. >> i like rachel. i actually like rachel. >> they like you. mr. trump, you are here right now at the nevada caucus, what's the plan going forward after tonight? what are you going to do? >> basically this crowd we're doing pretty well tonight. this is amazing. it's record setting stuff already and it just started, but i think we're going do very well. we have the scc coming up and hopefully we're going do very well. rachel, i appreciate your charts. i love looking at them. i don't like my picture that much, but that's okay. >> reporter: so to answer your question from earlier people did come back from that ordeal which was a completely bizarre experience to have that happen in the middle of a polling place which is a four hour process at this location and people did come back to their precincts -- it's strange to call a circular table a precinct. i want to talk to this man who was actually showing a map to people who walked in here pointing them to their precinct location. this feels like a chaotic pro

it's nice to have you here tonight. >> my pleasure, rachel. pleased to be with you. >> let me ask you about not the result between bernie sanders and hillary clinton in nevada, but -- >> thank you. >> -- let me ask you about the turnout. this is only the second time the democratic party has managed to contested caucus in nevada, as an early state caucus. it looks like the numbers suggest that the voter turnout is down. maybe as much as 50% from 2008. the democratic turnout estimate right now, we're hearing, is 80,000 people turned out in nevada. are you worried that turnout numbers are down so much in each of the first three states for democratic voters? >> no, you know, we had a different sort of election and i think you have to judge each election based on, you know, the dynamics that occur in that election. i mean, 80,000 is a really good turnout. it's something that the nevada party really emphasized. we had electronic tools that we used this time, 31,000 people were able to preregister going into the caucuses. we had an online tool that h

so rachel, secretary clinton does represent the establishment. i represent, i hope, ordinary americans. and by the way, who are not all that enamored with the establishment. >> well, look, i have to just jump in here, because honestly, senator sanders is the only person who i think would characterize me, a woman running to be the first woman president as exemplifying the establishment. and i have to tell you that it is -- it is really quite -- really quite amusing to me. when you're on hold, your business is on hold. that's why comcast business doesn't leave you there. when you call, a small business expert will answer you in about 30 seconds. no annoying hold music. just a real person, real fast. whenever you need them. so your business can get back to business. sounds like my ride's ready. don't get stuck on hold. reach an expert fast. comcast business. built for business. ♪ light piano today i saw a giant. it had no arms, but it welcomed me. (crow cawing) it had no heart, but it was alive. (train wheels on tracks) it had no mouth, but it spo

>> yeah, i have fait, rachel, but it's going to take a lot of pressure. it's going to take an outside game and an inside game. that's why i complimented you because your coverage, a lot of people commented on it today, and by the way, rachel, i went out into the hall and met with some of the people and they were so happy that somebody was listening to them and people were crying. one lady got so upset when she heard at the way they had been duped and the fact they still had this bad water. she started crying and had to rush out of the hearing. so we're not going to let them down. we've got a whole cadre of people, thes republicans are are saying they're going to work with us and i'm saying, yeah, you know, show me, let's make this happen. and chairman chaffetz has said that he's working on getting the governor to washington, but, again, rachel, i do not want to have motion, emotion, and no results. i don't want this to be another katrina where people look back and say, oh, poor people from flint, and yet they are -- and our children are not made whole, th

"the rachel maddow show" starts now in its regular hour. good evening, rachel. now. "the rachel maddow show" starts now in its regular hour. good evening, rachel. >>> we're trying to keep everybody on their toes this year. skipping around. you might see us at any time. >> you never know. >> at some point we're going to be broadcasting from under people's beds. hey, it's time! thanks, my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining us this particular hour. it's nice to see you. if marco rubio or ted cruz goes all the way this year, either of them would make history as the first ever latino presidential candidate for a major political party. that would be a huge deal. had carly fiorina gone all the way this year, she and hillary cl[nton could each have been in contention to make history as the first female presidential candidate nominated by a major political party. you know, frankly, while we're on this train of thought, if donald trump goes all the way this year, he would be the first trump nominated for president by a major political party. there are lots of ways t

