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it's georgia, who donald trump most wants to win who stopped his bid tooverturn the 2020 election . at this hour, the second in-person summit of the quad is undergoing. they're holding one on one talks. the meeting between mr. biden and the indian prime minister set to begin later this hour. just a day earlier, ended up boosting trade ties with several asia pacific countries. all part of boosting the u.s. alliance. but for all the four meetings and photo ops, it's what biden

said when he went off screen. take a listen. >> you didn't want to get involved in the ukraine conflict militarily for obvious reasons. are you willing to get involved militarily to defend taiwan, if it comes to that? >> yes. >> you are? >> that's the commitment we made. >> the white house was quick to down play those comments sghicist u.s. policy on china and taiwan has not changed. and in just the last hour, mr. biden himself clarified the policy hasn't changed. beijing is telling the united states not to medal in internal affairs. cnn is covering the story and following the developments in turkey. and standing by in beijing with reaction from china. what exactly eis president biden saying now about what apoorpearo be another gaf? >> this comment is looming over the president's day. he was asked whether his comment meant this u.s. policy of

strategic ambiguity had changed and he said no. the president trying to tamp downen the suggestion he discarded with this long-standing u.s. stance. and now the president has, his comments has generated plenty of reaction but i won't say, in talking to the president's aids today, there is not a great deal of consternation that he seems to have gone off script slightly. i think they think the calculus in the global environment has changed somewhat by russia's war in ukraine, by the invasion of ukraine. and the president himself said yesterday that the burden on the world to respond if china invades taiwan was greater now that russia has invaded ukraine. and so, today unspoken but very clear target in all of this is, of course, china. and today, when the leaders are meeting this quad summit meeting, some of the announcements have china in the background.

one of them has todo with maritime accessibility and maritime accountability. that's certainly something that has been a point of contention between the u.s., china and other nations in the region. but there is another unspoken audience in the president's references to the war in ukraine. and that's the indian prime minister who the president will be meeting one on one later this hour. they haven't gone along with the western sanctions. the president will be having hath conversation with modi as well. certainly-president trying to tie all of this together on his final day in asia. and you heard him speaking about the war with in ukraine earlier. he said this is more than a european issue. it's a global issue. and the japanese prime minister said we cannot let the same happen in the indo-pacific. that crisis still looming over the final day of the president's

trip to asia. >> kevin, stay with us. woo we'll go to steven jang in beijing. two clarifications from the white house. will that bring any appeasement for beijing? >> unlikely, skraun. -reaction has come quickly. forcefully, as you can imagine. because taiwan is considered the reddest of their red lines. because they conrtrol the islan and consider it part of their territory. that's why they warned the u.s. not to underestimate the 1.4 billion china people 's resolve to safeguard national sovereignty. by now, with we've heard time and again over the years. -real question seemed to be on the mind of likely a lot of chinese officials as well is how many of these presidential slips of the tongue would it take to convince the senior leadership

hath there's a shift in leadership in taiwan. hath the long-standing ambiguity has been replaced no matter how the white house has since walked back on the president's remarks. the question becomes how would that shift change the calculations of chinese leader xi jinping. because even though they hate the comparison, one likely lesson they have taken away from the war in ukraine is the longer they wait, the harder it may get to take over taiwan by force, given the possible and likely taiwan improvement on defense capabilities with the u.s. getting more serious in helping and preparing the island to fight that war. then the issue becomes china's military capabilities. on paper, china's army dwarves taiwan's incise. and they've developed and

deployed a lot of advanced weaponry. but this is a military not combat test prd 40 years. the last time they fought was with vietnam. one thing for sure is tensions across taiwan state unlikely to subside anytime soon. >> this is true. thank you. also thanks to kev wiin with th latest from tokyo. and more from the indian prime minister. potus head to the polls for run off elections. donald trump is not on the ballot but his influence looms large in republican races across the country e. former white house press s secretary is run prg governor in arkansas. she's hoping to capitalize on her close ties to the one-term

