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salgado. in 2005, he was convicted of robbery and attempted false imprisonment. paroled in 2015. this week, he attempted suicide before he was taken into custody after a tip from his own family. >> we really want to wish we were in the wild west, you know, to take this guy out and string him up. but, we have a judicial system, we are gonna use the judicial system. >> he is now talking to investigators. >> right now, he is the only definite suspect, i fully believe that we will uncover and find out that there was more than just him involved. when we were able to release everything, should anger the heck out of view on how things went down. >> now, no motive has been revealed so far, but the sheriff says in cases like this it is usually financial. it is usually agreed. worth noting that one of the victims atm cards was used to

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ourselves to blame. that's lieutenant governor jeff duncan talking about herschel walker in the abortion opponent who is reported by the daily beast to have paid for a woman's abortion. women who now identifies walker, whose identity walker claimed not to know. who then disclosed again to the daily beast which she then has not infinitely confirmed, that she and walker also have a child together. this morning walker told conservative talk show host you louis that if he had done and he would've said so. telling you, it quote, because there is nothing to be ashamed of their. this afternoon, reporters asked him about that comment to hugh hewitt. >> you said that if this did happen, there is nothing to be ashamed of. >> look, i never said. >> you never said that? >> i was talking about something totally different. i said, with my ex-wife --

nothing to do with what this woman said. >> so you're saying -- >> i said, this year, this abortion thing is false. it's all a lie. >> it's not entirely clear what he was trying to say. here to talk, about georgia's new governor, jeff duncan. lieutenant governor, duncan, appreciate you being with us. first of, all what do you make of what we heard from herschel walker today on hugh hewitt, and then's attempt to explain it afterwards? >> well, i think an important place for me to start us up there is no time for me to have to talk about this in such a direct way. you know, herschel walker, at the end of the day, is the only chance that we have got to have a republican in the u.s. senate, but it's a conversation that has to happen.

and it is part of this process of our party healing. you know, this has not as much with herschel walker incidents the process we went through here in georgia to actually elect him. we didn't ask who was the best leader, we didn't ask who had the best resume. unfortunately, republicans look around to see who donald trump supported. and he was a famous football player. so he became our nominee. now we are paying the price for that. >> and that is why you think, i, mean that's what her to walker's in this race because republicans who decided to look for somebody who the former president supported, that was the main criteria? >> yeah, anti no, there has been some distance in times that has traveled and that is not a winning recipe anymore. at the beginning of this whole process and the campaign cycle it meant a lot but i think you are watching not just here in georgia little rock country, candidates, republican candidates distancing. self splitting social media with donald trump. trying to push back because they realized it is not popular anymore. you know, look, there is such a plethora of areas to be talking about. i mean, the stock, market again today, was down through 50 points. mortgage rates have doubled ahead of being tripled, we've got inflation roaring. literally feels like the world is on fire, and that's what we are talking about? as republicans, i think we have to be the party of idea again. this is the golden opportunity for us to be having that. >> cnn's reporting today that

walker's allies won't, even quote -- abortion allocations, i'm not exactly sure what that would even look like. when you hear that, what does that, i mean, does that make any sense to you? >> well, that brings back memories of kelly lafleur and david perdue we had on, you, know donald trump's hook during their runoffs. that is really what started this whole process of losing these republican senate seats. any republican state. i, mean you've got a governor right now who is headed to double digits ahead in his race because he is talking about the things that matter. he is talking about the things that georgians worry about when they get up in the morning. right now, these are uncomfortable times in this country. >> if then candidate donald trump could survive the access hollywood tape, isn't this something that herschel walker can survive, is it that georgians simply don't care about what kind of, you, know character canada has as long as that person is a body that will vote in the way that they want that person to vote. >> well, i'm italy that up to him and his team to figure out how they work through this. you know, i don't know the facts and figures, i certainly haven't spent any time dissecting all of the details. but i certainly am listening to it like, you, know millions of other georgians are

