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Camper tonight, he has lost a seat, but on the other hand, he might be doing a victory dance because he wouldn't even say bannon's name and he wanted to say this guy keeps picking losers.. i'm doing the right thing. he's not. >> i think that sounds about right.t. one of the big winners is the quote unquote donald trump likes to call the swamp but establishment republicans. remember, at the beginning, they wanted luther strange, they lost that race, and then you saw establishment republicans, including richard shelby, saying, hey, listen, don't watch -- vote for this guy, and i am not voting fo...

>> shannon: on one hand, mitch mcconnell is not a happy camper tonight, he has lost a seat, but on the other hand, he might be doing a victory dance because he wouldn't even say bannon's name and he wanted to say this guy keeps picking losers. >> i think that sounds about right. one of the big winners is the quote unquote donald trump likes to call the swamp but establishment republicans. remember, at the beginning, they want to luther strange, they lost that race, and then you saw establishment republicans, including richard shelby, saying, hey, listen, don't watch for this guy, and i am not ...

We make alabama great again? you came up with the idea to bring nick saban in. you wrote an op-ed, you came on our show and nine years later alabama is in the midst of a dynasty temperature america, thank joe scarborough. >> you'll remember it was a very nasty op-ed, an angry op-ed that was blistering the alabama administration and said you guys stop picking losers, pick this guy and we'll win the lottery. and we are. so thank you for that acknowledgement. but, paul, tell me, what is, though, what is the difference between these two teams tonight, clemson and alabama? because i thought the soo...

He's cutting $716 billion from medicare. that's not the right thing to do to pay for obamacare. also got to point out he's in favor of a tax plan that will kill 700,000 jobs. so he had the chance to answer those questions or not answer them as the case may be -- [laughter] i think even more important was the chance to talk about where we're going in the future and what he would do and what i'd do and what he described was, in my view, a reiteration of the status quo. he's going to keep doing the things he's done in the past, he's going to have a stimulus if he can, he's going to hire more gove...

>> reporter: absolutely. what iowa's job is in the nominating process, really in both parties is not about picking winners it's about picking losers, it's about deciding who is not going forward, who is not going to get ahead. michelle bachmann, we've been talking about, michelle bachmann really whether she decides to keep running or not running isn't that consequential only because her numbers are so small her influence on the race is so small. iowans, she is a native they know her best, they said know. rick perry spent $4.5 million in iowa, made appeals to the cal taour cultural conservatism...