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Iowa, up for grabs, at least according to the new suffolk university usa today poll finding that south bend mayor pete buttigieg is on the rise after last week's democratic debate. the numbers right there on your screen. as the candidates continue to slug it out the trump campaign is hauling in a whole bunch of cash, the money machine triggering new alarm bells. the president and the republican national committee have raised more than $300 million this year for his reelection, more than any other sitting president in history at this point in the campaign. i'm joined now by jonathan kapart, an ...

Strategist and msnbc political analyst susan delfrisio is us with and editor for "the washington post," david ignacious and we have jonathan kapart and host of casey d.c. on msnbc, casey hunt. and director of domestic policy studies at stanford university and research fellow at the hoover institution, lon he chen. he was a senior strategist for the 2012 mitt romney presidential campaign. and, joe, we've got day 13 of the shutdown now. how do you see things playing out? any possibility of a deal or more chaos? >> it's not looking that way right now. you know, meika, we've seen gri looks over pr...

In an angry lie about president obama and a black congressman fred rica wilson, lies for which john kelly has never apologized. >> the congresswoman stood up and in the long tradition of empty barrels making the most noise stood up there in all of that and talked about how she was instrumental in getting the funding for that building. and how she took care of her consistents because she got the money and she called up president obama and he gave her the $20 million to build the building. she sat down and we were stunned. stunned that she had done it. even for someone that is that empty a barre...

Jonathan, remember bobby knight? >> how could i not? >> you can't forgot him tonight. >> it's the president's greatest hits. i thought for sure i was sitting in the theatre watching travesties again, there's a gong and the scene resets itself and everyone is saying the same lines again. bobby knight, the wall, did he tell the story about the frog and the scorpion for good measure? >> here's what he didn't talk about, lying comey, special prosecutors, a rigged group of prosecutors trying to get him, witch hunt, none of that tonight. >> what's interesting you showed him on his way to the nra con...

Wall. they're repairing the wall. donald trump constantly departed from his teleprompter text and improvised long sections of his speech. but he did not dare mention the investigations swirling around him, and he did not dare use the words witch hunt the way he did just last week at the nra convention. >> i would love to speak but i have to find that we're going to be treated fairly. right now it's a pure witch hunt. why don't we have republicans looking also? why aren't we having republican people doing what all these democrats are doing? it is a very unfair thing. if i thought it was fair i ...