Welcome to Amnesty

MSNBC's special coverage of tonight's Iowa caucus. I'm Ari Melber here with

Jen Saki for the next hour. Great to be here as we count down to the caucus and

results coming in later tonight with candidates making their final pushes. Here's what they have to say.

Today is the day we make history because we June out the noise of the media.

Do you guys know anybody who is going to cock us for Haley or DeSantis?

Yes, I do.

Yes.

And I'm going to try to switch them over.

You can't sit home, even if you vote and then pass away, it's worth it.

You can be the most worthless Republican in America but if you kiss the ring he'll say you're

wonderful. I like the sadness because he has a excellent record of service.

What do you think about when people say, well, Iowa is still Trump country?

I think that's wrong.

Some islands, as you just heard, pushing back on efforts to script tonight's story

before voters

weigh in, which will happen in the next few hours.

Well, Trump does have a lead in the final poll

with Haley Rising, and that lead is larger than Trump's

polling lead in 2016, which did not help him avoid starting that year with a loss.

We've mourn that later this hour in the first joint special report that we've ever done.

That's true.

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