. >> i really appreciate that, rachel. thank you. >> part of the reason we're super happy to have you, you seem to understand things about nevada that are otherwise completely confounding. one of them that doesn't make sense is you can't apparently poll in nevada. why do we expect no significant amount of polling before these democratic caucuses? >> well, i think one of the reasons, maybe one of the main reasons you alluded to is we haven't been doing this real long. there is no sense of the caucus electorate in iowa, you have an seltzer who has been doing this for year and know who is going to caucus. new hampshire is a primary. you look at the turnout, very difficult to poll when you know the turnout will be low. it's been really incredibly low on the republican side. only 8% or so last time even though they had a record turnout where hillary clinton beat barack obama and lost in the delegate. it was a record caucus, 120,000 people. only 27% in the turnout. it was difficult to know that. let's add another wild card terri

but here's the basic point, rachel. the other strategy other than what you mentioned is simply this. i actually think it's good that governor cakasich and senator cz are staying in the race. governor kasich can win ohio which is a winner take all state. and senator cruz is likely to win in texas and win the majority of the delegates. i think it's very probable at this point that donald trump will have more delegates than any other single candidate. but i also think it's probable he will not have 50% of the delegates. that brings us to the convention in cleveland in july. with trump having the most delegates but not having the majority. so we could go for the first time since 1948 to a second ballot or even a third ballot where i can assure you that trump will not be the nominee because the people who are supporting other candidates are united in one thing which is, again, what donald trump would mean to the future of the party and to senatorial candidates. i mean, there's some great u.s. senators who i greatly admire. p

back to brian and rachel. >> thank you. all the while we're aware people are watching the changing numbers either full screen or at the bottom of the screen. very, very early. we don't advise buying or selling any stock based on this. again, the number to look at, just under 30 delegates there is the percentage of returns in. 3% in. the finishing order has gone back and forth here. these are very early numbers. we have to scoot to break. our live coverage continues on the other side. >>> we're back. there's a distinction in our wording. we have gone from too close to call. on the republican boards which will show be top three republicans. too close to call. ted cruz, donald trump. separated with only 5% by 115. the republicans do a raw vote. these are the top three with 5% in in the gop caucus. again, we repeat these warnings. this is going to be back and forth all night. negligible numbers in. we're joined by nicole wallace. what are you hearing? you're on your device a lot? >> it's gossip. with all your real reporters aro

rachel, brian? >> kate, speaking about the crowd sizes in iowa, and what you think about if you're a liberal democrat is, howard dean in 2004. it turned out young people. got people from all over the country to go canvas for him in iowa. and then on caucus night in iowa, before the scream and all that, he got, what was it, three counties? so the question is, whether or not those big numbers turn into caucusgoers. and at that point, you know, you can't really take the campaign for its word. the campaign says, yes, we've turned that enthusiasm into operational political capital, but we won't know that until we start getting results tonight. >> and what happens when we pull into south carolina. that is a huge question mark. iowans and vermonters are very similar in their political makeup. >> that's right. before south carolina, though, of course, it is new hampshire. steve kornacki, i want to talk to you about new hampshire. the latest new hampshire democratic poll has bernie sanders up something like

rachel? >> thanks, katy. fascinating what she was saying about what we know and what we don't know about the ground games of these campaigns. it's easy to extrapolate how they're campaigning nationally. iowa is its own thing. really, nobody knows how the ground games will work in iowa until they start working, which will be seven minutes than 24 hours from now. joining us now is casey hunt at a bernie sanders rally in des moines. casey, how big an event is this for bernie sanders and how much energy are you seeing out there for him these days? >> reporter: rachel, i've been with bernie sanders the last week or so on the campaign trail. i have to tell you, the energy is very organic. it is very real. there are 1,000 people waiting for senator sanders. last night i was with him out in iowa city, the home of the university of iowa, where upwards of 3,000, 4,000 students showed up to see him talk, and vampire weekend actually sang "this land is your land" together. peter, paul and mary, as many people know it, a

