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%
the special counsel said rather than vindicating our constitutional framework, the sweeping immunity claim claims to license to commit crimes to remain in office. i want you to listen to what the congressman from maryland and the top democrat on the january 6th investigation told me about this claim. it s hard to think of a more un-american or anticonstitutional argument than the idea that the president can commit crimes while in office with impunity. murder, rape, insurrection, conspiracy to sabotage the election, overthrow the government, it s em fete call to the rule of law and a constitutional democracy. it s also explicitly rejected by the constitution text. what do you make of that? i think that s exactly right it was the same way prosecutors are loathe to give them to