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The republican debate that is taking place just 12 days before the iowa caucus will feature only two candidates. cnn announced florida governor ron desantis and former u.s. ambassador nikki haley and former president trump made the cut, but trump is going to skip the debate of course, opting instead to buy dissipate and a town hall with fox news the same evening. willie? >> joining us now in the studio, publican presidential candidate former governor the great state new jersey chris christie. governor, good to see. you >> get to see, you. happy new year >> you miss the polling threshold on the...

Qualified, we're at seven right now that have officially qualified with the small dollar donations, with the polling threshold and the pledge and then we've got some on the cusp. so, we're going to be looking at polls the next few days, there are three or four waiting for 1 % in one more national poll to make that debate stage. maria: you've got great diversity. women, african americans, really across-the-board. we just heard from vivek ramaswamy last week. larry elder perhaps making the debate stage. tell me about the lineup this year and how that's different from what you've seen in past? >>...

Trump's plans tell cnn that he has basically made up his mind, and he does not plan to be there. instead, he is expected to sit for an interview with tucker carlson that night, snubbing the network that is hosting the debate and fired tucker carlson. it would not only be a snub to fox news, but also to the republican national committee, which is holding the debate. the chairwoman ronna mcdaniel personally appealed to trump to come. fox executives did too. they went to his golf club at bedminster to lobby him to go. so far we do know who will be there. eight candidates have met the rnc's pollin...

Little bit of a shortage here? what do we know? >> so first of all, thank you so much trace for having me. we have met the fund raising threshold of 40,000 unique donors. we have also met the 200 donors in 20 states, and we met most of the polling threshold. we are either one national poll or one state poll away from qualifying from the debate stage something we feel very confident we're going to reach over the next few days, we are preparing already for the debate. i'm in new hampshire today, i'll be in new hampshire over the next couple of days talking about my vision for the country. it's j...

Right, he is running to stay out of prison. i'm not questioning his front-runner status, but what i am saying is that many people don't want to see donald trump or joe biden be the nominees and people are looking for something different, and guess what? if they want to have these things happen and if those people want to see something different, i need them to go to hurd for america.com and help me get on the debate stage so we can talk about these things and all i need is one dollar ever a r r of a donation to make sure i hit the thresholds. >> in order to be on the stage you need to hit a po...