From CNN, I'm Fez Jamil with the five things you need to know for Friday January 5th.

While he wasn't in the room, former President Donald Trump was the focus at two CNN town halls last night.

We have a country to save and that means no more drama.

Chaos follows him and we can't have a country in disarray and a world on fire and go through four

more years of chaos we won't survive it. The Democrats want Trump to be the

candidate. They are going to talk about all the legal stuff. You don't want it to be a referendum on Trump in the past.

You want it to be a referendum on Biden's failures on our positive vision for this country.

Republican primary candidates Ron DeSantis and Nicki Haley made their case why voters should

choose them instead of Trump to be on the ballot in this year's presidential election.

With about a week and a half until the Iowa

caucuses, Trump is still the leading candidate with the others trying to gain

ground. Both DeSantis and Haley are said to appear at a debate hosted by CNN next week.

Oscar Pistorius has been freed on parole this morning, more than a decade after murdering

his girlfriend Rivosteen camp on Valentine's Day.

A South African parole board granted the former Olympian and Par Olympians petition back in November

after he'd serve half of his 13-year sentence.

The double amputee sprinter shot his girlfriend multiple times in 2013 through a locked bathroom

door, later claiming he'd mistaken her for an intruder.

He was convicted of murder in 2015

after an appeal court overturned an earlier verdict of culpable homicide.

CNN's David Mackenzie explains the conditions of his release.

For now, Oscar Pastoris will remain under supervised parole in his uncle's house, we believe.

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