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strategy. were going to bring you brand new reporting from inside the campaign. im dana bash. lets go behind the headlines and "inside politics." we start today with breaking news on who qualified for cnns 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 ba...

the coverage. and im jose diaz-balart. and today new fallout in the light of donald trumps historic indictment. well dive into new details about his ladies and gentlemen legal strategy and how it is shaping the race for the white house. and another florida republican launches his presidential bid. and also new this morning, richard engels exclusive interview with volodymyr zelenskyy. and in new york a grand jury indicts does an yell penny, the man putting neely in a chokehold. well...

stone cited several trump legal and political advisers who claim that the former president is demanding that they incorporate fringe conspiracies into his legal defense, quote, heres a list of ideas have included inserting that there is evidence that anti trump elements in the fbi framed him and a maga protesters by using undercover agents and -- to instigate the january 6th riot. and there the left wing anti-fascist played a role in attacking the capitol that day, and that trumps lieu...

mosel and indictment of the u.s. president of a kind of take you there alive, these are strange days indeed. both the current and former president under special counsel investigation of taking classified documents. today, former president trump was on a golf course oreo today in new jersey, and he also shoop his legal team after learning that he will face charges in miami and they were grand juries remember in d.c. and in miami, and theres a suggestion that they were not expecting this...

acknowledging he took those documents and claiming he had every right to take them. >> under the presidential records act, which is civil, not criminal, i had every right to have these documents. in other words, whatever documents a president decides to take with him, he has the right to do so. its an absolute right. this is the law. >> independent legal experts say thats not true. it could hurt him at a trial. is he betting on an election victory for republicans and getting the case d...

of the archivist. he had no right to retain them and maintain them and he kept them in a way at mar-a-lago that anyone who cares about national security their stomach would turn at. >> thats former attorney general bill barr making it clear that the classified documents case against donald trump is not a witch hunt as the former president has repeatedly claimed. well go through the many, many new developments tied to the indictment, and it comes as trump ice rivals for the 2024 republi...

killed in lebanon. why the strike is sparking new fears that the war could spill into the wider region. and breaking news out of iran. more than 100 people killed in explosions commemorating an iranian general killed by a u.s. drone strike back in 2020. children amongst the dead and nearly 150 injured. were going to have the very latest in just a moment as well. ♪♪ good morning, everybody, its 10:00 a.m. in the east. im yasmin vossoughian in for ana cabrera. good to see you thi...

thats how one person familiar with the january 6th trial preparations described the strategy according to rolling stone magazine. in new reporting tonight, rolling stone cites several of trumps legal and political advisers who claim the former president is demanding they incorporate fringe conspiracies into his legal defense. quote, his list of ideas has included asserting that theres evidence of anti-trump elements in the fbi framed him and maga protesters by using undercover agents a...

room where john kirby is set to headline that briefing just moments from now. >> john: the big question, what will he have to say today about beijing setting up a spy base in americas back yard. kirby now admitting what the national security spokesperson said just days ago that china has a spy base in cuba, yes, its real. >> sandra: biden administration -- >> they have ports on both sides of the panama canal already that can restrict that shipping. they have a space monitoring station ...

>> bret: but, obviously, breaking tonight, an historic day. one that both republicans and democrats described as, quote: a sad day. the first former or current president of the united states to be arrested and booked in federal criminal court. former president donald trump pleaded not guilty to all 37 counts in the indictment alleging that the former president illegally kept hundreds of classified documents at his mar-a-lago home, even after a subpoena to return them. potentially riski...