> thank you. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. i love days like there. today, as the day got longer, as the sun went down, as afternoon turned to evening, the political news just went completely nuts. if you are a civics dork, you live for days like this. now if you're not sure whether or not you are a civics dork, one way to tell is if a news day like today has you grinning from ear to ear at the sheer exciting, unprecedented chaos of it all. another way to tell if you're a civics dork is by closely monitoring the feeling that you have when you receive something like this in your mailbox. most people when they get summon to jury duty they get bummed out and start complaining but a true civics dork sees this and this is up there with like an unexpected tax refund or an unsolicited box of chocolates from your ex who you still have a thing for.

getting invited to jury duty is cause for much excitement even celebration. see, for example, the reaction to getting called for jury duty that we got from missouri's democratic senator. shortly after 9:00 yesterday morning, she started tweeting her experiences and her excitement about being called up for jury duty in missouri. just reported for jury duty. on my bucket list to serve. she said she's hoping she gets picked. creating a suspense about how the process will go. see at the start, drum roll. she tweeted pictures of the jury asemimy room and her group number she got on her little badge. you see on the lower right. she explained how she made a good decision in terms of where to sit in the waiting room with access to a power outlet to keep twitting. she counted the number of

knitters in the room versus the number of people reading. she excitedly reported on a little drama in the waiting area. there was some sort of dispute or uncertainty over what tv channel the tv in the waiting room would be set on that led her to start the hashtag quote, please god, not fox news. they decided on comedy central. she said it was a good decision and a bad decision. then there was pure excitement from senator mccaskill. i got called. on my way to the courtroom. yes. exclamation point. she said somebody recognized her and told her she wasn't going to get picked for the jury. she said that person told her, they don't want lawyers. she's a lawyer. she responded with that little emoji. so sad news. she wants to be picked so bad.

there was more suspense. they got dismissed for lunch. she said, you see the time stamp just after 1:00 p.m. going to seat us in the courtroom then dismiss us for lunch. tease. still doesn't know if she will get picked. this is true civics dorkdom. she so wants to be on the jury. this is kind of compelling drama at this point. this point in her twitter feed, i wrote on twitter in he response, is it weird that i'm desperate to know if claire will get picked for that jury. senator mccaskill responded, yes, it's a little weird. no worries. i responded. okay. we're all pulling for you. hours went by. after the lunch dismissal. it was after 1:00 p.m. they got dismissed. we heard nothing even though she had been tweeting excitedly all day. then boom.

6:30 last night, all caps. holy expletive. i am on the jury. she got picked. she's so psyched. this is heaven for any civics dork but for somebody like claire who is not just a civics, dork. she's a former lawyer, a prosecutor. she's also a really good politician. one of the more interesting conspiracy theories about why she got picked this week is that she's been a really good surrogate for hillary clinton on the campaign trail and maybe these were republican lawyers who don't want her stomping for hillary clinton in iowa over the next six days before the iowa caucuses. this is way to keep her locked down in a missouri courtroom of this high profile slip and fall case involving the st. louis convenience store. i don't think that's what happened. claire is a formidable politician.

when she was first elected to the senate in 2006, she was running as a democrat in the red state of missouri. despite the head winds, she was able to unseat an incumbent republican senator that year. then she served her first term in the senate. a red state but out spoken, aggressive democrat. then she decided she would run for re-election when her first term was up in 2012. the 2012 election was amazing. 2012 election for her senate seat in missouri, that was the election that brought us this epic photo series of a sitting u.s. female senator shotgunning a beer in her pajamas. this is from the 2012 re-election race. in these photos she's settling a bet with her kids. she's not celebrating a win in that race. that had not happened yet. what she is celebrating is the results of the republican primary in that race.

she is celebrating in these pictures, who the republican voters of missouri chose to be their candidate to run against her for her senate seat. the reason she's celebrating the results of the republican primary that year is because her campaign spent a ton of money to choose her opponent. to choose who she wanted to run against in the general election for that race. in the closing two weeks of that republican primary. she spent more money on the republican primary than the victorious republican candidate spent on himself. she did it with was an attack ad against him. this is how claire mccaskill chose her own opponent. this was her attack ad that she ran specifically as a way to try to sway republican primary voters.

