welcome to msnbc s special coverage in tonight s iowa caucus. i am ari melber here with jen psaki for the next hour. great to be here. as we count on to the caucus results coming later tonight with candidates making their final push is. here s what they had to say. today is the day we make history because we do do you guys know anybody who has gonna vote for haley or desantis? yes, i do. and i m gonna try to persuade you can t sit home, even if you vote and then passed away, it s worth it. you can be the most worthless republican in america, but if you kiss the ring, he will say you are wonderful. it s just because he has an excellent record of service. what do you think about when people say, well, iowa is still trump country? i think that is wrong. some iowans, you just heard, pushing back on efforts for tonight s story before voters weigh in. it should happen in the next few hours. while trump does have a lead in the final poll, with haley rising, a
alarm us, but because they are happening incrementally and because they re happening repeatedly, because trump shocks our system, day after day after day, they become normalized. there is one area of our national politics that probably more than anything else is boiling hot, while also terribly, terribly normal. this is the final battle, with you at my side, we will demolish the deep state. we will expel the warmongers from our government. we will drive out the globalists, we will cast out the common areas, marxists, fascists, we will throw off the sikh political class that hits our country. we will route the fake news media and we will liberate america from these villains, once and for all. this is the final battle, america has to be liberated from villains. former president trump, now candidate trump, posted that video, just a few hours ago. trump claimed that he believes political violence is never acceptable, but rather than actually denouncing political violence, t
normalized. there is one area of our national politics that probably more than anything else is boiling hot, while also terribly, terribly normal. this is the final battle, with you at my side, we will demolish the deep state. we will expel the warmongers from our government. we will drive out the globalists, we will cast out the common areas, marxists, fascists, we will throw off the political class that hits our country. we will route the fake news media and we will liberate america from these villains, once and for all. this is the final battle, america has to be liberated from villains. former president trump, now candidate trump, posted that video, just a few hours ago. trump claimed that he believes political violence is never acceptable, but rather than actually denouncing political violence, trump continues to put out videos like this, filled with incredibly violent political rhetoric. in the meantime, there have been plenty of acts of political violence. you
Pushing back on efforts for Tonights Story before voters weigh in. It should happen in the next few hours. While trump does have a lead in the final poll, with haley rising, and that is larger than trumps Polling Lead in 2016 which did not help him avoid sparred starting that year was a loss. First, a Joint Special Report that weve ever done. Thats true. And then the other factor, freezing temperatures. I was down negative 35 degrees that is very cold. Accounting the windchill. It seems like what you see on your screen, Water Turning into snow in midair. I would say, its cold here. We are warm here. We are also saying people facing the cold as the lines begin going into the caucus sites tonight. Were watching all of that. Joining us now is someone who knows a thing or two about the iowa caucus, howard dean, former democratic president ial candidate who come who competed and served as among governor in the dnc. Thanks for joining us. What is the most important
that was don trump at a recent campaign stop and i am going after former governor nikki haley in the way that only donald trump can. as polls show haley rising, trump has ramped up her attacks on the woman he wants picked to be ambassador to the united nations, presumably because of her love of globes. this week he released a new ad criticizing haley on her past comments on immigration. showing trump s signature signature you know. phobia nikki haley refused to call illegals as criminals. illegals are criminals, nikki. that s what illegal means. now that she is a modest threat to trump s dominance, governor haley should probably expect more of this. as the bulwark s jonathan writes, if week nikki winds new hampshire she will get relentlessly attacked by trump. she ll be forced to attack trump herself. maga will go from distrusting