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uphill battle for president biden heading into 2024. the president facing negative approval ratings and widespread concerns about his age. and ading to headaches to the white house, the special counsel investigating the presidents son hunter biden plans to seek an indictment against him on gun charges by the end ofrt month. donald trump also facing continued legal challenge this is morning. one of his aids is flipping on him. an i.t. worker threatened with prosecution in the classi...

im carl nasman. we begin with the latest from gaza where the hamas run health ministry says the death toll in the territory has now passed 8000 people. israel has been bombing gaza since the october seven hamas attack that killed some moo people. you see now some of the latest images coming in of the air strikes currently across the gaza strip. hundreds more during that attack on israel were taken as hostages. israeli defense forces have said its latest nighttime attacks and strokes so...

health ministry says that the death toll has passed 8000 people. it follows attacks which killed moo people in israel with hundreds taken as hostages. the latest nighttime attack struck around 150 targets according to israel and killed key figures within hamas which is designated as a terror group by the uk, us and many western nations. israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu said the ground operation has entered the second phase with israeli troops and the north and south. he has wan...

>> dana: a month from next week you will have a second rnc debate. you increase the requirements to get on the debate stage between now and then. do you expect to have the same number of candidates on the stage next month as you are going to have tomorrow night? >> i dont know. what i will say is when we put out the criteria for the first debate a lot of people said we cant get 40,000 small unique donors. every single candidate running on our ticket were able to meet that threshold. theyve met a...

>> i think as democrats we are going to succeed when we dream big and fight hard, not when we dream small and quit before we get started. >> that shrunk to seven in december thanks to partys increasing in polling thresholds. no question defined the democratic primary fight this year more than this. do voters want an idealogical revolution or a candidate focused on relief from donald trump? at the top of the field bernie sanders and elizabeth warren are the revolutionaries, promising sweeping cha...

Threshold. its been that way, so what has changed since the debate last week? >> well, those thresholds have increased modestly. it is now 5% in four qualifying polls, up from 4%, or 7% in two qualifying polls from the early states. thats up from 6%. also, the donor threshold has increased from $200,000 to $225,000. thats a small increase and doesnt seem likely to exclude anyone, but those polling thresholds 5% is a number that only a handful of candidates have achieved. >> right. >> you mention...

Big and fight hard. not when we dream small and quit before we get started. >> reporter: shrinking to seven in december thanks to the polling thresholds. no question defined the democratic primary fight this year more than this. do voters want an ideology revolution or a candidate focused on relief from donald trump. at top of the field, bernie sanders and elizabeth warren are the revolutionaries promising sweeping change and former vice president joe biden and mayor pete buttigieg and senator a...

Happens. >> the dnc polling thresholds has kept you from participating in several debates including last nights. do you think that the dynamic of the race changed much after last nights debate? >> i dont think the dynamic of the race changed after last nights debate just like i dont think its changed after any of these debates. you know, the debates have not really helped democrats. and in new hampshire and in iowa this race is less consolidated today than it was six weeks ago or six months ago ...

You look at who was polling at 4%, you had people polling over 4% like jesse jackson and al sharpton and barack obama and kamala harris. and so our polling thresholds and our thresholds for our debates, to say that they have somehow leaving people of color off this stage is not only wrong but its insulting. its insulting as a woman of color, and someone who is involved in the debate process. thats something that we want to make sure we have fair and inclusive but at the same time we are also loo...