>> i'm claire mccaskill approve this message. >> the most conservative in our state, todd akin. he would privatize social security. his pro-family agenda would out law many forms of contraception and he says president obama is a complete menace to our civilization. todd akin, missouri's true conservative is just too conservative. >> missouri's true conservative. technically, that was a negative ad against todd akin run by the senator. clearly, it was a negative ad that was basically begging hard core republican primary voters to vote for the true conservative todd akin and missouri republican voters did just that. he became the republican nominee and senator mccaskill shotgunned a beer in her pjs and her opponent went onto talk about

legitimate rape in the election campaign and say a will the of other things and claire squashed him like a bug. they put democrat claire in the senate by a mile. the $2 million she spent was well spent. today it's happening again. part of the way you can tell is again claire's twitter feed. her first post-jury duty twitter feed -- tweet was this. it says quote, i see you joe ricketts. i know exactly what you're up to. hashtag todd akin. don't fall for it iowa democrats. a new super pac ad is being run by joe ricketts.

they have been huge supporters in this presidential race of wisconsin race scott walker. the problem for the family is that scott walker pooped out really early. they have a ton of money. they love to spend their money to help republicans win elections. they have a keen interest in this presidential election but don't like any of the candidates as much as they like scott walker. they are not choosing any one republican candidate over any of the others. not picking a favorite but instead, they are trying to spend their money choosing a democratic opponent for whoever the republican nominee is likely to be. joe's super pac has pulled a page from the claire mccaskill play book, they have started running this negative ad in iowa to try to affect the iowa democratic primary.

>> senator bernie sanders has some very big plans. bernie wants to provide free college for our young people, no tuition, completely free. how he's doubling down with medicare for all which is single payer government sponsored health care. no big insurance companies just more government spending. paid for by raising taxes on wall street, big business and the super rich. too liberal for iowa. >> bernie sanders is so liberal. free college for our young people. raising taxes on wall street, big business and the super rich. i see what you're doing there. this ad is now running in iowa. it's a big buy. they are spending $600,000 to run this ad in iowa over next six days before the iowa caucuses. in addition to these $600,000 tv buy there's a radio buy for this ad and a substantial online buy

for this ad as well. this is ham handed. it's easy to see what they are doing. they are trying to get liberal iowa caucus goers to like bernie sanders more and vote for him. this is a republican effort to influence the democratic primary in iowa. apparently, these republican donors would rather have bernie sanders win iowa. they would rather have bernie sanders as an opponent. it's a fake negative ad. it's republican interference in the democratic primary. it's not quite a dirty trick. it's like a stealth knuckle ball in politics. i told you this is time of year when things are about to get weird. things are getting weird. in terms of the democratic

campaigns themselves, both hillary clinton's campaign and bernie sanders have released ads that are believed to be the final ads before the iowa caucuses. they could always release something later but for right now this is what we're expecting to be their closing arguments before iowa. whatever you think about republicans waiting into the democratic race and the fake negative ad being run by the super pac, if you go to the candidate themselves, what they are each making as closing arguments is not about their opponent. it's about themselves and very positive. it's a positive ad and in bernie sanders case, it's a positive and inspirational sum up of his platform. we think these are the two closing argument ads for hillary clinton and bernie sanders. we think this is the last each of them will run before the iowa caucuses on monday. in terms of their closing argument to new hampshire voters

because right of iowa, new hampshire is two weeks from today. what's going to be the last word that new hampshire voters get from bernie sanders and hillary clinton before new hampshire goes to vote. we know what the last words are in iowa. what are the last words will be in new hampshire? i'm glad you asked. that's another part of politics that went absolutely nuts today. it involves the union leader in new hampshire. it involves me and chuck todd and the possibility that the democratic candidates may decide to break down democratic party rules and do an illegal, unsanctioned debate that's off the democratic party schedule. that is totally not allowed in democratic party politics, but maybe they're going to do it any way. that's part of what made today so absolutely nuts in terms of political news. today on the republican side and democratic side candidates took steps that could blow up the primary process as i has been controlled by both parties. a lot of this is still unsettled.

turns out we are right in the middle of it. it's all ahead this hour. stay with us.

did you hear late today that chuck todd and i are going to be moderating a newly scheduled presidential debate? i heard that today too. very exciting. also, i'm not sure what it all means. i'm not sure, at this point, if it's actually happening, which is strange because it's supposed to happen next week. strange, exciting. we've got that story ahead tonight. we also have the mayor of flint, michigan joining us. stay with us.

