alleged plot to assassinate former president george w. bush. the suspect was even planning on driving to bush s home in dallas. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our politics lead. it is election day in america. voters now headed to the polls in five states. georgia, alabama, texas, arkansas, and minnesota. a number of the contests today will test donald trump s grip on the republican party, and there is no race that matters more to the former president than georgia s gubernatorial primary. it s a race that pits his choice, former senator david perdue, against the incumbent governor, david kemp. trump went all in on perdue. he begged him to run. his organization poured $1.5 million into his super pac. he wants to take brian kemp, the incumbent governor, down, because kemp refused to overturn the 2020 election. but as we have seen oftentimes, it is hard to beat an incumbent, especially one who is independently popular with his base, especially one that ha
russia s invasion of ukraine. we ll ask the head of the foreign relations committee, senator bob menendez, about what s next for the u.s. response to that crisis. in new york, the suspected gunman in a racist shooting in a buffalo store is in court this morning as they launch a probe into the suspect s social media footprint. we begin with the dire situation facing families across the country, the baby formula shortage. the president taking dramatic emergency steps, invoking the defense production act to ramp up manufacturing as two bills, one sending $28 million to the fda and the other expanding formula access for low income families make their way through the senate. nbc news is the first to obtain a letter from two senate democrats urging president biden to, quote, immediately assign a coordinator to work with formula manufacturers. meanwhile, any moment now, the fda commissioner is going to be testifying before a house committee where he s expected to be asked about ho
ethnically motivated violent extremists promoting white supremacy are, quote, the most lethal threats right now here in the united states. let s start our coverage this hour in atlanta. our national correspondent ryan young is joining us. ryan this, s new information emerging now about the suspects in these terrible killings. translator: i want to show you something here, wolf. this growing memorial has been building here in atlanta, a city that s known as being too busy to hate, but right now a lot of people have questions about why this shooter opened fire. shock and outrage in atlanta, georgia, and across the nation after a shooting spree left eight people dead, six of whom were asian women. police say the suspected shooter, 21-year-old robert aaron long has admitted to the attacks on three separate atlanta-area spas, but they say it s too soon to call his crimes a hate crime. he claims it was not racially motivated. reporter: according to investigators the suspect d
This week marked the 10th anniversary of the culmination of the Euromaidan Revolution of Dignity - the US-backed color revolution which saw the ouster of Ukraine s government and the rise of a pro-Western regime looking to drag the nation into the EU and NATO. An entire mythology has been built around Euromaidan. Sputnik debunks its top 5 myths.