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Candidates has hit the donor threshold. they have raised more than 130,000 individual donations so they qualify based on that but, remember, you also need four polls as you say at 2%. right now tom steyer has hit 2% in three polls. so is one poll away from making the debate. by august 28th there needs to be one more poll come out. steyer has to hit 2% in it. if he does he is in. there are 11 candidates. they go to a two-night debate. after that you got tulsi gabbard. she hit 2% in two polls. that means over the next six days, this is a tall order for her, she needs to hit 2% in two more polls....

Unique donors to qualify. so far ten candidates have reached the benchmark. and if even just one more candidate qualifies, well, a second night of debates will be added. joining me nbc's national political correspondent steve kornacki. so let's talk about the candidates who have not qualified. could we get to 11 or 12? >> it's crunch time. let's take you through what we're keeping an eye on as the august 28th deadline approaches. again, 22 candidates right now. take insley out for dropping out last night. 22 democrats who say they are running for president. as you mentioned, these are the ten ...

Is it looking for you in terms of qualifying for the next round of debates? >> well, i will be there. hopefully we can make onannouncement tomorrow we're there with the donors. we've already papassed the poll threshold. i think it's under ten people now that have qualified for the houston debates, and i will be one of them. we did very well yerld in our online fund-raising and getting those what they call unique donors. so we're pretty excited about it. maybe a smaller pool of candidates will allow me to answer every single question which i'd love to do. >> thank you very much for that. a bit ...