we're going the hear about the latest drama, which is the late breaking news that donald trump is planning on sitting out the next republican presidential debate. the one that's scheduled for thursday night. the last one before iowa. he said he's sitting it out because he does not like one of the moderators that the fox news channel is planning on using. we'll have details on that including a live report from nbc reporter who has been embedded with the trump campaign. that's in a moment. there's also some significant drama on the democratic side tonight where there's been far fewer debates than the republicans have had. the democrats have only scheduled six debates in total. four of them have already happened. they've only got two more scheduled. one on february 11 and one on march 9. that sparse schedule has opinion a subject of criticism throughout the democratic

campaign, including sometime on this hour on this show. is this lack of debates on the democratic side hiding them in these obscure places in the schedule, is it a big enough problem that you and the other candidates might try to revolt an get another one scheduled? >> look, when the republicans do prime time debates, they get 20, 25 million people. when we have debates, the one in iowa was on the night of a huge football game. i think it was iowa state versus the university of iowa. probably the worst time you could schedule a debate. if we want to win in november, it's important that the american people hear our ideas. debates are one way that millions of people can hear our ideas and hear the differences between the candidates. i think we have got to do a lot better. >> i'm struck by the fact that even though the republicans just had a debate and about to have

another debate before iowa, there isn't another democratic debate iowa or the primary in new hampshire. do you wish there were debates? are you enjoying them when they do happen? >> i love the debates. i really do. it gives me chance to get up on the stage and explain my positions, answer questions from the moderators, draw contrast with my opponents. it's been a good experience for me so far. i think it's helped me make my case for my candidacy. >> in you and senator sanders and governor o'malley can show up here and i'll help. >> we did have that great forum that you moderated. >> in south carolina. >> that got a lot of good response.

we sure have enough attention to this campaign. i hope whatever the format is for getting us before the voters, it will encourage more people to come out and caucus and vote in the primary. >> given that you feel like southern states aren't getting their due from the democratic party and the democratic party screwed up in the way they scheduled the debates, given that you said from the beginning there ought to be more, i feel like the candidates are more important than the party is. do you and governor o' malley and secretary clinton, do you see the three of you getting together and telling the party to stuff it and do it the way all three want to do it. >> i'm there. i love debates. i think they are way to inform the american people about positions and our differences. i think that's a great idea.

i'm in. >> i'm never the one who starts these things but i feel like i may be starting something here. apparently, we were starting something there. the union leader newspaper in new hampshire, biggest newspaper has been seriously advocating there ought to be a democratic debate before the new hampshire primary this year. every year there's been a contested democratic primary going back to 1984. there's apparently been a debate right before the new hampshire primary. this is the first year that hasn't happened since 1984. today the union leader announced they are planning on hosting an unsanctioned democratic party debate right before the new hampshire primary next thursday night, february 4th. the union leader has asked msnbc to be their media partner. msnbc said that chuck todd and i will participate in the debate. we will moderate. now it's a question of figuring out if the candidates will come. the democratic party doesn't

want to do this. they say six is enough. they will not sanction anymore debates until after the new hampshire primary. they had said before the primary process started that any candidate who participated in a non-sanctioned debate would forfeit the ability to participate. there's not that many further sanctioned events. there's only two more scheduled. what are they going to do, hold the debates without any candidates because they decided to debate in new hampshire? this is what the campaigns have said since the union leader made their announcement. martin o'malley said he's in. hillary clinton's campaign said she would be happy if the other candidates agree. bernie sanders communications director said we will be working

with the dnc and other campaigns to schedule additional debates. wait a minute. does that mean we're having a debate next thursday or not? the sanders campaign is saying he will not participate in the unsanctioned msnbc new hampshire union leader debate because it could risk him being denied in future debates. the dnc says they will not sanction that debate. they will not sanction anymore debates until new hampshire is over. they won't sanction until after new hampshire. who holds the cards here? the candidates or the party? at this point the dnc says they won't sanction. the candidates say that will be happy to do it if the democratic party sanctions it. why won't the democratic party sanction it? what happens if they don't and the democratics do it any way? will they not allow them to participate in any further debates?

who does that serve? maybe chuck todd and i are moderating a debate next week. maybe we're not. honestly, if you're a politics junkie and you can stand a little uncertainty in your timeline, this year is the best of all years. this is the best of all times.

