laura, see you tomorrow. we re going to get to it. no, i ll see you the day after tomorrow. my bad. this is don lemon tonight. what we were just talking about, we are hours away from one of the biggest primary elections this season. george kemp, t brian kemp ha strong lead over perdue. and tonight mike pence had to be hustled out of the capitol, remember, as rioters were chanting about hanging him. why were they doing that? all because he refused to throw out electoral votes, which he had no power to do, anyway. he is now campaigning for kemp. when you say yes to governor brian kemp tomorrow, you will send a deafening message all across america that the republican party is the party of the future! a deafening message that is not going to sit well with his former boss who is all about 2020. no surprise. trump is slamming pence, calling him desperate to chase his lost relevance and claiming he is hoping someone is paying attention. he was saying that about someone e
and certainly kept you out of political life later. but that s not there anymore either. whether you can prove or not prove quid pro quo, that absence of revolving door that you described is compelling. well, the shame issue here, i think, is compelling, ali, because obviously, the republicans, particularly trump partisans, are aware that it is shameful to use government service or family connection to government service, to make private gain for yourself, and have private business game. because they use this as a way to try to attack president biden s family, for example, all the time. they know that this is something that is shameful and terrible, and that nobody should ever want to do, and they try to pin all sorts of stuff with that kind of a category on all sorts of democrats. they know it s wrong. but when they do it, they re assuming, you know, there is assuming that if we bring it up, that there shame will, that there shame isn t operable. it s a strange phenomeno
shelby. we have an incredible team of nbc news reporters coveraging every angle. steve is breaking it down for us at the big board. starting with you, following the senate primary there, where to things stand this morning? look at the poles to start. all of the action in the primary senate race has been on the republican side. it is a crowded primary. at this point, when you look at the poll, there is one candidate with a significant commanding lead, that is georgia football legend herschel walker. when you look at the recent polls, the closest competitor is 58% behind him. that is former commissioner, gary black. at this point, it seems this is herschel s race to lose. he will be the republican nominee, barring any major development. senator warnock has been focused on working in washington, d.c. he does not have a viable challenger. we did hear from him when he spoke at a fundraising gala and a big issue that we expect to play out as we head toward the general election ha
an explosive report of sex abuse cases inside the southern baptist convention. survivors repeatedly ignored and disbelieved by the largest protestant denomination in the united states as leaders themselves tried to protect their own reputations instead of protecting the victims. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our world lead and top white house advisers caught off guard by this response from president biden when he was asked in a news conference in tokyo if the u.s. would be willing to foe further than it has with ukraine to help taiwan in the event of an invasion. 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 the commitment we made. now, president biden didn t specify what he meant by militarily, but the question defined the term as the u.s. military getting directly involved as it has not done in uk
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