The Insiders: Recent Episodes
Dave Price
Dave Price, political director at WHO-TV in Des Moines, Iowa, shares insight from top Iowa political and national figures with a deeper conversation about issues, events and decisions. Insiders analyze what's happened and why it's important for the future. Dave has hosted "The Insiders with Dave Price" since 2012.
Colorado Senator Michael Bennet asserts that his moderate approach to economic issues would earn him more support than President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election.
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Tax Education Foundation Iowa would raise the sales tax by one penny to lower taxes elsewhere and also expand the types of services that the state would tax. Walt Rogers, the former Republican state representative from Cedar Falls and current deputy director of Tax Education Foundation Iowa explains how he believes this new tax system would benefit Iowa’s economy.
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Presidential candidate Tom Steyer has faced criticism from some of his competitors for spending his personal money to boost his standing in the polls. Hear how Steyer defended himself against those criticisms.
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Cory Booker spoke one-on-one about his criticism that Kamala Harris is no longer in the 2020 presidential race, his own standing in the race and his call for diversity on the debate stage.
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Tom and Christie Vilsack have both publicly endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential race. Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack explained why he believes Biden is the best person to become the next president.
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Iowa Ag Secretary Mike Naig agrees it is a time of agricultural anxiety. Farmers are battling the weather again at harvest after a delayed planting season then dealing with an ethanol shortage to dry the crops. That’s on top of the ongoing trade war with China that’s closed off one of Iowa’s biggest trade partners. Naig takes on each of those challenges, one-by-one, with Political Director Dave Price.
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Julián Castro said Iowa isn’t diverse enough to be first in the nation in the presidential nominating process. Also, J.D. Scholten explains why he thinks he will defeat Congressman Steve King this time around and what he wants to accomplish in Congress.
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Political Director Dave Price spoke with presidential candidate Bernie Sanders about what he is personally doing to minimize his harm to the environment.
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Amy Klobuchar joins Insiders to discuss why she disagrees with candidates like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders when it comes to health care and how her plan would bring costs down.
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Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke joined Insiders to discuss his strategy for winning Iowa and why it is realistic for him to take away guns like he pledges.
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President Trump has pledged that he will get a deal that will benefit U.S. consumers and producers, but people have waited for that since last year. Zippy Duvall, the president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, discusses how people are feeling about the trade war.
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United Way of Central Iowa works with those struggling financially. Elisabeth Buck, the organization’s president, discusses the unmet needs Iowans have that she wants politicians to realize.
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Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks explains why she thinks voters want her in Congress. And, Des Moines Mayor Frank Cownie has some reservations about putting city funds into a plan to build a professional soccer stadium
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President Donald Trump is facing an impeachment inquiry. It’s one of the first stages in a long process, but it could have major implications for him, Congress and the presidential campaigns. Two insiders talked about what this all means moving forward.
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Democratic strategist Jeff Link gave his thoughts on who fared best at the Polk County Steak Fry and what to make of the new CNN/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll showing Elizabeth Warren leading the field in Iowa.
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Iowa Democrats scrapped their plan for a virtual caucus after the Democratic National Committee pulled the plug on the idea. Michael Gartner, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, TV and newspaper executive, discusses what he thinks he should happen next and what he doesn’t think Democrats should push when it comes to education.
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Rick Sanders is the new president of the ISU Research Park. He talks about its future as Iowa tries to attract high-tech jobs.
Montana Governor Steve Bullock, a Democratic presidential candidate, wants to use his rural state background to improve rural life across the United States.
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Former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, a Republican, told Channel 13 that he might run in a primary against President Donald Trump. But he isn’t sure that he can win.
Medicare for All? A public option? Some other idea to improve health care across the country? Franken isn't pushing specifics yet.
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U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, a Democratic presidential candidate from Vermont, pledged that as president taxpayers would take care of unpaid student debt. And, an Iowa woman who met Donald Trump as a contestant on his reality TV show, "The Apprentice"-- is now part of a national effort to get women more comfortable with publicly support President Trump's re-election.
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Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar sat down at the the Iowa State Fair to talk about why she believes reversing decades of shrinking population in rural areas is actually possible.
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Bill Weld was Libertarian Gary Johnson’s running mate for the 2016 presidential election. Now, the former Massachusetts governor is a Republican again and is trying to beat President Donald Trump.
Weld joins Insiders to discuss why he is running and why he thinks he would be a better president than Trump.
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Bob Vander Plaats, one of Iowa’s most prominent social conservatives, has decided that U.S. Representative Steve King should no longer be in Congress after next year.
Hear why he is supporting Iowa State Senator Randy Feenstra over King in the next election.
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Presidential candidate Michael Bennet, a Democratic senator from Colorado, joins Insiders to discuss how to improve health care in the United States.
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Taxpayers could owe more than $6 million after Chris Godfrey won a discrimination lawsuit against former Governor Terry Branstad and the state of Iowa. Godfrey’s lead attorney, Roxanne Conlin, discusses why it took so long to get justice.
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Presidential candidate John Hickenlooper has been facing questions about whether he should continue his campaign for president. The former Colorado governor joins Insiders to discuss his future and the big philosophical differences within his own party.