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anything else that you want to add about trump?

do you see an endorsement coming soon from you? >> i have not endorsed him. as far as what i see, i think he's head and shoulders right now above the rest. i don't agree with everything he says. he speaks a little more, actually, he speaks a lot more radically than i talk. i think that's a positive and negative. >> former ku klux klan wizard david duke excited. although he says he's sometimes over the top in the way he speaks compared to david duke. that all but endorsement was followed by this robo called that went out on many trump's behalf. >> i'm jared taylor. i urge you to vote for donald trump. he's the one candidate that points out we should accept immigrants that are good for americans.

we need smart educated white people will be assimilate to our culture. vote trump. >> that went out on behalf of donald trump in iowa a couple of weeks ago. it was not authorized by mr. trump or paid for by him. whether or not he likes it, the white supremacy people have chosen him. we got the latest twist on that road. >> in the next three days, find out if her daddy wears a turban around lexington and her mama wears a ruby between her head and she is a sheik and trying to be a methodist and gets to greenville around the bob jones university people, they're not going to like that. with pat robinson sending out that e-mail, people need to look at that. we got a rag head in washington. we don't need a rag head in the

state house. >> state senator jake knox peeking about nikki haley. senator senator did not remain state senator nor long after that tape saw the light of day. now he's back in the public eye. he's announcing his pick for the republican nomination. guess who he likes. not only is the we don't need a rag head in the state house endorsing donald trump for president, he's scheduled to appear on stage with mr. trump at a campaign rally in south carolina tomorrow afternoon. mr. trump got a much hyped endorsement from sheriff joe in arizona. mr. trump said the endorsement means a lot to me. today donald trump was endorsed by jerry fallwell junior high pressure he said mr. trump reminds him of his dad. things are weird in the world of donald trump for president. whatever you think of how he is doing it, he is doing it.

things are weird in the world of donald trump for president. whatever you think of how he is doing it, he is doing it. he's winning that race. he's up by 16 points nationwide in the washington post poll. iowa was once a ted cruz strongholds but donald trump is winning in iowa. four out of last five polls that went out today but he's leading ted cruz by two. in the latest new hampshire polling for the boston herald it's not close at all. he's ahead by a whopping 19 points. maybe you have the luxury to blow up the process. this was mr. trump tonight saying he's not or at least he's probably not going to attend the next republican debate. this will be the last republican debate before iowa.

it's supposed to happen this upcoming thursday. he says he might not do it because he doesn't like one of the moderators who the fox news channel has chosen. >> fox is playing games. fox will make a fortune. i told fox you should give money to the wounded warriors. i'm not a fan of megyn kelly. i think they could do a lot better than her. i'm going to be making a decision with fox, but i probably won't bother doing the debate. they picked me as number one but probably i won't be doing the debate. i'll have something else in iowa. we'll do something where we raise money for the veterans and the wounded warriors. we'll do something simultaneously with the debate but i'm in the going to do the debate. i didn't like the fact they sent out press releasing talking about putin and playing games. i don't know what games roger is playing but what's wrong over there? something's wrong. when they sent out that press release talking about, i said what are these people playing

games. most likely, won't be doing the debate. >> donald trump saying he most likely will not participate in the next republican debate. the last debate before iowa. his campaign manager clarified after that statement from the candidate himself, the campaign manager said he's definitely not participating in the debate. the this comes after mr. trump has been complaining for days about the inclusion of fox news hosts megyn kelly as one of the debate moderators. he posted a poll online asking his supporters if he should participate in the debate. that led the fox news channel to put out one of their patented pr department statements. we learned that the tend to treat donald trump unfairly when they meet with him if he becomes president. a source sells us that trump has his own secret plan to replace the cabinet with his twitter followers to see if he should go to those meetings which is hilarious in public relations sophomore year class.

it appears to have backfired in the real world in national politics and mr. trump is not going to be in the fox news debate. at this late date in the last week before iowa, with iowa looking like it's really close, what effect will that have on the race for him to sit out the debate. who knows what effect that will have on the race. who knows what effect that will have on whether people watch that debate without donald trump in it if he does a competing event somewhere else at the same time. that said, we did also learn today that rand paul has been asked back to participate in the debate this time from the main stage and we learned today from fox news that jim gilmore has been invited back to be at the kids table again. thank you for being here. >> thank you.

