good tuesday to you, i m jim sciutto. and i m erica hill. we have our eye on several key races, georgia, alabama and beyond. 2022 election lies are key in several of those matchups around the country. some running on those lies, brian kemp, endorsed, however, by former vice president mike pence. he is facing a battle against senator pe rdue backed by forme president trump. kemp resisted his ideas in 2020. president biden on a trip to asia, his first since becoming president. he said his issue on taiwan has not changed despite his comment that our military would help defend taiwan if there was an invasion. let s begin this hour with primary races in georgia and alabama. diane gallagher is in huntsville, kristin is in georgia. walk us through what folks are watching out for today. good morning, erica and jim. it is a big day here in georgia and the biggest race we re watching is that gubernatorial republican primary which has become a proxy war between trump and the e
mike pence out there champaignig for governor kemp, i know you said the shine has come off of it when it comes to endorsements from the former president, that maybe some think it s great to have that endorsement but it s not the end all, be all. how important do you think that will be in november? hi, erica, grlad to be with you. i think an endorsement from anybody, whether it s a former president or media like sean hannity, they have a bit of credibility, but especially in an election like this in georgia where we have incumbents who have records. brian kemp, four years of serving as governor of georgia. georgia voters know who he is, they know what he s capable of, they know how he ll govern in a second term. president trump s endorsement is it really the only thing helping
russian and china eaese counterparts. they re stealing parts from museums in tucson, arizona. it s the result of eight years of obama and i m grlad the president is committed to rebuilding our military. what he said last night is not true. that was only a 3% increase, we need a much larger increase in defense spending. george sallow from ohio owns a ukrainian restaurant that his father started after emigrating from ukraine. george. president trump said recently that he expects the russian government to de-escalate violence in ukraine and return crimea. the budapest agreement was to protect ukraine including crimea. and guaranteed crimea to be part of ukraine. corct. if my father were still alive, he would wonder, will our
justice. i think that may have been senator [ inaudible ] who said that. although i would be grlad to repeat it in my own words. so quoting senator kennedy, calling them nominee sessions a disgrace is a violation of senate rules? it was certainly not in 1986. in the opinion of the chair it is. so let me understand then the senator is warned. that is certainly an unusual event on the senate floor and one that has some differing precedent, which we will get to. to show you what happened, senator warren interrupted again, this time by senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. mr. president the majority leader. the senator has impugned the motives and conduct of our colleague from alabama as warned about the the chair, said