rachel joins me from minnesota. i have to say, i can only imagine watching biden's expression as you were asking the question, there's licking chops, there's all sorts of metaphors in my head when i thought about watching him think about that question. >> yeah, that's exactly right. you know from speaking with vice president in the past he's not a man who is usually at loss for words. i was weighing when he's doing that thing with the hands, the pope, donald trump and he kind of trailed off and stopped talking and i thought, how long do i let this go before we move on? if i sit here for a long time will he think of the word he's looking for? he did ewill be rate on the point. but to see him, the change in him when i put that die add of him to pope francis and donald trump, one of my favorite moments all time interviewing anybody ever. >> not to steal some of -- make you give away more of your interview, but you know, look, i'm doing a town hall with two of these democrats, there's that third democrat people talk abo

thank you chuck todd and rachel maddow. back in the spin room we have the folks who run the campaigns. we have the hillary clinton campaign chairman and the senior advisor to the sanders campaign. let me start with john and this question i thought hillary clinton tonight was very prepared like she was that first debate. she answered a lot of questions that the opponent had raised before, she nailed it with that line about cherry picking and setting sanders up as kind of like the cranky guy. i thought she had great homework there and she showed it. >> well, i think she was great across the board really. i thought she demonstrated that she could do all aspects of the job of president. she had a very clear set of ideas about what she was for, not just what she was against. she dominated the national security part of the debate. i thought that was the weakest part of p senator sanders' performance. >> did you bother -- that you had to wait for foreign policy for an hour? >> i think the voters will make a judgment about how impo

i'm glad that you see a face there because you know what, rachel? that's reality every single day of people's lives. and the mortgage crisis and how financial institutions targeted and exploited latinos and african-americans so that they could prosper even more on the backs of hard working people and no one really has a face to that crisis. i'm so glad. finally, they saw the faces of those affected in places not just like iowa and new hampshire. so yeah, i think they're also reacting to what they were feeling and sensing in this room. >> and you know, the thing that was so important about those interactions you're describing, those people able to talk to the candidates face to face today at your forum, they were speaking in detail about policies that they didn't want platitudes on. they wanted direct answers. so it was great you guys let the people in the audience does follow-ups because they would get the nice politically correct stump speech answer but time and time again from the audience, the people would say no, but how are you going to get tha

rachel? >> secretary clinton, republicans, particularly in campaign years, often talk about which departments of government, which agencies of government they would get rid of if they were elected president. the epa, the department of education, the commerce department, oops. is there a department of government that you would get rid of or is there a whole new one you would create? >> the answer to both of those is no. i'm interested in making what we have work better. i want to streamline programs that are duplicative and redundant. i want to have a top to bottom review about what works and doesn't work and be absolutely clear. we're getting rid of what doesn't work. i have had the opportunity to run a big agency. i was very flattered when henry kissinger said i ran the state department better than anybody had run it in a long time. so i have an idea about what it's going to take to make our government work more efficiently, and when you put together a budget, you have to make a lot of hard

brian, rachel? >> kristen, thank you. let's listen to a bit of this congressman jim clyburn, whose endorsement really did help to power the clinton victory tonight. >> have rendered a significant verdict. [ cheers and applause ] [ chanting ] >> and i want to thank -- she'll be here in a moment. and to i want thank each and every one of you for all the work that you've done to make this evening possible. we, tonight, have started hillary clinton on her way to the white house. [ cheers and applause ] people of south carolina have said that if you work hard, if you build the resume, if you remain true to your own principles, if you remain loyal to the administration that got this economy out of the ditch -- [ cheers and applause ] >> and if you lay out a plan, as to how you will build upon that record and take us to where we ought to be, you will be rewarded. and tonight, you have rewarded hillary clinton and she will reward each and every one of us in this great nation. y'all didn't come to hear me, so let me present to you

