to overturn the election results in 2020. trump s pick, purdue, the man who is peddling trump s election fraud claims. we have a lot to unpack in this race. jeff zeleny and e vo mccann are in atlanta and also steven fouler. thank you all for joining us. jeff, trump lashed out at pence and pence took what seemed to be a vailed swipe at trump and his 2020 obsession. are georgia republicans worried about how ugly this is getting? i think georgia republicans are doing what they do on election day. that s voting for the current republican governor if you happen to be a republican and happy with the direction that the state is going. governor brian kemp is trying to do one thing here. remind georgians that because of him they have a gas tax holiday. they re not currently paying sales tax on gasoline. it makes gas one of the cheapest places in the country that he s brought economic development here to the state of georgia. he is just trying to focus on his policy and his role. the
the battleground state of georgia, where trump hand-picked several 2020 election deniers to run for critical offices that oversee elections like secretary of state, attorney general, and governor. now, the primary race for governor is the race to watch today in georgia, incumbent brian kemp is trump s number one target in what s being called his vendetta tour. trump is on a mission to bring down republicans who refuse to go along with his 2020 election lies. he enlisted and then endorsed kemp s rival, david perdue, and headlined a tele-rally there for him yesterday. on the same day, trump s former vice president, mike pence, stumped with kemp in georgia. we have a team of correspondents covering election day in georgia, so let s start with cnn s jeff zeleny, who is reporting on governor kemp s campaign. jeff, what s the latest? reporter: alisyn, we are outside a polling location here in atlanta, and there are several hours to go until the polls close, about five more ho
war, plus trump versus pence, candidates in duelling rallies just hours before the polls open, is trump about to face his biggest primary defeat yet and was it a love triangle turned deadly? texas marshalls looking for a woman who allegedly killed a cyclist dating her boyfriend. let s go outfront. i m erin burnett, pentagon confirming plans under way to send u.s. forces to protect the embassy in ukraine s capitol, planning includes potentially sending special operations forces there and that would mark the first u.s. troops into ukraine since the war began. even as president biden promised there would be none. just a short distance from the u.s. embassy, mean time, towns are still under attack like desna where according to ukrainian president volodomyr zelenskyy, 87 people were killed after four rockets hit the town. this this comes as putin faces growing opposition to his operation in ukraine inside russia, today long-time russian diplomat quit in a damning letter saying h
already from china. we ll have much more on that in just a moment. but we re also keeping an eye on the pentagon where in just minutes, top leaders will hold a press conference. this question of military intervention in taijuan, it s very likely to be raised. we ll bring that to you when it begins. president biden is also formally answering an indy pacific trade pact. a lot to get to this hour. let s get started. cnn s jeremy diamond is live in tokyo. jeremy, what are you hearing from administration, from the white house about the president s comments in taijuan? reporter: well, listen, a white house official almost immediately after the president made those comments at a news conference saying that quote, as the president said our policy has not changed and yet, if you listen to the president s words directly, he very much does seem to be tossing away the u.s. s decades long foreign policy of strategic ambiguity as it relates to taijuan and the question of whether or not
unpopularity. and precious cargo. the u.s. military, an air lift touches down in middle america with a critical shipment on board. 500,000 bottle s worth of baby formula. but we begin the hour in tokyo. president biden dispensing with diplomacy to deliver a stern warning to china. you didn t want to get involved in the ukraine conflict militarily for obvious reasons. are you willing to get involved militarily to defend taiwan if it comes to that? yes. you are? that s a commitment we made. we agree with one china policy. we signed onto it. and all the attendant agreements immediate from there. but the idea that it can be taken by force, just taken by force, is just not appropriate. the president did not spell out just what military involvement might mean, and the white house insists the president s answer does not alter american policy. but it does rip up the careful script presidents normally follow on the taiwan issue. we start our coverage in tokyo with jeremy dia