that s my line. we have got some headlines for you. let s begin here. big news this morning. ukraine s president volodymr zelenskyy heading in person the g7 summit in japan to meet face to face with president biden and other world leaders. also, that accused pentagon leaker is going appear in court in a few hours and former and current defense officials are expressing alarm that the young airman kept his job even after he was reported multiple times to commanders for mishandling class fight intelligence. disney delivered a huge $1 billion employee to ron desantis florida right before he is expected to announce a run for president. this hour of cnn this morning starts right now. and we have been tracking developments really all morning out of japan this morning where white house now says president biden left dinner early with world leaders at the g7 summit to get an update on what is happening back in washington on the debt limit talks. the crisis in d.c. oversh
now. live from drake university in des moines, iowa, this is the cnn republican presidential debate. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world watching us on cnn. cnn max, cnn international, cnn in espanol, and cnn.com. good evening. i m jake tapper moderating tonight s debate alongside my friend and colleague dana bash. and just five days from now, voters here in iowa will cast the first votes of the 2024 presidential race. tonight the very first one-on-one matchup between top contenders, governor ron desantis and former governor and
is some of that money going? they ve done tens of billions of dollars to pay salaries for ukrainian government bureaucrats. they ve paid pensions for ukrainian retirees with your tax dollars? we ve got homeless veterans. we have all these problems. this is the u.n. way of thinking that we re somehow globalists and we have unlimited resources to do. you know, here s the problem. you can take the ambassador out of the united nations, but you can t take the united nations out of the ambassador. [ applause ] first of all, i have never said we should give salaries or benefits or anything else to ukrainians. i have said it again, ron, so stop lying. but you supported the aid packages. governor desantis, she has the floor. i did not support the aid package. i support equipment and ammunition going to ukraine. i think it is incredibly important that we re honest and say we have to focus on national security. don t go and lie to the american people to make them think we can t do this. y
carolina the state gave china land and they were in the universities. as governor in florida, i banned china from buying land and we kicked them out of the universities. that s what you want to do. desantis lies dot-com. he has an economic development arm. you had an office in hong kong on the website it said that florida is a great place to do business for chinese companies to do business. and then when we called you out on it, you had the website scrubbed. we know that s the case. what i will tell you is we need to focus on what we re going to do to become less dependent on china and make sure that we look at it through a national security lens. when we had covid everybody told you to wear a mask. it was made in china. take a covid test. it was made in china. you go down the drugstore aisle, all the medicines are made in china. we need to get medicines made here or from our friends so we are not in any way threatened.
i ll tell you, ron continues to sit there and talk about china. he has done expansions in china. his biggest donor that is backed by china gave them $340,000. so don t go and talk about donors and money. go to desantis lies.com look, i know governer desantis your record hurts. you are talking the opposite of what you did. you were made a big effort to bring them to the state, land near a military base, you were in front of the chinese flag saying you worked for then, wrote a love letter to the ambassador. that s documented. you were the number one republican governor in the country. even people on the media hostile to me can t find me as governor recruiting a chinese company. i haven t done it. desantis lies.com. so here is the thing. she is backed by companies like black rock, backed by major companies on wall street. they make a lot of money in china. there is a reason why you re in the mes