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Demanding obedience in complete disregard of religious conscience. in a free society the answer is no. >> so from south carolina now to msnbc's jane tim. jeb bush has recently distanced himself from the party on some issues. why was it so important for him to speak at liberty university? >> reporter: jeb bush really needs to make waves with this crowd. evangelicals are important voting block for him and you can't win some of these early states with at least some of the votes. liberty university's largest in the world, 34,000 assembled. some are getting degrees. behind me as we speak. he needs ...

Not a graceful attempt but the result totally worth it. that is your morning dish of scrambled politics. 21 minutes past the hour. i am joined by jane tim. good morning, jane. we've heard there's big campaign announcements this week. >> yeah. it's going to be a big day. i'm here in detroit. dr. ben carson is going to make the formal announcement later this morning. he's speaking at a high school that carries his name. this is his hometown. he grew up in the inner city and he's going to paint himself as someone who knows what it's like to struggle and then succeed. elsewhere, carly fiorina. i t...

draw muhammad art contest near dallas. here's what we know. right after a showcase of cartoons depicting muhammad described as a free speech event. two men opened fire. they were shot and killed by police officers. at this hour a security is out of the hospital. he is 58-year-old joiner. joiner husband treated for a gunshot wound to the ankle. the suspects we still don't know who they are and here's why. after the initial gun battle was over, there was a potentially bigger threat to the 200 people there. >> consider their car possibly containing a bomb. so far as identifications, we ...

>> joining me now is ed o'keefe of the "washington post" and msnbc's jane tim who attended the summit in iowa. many in the gulf of mexico see this whole same-sex marriage issue as a losing battle yet they are very much talking about it. >> that's partly because the primary system goes through iowa first where there are so many evangelical voters who vote republican and they know that they've got to rally those supporters in order to get early momentum. then very quickly it goes to south carolina which is another state packed with evangelical christian voters. so that's part of it. the other pa...

They want a strong social conservative in the white house but also want to win. they don't want to vote someone in on the caucuses who's not going to go very farp. so we're seeing people like rick santorum huckaby, trying to assert that, you know, they can be that person even though they weren't in the past after winning the caucuses. and people like, you know senator rand paul and senator marco rubio trying to get some of these social conservative votes. you can't win with just social conservatives these days but for iowa you need some social conservatives to get there. >> and jane former hew...