>> mr. trump has made his demands. his campaign is saying nothing will change his mind. he will not show up on thursday. do you believe him? >> seems like the campaign is much more serious about this. they released a statement and it says in part, as the person who wrote the art of the deal, mr. trump knows a bad deal when he sees one. it goes onto say why he's not going to be participating in this debate and says he will have, as you mentioned, an alternate event where he will raise money for wounded warriors and veterans. we're hearing they're trying to find another network to compete -- to counter programming to air that special

with donald trump. who knows if they'll be able to do that. we've been reaching out to wounded warriors to see if the campaign has reached out to them. sounds like this is in the beginning planning stages. when i've spoken to the rnc they didn't know about this until donald trump announced it at this press conference. they say that it's up to the campaign to decide whether or not they want to participate. i think everyone will wait until tomorrow afternoon to find out if this is happening. he's threatened the boycott fox news but has started appearing on their show. this is different. they are releasing statement. they are getting pretty serious about this one. >> as far as i understand the party rules. we have been looking at party rules because the democrats are considering whether or not to do an unsanctioned debate.

there's no consequences. no spelled out consequences in case a candidate decides not to show up to a debate to which he or she is invited. that said, i wonder if it's possible that mr. trump is trying to get some sort of concession out of fox. trying to give fox to give him something he can't get from them in exchange for him participating on thursday. >> i think he's playing a game of chicken with fox. i think fox is not necessarily the network to do that. they are not necessarily going to back down. they have backing megny kelly throughout this entire campaign. this war he's waged with her over the past seven months. i don't think fox is necessarily going to back down. the rnc says they will not get involved. this is not a situation like we saw with the national review where they were against donald trump. it's also not a situation like the union leader in new hampshire which was kicked out

of a debate. this is a different situation. this is about questions and moderators. they have said it's up to each come pain to decide whether or not they want to participate. obviously, they said they would like all the campaigns and the candidates to be on that stage. if they decide they don't want to they're not going to do anything about it. >> thank you very much. really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> this is such a weird day. this is such a weird day. there's ahead including some kind of big news from flint, michigan. stay with us.

we're going to have a show tomorrow night from michigan the doing a town hall on the mass lead poisoning of that city and what will happen next because of it. we're going to do that tomorrow. tonight, we're about to speak with the mayor of flint, michigan. we wanted to talk to her about the situation and the city. we found tonight we could only get her on the phone. we couldn't get her in front of camera because she's been in a long meeting all night tonight with michigan's governor, rick schneider. out of that meeting there's big news as to what is about to

happen in michigan. what michigan is asking for. this is a totally different scale from anything we have heard before. that and the mayor are next. stay with us.

we have some breaking news to report out of flint, michigan. in terms of the response to the lead poisoning crisis in flint, president obama, you'll remember dispatched this person to be on site in flint. we're getting what kind of help she might be asked to muster and coordinate. governor rick schneider said he's requesting the federal government provide medical care for young people in flint. he's going to ask the public health service to cover long term health care for people in flint under the age of 21. he says he want a flint specific

expansion of medicaid. that federal health insurance program will cover every young person in flint regardless of income. he's asking for comprehensive medical treatment for the long haul for all flint kids because they all drank that lead poisoned water because of what his administration did. that's the request coming from the state of michigan. we have not heard back from the public health service on this request. this is new. what he is asking for from the federal government, long term help, medical help for people who live in flint and especially long term help for flint's kids. joining us now is the mayor of flint, michigan. i'm told major karen weaver is on the phone because she just got out of a long meeting with the governor on this subject. thank you so much for being with us. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. i apologize i couldn't be there in person. we just finished up. >> can you tell us about what happened in this meeting.

what you understand to be the current state of the governor's request for federal help and the next steps for flint? >> you know what, let me say this, i had the opportunity to not only have this meeting with him but i was always in the meeting when our national state and local president sat down from the naacp sat down and put some requests in place as well. one of the things when you were talking about the medical help that is going to be coming for medicaid to be expanding. those are things we have wanted. we know we have to get the kids identified to know what they need. these are really good first steps. we still have to put the services in place they will need from here on out. that's what we have to look at as well. we still have to have a comprehensive set of services for kids and families. i was really pleased with this first step. i just got back in town early this morning.