rachel maddow, host of the rachel maddow show, thank you, rachel, so much for that perspective. and speaking of what rachel was saying there, and that is, how candidates will address the passing of justice antonin scle scalia at age 79 is a question. the debate will be there tonight for the republican candidates. and hallie, you already have some reaction from some of the candidates. >> we do, john kasich, donald trump, ted cruz here, richard. so let's sort of run through some of the reaction from some of these republican candidates. almost all of them praising scalia for his constitutionalism. john kasich saying he was an essential principled force for conservative thought and a model for others to follow. donald trump's spokesperson, moments ago, telling nbc news that he's offering his sincere it condolences to the scalia family. he called justice scalia a remarkable person and a brilliant supreme court justice, saying his career was defined by his reverence for the constitution and his legacy of protecting americans' most cherished freedom. and for donald trump, who had clerk

a perspective from rachel maddow. pl plap: rachel maddow had another big first. she got to do it. we'll see what it was, next. pair by orthopedic doctors. just two aleve can keep pain away all day. back to the news. advil pain relievers are used by more households than any other leading brand. to treat their aches and pains more people reach for advil. relief doesn't get any better than this. advil. >>> as the secretary knows, you put titles on ads and you send them out. there was no word that said those newspapers had endorsed her. >> do you want 30 seconds on this issue? >> no. >> with that, we'll take a break. >> all right. i'm biassed. i admit i thought that last night's debate was the best debate of the cycle so far. it was a combination of having just two candidates go head to head and to moderators who artfully moved things along and got out of the way to allow frank exchanges between the candidates. one of those moderators, rachel maddow. >> thank you for saying that. >> i did a snap chat after the first commercial break where i was like, oh. what just happened? were you e

the rachel maddow show starts now from las vegas. good evening. >>> has won the nevada republican caucuses. in its current it ration where nevada is an important early state and goes right after south carolina and has this incredibly influential role in the republicans choosing their nominee, in the entire history of nevada, only one person has ever won. that guy is mitt romney. the first time the nevada caucuses were held in 2008, mitt romney not only won here, he won by a mile. he came in with 51% of the vote. second place was a very distant ron paul. ron paul came in second with only 14% of the vote. awkwardly even though ron paul only got 14% of the vote, that was enough to give ron paul supporters a tow hold that they used that year to hijack the nominating prosays and take over the party to a point where the whole nevada state republican convention was shut down and replaced with a back room conference call where they picked their delegates instead. it should have been a sign. we should have known with that first contest in 200

i'm glad that you see a face there because you know what, rachel? that's reality every single day of people's lives. and the mortgage crisis and how financial institutions targeted and exploited latinos and african-americans so that they could prosper even more on the backs of hard working people and no one really has a face to that crisis. i'm so glad. finally, they saw the faces of those affected in places not just like iowa and new hampshire. so yeah, i think they're also reacting to what they were feeling and sensing in this room. >> and you know, the thing that was so important about those interactions you're describing, those people able to talk to the candidates face to face today at your forum, they were speaking in detail about policies that they didn't want platitudes on. they wanted direct answers. so it was great you guys let the people in the audience does follow-ups because they would get the nice politically correct stump speech answer but time and time again from the audience, the people would say no, but how are you going to get tha

i'm with rachel here. he should have seized the day and said, declared success, but by the way, here he is. so i'll hand it back to you. >> 15 minutes to midnight on the east coast. [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] [ chanting ] [ chanting ] >> all: we want bernie! we want bernie! we want bernie! >> thank you! iowa, thank you! [ cheers and applause ] >> nine months ago we came to this beautiful state, had we had no political organization. we had no money, we had no name recognition and we were taking on the most powerful political organization in the united states of america. [ cheers and applause ] and tonight while the results are still not known, it looks like we are in a virtual tie. [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] >> and -- and while -- >> all: bernie! bernie! bernie! bernie! bernie! bernie! >> -- and while the results are still not complete, it looks like we'll have about half of the iowa delegates. [ cheers and applause ] >> i want to take this opportunity to congratula

