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
Is speaking to them the loudest, who is sort of calling them to their better angels, and we have the same kind of polling that shows, for example, nearly 70 of iowa voters dont support Book Bans, right . Something that has been so important to the republican agenda, you know, from Nikki Haley denying slavery was a cause of the civil war, you know, revealing that she was a part of a segregation academy, and wanting to have that kind of Book Bans across the country. Obviously, Desantis And Trump as well. I think we need to recognize that we need to be out there fighting for the hearts and minds of americans every single day. And, heather, we wanted to have you on today to turn to the wider context, and obviously the special election coverage. Im curious if you can talk to us a little bit about the story we tell ourselves. Its Martin Luther King day, so we can think about both the darkness and the light, if i may. And the story we tell ourselves sometimes is we are better than this. And t