple at 9. nobody has really broken out. walker has an intrigue factor and he is playing the theater of it. look at him coming in on that cycle with that helmet. i'm not sure that he completely in undid the michael dukakis curse there but made his best shot. >> all right. bob, is he overcoming the michael dukakis effect or will he win iowa? >> will he win iowa? i agree with john. i have to say by the way, a great motorcycle weekend in iowa the summer before doesn't guarantee you and doesn't translate into a great night at the caucuses come next winter. look history would suggest that john's absolutely right, you don't necessarily want to be the front-runner at this point. ask howard dean about 2004. ask hillary clinton about 2008. rick santo

john: i want to ask you about the iowa poll. we look at the top issues and republicans said things they cared about like the budget deficit also national security. social issues did not rank high. if these issue preferences hold up, which republican presidential candidate could benefit the most? ken: if they hold up and we believe that is that people who go in a the caucus believe, it's going to help a more establishment candidate like jeb bush. ima big fan of your iowa poll and that is the poll i would be paying attention to now even more than these national polls. that said, at the end of the day, we've been around a lot and i think we first met at iowa caucuses many years ago. the folks who show up on a cold february night tend to be does very hard social conservatives. mark: the top two issues republicans and democrats care about our job creation and immigration. if those two issues are big, who does it benefit? ken: it's interesting -- on immigration, one side cares about it because they want reform and the other side cares

he won both the iowa straw poll and the iowa caucus. >> casey, is thinking about getting rid of it is it fear. it seems everything is done institutionally, whether it is the debate threshold is being set, getting rid of the straw poll, is this fear of this kind of circus atmosphere, this fear of having a bunch of candidates surge to the front like last time around, trying to manage and winnow as much as possible. >> reporter: it is also trying to take control of the process, chris, from washington. and i think brian sitting on set there with you knows just as well this has a lot to do with ron and rand paul potentially and the way they had worked inside of the process in the early states whether it was the straw poll ron paul finished second and the organizers behind his campaign made straw polls a central focus to try to prove they were legitimate and credible. the party -- rand and ron paul supporters took over the state party apparatus in iowa and it was ultimately rested back from them by terry branstet and that combined with those that are nervous about the process being pulled t

the iowa republican party unanimously voted on friday to cancel the iowa straw poll normally scheduled for the summer before the presidential election year. george w. bush won it in 1999. but last time, the winner was michele bachmann, which convinced officials the straw poll had officially become useless. we are now joined by a victim of that last iowa republican straw poll, former minnesota governor, tim pawlenty. you bet it all, bet the ranch on iowa, and it was that straw poll that knocked you out. so this is, this is an improvement, i imagine, in your view, about how to conduct campaigns in iowa? lawrence, long time no see. good to be with you. and yes, as to the iowa straw poll, i say good riddance. there's a little more as it relates to my campaign. the fact of the matter is we were running out of money, in fact out of money in advance of the straw poll. we hoping to do well there to gain momentum and get traction back. we were just out of money. i didn't even know what a super pac is. now it's a prerequisite to run. it was a poor predictor of anything. so again, i say good ridd

a ride through iowa. right after this. ♪ john: remember joni ernst? she is the one who castrates pigs. she held a cattle -- a cattle call. we captured the site and smells of what senator ernst hopes will be an annual event. >> i'm in iowa where they have designed a t-shirt specifically for out-of-town media, and where joni ernst is designing an event for republican and presidential hopefuls, who are sometimes one in the same. the freshman senators's inaugural event is called roast and ride. although i would have called it this. i would love to mount the camera to one of these motorcycles, and mike vincent for iowa city is happy to help me out. >> i'm guessing maybe 350 to 400 now. ♪ >> that will be a first for me, getting a police escort on a motorcycle. >> that was a great ride. that is what makes the ride a lot of times, the curves and the trees and shade, the scenery. ♪ >> i love it. camouflage shoes. she's just an old iowa girl and that the kind of person i respect. >> iowans want to see their candidate reach out and shake their hand. they wan

the iowa straw poll is just two months away. same fairgrounds. >> will be there? >> definitely. >> i would love to see them participate and visit iowa as much as possible, too. >> we're ready. >> senator, before we go, i have to know did you at least consider calling this event "hogs and hogs"? >> [laughter] no, because we want to welcome our honda and yamaha two. -- and yamaha, too. >> hogs and hogs. >> [laughter] that would have been good, too. >> thank you. god bless you. john: griffin "hog" and then, do us a favor and say that some big -- save us some pig . be right back. ♪ john: we've got to meet settings that coming up. rick santorum is here in video. and john kasich the following day. and from the sentiment in utah -- the summit in utah, he'll be here with mark halperin. mark: remember, we are on twice today at 5:00 and 8:00. see you tomorrow. sayonara. ♪ emily: apple jumps into music streaming. will it be a spotify killer question mark we have everything you need to know from the apple developers conference. i'm emily chang, and this is a special "bloo