Credit report. Thank you so much, ed. Thanks for joining us. The news continues now on cnn its wednesday, april 3rd, right now on cnn this morning buildings collapsed, people trapped taiwan, rocked by the most powerful earthquake to hit the island in 25 years. Powerful storms, triggering dangerous floods and tearing off rooftops in the heartland here in america and donald trump back on the trail predicting the end of elections in america. If he loses to joe biden again all right 5 00 a. M. Here in washington live. Look at capitol hill on this misty wednesday morning good morning, everyone on kasie hunt, its wonderful to have you with us. We begin with Breaking News taiwan rocked by a deadly 7. 4 magnitude earthquake. Its the most powerful earthquake to hit the Island Nation in 25 years. Heres what we know right now, Rescue Efforts are underway more than two dozen buildings have collapsed, and people are trapped. The epicenter of the quake located just south of the tourist city of hualien. There are already powerful aftershocks and more are expected over the next several days, possibly reaching a 7. 0 magnitude well, just look at this dashcam video was reported as the Earthquake Hit those cars and buses shaking violently very scary the earthquake also triggering landslides. And at this hour, at least seven people are dead with dozens more injured. Those numbers are expected to rise. Lets get the latest from cnns Hanako Montgomery. She is live up from tokyo et forest hanako. Good morning to you. Do you have a handle yet on how much destruction this earthquake has caused . And what are the possible it will ripple effects yeah. Casey, good morning. Really powerful are earthquakes felt in taiwan this morning, i really just shocking footage. But in terms of what we know about the effect of this earthquake and the shocking after shot fox are, were seen seven deaths and at least 700 people injured were also hearing reports about 77 people trapped in some of these tunnels in taiwan. Now, we have to note that the epicenter of this earthquake was in qualia and county, which was located on the eastern side. Of the island, quality and county is a really popular tourist destination. Its also a rural area. And coincidentally its where most of taiwans earthquakes take place. But because it was very close to the epicenter, were actually seeing most of the damage happened in hualien county, actually, of the seven who died, all of them were killed in, again, hualien county, three of them were actually hiking in this very popular spot called taroko gorge so in terms of the people trapped still in the tunnel, again, 77 people are still trapped. Were Human Reports that some of the people trapped to include Foreign National scholz to germans and to canadians authorities are desperately trying to get those people out and to safety. Now, in 20 of the damage that were seeing across the island, were seeing more than 100 buildings damaged or destroyed, including seven hospitals in taipei, the capital, were also hearing that more than 91,000 homes homes were without power. Some of these roads were also partially destroyed, which was affecting some of the Rescue Efforts. Now, in terms of just how people are trying to help those who are still stuck underneath some of the rebels stuck in those tunnels. The Taiwanese Defense ministry has dispatched Military Personnel and theyre working with local authorities and trying to secure those people. And this is very common protocol when you see a Natural Disaster of this magnitude, kasie all right, Hanako Montgomery for us live in tokyo. Hanako, thank you very much for that. Im sure well bring any new reporting as soon as we have that. Lets go now go to politics. Primary voters in the key Battleground State Of Wisconsin sending a message to President Biden and donald trump, both men sweeping their respective primary races last night but you can see some cracks for both men. Trump failing to break 80 in wisconsin, almost 13 of the vote going to nikki haley. She of course dropped out of the race nearly a month ago President Biden, meanwhile, winning roughly 87 of the vote with more than 40,000 democrats and wisconsin casting a ballot for uninstructed, essentially vote for none of the above. 47,000 votes, more than double the margin of bidens victory in wisconsin in 2020. Joining me now, is axios senior politics reporter eugene scott. You the gene good morning to you this of course, has been something weve been watching closely. The protest vote for President Biden. But the reality is, donald trump has trouble to this comes of course, as were seeing some swingstate polling seeming to favor the former president over the current president. How do you read these numbers from the results last night . Well, i mean reality that a month after she dropped out, nikki haley is still causing trouble for donald trump, is something that the Biden Campaign is going to lean into. Weve seen very recently they have launched a bit of a strategy. Maybe too late to some of his supporters trying to go after those voters, letting them know that if they dont like trump, perhaps, maybe they should but consider biden and they kinda have to do this because theres so many voters specifically young voters, who usually vote democrat, who have proven right now last night that biden still doesnt have their support. So eugene, we also saw the former president on the Campaign Trail in wisconsin yesterday. He talked about the ramifications for the future of free and Fair Elections in our country. He cast it in terms of President Biden. Lets watch what President Trump had to say a vote for trump is a vote to save wisconsin, and its a vote to save your country. This country is finished we dont when those and i heard somebody say it is, scholars say