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%
Today on inside politics, in minutes, something we have never seen before. From any sitting u. S. President , joe biden stands shoulder to shoulder with picketers on The Front Line of a strike against detroits big three. His team hope ss to show a signf solidarity with unions and hopes it will pay dividends for workers and also for his own road map back to the white house. Plus the dam breaks. At least a dozen senators say bob menendez should quit, including his fellow senator from new jersey cory booker and lawmakers from swing states who face tough battles to keep their own jobs. And the line up is locked in. Tomorrow, seven republicans clash on a california debate stage. Im dana bash. Lets go head the behind the headlines and inside politics. Up first, history in detroit. This Hour Air Force one will land in michigan, where the president will head to the picketline. Auto workers are in the middle of a big fight over pay and whether they get a bigger piece of record corporate profits