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all in person. you have a great, weekend it s a busy week so i m sure we ll be talking during the week. see you, guys. velshi, starts now. good morning. it s sunday, january the 21st. i m ali velshi. we re two days away from the very first primary of the season. and perhaps, two days away from donald trump so in up the republican nomination in record time. the former president, who s been twice impeached and currently faces 91 criminal charges, appears headed for another easy victory and tuesday s primary. with all the legal troubles he still has a head of him this year, he is looking to shut down the primaries as soon as possible. new hampshire is nikki haley s hail mary moment. she has been gaining ground on trump in recent weeks, it appears to be too little, too late. while polls out of new hampshire have been historically volatile, no signs have emerged that haley will get the surge of support that she truly needs to boost her chances. even if she did pull off a m ....
he s boasting about the fact that he that he canceled roe v. wade. i think joining us thank you to our viewers. thanks very much for watching our special coverage of debate night in america continues right here, right now on cnn with anderson cooper and erin burnett good evening from cnn headquarters in atlanta. we re just two hours from now. history will be made joe biden and donald trump s squaring off on the stage. we are showing you in the earliest ever presidential debate, the first ever between the president and ex-president the first in which one of the candidates is also convicted felon awaiting three other criminal trials and so much sets this debate apart from others, including rules tailored just for this occasion in and agreed to by both candidates. but there are so many unknowns about what will happen tonight. anderson, can president biden overcome the difficulties that so many incumbent presidents have faced in their first debates, can donald trump d ....
It and put up with all the court orders that made him stop and then he started putting it up record pace and lost the election and stopped in its tracks. steve: brian, those points that you just made on behalf of donald trump, it would be great to see donald trump and ron desantis and chris christie just duke it out. that s why they call it a debate. and then, you know, so many people have said well, donald trump, ainsley, you echoed it a while ago, he has done so well in debates in the past. all right, show up. debate, and shine. this is his big chance. all right. i m just going to eliminate these two immediately. ainsley: it s a chance, we will see everyone who is debating on that stage. i wonder how long after that do people start to drop out. steve: the money dries up. ainsley: iowa, new hampshire, south carolina. two candidates in south carolina. what does that mean for ron desantis? what does that mean for donald trump when they go too to south carolina. donald trump in t ....
So let s see what happens on august 23rd. donald trump says i m up by so much do i really need to do this. ron desantis expect everybody to be there governor christie is poking him, calling him a coward if he doesn t show up. everyone needs him there. one of the biggest prize surprises is one of the people that has not qualified yet is vice president mike pence e has not hit the 40,000 threshold with the 1%. he needs 40,000 separate donations. but governor desantis, i guess, is the first mini crisis. got the money. maybe overspent. not resonating like he thought, and has toe rejigger some of his lineup. has to super pacs and start going to hostile territory beginning today and then possibly two or three times after. steve: getting a clear picture of the status of all the candidates right now. over the weekend it was the ....
Ron desantis thing like he felt ron desantis should have endorsed him. brian: on the surface seems like a situation where you have a very popular successful governor in iowa ohio thought was going to actually endorse desantis because they are so tight, who is doing a lot of the same things and has that school choice and everything. and for trump to go after just for not endorsing him. it certainly didn t hurt him over the weekend in the speak when he brought her up. to your point, too in terms of small donors, the new york times writes, small donor donations are down. it s just can those are 200 lower. $10.2 million small donors which shows the grassroots that donald trump has. ainsley: maybe that s because small donors feels the way kim reynolds does. brian: i mean for joe biden. ainsley: okay. steve: regarding on the republican side. do you know who surprisingly has got a lot of small donors for a republican is chris christie. he raised $1.6 million in the ....