Welcome to The Beat weekend. I am ari melber. We begin with these vows, and sometimes confessions about the extreme agenda of the modern right, and we are not just talking about policy extremism, on taxes or education, but rather, how maga forces are openly plotting what independent reports call and a revenge administration. The last New America Will Have No Written Constitution. Some will say that i am advocating christian nationalism, and so i do. This is an approach on display at a national conservatism gathering, which i will get into with you tonight. This matters because voters are not only going to decide whether they truly want four more years of Donald Trump, but what more trump actually means. This is, i will tell you up top, a story about Donald Trumps positions. He is one of the people running for president. You know that. Its a story about his allies, and like anything in politics, it operates, it exists within these times, this current mood in politics. Something that Nic
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 pilot of the passenger plane did not spot the plane on the runway. they had 90 seconds to de-plane, and nobody on the aircraft was seriously injured. some were taken to the hospital saying they did not feel well. this is the passengers seen getting off. will ripley has the latest. the japanese prime minister is sending condolesses to the five coast guard crew members who lost their lives in the fiery runway collision right in the heart of tokyo. look at this in haneda airport shortly before 6:00 p.m. local time. a massive fireball erupted in the runway right in the middle of the busy runway when a crowded jet with 67 passengers including eight children under the age of 2 and 12 crew members on board collided with a coast guard plane that was taking off to deliver leaf supplies to parts of central japan on the western side that are desperately in need of aid right now because of the massive earthquake that struck hours after the country rang in the new year, and began 20
democrat governor kathy hochul bolstering security after weeks of protests targeting key transportation hubs. much more on what officials are bracing for. but first, fox on top of the over the top numbers to close out 2023 at the border. migrant encounters hitting an all-time high. and on wall street, stocks hitting a series of highs, and on the campaign trail where tensions on both sides couldn t be higher. donald trump getting banned from another tate ballot. state ballot. meanwhile, republican presidential candidate nikki haley is here on that as the first big contest in two key states closes in. many. david: and good saturday morning to everyone. i m david asman in for neil cavuto, and this is cavuto live. first to the record-breaking number ifs at the border. griff jenkins is here to break it down for us. good to have you in new york, but you ve got new numbers from the border. yeah, david, it s really remark remarkable, we re going to end the year with the south
2020 democrats that are running right now for president and there s six senators doing so facing a possible campaign crunch in the impeachment trial happens along the timeline that many democrats hope this passes impeachment move in the house, that s when it would be arriving in the senate. what do they do? karl rove on all of that. what happens then? they re in more of a box than the president. yeah, they have to show up. this is a trial as you may remember from 1998 or even earlier, the hearings in 1974. neil: don t get me started on the ones i covered in 1868. i didn t want to mention that. i wasn t around then. i came a few years later. neil: right. they have to show up and have to be there. they can t go campaigning in iowa. this is likely to start perhaps if it passes if impeachment houses the house by christmas, this will be in shortly after christmas or shortly after the first of the year.