and there are parts of it getting pretty tense there. pence stumped for incumbent governor brian kemp in an election eve rally. trump is supporting his primary opponent, david perdue. kemp has been a top trump target for his role in helping certify the 2020 election. and trump unloading on pence in a statement saying this, quote, mike pence was set to lose a governor s race in 2016 before he was plucked up in his political career was salvaged. now desperate to chase his lost relevance, pence is parachuting into races hoping someone is paying attention. in the meantime, trump s candidate david perdue took a racially charged swipe at stacey abrams, the presumptive democratic gubernatorial nominee after she said georgia was the worst state in the country to life, citing the state s incarceration rate and poor rankings in maternal mortality, among other issues. hey, she ain t from here. let her go back where she came from. she doesn t like it here. the only thing she wants is
a russian soldier is sentenced to life in prison in the first war crimes trial of this now three-month long invasion. the soldier admitted to killing one man but ukrainian president zelenskyy says as many as 100 ukrainians are now dying each day near the frontlines. we re tracking developments there, but first, let s go to japan where president biden is on the second leg of his trip to asia, and will ripley is in tokyo for us. will, the president wanted to send a strong message to china on this trip. but today a bit of a mixed message. yeah. and it certainly is a mixed message when it comes to the white house staffers but not a mixed message from president biden because as you mentioned, this is at least the third time he s publicly stated the united states would come to taiwan s defense militarily if thigh china were to attack. for more than 40 years the united states has had a policy of strategic ambiguity, leaving it an open question whether the u.s. would get involved m
militarily to defend taiwan if it comes to that? yes. you are? that s the commitment we made. now, a white house official be the pentagon tried to walk back the president s comments, insisting the decades old policy of strategic ambiguity has not changed. but the defense secretary had a different explanation than the president when asked if biden s comments could mean putting troops on the ground. putting troops on the ground defend taiwan? our one china policy has not changed. we reiterated that policy in our commitment to peace and stability across the taiwan strait. cnn s jeremy diamond is in tokyo. this is not the first time that president biden said something like this about taiwan. reporter: that s right, alison. it s certainly not, and that is what is is critical to understanding biden s words here. back in august, president biden said we would respond if there s an attack on taiwan. two months after that, he said the u.s. had a commitment to if it were
memorial, no gestures can fill the void in the hearts they have now, or that you, you have lost someone, feel as well. being here today and hearing the name of your husband, wife, father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, brings it all back, as if you got that phone call ten minutes ago. the american people, we owe you. you know, you sit down in the street, in normalfamilies, all neighbours, and every day you worry and you worry you could get that phone call, and now you are looking at an empty chair. although i didn t personally know your husbands, wives, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, i knew them. they were the first ones to run in to help when everyone else ran away when we were kids, when we were young men and women, even in grade school. that is president biden women, even in grade school. that is president biden speaking, president biden speaking, specifically at an event for police officers killed in the line of duty, and he hasjust gone on officers kill
Several Republican Leaders are coming together outside the manhattan courthouse with the new york versus donald trump trial is underway. They are all joined together in support of trump and to stand up to what they say is an abuse of our judicial system. It is a remarkable showcase of unity the republican party, at this coming together to defend trump and what they are calling a politically motivated trial. Trump is of course the presumptive nominee for the United States, we all know that but instead of spending every day campaigning in Battleground States are meeting with voters across the country, he has been inside of the courthouse. The one you are looking at, the one that he called the icebox as he is listening to hours and hours of testimony. Today for a second day understand a convicted felon and admitted liar and a former attorney, Michael Cohen. Donald trump cannot speak about the trials he has a gag order that has been put him and the threat of jail time if he violates it. To