it. Do three days ago said, if we dont win, this may be the last election our country ever has. And there could be so i just like to point out that its donald trump who broke the tradition we have in this country of a peaceful transfer of power in the wake of a free and fair election. We saw that in 2020. He does this though repeatedly. Weve got a couple other examples coming up later on in the show of taking something. It is criticism of him, basically were trying to rewrite the truth. Yeah. Ive ive heard it said something along the lines of his he does a lot of projecting obviously on his political opponents to communicate what he might very well do. I think this is something that we might see more liberal saline into trying to communicate to these swing voters season voters that are going to determine the election that if you want to have an idea of what it is that trump could do if he gets to the white house, look at what hes accusing biden of perhaps doing there is one accusation he is throwing at the current President Biden, and that is around debates that may turn out to actually be the case. I think there are some questions about whether President Biden, whether his team wants him to host the usual debates in the fall donald trump brought in an empty podium to make this point, watch we have an empty podium right here to my right. You know what that is . Thats for joe biden. Im trying to get him to debate im calling lets look at joe to debate any time any place well do it anywhere you want, joe. So that we can discuss in a friendly manner the real problems who our country of which youre are many instead of trying to have corrupt prosecutors fight your battles for you, that what is though thinking in the white house about the debates potentially hosting debates in the fall and the potential risks to the current president right now, there seems to be no support, not significantly in the white house for moving forward or with a debate against trump because theres no real belief that its going to give precedent any type of advantage. But if theres somehow changes, if theres polling or pressure from some of those demographics that biden im really needs to win. Who want to hear more from him about the issues that are keeping them from backing him that could change all right eugene scott for us this morning, eugene, thanks so much for kicking us off. 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The proposal is expected to brought up at a meeting of nato Foreign Ministers today joining me now from london, Cnn International correspondent Max Foster At max. Good morning to you. I think what we heard there from the former president shows some of why this is necessary, but hes also, of course not representing an increasingly isolationist wing of people here in the United States who are currently holding up this aid in the congress that seems to try to be a way around it. What do you see here . I see if ambitious figure, i mean, theyre trying to raise a huge amount of money from countries which trump has rightly pointed out, arent always stumping up their fair share of what goes to nato. So will they be able to raise it . Probably is the first question within this plan as we understand it would be quite move. The us leads on certain coordination work and nato would take over that work be interesting to see what trump and biden think of that. Therell be losing some control of that, but maybe therell be happy to do that. But i think you think casey but trump has been calling for nato to be in nature moment to contribute more to nato if they do sort of a grievous, he might have the arguments say, look, theyve done it, theyve listened to what ive said. So now i dont have a problem and nato, i dont know if its just down to the money for trump is one thing. But if hes got a principle against this alliance is quite another, of course yeah, i mean, i think the questions really swirl here. In particular, when you listen to the way that the former president talks about Vladimir Putin, theyre almost seems to be oftentimes in admiration and in farright corners of the party, you see that pretty openly and trump if theres anything hes good at, its kind of putting his finger in the wind to see where his people are on these kinds of things. And then following through on that, i mean, i think the big question in terms of the ukraine war is whether he would go with that sentiment in the party. And i think you have people out there like john bolton, who of course worked for trump. But one point, but has now become a prominent critic raising real questions about that. And i think for europe and for nato this in many ways is aimed at tying trumps hands are at least going around him in the event that hes not willing at to put this money out there what is your sense of how europe is . I mean, this does take a lot of consensus, right . I mean, all these nations have to agree. Is that an issue . Do you think . Yes, probably because its costs a lot of money, frankly, and a lot of the countries here are under a lot of pressure. So who pays the most and how they carve it up and what can they deliver the money . I think what will be interesting is whether if they do approve it, it does show massive resolve to support ukraine in this war and try to beat russia. The other thing well be considering is what the reaction russia might be because it could be seen as an escalation it doesnt allow the putin to then say nato is gearing up for war with russia. Therell be aware of that, but i think theres a feeling within nato that theyve actually provided the countries within native, provided quite a lot to ukraine and they havent had a response from russia, so they may be to get away with this, but it shows resolved from nato. We have to wait to see how russ