and rachel standing by with a special guest. >> we do have a special guest. it's on the democratic side of the race. it's been interesting to watch today the way the campaigns have been telescoping their expectations. very last campaign events by the two main democratic candidates, bernie sanders, interestingly, seemed to be assuring his voters, his supporters that he doesn't need to win in iowa, that his campaign will go on even if he doesn't win in iowa. in contrast, hillary clinton today and last night, she seems to be telegraphing to her own people, her own supporters that she thinks she's going to win in iowa. she's calling her big watch party tonight for the iowa caucuses calling it a victory party. is that risky to raise expectations like that, or is that earned confidence? joining us now is a high-profile supporters of secretary clinton, senator claire mccaskill. thank you for being with us. >> thanks. this is a great night. if you love a democracy, and you love grass roots politics, it is -- no matter what candidate you're for, i hope americans are p

rachel, as we diddi years ago, we're going to be counting delegates. it's going to be all about the delegates. >> state delegate equivalents. >> hillary clinton has a big legate lead superdelegates. >> which count. which add up to that total number. >> they super count. >> i thought i would never have to say that word, superdelegate, again. >> it's early yet. we might not have to. let's go back to our friend chris matthews in iowa right now with jerry reid and steve schmidt. >> i am with jerri reid and with steve. i want to congratulate hallie jackson for that brilliant random sampling. she found the voter who now explains to me the cruz support level. he said he didn't care about personality. by the way, the guy kept look like he had much personality either. he said, i like him on the issues. i thought that was great. he probably likes me saying that, this guy. he's a tough-looking customer, baseball hat. let me ask you, i understand i think the trump thrill. wild, exciting, funny, like a standup comic, a rich guy, running against the establishment. c

the rachel maddow show starts right now in another bigger, quieter room. good evening. >> awkwardly very near by but also separate. >> yes. >> pretty much how it goes from here on out. >> take it away. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour from what is our fancy election headquarters here in downtown manchester, new hampshire. i'm not sure how any of this stuff works yet. let's give it a go. up north in conway, new hampshire, it's about two hours north of where we are tonight in manchester, up in conway, they have a paper called the conway daily sun. every four years candidates trek

listen, you asked exactly the right questions there, rachel. i actually asked for those figures from the pollster. i never got an answer. listen, it's a very small sample. it's 250 or so folks. they don't even have enough in those cohorts to have the numbers in there. it shows hillary clinton with a slight lead. i think it's 46-44 among white voters. there's no racial breakdowns. we don't know what the hispanic breakdown is in that poll. and as you mentioned, the gender breakdowns are weird too. so it's a very small sample. however, i will say, and i was on the last time you went through your extensive mockery of that free beacon poll, what's really interesting about those two polls is they essentially showed the same thing. >> right. >> what they showed is a trend. and i think whether it's a one-point race or whether it's a five-point race, i think both campaigns think that the race is close enough that it's going to depend on what kind of new voters come, what the racial breakdown is on caucus day on saturday. the race is close, whether it's

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so, rachel, yes, secretary clinton does represent the establishment. i represent, i hope, ordinary americans who are not that enamored with the establishment but i am very proud to have people like keith ellison in the house. the co-chairman of the house progressive caucus. >> i've got to just jump in here because, honestly, senator sanders is the only person who would characterize me a woman running to be the first woman president as exemplifying the establishment. i've got to tell you that it is -- [ applause ] it's really quite amusing to me. people support me because they know me. they know my life's work. they have worked with me and many have also worked with senator sanders. at the end of the day they endorse me because they know i can get things done. i am not going to make promises i can't keep. i am not going to talk about big ideas like single payer and then not level with people about how much it will cost. a respected health economist said these plans would cost a trillion dollars more a year. i'm not going to tell people that i will raise

