and the trump versus pence feud over the 2020 election is escalating tonight on this the eve of the georgia primary. trump is lashing out at his former vice president calling him, quote, desperate as they stump for rival candidates in a georgia showdown. pence speaks out on the campaign trail this hour. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with the fallout after president biden s surprising stance on a potential chinese invasion of taiwan. this talk of the u.s. military response is sowing new uncertainty about his policy and raising serious tensions with china. kaitlan collins is in tokyo for us. she s covering the president s trip to asia. kaitlan, the administration is trying to clay fire what president biden said but there is still some confusion out there tonight. what is the latest? reporter: yeah, and wolf, this is a comment that we should know caught some of the pre
closing in out. we have to send a great signal and then maybe these people just say, okay, it is over now. trump tries to finish off his gop rivals with nikki haley rising in the polls, is there still time to take him down. plus balancing act. president biden is heartbroken by civilians deaths in gaza. but that it is still not time. they plan on attacking israel again. is he out of step with most democr democrats. and out of order. a new republican speaker grapples with the house in disarray. what could the gop get done. i want my republican colleagues to give me one thing that i could campaign on and say we did. good morning and welcome to inside politics sunday. i m manu raju. everybody could go home. the 2024 primary race is over. that is the message that former trump had for his republican challenges yesterday in iowa. the first in the nation contest is still about two months away. but the runway front-runner said he s ready to ramp it up there and move
going to come up. and the defendant s lawyer said look, the articles that you prosecuted him under are not the right articles because he was following orders. so that is his defense. he s got 30 days to appeal. but the chief prosecutor and chief war crimes prosecutor in ukraine have said, look, there are thousands of upon thousands of these cases. this is just the beginning. and this is what we ve witnessed in this court today. a dramatic development. nic robertson, thank you very much. let s discuss this and more with the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, william taylor. ambassador taylor, thank you for joining us. first ever all, how significant is this russian diplomat s resignation? well, wolf, i think it is very significant. this is got to get into president putin s head. it is obviously in lavrov, in the foreign minister s head but it will get into president putin s head and this will sow doubt in mhis mind.