china has dismissed the elections, saying it doesn t change the fact that from beijing s perspective, taiwan is part of china, and she jinping has been clear in his view that reunification of taiwan with the mainland s, in his eyes, inevitable, and he will use force to achieve that same. it doesn t mean that war is imminent here. tension is likely to escalate. the icy tension that has defined the past eight years, but throughout the day today, people we were talking to and in polling stations, and on the streets, people were saying that this was an election about choosing taiwan s identity, and choosing taiwan s future, and it s just choice asked a be left to the people of taiwan. listen, keeping a close eye on all of this in the future, and we thank you for doing so. janis mackey forero. in a moment, oh the possibilities. who will get the not from donald trump for vice president? we re going to run through the list. list as i bid you all a very good day from msnbc world
zero temperatures canavan impact on caucus going turnout monday night. joining me now, nbc s garrett haake in des moines, iowa. i mean, garrett, folks have got to be talking about how much the weather might impact their monday night plans. what are you hearing about that? do you think it s going to dampen turnout? yeah, i think that s the expectation of all of these campaigns. most of the iowans i ve talked to here, as we are in negative one here in the morning now, that s why this texan is indoors, i don t know that we ll get back above zero until after the caucuses are over. all of the campaigns starting to make contingency plans will to keep their offense going, to try to juice turnout, get a couple more those caucus commitments, see how many more people that can get lined up before the hawkeye koch i start in earnest on monday night. we re also hearing from the candidates themselves that are canceling events or trying to find some way to still communicate to urge their folks to s