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>> jason, watching these clips, i'm reminded that the phrase purity test was introduced tonight by mayor pete. a lot of centrist democrats find purity testing absolutely maddening. >> right. people complain about purity tests usually when they're impure. that part of the issue he has. i saw in our or five people that could be president very easy because a lot of people are qualified. but the idea of the purity test when you're talking about medicare for all, because that's one of the things that mayor pete -- it's like, look, we can't be ridiculous about this. i understand it. but every single...

Votes. she's got to get some votes either from elizabeth or joe or bernie or pete. and if she doesn't finish in the top three in iowa, it makes it really difficult for her. so she had to do well tonight, and she did well tonight. >> eugene, it is my view, and i'll let this be mine and mine alone, that every four years we commit vile acts of journalistic malpractice from the results from new hampshire. we insist on these rules, this is prohibitive, this is fatal to that campaign. we don't want to wait till south carolina. we often make these declarations the night of iowa and new hampshire that...

>> jason, watching these clips, i'm reminded that the phrase purity test was introduced tonight by mayor pete. a lot of centrist democrats find purity testing absolutely maddening. >> right. people complain about purity tests usually when they're impure. that part of the issue he has. i saw in our or five people that could be president very easy because a lot of people are qualified.

Who can hit a shot every once in a while. that might be joe biden. that might be mayor pete or amy klobuchar after tonight. i think, though, this speaks to this larger question about why iowa is problematic. i completely agree with julian castro. either you move iowa or i think it would be cool to have a lottery and rotate it or something else like that. and i believe because of what we're seeing this year, because there have been articles in "the washington post" about now even iowa voters are saying, man, we don't know if we're the best place to start. if you have iowa voters who are challen...

Votes. she's got to get some votes either from elizabeth or joe or bernie or pete. and if she doesn't finish in the top three in iowa, it makes it really difficult for her. so she had to do well tonight, and she did well tonight. >> eugene, it is my view, and i'll let this be mine and mine alone, that every four years we commit vile acts of journalistic malpractice from the results from new hampshire. we insist on these rules, this is prohibitive, this is fatal to that campaign. we don't want to wait till south carolina. we often make these declarations the night of iowa and new hampshire that...