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There are more job openings than unemployed people in Iowa, so that means the state is trying to convince people who already live here to gain new skills or others who don’t live here to move. One man who left Portland for Pella shows what’s possible.
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Should the federal government in some way pay descendants of slaves several generations later to help make up for the financial disadvantage that endured because of slavery? And, See why Sen. Chuck Grassley thinks President Trump just made a big move that could help a lot of Iowans, and hear why Grassley isn't so thrilled with the state of Illinois.
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JOE BIDEN PROMISED TO CURE CANCER AS PRESIDENT. DONALD TRUMP, JUNIOR MOCKED HIM FOR IT. ONE OF IOWA’S REKNOWNED CANCER EXPERTS THINKS THIS POLITICAL ATTENTION TO CANCER COULD HELP PEOPLE IN A NUMER OF WAYS. PLUS, IOWA CONGRESSMAN STEVE KING IS FUNDRAISING FIVE MONTHS AFTER FELLOW COMMENTS CALLED HIS COMMENTS ON WHITE NATIONALISM AND WHITE SUPREMACY….RACIST.
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On the weekend that she officially announced her first re-election campaign for the US Senate, Joni Ernst sat down with us. She defended the federal tax cuts that she supported and are currently escalating the nation’s debt and explained how she says she is saving taxpayers money. Plus she shares what it was like to ride on Air Force One for the first time with President Donald Trump. And former Vice President Joe Biden reveals what one issue he thinks could unite all of his fellow Democratic presidential candidates
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South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg is one of the 19 Democrats running for president in Iowa this weekend. One of the things happening is pride weekend. Capital City Pride in Des Moines will have at least eight presidential candidates. Buttigieg is openly gay and discussed how equality has changed so much.
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Former U.S. Rep. David Young served Iowa’s third congressional district for two terms, before he was defeated by Cindy Axne in 2018. Young announced he will challenge for Axne’s seat in the House. He joins Insiders to talk about his 2018 election loss, his 2020 hope and why he should get his job back.
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Iowa will now have a system set up for children with mental illness, although the new law that set up that system doesn’t have the money that advocates say it needs. Governor Kim Reynolds shares what is next for the efforts, explains whether she considers gender reassignment surgery a cosmetic or medical procedure and she answers whether she did enough to get one of her top priorities approved this year. Plus, Iowa native and retired astronaut Peggy Whitson offers a challenge for students and a state representative shares her family’s connection with former Vice President Joe Biden.
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Nearly one in three Iowans have little to no money saved for retirement. One factor that complicates that situation is that small businesses can’t afford to offer a retirement plan. An Iowa City native who now leads a national organization shares how her group is challenging Congress to make it easier for businesses but she also reveals what’s making this idea more difficult. Plus, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst explains why President Trump should be surrounded by good people. And a longtime state legislator opens up about why he is switching to become a Democrat after serving nearly three decades as a Republican.
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With time winding down in the legislative session, Iowa’s lieutenant governor looks at what lawmakers can still do for rural Iowa. And presidential candidate Tim Ryan talks about where previous candidates got education wrong when it comes to planning for the future.
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Former Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Gross and former 4th district Democratic congressional candidate J.D. Scholten on how presidential politics relates to small town Iowa. Should Washington D.C. become our country's 52nd state? Paul Strauss joins Dave to discuss that effort.
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The latest presidential candidate to announce holds climate change as a high priority. Also, Ambasador Branstad on Trump and the China trade talks.
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An Ankeny man who served time in prison shares why it's so important for convicted felons to have an easier path to get their voting rights back. Plus, two days before residents in six Polk County cities vote on whether to raise the sales tax, two Iowans debate what the increased tax means for people who live work and visit.
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Democrats are considering dramatic changes to the country's health care system and efforts to fight climate change. Presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand explains why Iowans who work in private health insurance would need to change what they do for a living if her plans for health care come true.
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Dave Price talks with State Auditor Rob Sand on sexual harassment settlements and who pays them.
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Dave Price talks with Marion Williamson on her Presidential aspirations. Then the Insiders will give their insights on the Democrat candidate field one year out of the Iowa Caucuses.
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Dave talks with Patty Judge and Jerry Crawford about public figures like Joni Ernst dealing with private things in the public eye.
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Chuck Grassley stops by the Insiders to talk with Dave Price about Steve King.
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This week's Insiders features an in-depth, one-on-one conversation with Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds on why she won't back longtime Republican Congressman Steve King in the 2020 primary, along with why she isn't sure Iowans should expect another tax cut to come out of the upcoming 2019 Iowa legislative session. Plus, this episode features an unusual announcement from California billionaire Tom Steyer that he made in Iowa, as well as a tribute to an Iowa Democrat who recently made history with his longevity.
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Conversations with three history-making figures from Iowa. Democratic Congresswomen Cindy Axne and Abby Finkenauer share what it�s like to become the first Iowa women to get elected to the U.S. House, plus what they hope to accomplish as part of a record number of women in Congress. And Joni Ernst, the first Iowa woman to get elected to the U.S. Senate, offers some advice for the new Iowa Congresswomen, as well as why she believes more women want prominent roles in national politics.
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