president. the republican race for governor in georgia will be the biggest test of trump's influence. he inphere's cnn. ♪ >> reporter: mike pence on the campaign rail, aching sides on the eve of the georgia primary. in a rare public stand against donald trump. >> i'm a christian, conservative and republican in that order and i am here to support brian champ. i'm here because brian kemp, frankly, is one of the most successful republican governors in america. >> reporter: the former vice president rallying support for governor brian kemp, who's not only running for re-election but trying to move beyond relentless criticism from trump, who's been nursing a grudge for refusing to overturn the last election. >> i can honestly say i was for brian kemp before it was cool.

>> reporter: kemp invited pence for the final rally of the campaign, putting a fresh spotlight on the long simmering conflict between the once loyal partner. >> president trump is wrong. i had no right to overturn the election. >> and he's hoping to win over chief rival in one of his riskiest gambits of the campaign season. >> brian temp is a turn coat, a coward and complete and total disaster. >> kemp repeatedly declined to engage, as he did again today on a call with reporters. >> i've never said anything bad at him. i think he's just mad at me and that's something i can't control. >> reporter: his campaign is rather focussed on a puential rematch with stacey abrams, who's running unopposed in the primary. more than 160,000 have already cast their ballots.

a record early evote in a battleground where voting rights is at the center of the debate. while many are making it clear they're eager to look forward. up and down georgia primary ballot. secretary of state, brad. >> he's running against one of the worst secretary of states in the area. who's trying to turn the tables on me ebecause i'm fighting for election integrity. >> he famously refused to help trump overturn the election, in a call that remains part of an ongoing criminal investigation into election interference. >> as long as i am secretary state, georgia will lead the nation in election security and integ rety. and accessibility. >> reporter: the former president attacked his former vice president for coming to georgia to campaign.

saying it was a desperate move parachuting in to try to become relevant. and is as for mr. pence, simply ignoring him. but he said this election in georgia on tuesday is about the future of the republican party. that indeed spoke volumes. cnn, georgia. ron brownstein is the senior analyst and political writer. good to see you. so, it seems georgia is where trump wants to win most for his endorsed candidates. he's been endorsing for the former senator. he's part of trump's campaign. listen to this. >> brian kemp is truly a embarrassment to the republican party because of what's taken place in your great state. georgia. and david will make a massive upgrade as your governor.

>> it's been over and over again nasty abuse of governor kemp. and he endorsed joe biden's win in 2020. his vit reall hasn't helped them do a whole lot. is that a sign of trump's influence, that it's waning or some kind of out liar? >> i think brian kemp has been an embarrassment. i think he'll be an embarrassment to donald trump. there's no race that he wanted to win probably more than this. no elected official he wanted to punish more than the governor of georgia. but he picked a plotting horse in david perdue who didn't raise a lot of money e. and he was running against someone in brian kemp, who is governed in a very conservative manner. this is a governor who has passed a six-week abortion ban, a law that has drawn broad condemnation for restricting access to the vote.

and taken steps to make it tougher to talk about race in classrooms in georgia. in a lot of ways, he's fortified himself in the republican party. donald trump over reached in georgia as well. he eendorsed candidates against republican incumbent governor, attorney general, secretary of state and i think from the republicans i talked to, there was a back lash against the sheer breath of him coming in and essentially putting the scarlet letter on all of their republican officials. but i think it would be ea mistake to read what is probably going to be a disappointing night for him as a sign that his influence has waned, especially around the claims of election fraud and the kind of candidates looking to control the 2024 elections. >> well get to the overall picture in a moment. but first perdue wrapped up his campaign about w a racist remark about stacey abrams.

