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tonights special coverage. im rachel maddow here at the and messam busy mothership with my colleagues joy, read and lawrence odonnell, 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 fo...

Lets try this one more time. it was -- >> oh man. >> hey. there it is. it was the pat robertson. in the 1988 caucus, pat robertson beat the sitting vice president, got second, place this was a shockingly high number for robertson. no one had expected, it no one had predicted it. what it represented was the christian wright had started becoming a political force in the late 70s, growing in the 80s. robertson believed he could -- he brought on all sorts of voters who had never participated in the ...