where polls are set to open in just a few hours from now. there are two men leveling for the republican nomination for governor. brian kemp and david perdue. this race also i like the way clear rift between donald trump who endorsed perdue and his former vice president mike pence police very clearly black income. pence walk in a rally, and usually five. it was good to be back in georgia so many patriots paving the way for historic republican victory six months where no one will win back the house and the senate and reelect governor brian kemp for four more years in the state house. poll showed completing purdue by double digits, which is obviously well ahead of the 50% that s required so voided runoff. trump is set to have this done some self recently from purdue as those poll numbers dropped. but tonight, the former data telephone rally for purdue, where he yet again pushed the false allegations of the 2020 election, calling it frauds, and telling voters this, kemp allow
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
it s unclear where that s going. even with all these attention to these air lifts, parents may not see shelves looking very different. it s going to take a while until they really notice the things are getting better. more babies are being hospitalized due to the shortage. what do we know about their condition? could we see even more infants going to the hospital? i think we could unfortunately because this shortage is going to continue for a while. the babies that we have heard of, jake, they have conditions. and some of them are actually children. they have medical conditions where they need a very, very specific formula, and their parents tried to find replacements and they couldn t. and the children didn t tolerate it well. and so the children got dehydrated. they re now being fed on tubes into their stomachs. i m not saying there are a lot of these children out there. we don t have a number, but we have heard from a number of hospitals that this is going on, includin
initiative. the ukrainian armed force also need our sustained support. we ll have the latest on the region. and from the president s trip overseas in asia, he s raising eyebrows this morning after saying the u.s. militarily would get involved if china invaded taiwan. what the white house is now saying about that. help is on the way for america s families. tens of thousands of pounds of baby formula just arrived in the u.s. but when will store shelves start filling up again? we have our eyes on georgia, we re a day out from the state s primary elections. early voting already breaking records there. the anticipation is intensifying in the battleground state. that s where we start this morning. von hilliard is in atlanta and i m joined by the ceo of the new georgia project, a voting rights advocacy act. greg bleustein, msnbc political contributor, and michael steele, former rnc chair. other states, including minnesota, arkansas and alabama have primaries, as well. but geor
making news by abandoning decades old policy of strategic ambiguity and saying the united states would fight for taiwan if it is attacked by china. you didn t want to get involved in the ukraine conflict militarily. are you willing to get involved militarily to defend taiwan if it comes to that? yes. you are? that s the commitment we made. the white house immediately walked that back, saying the policy has not changed. in ukraine, a russian soldier sentenced to live in prison by a kyiv judge after pleading guilty in the shooting death of a 62-year-old ukrainian civilian in the early days of the invasion. and ukrainian military officials say russia is escalating its offensive throughout the donbas region. and there is some relief coming for millions of parents today as the second major delivery of baby formula is expected to arrive wednesday as part of the biden administration s operation fly formula. the first shipment arrived in indiana sunday and being shipped