strategy. we re going to bring you brand new reporting from inside the campaign. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. we start today with breaking news on who qualified for cnn s iowa debate next week. last before the caucuses. the deadline to meet the polling threshold just passed, and our political director david chalian joins me now. david, who made the cut? as you noted, the deadline just passed and actually the window of qualification started way back on october 15th. we now know that for the cnn january 10th debate, the three candidates who have qualified are former president trump, nikki haley and ron desantis. we also know that donald trump has not participated in any debate yet this cycle, and he doesn t intend on participating at the cnn debate on january 10th. that leaves haley and desantis on the stage, and that would be the smallest debate stage that we have seen to date. that means that they were the only candidates to hit 10%
hello in and welcome. it is time to get together with some smart people to break down the week s big stories. today we re asking does donald trump have a case for presidential immunity as the appeals court preparing to hear arguments that could change the entire election. then president biden s new campaign strategy appears to be less bidenomics, more hypno references. is the president running away from his record? for shizzle, yay or nay on the newest olympic reporter, snoop dogg. the gang is all here so sit back, relax and let s talk about it. up first as we mark the third anniversary of the january 6th attack on the capitol, the central issue now is whether donald trump s criminal cases can go forward. this week a three-judge panel will take up the question and potentially decide his political future. a major legal fight playing out tuesday, focused on two words. presidential immunity. donald trump claims he can t be prosecuted for what happened on january 6t
or on drugs, the war on poverty and so on, but not real war. it s a half a world away. both sides talk funny and those slobs on the view, never talked about it. so uh, i don t get to make fat jokes. but why is that ? well war is like a 401k. don t check on it until you cash out. maybe people will care when our army doesn t have any bullets left. but it s worth pointing out that admits this silence. there are two men on opposite sides of politics, who are actually speaking up, saying that the war s gotta end the moment you say that, of course, though, somebody s going to call you a putin puppet. to which you should respond. well you re a puppet of a puppet. and you both have your hands up each other s ass s a year ago. i said that unless you mitigate the war at the start, it becomes background noise like cnn while you re waiting at gate c seven. someone gets it. here s rfk jr. my own son, connor joined the foreign legion. and fought in the ukraine during the kharkiv offensive.
legal analyst. of course, the one and only, rick wilson, cofounder of the lincoln project, republican media strategist. welcome to all of you. he is also the author of run against the devil, a plot to save america from trump and democrats from themselves. i love that one. so, barbara, let s start with you. will the supreme court be forced to weigh in on trump s ballot eligibility? i think that s the driving question right now. i think so. i don t know how they dodged this. in light of the fact that we have seen different opinions now coming out of different states. i think, ultimately, there is a risk that we get this patchwork of eligibility that s different in all 50 states. even that each state gets to decide procedurally how they handle ballot questions, the substance of who is eligible is really a question for the u.s. supreme court interpreting the 14th amendment, it s a question. i think most people expect that the court might find some procedural off-ramp to avoid a
pride month. i m seeing rainbows everywhere, but the sky. let s talk about war. would you rather we do trans? all right. that is later in the show. war is a great topic. it s so great no one wants to talk about it. it is like bringing up 9/11 at a baby shower. yeah, that landed. that s proof. we re sending billions of dollars of weapons to ukraine, you wouldn t know it judging by the press. someone winds up with that issue prosecute. what if russia bombs a shipment? we can talk about that after world war iii. who is winning or loses and none of it makes sense. do we care? we love to talk about war, war on of po erty, war on drugs, not real world. it is half a world away, those people talk funny and the view never talks about it. i don t get to make fat jokes. 401(k), don t check until you cash it out. it is worth pointing out amidst silence, there are two men speaking up, saying the war has to end. the moment you say that, somebody will call you a putin puppet, to which you