trump hates doing campaigning with the former vice-president held in quiet until now. trump s an plusity, or not endorsing kemp or not endorsing january 6th or both is out in the open. a statement he put out from his spokesman about the former vice-president, quote, mike pence was set to lose the governor s race in 2016 before he was plucked up and political career salvaged, now desperate to not lose relevant, pair chuting into races, the reality is president trump is already 82-3 with his endorsements and nothing stopping him from saving america in 2022 in beyond. the former president has done in a number of states including georgia, when he first endorsed purdue to run against kemp in the primary, governor would not help the president overturn the vote in his state which the president narrowly won and that predictably, earned the governor this. your rhino governor bryan kemp who has been a complete disaster. he sold you out. this guy s a disaster. a complete and total dis
and there are parts of it getting pretty tense there. pence stumped for incumbent governor brian kemp in an election eve rally. trump is supporting his primary opponent, david perdue. kemp has been a top trump target for his role in helping certify the 2020 election. and trump unloading on pence in a statement saying this, quote, mike pence was set to lose a governor s race in 2016 before he was plucked up in his political career was salvaged. now desperate to chase his lost relevance, pence is parachuting into races hoping someone is paying attention. in the meantime, trump s candidate david perdue took a racially charged swipe at stacey abrams, the presumptive democratic gubernatorial nominee after she said georgia was the worst state in the country to life, citing the state s incarceration rate and poor rankings in maternal mortality, among other issues. hey, she ain t from here. let her go back where she came from. she doesn t like it here. the only thing she wants is
deadly insurrection and that threatens to unravel our democracy, well, it s on the ballot in several states today in gop primaries that are just as much a measure of the trumpification of the republican party as they are a test of the disgraced ex-president s political power. in georgia, governor brian kemp and secretary of state brad raffensperger are facing primary challengers entirely because of their refusal to overturn the results of the 2020 election there. trump s conduct in georgia is notably under criminal investigation now. a pair of trump-backed candidates, that would be former senator david perdue and congressman jody hice are hoping to unseat republicans kemp and raffensperger. new york times reports this, quote, along with representative jody hice, david perdue is running a campaign that s almost single mindedly focused on trump s baseless claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, and in true trump style, perdue is ending a campaign that is staked
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
just in time for travel season. inflation is higher overall thanes within decades. baby formula is hard to find. the economy added more than 400,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate is at pre-covid levels. let s try to figure out where we are right now. we begin with christine romans. it seems like there s nothing but storm clouds on wall street. there is so much going on and so much chaos, really. i keep saying there are so many cross currents in the global economy, any one of them would be destabilizing. there s a half a dozen. you talked about the higher prices, the chip shortage, covid lockdowns in china. war in ukraine. war in ukraine and that s going to be a big dpeel some time. that means energy prices. for investors if you re looking at your 401(k), you know this. eight weeks in a row, the longest losing streak for the dow since the 20s. that s not great. the nasdaq stocks just hammered. you look at apple, meta, some of these widely held stocks. the bi