rachel? >> secretary clinton, senator sanders is campaigning against you now, at this point in the campaign. basically arguing you're not progressive enough to be the democratic nominee. he had said if you vote for the iraq war, favor of the death penalty be wobbled on the keystone pipeline, tpp, you're into tar to right of the democratic party to be the party's stand ard bearer. given those policy positions, why should liberal democrats support you and not senator sanders? >> well, because i have a progressive who gets things done and route of that word, progressive, is progress. but i have heard senator sanders' comments and it's really caused me to wonder, who i left in the progressive wing of the democratic party? under his definition, president obama's not progressive because he took donations from wall street. vice president biden is not progressive because he supported keystone. senator shaheen is not progressive because she supports the trade pac. even the late great senator wellstone

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we've got 20% in, rachel, and this is a big victory. >> this is only one in five votes count sod far. only 20% in, so there's no reason to extrapolate before we get the real numbers. there is an over 50-point margin right now. and we are cautioned that it may end up being a very, very large margin. heading into south carolina was interesting. a lot of the polls had her in the 20-point range, between 20 and 30 points. most polls had her there. i think the last nbc-wall street journal poll had her lead in south carolina at 28 points. but there was one poll heading into tonight's voting that was the clemson university poll, and they had her with a 50-point lead. that looked a little nutty compared to the other polls showing her with a giant lead in the 20s. right now with only 20% of the vote in, she's over 50. a win is a win. but there's two reasons this is important. one is that it does beat her stated expectations. her campaign said they wanted to match or beat bernie sanders' 22-point margin in new hampshire. if this holds, they will do that. the other way they will do that is some e

so, rachel, yes, secretary clinton does represent the establishment. i represent, i hope, ordinary americans who are not that enamored with the establishment but i am very proud to have people like keith ellison in the house. >> i've got to just jump in here because, honestly, senator sanders is the only person who would characterize me a woman running to be the first woman president as exemplifying the establishment. i've got to tell you that it is -- [ applause ] it's really quite amusing to me. people support me was a they know me. they know my life's work. they have worked with me and many have worked with senator sanders. at the end of the day they endorse me because they know i can get things done. i am not going to make promises i can't keep. i am not going to talk about big ideas like single payer and then not level with people about how much it will cost. a respected health economist said these plans would cost a trillion dollars more a year. i'm not going to tell people that i will raise your incomes and not your taxes, and not mean it. i don

so, rachel, yes, secretary clinton does represent the establishment. i represent, i hope, ordinary americans who are not that enamored with the establishment but i am very proud to have people like keith ellison in the house. >> i've got to just jump in here because, honestly, senator sanders is the only person who would characterize me a woman running to be the first woman president as exemplifying the establishment. i've got to tell you that it is -- [ applause ] it's really quite amusing to me. people support me was a they know me. they know my life's work. they have worked with me and many have worked with senator sanders. at the end of the day they endorse me because they know i can get things done. i am not going to make promises i can't keep. i am not going to talk about big ideas like single payer and then not level with people about how much it will cost. a respected health economist said these plans would cost a trillion dollars more a year. i'm not going to tell people that i will raise your incomes and not your taxes, and not mean it. i don

i'd like to interview him. >> that will be the end of the world before that hams. >> rachel, rachel, how are you? >> nice to see you, governor. >> reporter: good to see you. i came all the way here to get you. >> you bite the crap out of me for years, you expect me to voluntarily come on your program. >> reporter: you love the back and forth. >> with a lot of people. not with you. what do you have today? >> reporter: i'm not trying to beat the difference out of you. what's the different questions in a new jersey town haul and a new hampshire town hall. >> in new jersey, it's state based. here it's a different set. in new jersey, you are talking pensions and talking about law enforcement and you are talking k to 12 education in a much more granular way than you are in a national form. there are differences, like, listen, let's try the difference between iowa, new hampshire and new jersey. i have to give you a range. so, iowans are very laid back. iowans sit there with their arms folded across their chest most of the time, barely kind of nod at you. you don't get any feed feedp mary pa

