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GUEST: David Dayen, contributing writer to Salon, weekly columnist at The Fiscal Times, contributor to The Intercept.

Just 15 days before the Iowa caucus, Senator Bernie Sanders, Former State Secretary Hillary Clinton, and former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley faced off in a Democratic Party debate in Charleston, South Carolina. The debate was sponsored by NBC and YouTube, and took place just a few blocks from Mother Emanuel AME Church where a horrific mass shooting took place last year.

Media pundits were split on who won the debate, Clinton or Sanders. The most important issues that emerged during the debate were gun control, healthcare, the economy, campaign finance, and, on the foreign policy front, the war on ISIS.