tonight s special coverage. i m rachel maddow here at the and messam busy mothership with my colleagues joy, read and lawrence o donnell, and gems, aki and all remember. great to have you all. here our friends chris hayes and stephanie ruhle will be joining us later. it is going to be fun. we are less than a week out from the republican presidential caucuses in iowa, last i when public debate is underway tonight with oddly, a sort of random selection of two of the remaining five people for presidential candidates taking part in that debate. if you can, right now, name all five remaining republican presidential candidates off the top of your head without looking anything up, congratulations. also two of them are debating, tonight nikki haley and ron desantis. also tonight, two miles away from that final hour debate, fox news conducted a live town hall with the front running republican candidate who of course has refused to participate in any debates at all of this year, but
it s 4:00 in the east. big day of news today. on capitol hill today a brutal collision between reality and delusion, a republican effort to whitewash the ex-president s ties for russia culminating in a veteran prosecutor under oath seemingly unwilling to acknowledge basic facts in service of republican conspiracy theories. just a few weeks after releasing a 300-page report after an investigation that went on for four years, cost the taxpayers $6.5 million, a report the washington post described this way as, quote, landing with a thud resulting in no new charges and none of the widespread abuses trump and his allies have alleged for years now. special counsel john durham testified today before the house judiciary committee. now, despite all those facts durham described his findings sobering and it was left to it democrats on the committee to point out the truth of his own investigation, an investigation that trump and his hand picked attorney general bill barr setup to inves
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on cnn. obama can t help himself. if you notice he doesn t spend a lot of time praising pal joe biden who has his old job. we can only wonder why that is? joe and ba rock used to be good friends, i they they gave each other friendship bracelets. remember when joe tweeted that. doesn t he think joe thinks he s a good president, shouldn t he get another bracelet for the new job? doesn t seem to be happening. instead obama used the cnn interview to attack republicans, specifically not donald trump but senator tim scott of south carolina. the fact that tim scott has an optimistic view of race relations in america seems to have the former president very upset. i m not being cynical about tim scott individually. i am maybe suggesting that the rhetoric of, can t we all get along, and the quotes you made about, you know, from my speech in 2004 about there is a your united states of america, that has to be under girded wind an honest accounting with our past and our present. and so
over things like migrant flights and the threat to throw him in jail. desantis thinks it s time for gavin to man up and get into the race for the white house. you know what? stop pussyfooting around. are you going to throw your hat in the ring and challenge joe? are you going to get in and do it or sit on the sidelines and chirp into throw your hat in the ring and then we ll talk about what is happening. i guess gavin likes being on the sidelines. here he is repeatedly ruling out a white house run. are you considering running for president in 2024 or 2028? no. not at all. it s not my ambition. it s not the direction that i m leaning into. how many times does your phone ping a day of people saying you need to get in this race. i see where you re going. i m asking. i m not answering. that doesn t mean that newsome would not relish the chance to debate his faux. you would do a two hour debate with desantis? i would do three, on a day notice, with no notes.