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host begins right now. e msnb host begins right now. >> >> good evening. welcome to tonight special coverage. i'm rachel maddow here at the msnbc mothership with my colleagues joy reid and lawrence o'donnell and jen psaki and ari melber. i friends chris hayes and alex wagner and stephanie ruhle or are gonna be joining us later. it's going to be fun. we're less than a week out from the republican presidential caucuses in iowa. theast eye or a public can debate is underway tonight with oddly a sort of random selection of two of the remaining five republican presidential candidates. ta...

♪ ♪ . happening now. there's majora breaking news out there for the republican presidential nomination. a source now tells cnn that chris christie is dropping out of the race. we are standing by to hear directly from him live this hour in new hampshire. we will bring that to you as soon as it begins and all this comes as the final republican debate before the iowa caucuses are now just a few hours away right here on cnn. nikki haley and ron desantis preparing to face off tonight as both candidates make their closing pitch to try to naur row t narrow the gap with donald trump. ...

>> good evening from new york, and the end of yet another day. good evening from washington, anderson, and yesterday was yet another first. courtesy of the first president ever to be impeached twice. the first ever to be found liable after leaving office for sexual abuse, and the first president ever to face state felony charges. today, donald trump -- i have a new, one donald trump while speaking in the first ever to be arraigned in federal court on felony charges. >> 37, in all i know i put them on the, screen think lou 31 counts of willful national -- three of withholding or conce...

today donald trump also -- those are three. i have a new one. donald trump also became the first ever to be arrested and arraigned in federal court also on felony charges. >> 37 in all, and i want to put them on the screen. they include 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information, three of withholding or concealing documents in a federal investigation, plus false statements and conspiracy to obstruct justice. we're showing them because for all the spectacle this is what the day will be remembered for years from now. donald trump made the short trip today by motorca...

strategy. we're going to bring you brand new reporting from inside the campaign. i'm dana bash. let's go behind the headlines and "inside politics." we start today with breaking news on who qualified for cnn's iowa debate next week. last before the caucuses. the deadline to meet the polling threshold just passed, and our political director david chalian joins me now. david, who made the cut? >> as you noted, the deadline just passed and actually the window of qualification started way back on october 15th. we now know that for the cnn january 10th debate, the three candidates who h...