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will you abuse power, break the law or go after people after giving no answer, donald trump finally pledges to be a dictator on day one. plumes of smoke rising over gaza this morning as we are now hearing from freed hostages confronting the israeli prime minister in leaked audio. why she s angry at the israeli government. a killing spree in two major texas cities leaves six people dead and two police officers wounded. investigators say one suspect is behind all of that violence. i m sara sidner with john berman and kate bolduan. this is cnn news central. this morning a promise from donald trump to be a dictator. yes, with conditions, but a pledge, nonetheless and how he got there is even more telling. facing questions from sean hannity, not exactly a probing interrogation from edward r. murrow, but asked if he would abuse power, break the law or go after people watch how long it took trump to offer any answer at all. i want to be very, very clear on this.
school and americans have not been paying attention once this debate happens this week is off to the races that s when you will start to see people really focus in on different candidates and look at what their options are, we feel really good going into the debate, i love debate and i m looking forward to it. do you expect the race on the republican side to heat up after the debate. definitely i think we will get a sense of which candidates or republicans will be able to coalesce behind to take on donald trump in the primary, there getting an unprecedented debate without him there and i m sure he ll be talked about in the little elephant in the room. i think it s a real shock to attack opponents that they feel are a risk to him without him being there, i think we ll have a better sense of. former arkansas governor eisha hudson says he s getting there will that the rnc make the final declaration but let s play him. yes i will be on the stage we met the pulling criteria and now
clearly, that made harry enten laugh. our senior data reporter. a little chuckle from you. the reality, trump may or may not show up. he did meet the donor threshold he did meet the polling threshold. who else? yes. so right now, we have six candidates. you mentioned the former president, ron desantis, tim scott, nikki haley, chris christie, and vivek ramaswami, have all met the thresholds, so those six candidates will be on the stage if they want to be. i ll note that there are two other folks who are at least close to making the debate. the former vice president, mike pence. he s hit the poll criteria, but not the donor one, and doug bergen, the north dakota governor says he s hit the donor criteria, but not the poll one. right now we re at a stage of six if trump decides to debate, then we could dgo to eight, and there are a bunch of fd other people that aren t close to meeting those thresholds.
it is world aids day today. there are approximately 1.2 million people living in the u.s. with hiv today, many of them restricted on when they can donate blood but the u.s. food and drug administration is considering changing their donor criteria. what s changing? let s take a little bit of a look back historically. around 1985 is when we first saw this ban on those men who had sex with men. so until 2018 they were not allowed to give blood at all. and then this changed and said you can donate blood as long as you ve been abstinent for the year. and can covid, they said as long as you ve been abstinent without three months, can you donate