the georgia senate run offin its final hours. you know you have a champion in herschel walker. the white house has been monitoring the situation. attacks on two power substations in a north carolina substation. just a horrible, horrible terrorist, in my opinion, act. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is tuesday, december 6th. 9 a.m. in london. 4 a.m. in the u.s. state of georgia where just three hours from now polls will open for
democratic incumbent raphael warnock and herschel walker. plus, former president donald trump tries to walk back comments he made about terminating the constitution. but he s facing growing backlash from fellow republicans. we ll play that new sound for you. also ahead, ukraine attacks deep inside russia. we have the latest on the escalating war in europe. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, december 6th. i m jonathan lemire. polls will open across georgia for the runoff election between raphael warnock and his republican challenger herschel
direct written quote saying exactly that. we ll have the latest on his lame attempt at a walk back as more republicans speak out sort of. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, december 6th. with us we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, former aide to the george w. bush white house and state department, elise jordan, an msnbc political analyst, and former secretary of homeland security under president obama jeh johnson. good to have you all along with willie and me. joe will be back tomorrow. great to have jeh johnson here, especially with what is going on in north carolina this morning gl yeah, it s amazing. we re going to get to georgia in a second, but you re right, tens of thousands of north carolina residents spent another night in the cold after officials say someone deliberately opened fire on two energy substations. joining us now from moor county, north carolina, nbc news
everybody. and everybody! it s time to vote. i like that. everyone saying get out and vote. good morning, everyone. it s tuesday, december 6th. that means it is election day. once again. i know. it s like perpetual election. georgia voters, come on. what did you say? earlier talking to harry. for two years now they ve had, like, just nonstop political ads. it was the runoffs in 2021. now this runoff election. a lot of voting in georgia. crazy. guess what? right now polls are open! voters in georgia right now rh lining up to cast ballots in the critical runoff election and we are live on the ground. watch this . i was stunned. really, a bit surprised. i wanted south carolina to remain in the pre-primary window. he didn t know they would go first though, potentially.
that s the point. there is no absolute favorite or best smell. it can change moment to moment and person to person. sanjay, thank you so much. that episode of his podcast is out today. you can listen to it wherever you find your podcasts. to learn more about smells and cnn this morning continues right now. all right. good morning, everyone. it is tuesday, december 6th. welcome to cnn this morning. it is election day and there is a lot to get to on this election day because the polls have been open in georgia for about an hour now. voters are lining up to cast their ballot in the final contest of the midterm election cycle. it is warnock versus walker in the senate runoff and we re live at a polling place for you. as voters are going to the polls in georgia, in washington, some republicans are slowly beginning to condemn what former president trump said over the