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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...

They have spent an enormous amount of time energy in iowa. they have to do well or their candidacies will be on life support and may be done. >> it's hard to raise money if you don't do anything in iowa. it makes it almost impossible. one of the -- sometimes a side shows are interesting, you know, chris? one of the ones i have been reading about is the makeup of the audience. in some of these debates the g.o.p. has prescreened the audience, in this case not so much. you wonder how much noise they are going to have in there. >> well, the interesting thing is there has never been an iowa debate....

prafr -- kind of prafrnk that's you use with that word. even though year after year young men and young women are bruised, batters and in champion's case, beaten to death. >> okay. is he awake? >> he wasn't responding. we thought he was breathing. he was making noises. but i don't even know if he's breathing now. >> okay. is he awake? do you know? >> his eyes are open. his eyes are open. he's not responding. >> okay. but is he breathing? >> i have no idea. i can not tell you that. >> that was the 911 call november 19th after a game as robert champion lay dying on the band bus. other ...

Into doom. >> republican strategist mark mckinnon is co-founder of no labels and a former advisor to george w. bush. >> thanks. >> if you were advising one of the candidates in the republican race would you say they should debate in this debate that will be moderated by donald trump? >> i'd say don't do it. it ruins the brand of the republican party. it diminishes the brand. the reason i'm at the jfk school at harvard i'm doing a propaezal to recommend a presidential commission for primaries in 2016 so we don't have these ridiculous side shows. >> what do you think about the candidates that ha...

Was down, i think, four, five, six points just a month or two ago, now one point ahead of the candidates. and also, gene, more importantly, you go to the swing states and look at the swing states and barack obama who was in the low 40s and struggling before these republican side shows began, well, now he's -- now he's winning ohio, he's looking good in pennsylvania, and looking good in florida. >> yeah. and head-to-head against specific republican possible candidates. the president tends to do better and better and better longer this sort of circus goes on. these -- the series of republican de...