Host begins right now. E msnb host begins right now. Good evening. Welcome to tonight Special Coverage. Im Rachel Maddow here at the msnbc mothership with my colleagues joy reid and Lawrence Odonnell and jen psaki and ari melber. I friends chris hayes and alex wagner and Stephanie Ruhle or are gonna be joining us later. Its going to be fun. Were less than a week out from the republican president ial caucuses in iowa. Theast eye or a public can debate is underway tonight with oddly a sort of random selection of two of the remaining five republican president ial candidates. Taking part in that debate. If you can, right now, name all five remaining republican president ial candidates at the top of your head without looking anything up, congratulations. And ill say you need to get out more. Two are debating tonight. Nikki haley and ron desantis. Also tonight, two miles away from that iowa debate, fox news conducted a live town hall with the front running republican candidate, who, of cours
host begins right now. e msnb host begins right now. good evening. welcome to tonight special coverage. i m rachel maddow here at the msnbc mothership with my colleagues joy reid and lawrence o donnell and jen psaki and ari melber. i friends chris hayes and alex wagner and stephanie ruhle or are gonna be joining us later. it s going to be fun. we re less than a week out from the republican presidential caucuses in iowa. theast eye or a public can debate is underway tonight with oddly a sort of random selection of two of the remaining five republican presidential candidates. taking part in that debate. if you can, right now, name all five remaining republican presidential candidates at the top of your head without looking anything up, congratulations. and i ll say you need to get out more. two are debating tonight. nikki haley and ron desantis. also tonight, two miles away from that iowa debate, fox news conducted a live town hall with the front running republican candida
be. that was the big news. who would be in your cabinet, in your administration if you are the nominee, which i know expect to be, who would be in the running for vice president? i can t tell you that really. i know who it s going to be. well, sorry. that s what you get when you invite donald trump. oh, and every trump supporter out there who thought their retribution bumper stickers we re gonna go all the way to november, you really should listen to this. it s ten seconds that you need to know about retribution. i m not gonna have time for retribution. regular make this country so successful again i m not gonna have time for retribution. [applause] and remember this, our ultimate retribution s success. rachel, one other thing you d want to know, the only policy thing that actually came up, the only one, we don t know what the top tax rate to be because tax rates no longer matter in republican campaigns, but there was one abortion question the didn t come from