tonight's msnbc debate is hillary clinltton's last chance to take on sanders face to face. >> if this is about our record, hey, i'm going to win by a land slide tuesday. >> reporter: he's hammering clinton on her six figure speeches. >> i do not know any progressive who has a super pack and takes $15 million from wall street. >> reporter: her response. >> i don't know. that's what they offered. republican, donald trump, is claiming he could have won iowa if cruz hadn't sent out false information that said carson was dropping out. >> you know these pall tishzoliticians are brutal. they are a bunch of dishonest cookies. >> i wake up and laugh at the latest thing donald has tweeted because he's losing it. >> reporter: rubio is a close number three here. >> ultimately i think it goes back to what i said before and that's the willingness to say or do anything. >> reporter: santorum dropped out and indorsed rubio. but rand paul dropped out and indorsed no one. mike huckabee also out now, so the field is definitely getting smaller. >> now as tracie mentioned, sanders debate live in durham. i

and coming up on "early today," after spending hours in a dead heat with bernie sanders, hillary clinltton is named the parent winner in the iowa caucus caucuses. "early today" starts right now. >>> and goodorning everyone. thanks for being with us. i'm shannon mulaire. iowa voteers have spoken, ted cruz is the winner of the iowa caucus, while nbc news has named hillary clinton the winner of the democrats. in a race so close that at three caucus sites, clinton won by an actual coin toss. after the results were at a stalemate they flipped a coin to decide who to support. on the republican side, donald trump finished second behind cruz followed closely by marco rubio and then a massive drop off for the rest of the field. of the 30 gop iowa delegates, carson three, rand paul, jeb bush and mike huckabee each won one. and tracie potts joins us live with the latest. >> reporter: let's talk about these results starting with the democrats because it's not clear if anyone really knew it would be quite this tight between hillary clinton and bernie sanders, both sort of declaring victory before all o

and coming up on "early today," after spending hours in a dead heat with bernie sanders, hillary clinltton is named the parent winner in the iowa caucus caucuses.

and coming up on "early today," after spending hours in a dead heat with bernie sanders, hillary clinltton is named the parent winner in the iowa caucus caucuses. "early today" starts right now. >>> and goodorning everyone. thanks for being with us. i'mhannon mulaire. iowa voteers have spoken, ted caucus, while nbc news has named

and coming up on "early today," after spending hours in a dead heat with bernie sanders, hillary clinltton is named the parent winner in the iowa caucus caucuses. "early today" starts right now. >>> and good morning everyone. thanks for being with us. i'm shannon mulaire. iowa voteers have spoken, ted cruz is the winner of the iowa caucus, while nbc news has named hillary clinton the winner of the democrats. in a race so close that at three caucus sites, clinton won by an