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%
amy coney barrett. chief roberts wrote an opinion ban on abortions 15 weeks after pregnancy, but stopped the precedence of roe vs. wade together. all three liberal justices were in dissent. sandra: nearly half the states are already prepared to ban or severely limit abortions. this ruling comes more than a month, you ll remember, after the stunning leak of a draft opinion by justice samuel alito, indicating the court was prepared to take this very step. that leak leading to weeks of protests outside the homes of some justices and even a threat on the life of justice brett kavanaugh. trace: begin with shannon bream, she is life at the supreme court. good to see you, trace and sandra. walk through this again. what happens here, with the 5-4 opinion, at least on the issue of not only upholding the mississippi law but journey turning roe, send this back to the states. many of them already have trigger laws on one end or the other that are kicking in almost immediately, some
asking the supreme court to immediately step in to decide whether former president trump has immunity from prosecution, relating to his actions seeking to overturn the 2020 election. sandra: remains to be seen whether the highest bench will choose to take the case, but the move appears to be an attempt by smith to keep the march trial back on track and block the former president from delaying the trial in the federal appeals court. john: let s go to david spunt, breaking details for us. david. david: sandra, you are right. jack smith, special counsel, does not want to see any delays in this case. he wants this trial to begin and finish before the election. right now he s asking the nine justices, remember, a body that tries to stay away from politics, he s asking them to essentially enter the nerve center of the 2024 presidential election making an emergency appeal to the high court asking the justices to rule that donald trump is not immune from prosecution. he petitio
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
Right in the middle of the 2022 midterm elections. bret: shannon, we have been through these big cases before. we have talked about it. it is interesting to listen to the questions. you can t really get to what moo means just by the questions. yeah. because a lot of times, you know, expbluives are arguments may be playing devil s advocate and may press both sides. you can t read too much into it you can get some hints and clues but nothing really matters until votes are cast and on paper. bret: shannon bream outside the court today and all day. shannon, see you don t. thanks. shannon: you see you then. bret: let s bring in dairy severino and president of the constitutional accountability center. elizabeth, i want to start with you. what was your take away today? what did you see was significant? well, i thought that we saw a court that seems poised to strike down roe v. wade even though when i read the constitution text, when i look at its history, the 14th amendment in par