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Apparent now, this need to lean into iowa. this probably was my biggest takeaway. iowa is always important, it's first, it dictates who has momentum and blazes a path to the nomination. i think it may be even more important this time because what we're seeing from democrats in every poll is that they have this electability thing on their mind. they want to choose the nominee that they think is going to have the easiest time defeating donald trump. so right now joe biden has that as a strength in his candidacy, in his sort of candidate profile. and if he loses iowa, that really pierces a hole i...

Subpoena power. >> democrats are out thinking themselves in the same way the electability thing, you may really want to beat donald trump, you can't personally work out to the most electable candidate is. in the same way, impeachment, you can't game out what the political impact of impeachment is going to be. >> sean: braswell rachel maddow, the number one conspiracy theorist in the country here to react to this and the hills media reporter joe concha. i remember a moment where you said that cnn wouldn't put you on because they disagree with you. for the record, you've attacked me on my own sh...

To try to fend bernie off? >> well, she has made it clear she going to be taking the gun issue which is popular with the democratic base, and obviously, president clinton e excuse me, president obama, freudian slip, and one of the remaining days in office and hit it hard. that is a message that is going to be working with the democratic primary voters, and maybe it is not going help her win iowa, but it is what happens with bernie sanders there. is a lot of talk about, that and she going to be hitting the electability thing, and al e hoe the numbers where he seems to be polling better in the g...

Like, you've got to do the electability thing. it is not what they want to hear in florida, which, by the way, was backing newt gingrich in polls from december all the way up to new hampshire. it's a very conservative environment down there, anyway, and i think you have to go to his character if you want to defeat him, not just electability. >> that's the point. because the republican sort of groupology is very mixed. you have establishment republicans who have to think about strategy. that's electability. not just white house, but down ballot. then you have tea party conservatives, who have t...

we begin this evening with the still growing political and legal uproar in the state of mississippi. state officials may ask for nation-wide help tracking down some convicted murderers pardoned this week by the outgoing governor halee barber. some victims' families are worried and furious. >> we are in jail now and david is out of jail. we will forever be looking over our shoulder wondering if today is the day that david decided that he was going to finish what he started. >> cnn's martin savidge is in jackson, mississippi reporting the story. martin they've been pardoned but now the...