>>> good evening, i'm lawrence o'donnell, rachel maddow is here tonight to get in her last word about the voting here in new hampshire. it starts in exactly two hours. >> here we come. >> maureen sanders and donald trump -- bernie sanders and donald trump pop the polls. >> this is our sort of final lovefest. >> this is a crazy, crazy race on the republican side. [ applause ] >> of all people, you'd never expect ben carson to fall asleep at the wheel. >> the great marco malfunction. >> you took a lot of criticism saturday night. >> this notion that barack obama doesn't know what he's doing is untrue. >> there he is, the memorized speech. >> this is great for people that cover politics, not voters. >> gut instinct where you finish tomorrow in. >> i don't know. i think we will good evening roach expectations. >> he provides out his mother. >> trump, loser. >> oh my god. >> this country needs a political revolution. >> it sound like socialism to me. >> democratic socialism. >> eh, what's the difference? >> huge difference. >> huge? >> huge. ♪ >> they're holding their leads in new hampsh

aleve pm for a better am. >>> rachel. how are you? >> good to see you. >> i couldn't get you in new york. >> you beat the crap out of me for years. you expect me to voluntarily come on your program. >> i expect you to. you love the back and forth. >> with a lot of people. maybe not for you. what do you have for today? >> what's the difference between a new hampshire town hall and a new jersey town hall? what's the different kind of questions you get and the different interactions? >> it become a totally different issue tset to deal with. you're talking about pensions and law enforcement and talking about k to 12 education than in national forum. there's also differences like, let's try to difference between iowa and new hampshire and new jersey. io iowans are very laid back. they sit there were their arms folded across their chest. barely kind of nod at you. you don't get any feed off the audience at all. we're sitting in iowa town halls, i couldn't tell you if i was doing well, poorly or somewhere in between. new hampshire, more moti

"the rachel maddow show" starts now in its regular hour. good evening, rachel. now. "the rachel maddow show" starts now in its regular hour. good evening, rachel. >>> we're trying to keep everybody on their toes this year. skipping around. you might see us at any time. >> you never know. >> at some point we're going to be broadcasting from under people's beds. hey, it's time! thanks, my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining us this particular hour. it's nice to see you. if marco rubio or ted cruz goes all the way this year, either of them would make history as the first ever latino presidential candidate for a major political party. that would be a huge deal. had carly fiorina gone all the way this year, she and hillary cl[nton could each have been in contention to make history as the first female presidential candidate nominated by a major political party. you know, frankly, while we're on this train of thought, if donald trump goes all the way this year, he would be the first trump nominated for president by a major political party.

moderated by chuck todd and rachel maddow. that is tonight at 9:00. but as we say, miles to go before we sleep. up income, tamron hall filling in today as host of "mtp daily." >>> if it's thursday, it's debate night. clinton versus sanders. their first one-on-one debate. their one before the new hampshire primary. the stakes couldn't be higher. this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now! >> good evening, welcome to "mtp daily." i'm tamron hall. chuck todd prepping for the main event, moderating with rachel maddow, the first one-on-one debate between hillary clinton and bernie sanders tonight on msnbc. just a few short hours, the candidates will have their only showdown before the new hampshire primary, five days away. and that comes on the heels of fresh polling in state. we have brand-new numbers at this hour from our nbc/"wall street journal"/marist poll for the new hampshire primary. despite, listen to this to such volatility in iowa and the race overall, not much movement here hours before the big debate. be and hillary clinton support remained u

rachel? >> gabe guiterrez in grand rapids, michigan, which is where the marco rubio campaign is tonight. gabe, thanks very much for that. >> jerry ford's congressional district. and by the way, one point of clarification. at the bottom of the screen you might have seen under the breaking news banner reports of confusion at some caucus sites. that's a lot like saying an election broke out. we have no reason to believe these caucuses, party run, have had any crippling confusion or anything enough to soil tonight's result which we still wait on. another break. we'll be back from this trip right after this. man 1: [ gasps ] man 1: he just got fired. man 2: why? man 1: network breach. man 2: since when do they fire ceos for computer problems? man 1: they got in through a vendor. man 1: do you know how many vendors have access to our systems? man 2: no. man 1: hundreds, if you don't count the freelancers. man 2: should i be worried? man 1: you are the ceo. it's not just security. it's defense. bae