>> when she etold black farmers you don't need be to on the farm and told black workers you don't need to be -- she is demeaning her own race. i am really over this. she should never be considered materialal material for governor of any state. >> why go this route at this point in the campaign? >> look,b with this is also part of the legacy of donald trump. he has made it posalible to say these things out loud that people might have once muttered under their breath. in a bar somewhere. and hose made this language acceptable in the republican party when he told four women of color in the house to, quote, go back to where they came from and there's no meaningful condemnation, he's opened the door to this kind of language and is rhetoric and anxiety and hostility to the changing

demographic and cultural face of america. he is the fundamentally most powerful fuel in the engine for the trump coalition. polling is very clear on that. and i think perdue was reaching out to that in a final gesture but it's obviously not going to be enough. >> 5:38. more than 70% of the endorsees believe the was forged. combine that with the republican party. majority believe, despite no evidence with that joe biden's election was illegitimate, what does that look like into 2024? is. >> the same in the last cnn poll. 77% of republican voters say joe biden's election is illegitimate. that's because, in partb, there has been so little pushback from other voices in the republican party, challenging the big lie. and one of the results is that candidates aspouzing the big lie are running to control the

election machinery, as i wrote tonight on cnn.com in virtually all of the states that will decide the 2024 election. whether we're talking about the five states that switch from trump in 2016 to biden in 2020. which is georgia, arizona, michigan, wisconsin. other contested states in state after state, we see republicans have either already nominated candidates for the big lie, candidates who aspouse the big lie for attorney general and governor positions. or theyerant serious contenders as the summer goes on and this is a crisis rolling towards the country in slow motion. one republican former state chair said yesterday that this could induce chaos in 2024. for example in georgia, joyedy heist says if the election would have been fair, donald trump would have won georgia. he has a reasonable chance of

taking out brad. and if in a good republican year, a reasonable number of candidates get elected in the fall, you will have these candidates controlling the election machinery in the states that will decide the white house and that's a recipe for enormous social and political turmoil. >> we'll see what happens. as assall -- always, good to have you with us. be sure to follow all the key races on cnn. we're expecting results tuesday 7:00 p.m. east coast time. when we come back, a conviction in the first war crimes trial. and a group of former special forces are helping them fight the russians. we'll hear from one of them in an exclusive report.

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ukrainian president zelenskyy warns up to 100 people could be ekilled every day. they're reporting heavy fire into luhansk. other nearby towns have been hit by heavy shelling and rocket attacks. as vladimir putin faces pressure, inincludeding from a long-time russian diplomat. a 20-year veteran announced his resignation monday and criticized what he called an aggressive war unleashed by the russian president. they say that resignation shows there are russians who disagree with what mr. putein is doing,b despite all the russian propaganda. >> at the very outset, he eenvisioned using overwhelming

force and speed and power to very rapidly take down the capital city and replace the government. they failed in that. so, we seen them really proceed at a very slow and unsuccessful place -- pace on the battle field. and you would expect he would seek to use other levers of power. >> after three months of relentless fighting, the war in ukraine hit a milestone but in a courtroom. 21-year-old russian soldier sentenced to life in prison in russian court to war crimes. he pled guilty to hurting an unarmed civilian. he appaologized to the widow. they say this is one of many a ewar crimes cases still to be tried. >> today more than 15,000 cases are about war crimes. and now we have first sentence.

it's not enough. it's only beginning. >> ukrainian forces are getting help from foreign volunteers who have arrived with years of combat experience. including former elite special forces from the u.s. we've spoken with one othem in the exclusive report. >> how did you know where to go some. >> we didn't. we just knew the enemy was this way. we hopped through the back yards and clear through here. >> reporter: it's not as straight forward as it sounds. veterans of years of counterinsurgency warfare, this small team of american and british fighters is under ukrainian command and they lock at war down the other end of the barrel and have asked us to conseal their identities for their own security. this is a war that has moral

clarity for these volunteers in the internationalalal legion. >> people keep saying you're doing it for democracy. it comes down to good verses evil. i never figured out why they were killing women and children and it wasn't by accident. it was murder. we found people bound together and shot with thrown on the side of the road. >> reporter: they've had millions spent on training in the west in countries that won't send troops to war with russia. among the first, they took over this house behind enemy lines. he says the team killed dozens of russians in the path alone. he says that the fighting and the shelling and the russian killing of civilians was relentless. >> two pro russians in here. >> reporter: as the team advanced, he says they got trapped here for days. it was steadily torn apart by russian artillery.

