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, a hospital in the cross fire. israely forces raid gaza s largest hospital conducting with they say is a precise and targeted operation against hamas. and say idf soldiers brought critical supplies is for patients in a dire situation. but still no proof of their reason for invading the hospital. plus biden and xi in it a critical summit. what can the two leaders accomplish with tensions incredibly high, so are the stakes for this meeting. and capital fight club, a day of elbows, jabs, insults and threats. i ll speak with a lawmaker who almost came to blows with a witness right in the middle of a senate hearing. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. we begin in the middle east, where israeli forces are reportedly inside the besieged hospital in gaza. both israel and the u.s. say intelligence shows hamas is running a command center underneath the hospital. but the situation is reportedly growing dire for patients wi
the reelection campaign have been joking,s it s about when to go full hitler. what they mean by that is the idea that donald trump has been using terminology that hitler used, and that that is something that the biden campaign is going to play up. we have some quotes here about some things like we will root out my political opponents that live lie vermin, that was trump. and lit hitler said pests and vermin, immigrants are poison ing the blood of the country. hitler, come tan nation of the blood and inferior race will lead to the fall in germany. trump s defense here is that he is not consciously quoting hitler. he s containously recreated the rhetoric on his own, which may not be the most reawe suring defense. the biden campaign is realizing that this has to be a choice