. >> tomorrow night at this hour,ly join rachel and brian williams for the live coverage of the republican caucus in nevada. >>> place your bets. trump or the resistance. let's play "hardball." good evening. i'm chris matthews out in las vegas. i've been here a while. republicans woke up sunday with a reality, donald trump the front-runner for the party's nomination. celebrating his big win in south carolina. here he is. >> we won with everything. we won with women. i love the women. we won with evangelicals. like unbelievable. we won with the military. we won with highly educated, pretty well educated and poorly educated, but we won with everything. tall people, short people, skinny people, fat people. every time they do polls, like cnn did a big poll, when it comes to security, when it comes to isis, when it comes to the military, every single category i'm leading by a lot. the only category i do badly in is my personality. and that's okay. who cares. and you know what? you want to know something? i'm a better person than the people i'm running against. >> i've never heard anybody talk a

we're going to get some delegates to the next level. >> that's a good point, rachel and brian. she's saying viability. in order to leave with any delegates, you need 15% head count for your candidate. if there's not 15% of overall group in the hillary section, these guys might have to realign as well either to undecided to be pitched by bernie or martin o' malley. we should show that group too. >> please. >> these guys in the corner here as the seas part are are martin o'malley group. they are going to get pitched as well. >> wait, wait. i can't see them. they are invisible. who are the people? >> they're not visible in the high shot. >> okay. here we go. here we go. here's the martin o'malley supporters. come over here. i'm actually moving the martin o'malley preference group. you're here for martin. >> we are. >> you don't look viable yet. are what are you going to do? >> we're looking at the undecided vote over there. i think they are key in the political party system. >> who are you thinking about realigning to? >> probably bernie sanders. >> how about yourself? >> sanders.

>> yeah, rachel -- what rachel just said was great. you know a guy has problems if he said i'm heading home to my state. it reminds me after you lose the first two games of the world series, we're headed home. but you're still down two to zero. guys for all more than a week out here on the street, i guess we should thank them for letting us use the street, but it's a great organization here. of course new york, new york, you do feel like you're in new york. i want to say something a little bit. because you have gone back to my speech writing days. i think what is telling quickly tonight, looking at the two speeches we just saw, trump and then cruz. cruz talks like he at a desk somewhere. i'm going to -- i'm not going to sign an amnesty bill. i'm going to vote -- i'm going to veto an obamacare bill. i'm going to name judges -- like sitting behind a desk somewhere like a legislator voting on stuff. he's a government man. even though he's a right winger he's a man of government, endure work. trump is completely different. he doesn't talk

don't miss our coverage of the nevada caucus and south carolina primary with rachel maddow, brian williams and chris matthews. it begins tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. >>> just a jaw dropping moment caught on camera in hawaii. a tour helicopter plunged into pearl harbor with five people on board. it was then as nbc's miguel almaguer explains nearby onlookers sprang into action. >> reporter: witnesses could tell something was wrong. the tail of the sightseeing helicopter was smoking as it quickly descended to the rocky shoreline. then the moment of impact. with the chopper sinking several good samaritans plunged into the water to rescue the trapped passengers. >> i had seen the helicopter started sputtering about 500 feet and the pilot did what i would say is an amazing job. >> reporter: five people were aboard and pulled to shore. at least one suffering critical injuries. all rushed to hospitals by ambulance. the navy says the helicopter is owned by genesis aviation. the same chopper seen here before the crash. offering aerial tours of the arizona memorial since 1999. t