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from iowa. nikki haley and ron desantis head to head. this is the final push before the first votes which are in iowa. jake tapper and dana bash moderate tonight at 9:00. and i'll be back with anderson for a special hour of "ac 360" starting now. we are now just about an hour away from the final republican primary debate before the iowa caucuses next monday. if you're just joining us, i'm coming to you along with erin burnett from new york from the campus of drake university in des moines. ron desantis and nikki haley squaring off tonight. cnn's dana bash and jake tapper are modera...

Sure that she can have a message that will not alienate voters in iowa, but really work for new hampshire, her message has consistently been pick me instead of donald trump, because chaos follows him. desantis' message has always been donald trump is not conservative enough. you can't trust him. that's just not what the republican core conservative base really believes. so that's why desantis is kind of flailed and failed to catch on. but this message that donald trump chaos follows him, whether his fault or not, as haley sort of carefully walks that line, that's how republicans, even ones who...

Places move significantly to the democrats than where we saw them in 2016, i don't know how loudly the trump administration is going to want to state that message. it may be much more targeted to a core conservative base, but it is clearly not going to be, i would imagine one of their persuasion messages if they have any of those at all. >> and abby, give us a little bit more insight into this, does the trump administration really feel that depriving funds for birth control access is a winning message or strategy. >> combatting planned parenthood is a top priority for this administration. i me...

To get this done and get the wall done, he will do what it takes to compromise in the spirit of negotiation. people very consistent on this, from the beginning, like ted cruz and like heritage that would not to see leeway, they feel like it is a regression, giving more than president obama or somebody else. that's why they're finding it to be -- >> you think it's an opening bid? >> yeah, i think it's an opening bid. he has to do that. what happened before didn't work, right? well they weren't able to come to positive resolution. he's going to have to give something. he's also going to have to ...

Suppression does not happen in our country, that issues that relate to the civil liberties of the american people are upheld. these have same people holding him in contempt are part of a nationwide scheme to suppress the vote. >> indeed, republicans are jumping at the chance to get rid of eric holder. senator marco rubio from florida where voter suppression is running rampant. rubio was asked by reporters today if he thinks the attorney general should resign. he said yes, i do. we've now reached the point of no return on this issue. but getting holder out of the way is only the first goal. the...