i was in the snowstorm. i have not had the opportunity to sit down with her a second time. that's what we want to look at is how do we extend all these kinds of services for kids. we want to look at other services. we want to look at extending wic and head start, those kinds of things as well. that's what we're drying to put in place. the other thing that the governor talked about is i've been saying that the 28 million isn't enough. the governor said he recognizes that as well. that was another up with of his first steps. the budget is going to be put in place probably within the month and what i'm working on now with my team is getting some figures to him. we're doing another ask. we need some more money. i just want it to be very clear with him this is what we need to have happened next. he has given some first steps that we are in favor of, we appreciate, but we know we need more.

we have to look at what's happening to our economy as a result of this water. our economy has gone down. our businesses have gone down. people aren't coming into certain, to restaurants. people can't afford filtration systems for restaurants. businesses will leave here. we are also putting an economic development plan in place for the city of flint, in addition, to the services a and support the the kids and families will need. we have to look at other things because flint hassen impacted in so many ways as a result of what's happened. >> in terms of recovery of flint, i'm very moved by what you're saying in terms of supporting kids and their families and kids that have been exposed. i'm also thinking about the risk of continued exposure. we see that bottled water being brought in and that's great.

the the kids and families will need. we have to look at other things because flint hassen impacted in we're going to see you tomorrow night. i really appreciate it. >> we appreciate you as well. >> not nearly as much as i'm looking forward to it. we'll be right back.

why does she have such an natural obsession? her fixation on him is kind of bizarre. quote, does rachel have ties to main. if not, what is her weird fas nation with him? quote, what's is her obsession with the governor. that verbatim is what the office of the governor has been willing to tell us when we have inquired whether or not he was going to give his state of the state speech in main this year.

the reason we were asking is because the governor had threatened not to give that speech this year because the legislator had debated whether or not they were going to impeach him. he was so offended that he said he might mail the speech in to the legislator instead of showing up in person and delivering it. the governor's office basically called me a nut job for even asking if he had made up his mind about that issue. and that's how far we were in the story as of this time last night, but now, today, the governor has apparently made up his mind. this closely guarded secret about whether or not he's going to give the state of the state in person, it's now been let out. >> the truth is i'm going do to do a state of the state in writing so people kbt change my words. >> so you will not do a live state of the state and you will

send a letter to the ledge slatser? >> right. it makes so sense. last week they tried to impeach me. this week they're throwing rotten tomatoes in front of me. >> so just to be clear, the governor is going do the state of the state address in main this year in writing, quote, so people can't change my words, because he thinks people change his words when he speaks them, but not when he writes them. i haven't really been obsessed unnaturally with the governor have main, but i'm starting to be. i'm starting to be.

so as you have heard tomorrow night we're going to be broadcasting the show from flint, michigan. we're going to be hosting at

town hall on the water crisis created when the state government lead poisoned that whole town. we're going to be holding it the elementary school. we're going to do it in the school gym. we're being advised that apparently the event is going to be packed. we're hearing about people throwing watch parties for the event like this one at a restaurant in flint which is hosted by the michigan senator. it's going to include free pizza and salad and soft drinks and bottled water. we have heard about another one being held tomorrow night. if there are other watch parties you guys are planning on doing for the flint town hall, let us know. e-mail them to us. we're going to be discussing what happened in flint and why and how it happened and we're going to be talking about what needs to happen right now to fix this.

i think there's been a misconception in the country because there's a lot of attention to flint that it means it's over or it's done or it's being attended to. that's not necessarily the case. tomorrow night we're going to be joined by many of the people central to the story of what has happened in flint and elected officials in flint like the doctor who first exposed the elevated lead levels in the blood of flint's kids, but most importantly the people who are going to be there tomorrow in bulk are the people of flint, people who of knew there was something wrong with their water despite authorities saying there water was safe and people who spoke out when nobody would listen and people who today despite all the national attention, as far as we can tell, they're still not getting the help they need. we have invited the governor to attend the event. as of this evening he hasn't said one way or the other.

hope springs eternal. that's all tomorrow night, 9:00. we hope you can join us and possibly your neighbors. now it's time with the last word. it's wednesday, january 27. and right now on "first look," breaking overnight. showdown in oregon and a shoot-out with fbi agents leaves one dead and several arrested. we've got late breaking details. pulling out. donald trump says bye-bye to megyn kelly in the thursday debate just five days before iowa votes. nbc news reveals not a single lead pipe has been replaced yet in flint, while frantic parents have their kids tested for lead poisoning. plus a prison break captured on camera. from the "godfather" and more,