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right now on "early start," the new poll releasing this very minute showing nikki haley is closing the gap on donald trump in one early primary state. plus the republican front runner planning to be in court just hours from now while his lawyers argue he's immune from prosecution. hi, everyone. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. good to see all of you. i'm omar jimenez in for kasie hunt. it is tuesday, january 9th. we are we have a lot of news to get to. let's get going. we want to start with 5:00 a.m. in washington. we have a brand new cnn poll for...

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With haley just 7 points behind at 32%. the rest of the field hovers at least 20 points further back in the poll taken just this week. chris christie is at 12% fo followed by vivek ramaswamy and ron desantis in single digits. now trump is roughly where he was in the last cnn university of new hampshire poll in november. the real change has been for haley, who has jumped a huge 12 points since the last cnn poll. about a third of that at the expense of ron desantis. so let's bring in political reporter steph kite to discuss. we have a lot to talk about here. but specifically, haley's biggest pic...