>> this is four really midserable days of little sleep, with heavy artillery, heavy infantry presence from the russians. >> reporter: kevin's small team is largely funded by donations to the ukrainian legion. they were stunned at first being on the receiving end of airb strikes and heavy artillery. they're applying the lessons off afghanistan and iraq to russia. >> we know the russians we're talking about hey, we can't figure out where they're at. we don't know what's happening. we were being artilleries so heavy, we put a chair here in case we had to jump out in a hurry. >> reporter: he comes across evidence that russia plays dirty, even in local defeat. >> a lot of them come back and remind them and put booby traps.

you can see this has been intentionally buried and then tied off here. >> reporter: so far this group has not lost a soldier. >> reporter: definitely a nightmare. but that time may come. for the west's former warriors in the war on terror, ukraine has given them something back. >> one way or the other, they've either been lost or they've lost everything. so with this has given them another chance. they come back here and it's like they put their life back together. >> reporter: cnn. a one-on-one meeting for tokyo, united states and india. and more from new delhi on tension from the quad over their failure to condemn russia's invasion of ukrainine.

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>> reporter: ab solutely because india has yet to condemn's russian's actions in ukraine, while the other three have called out russia's actions, india has been on the fence. as far as the u.n. statements are concerned, they've gone as far as condemning the violence and killings but they haven't directly condemned russia and that has been a bone of contention when it comes to the west. there's been relentless pressure to come out and take a clear stance against russia. like you pointed out, india's ties go back decades. it's heavily reliant on russia for its defense supplies. you have three countries more or less on the same page with russia's actions. but india has been focussed on maintaining the balancing act until now. i spoke to a senior fellow and

she had to say it's a bigger picture the quad has to look at, at this point in time. they have to find common ground. >> i think it's about managing divergences. like a lot of issue and interest-based coalitions, this is not about same-minded countries coming together. for it's about like-minded countries. there's a set of issue os on which there's convergence that brings them together. and in the kwquad's case, it's about a free open and prosperous inclousive rules' based region in the indo-pacific. >> reporter: the biden's administration is conscious of the fact that they're the economic alternative when it comes to china. and that's why they can't push india beyond a point. and what's really -- what the two leaders will be focusing on is food security, given that india very recently has banned the export of wheat.

jun. >> live from new delhi. now, political career is off to a whirlwind spot. he's already been thrust on the world stage. two weeks into the job, president yoon is tackling his relationship with north korea head on. he spoke exclusively to paula hancocks in his first interview. paula. >> reporter: well, what seems to be a dual track approach from what i heard from the president. on the one hand, he is still offering help for north korea but on the other side, saying there would be ea stronger and further response as there is, as they believe there could be ea seventh underground nuclear test underway, say issing they will be coordinating with the united

states. clearly he has said he believes the previous administration's approach has not worked. it's been a failure and he will do it differently. >> reporter: south korea's new president sets up a new sign from his desk, a gift for u.s. president joe boydeiden who wast in seoul. two weeks into his presidency and fresh from a summit with biden, yoon is dealing with north korea expected to conduct a launch range missile or an underground nuclear test any day. >> reporter: . >> translator: we will coordinate closely with the u.s. count parts. >> but you have a leader who's given a five-year plan of what he wants to achieve militarily. hoe seems to have no interest in talking whatsoever. how do you convince him totalk?

