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
supporting an autocrat. i was going to say, i think interesting tactics from my point of view it s like foxes not as much the powerful communications megaphone for trump as it once was for the republican party. he can be calm and normie trump, this was a counter programming tactic for him. his real messaging is done through truth social, it is done through all sorts of deep, dark, crazy social media platforms, it s done in the courtroom. and that is what he s betting on. he can be nor me in the fox thing. and he knows that if he s going to do his first live event on fox and a very long time, his first live tv network thing he s done since the disaster on cnn last may, he knows he can only do that if he doesn t tell lies about the election that will have to be answered for by the entity that is hosting him there, which foxes very acutely aware of in a financial sense. so he can be normie trump, he knows that he has to be that.