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%
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do you use the word? no. people don t know what that means. so they are having this messaging gap that they are trying to remind people about prescription drug prices, infrastructure, where shovels are just now get sbog the ground. they have a pretty big task i ahead. it s really fascinating. check out the piece on cnn.com. thank you for coming on. coming up, a defection in the granite state. why a former member of chris christie s committee says he s on team haley.