>> translator: i think the ball is in chairman kim's court. it's his choice to start a dialogue. i do not want north korea to collapse. my hope is for north korea to prosper along side south korea. >> at the same time he believes his predecessor's policy has failed. >> just temporarily escape north korea's provocation or conflict is not something that we should do. many serve diplomacy. but the policy of being over concerned about the other side's feelings has proven to be a failure in the past five years. >> reporter: south korea is one of 13 nations president biden announced today as joining his new indo-pacific economic framework. already criticized by china, south korea's largest trading partner. >> reporter: even if we strengthen our alliance with the united states, it does not mean we think our economic cooperation is unimportant. i donot believe it's reez asona

for china to be overly sensitive about this matter. >> he says they should abide by the rules-based order. south korea's president is clear his country's future, at least for the next five years, is firmly by the side of the united states. when it comes to covid, he has urged the north koreans to accept his offer of aid. he says he can doit through a 3rd party but it is a human right of north korean people tool have health care. john. >> thank you. lively for us in seoul. we appreciate the reporting. still to come on cnn, the u.s. prepares for another air lift of baby formula. parents take desperate measures. your heart isn't just yoururs. protect it with bayer aspirin. be sure to talk to your doctorr before you begin an aspirin regimimen.

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with the united states facing a nationwide shortage of baby formula, doctors and health experts are warning of the dangers of mixing formula. here's details. >> reporter: in indianapolis, 35 tons of baby formula arrives on a military transported plane from the first of the shipments dubbed operation fly formula. formula for moms and dads who have children with allergies and shothe shortage in america has deepened in recent days. children's hospitals have

reported young children, including babies, have been hospitalized for complications related to the shortage. their parents sometimes trying desperate measures. >> reporter: they try an alternative and it doesn't go well. doctors say many are making the mistake of trying to mix their own formula or dilute the formula they have with water or something else. >> we ecan see problems with electro lite imbalance and hypergli seemia, essentially high or low blood sugar that can have detrimentalal effects. >> reporter: in february, abbott nutrition recalled three bands of its formula. similac and elementa care after two died. abbott had to shut down its plant in michigan. s the crisis has worsened, the biden administration has

scrambled to avoid looking flat footed. >> they've been traying to show it's still focussed on this issue with the shipments coming in, the next one coming and signaling through the use of the defense production act authorization that it's getting materials and supplies to abed and other companies. >> reporter: his company's recall was the correct mood. but in the op-ed he wrote abbott was, kwquote, sorry to every family they've letdown. one had to turn to a collection drive to feed her son. >> terrifying because this is what he relies on to live. scary. >> reporter: and the second flight will leave early wednesday morning, carrying the equivalent of 1,500,008-ounce bottles of formula. it will travel to dulles airport

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so where's the snow? this is rare. there should be snow. in this years is less. and more sound of music. everything from the place to the geo politics is different. often in dramatic ways. this is cafe snyder normally. it's an excellent cape shop here in davos. in recent years it's been taken over by india, which is still here now. and also russia. this was the russia house. look closely, it's sort of the same but different. now, it's the russia war crimes house. ukraine has its own place of honor.

on the prestigious prom nad. this is one thing that will never change here. how many limousines does it take to improve the state of the world? >> besides the war there's economic issues on the agenda. interest rates, lock downs in china, inflation, the possibilities of recession. >> over the years in winter, i have used just about every analogy and metaphor you can think of. for skiing in the global economy. the mountain is in a dreadful condition. and arguably the global economy is exactly the same. like the global economic system, this snow is not fit for the purpose of building a snow man. there's always the risk and the global economy that something goes wrong.

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ramifications, difficulties, but eventually we should be in a good position to carry on the hard work. in the end it doesn't matter whether it's snow or spring. the challenges are ahead and we have just got to stay the course. if we do that, there'll be smooth ground ahead. richard quest, cnn. >> sorry. thank you for watching cnn "newsroom." we'll be back. see you tomorrow. like pulsing, electric shocks, sharp, stabbing pains, or an intense burning sensation. what is this nightmare? it's how some people descscribe... shingles. a painful, blilistering rash

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