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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 d...

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. ta...

His presence at this debate, or his lack of presence, i should say, his absence, was very noticeable. he is the person who would have, in the first hour that debate, we are just washed, so not raised his hand and lately, maybe, maybe not and said what are we drawing here? i mean we just heard the former defense secretary say the former president told me he would shoot people in the street. and that was absent and instead, i've done a lot of campaigns. this reminded me of a senate or a gubernatorial debate a little bit where the each have the opposition research book that you have on the campai...

Left the stage? >> well, you know, i listen to lawrence earlier. i had the same feelings watching that press conference or whatever they may have called it. i found myself a bit remorseful because i have wanted to see him stay in this race. i wanted to see republican voters expressing a choice between the truth and the consequences of a big lie. and his gutted out he takes that away. because tonight i watch the first 40 minutes of the debate. here we had two people running against each other, both of whom refused to talk about the character of joe biden, and that, to me, is what is needed in t...

That the first question was why should iowa voters choose you? but that is such an existential threat to our democracy that is shocking to me that it didn't come up. and neither of them brought it up. chris christie brought it up on his own. because remember, mark esper said donald trump did tell him to shoot people. so it's not as if this is theoretical for trump. for the guy of irresponsibly running against, he did tell his defense secretary, why can't you shoot those protesters? so that's not for something for him that's theoretical. but it didn't exist in this debate. so everything they ta...