got other states that shouldn't be this hard, anderson. we republicans have a lot to point out that is not going right in this country, and the middle is upset. if we want to win, we have got to win the middle. and we have got to win our side. we are certainly blowing this opportunity, it is certainly feeling like, just like how i felt when we were in the runoff phase post election. those seats should have been won by david perdue and kelly left flipped. >> you are a loyal republican, you obviously want a republican candidate to win. what you vote for herschel walker? >> well, look, i have spent the last ten years in a state house and as a lieutenant governor championing some of the most conservative policies, i campaigned for lieutenant governor, i was accused of

being too conservative. but i was one that was willing to build consensus. i have not voting for raphael warnock, and herschel walker hasn't earned my respect for my vote. and, you know, unlike that -- hundreds of thousands of other republicans in georgia we don't really have anywhere to go right now. >> do you think people will not go to the poll, positions like, you if you are not gonna vote for a democrat and don't want to vote for a walk or, do you think republicans, some republicans, will just be turned off and stay way? >> no, i think republicans are going to show up and vote for brian kemp and statewide candidates up and. down they've done a great job. i mean, brian kemp has really done better than any other governor in the country, with dealing with the pandemic and civil unrest in the economy and growth. i mean, there and show up and vote. it is up to the soccer campaign to figure out how they are gonna convince them to vote for them. >> from what you are saying, it feels like he would not vote for herschel walker today, is there anything he could say that would change my mind? >> look, i have no idea what the next week are, but i'm disappointed. i'm disappointed -- with that on the entire country, donald trump let us down a rabbit trail postelection because he was too consumed with trying to save face losing

his election. and he runs down a trail, and we screwed up. we elected to democrats and a republican state that then turned the tide and gave joe biden and kamala harris the keys to every decision with no checks and balances. >> lieutenant governor duncan, i appreciate your time tonight. >> thank you, anderson. >> perspective now from cnn chief political correspondent, dana bash also former senior adviser to obama, david -- >> dana, do you think a more quote trumpian response to the controversy from her -- some republicans won't would make much of a difference? >> it is hard to imagine herschel walker's response being more trumpian. i know that this is a what trumps people around him are saying, telling some of my colleagues, gabby or being one of them. i am hearing some of that to. but what herschel walker is doing them is ripped straight

from the donald trump playbook. which, by the, way republicans, other republicans and candidates in general have done, or at least try to do since donald trump burst onto the political scene. the biggest parallel, i think, is herschel walker. because part of the reason donald trump has been able to ride so many storms, is because of his celebrity. well, herschel walker, in particular, in the state of georgia, is the ultimate celebrity because of his football status there. so the fact that he is denying, which is trump playbook. that he is aggressively denying, and then also trying to pivot back to the issues, that is very trump. i will tell you, republican sources i've talked to you who are involved in these, this campaign, and just electing herschel walker, they say that they do wish that he would be more aggressive on the pivot side and less about the defense. >> i mean, david, as a candidate, walker is clearly not, what would be the word. >> agile? >> as agile or coherent as trump. walker said today that while he still denies this, if it had happened, quote, there is

nothing to be ashamed of their, unquote. then, later in the, day when asked about that comment, he claims he wasn't talking about the alleged abortion. i, mean his explanations are convoluted, do they align with any logical political strategy? >> well, no. and, you know, the thing that was most confusing to me is that they aired in that starting today in which he talks about his past battles with mental illness and talks about redemption. and it sounded very much like an explanation for past behavior, at the very same time that he was denying stories that have been written about him. so, the whole thing seems pretty confused. that said, anderson. i long since gave up predicting big shifts of voters based on these kinds of stories. i think trump taught us that the thing is that this is a marginal race. so marginal differences can make a difference. i don't think this is gonna be good for walker, and in a marginal race, it could make

the difference against him. >> dana, what are you hearing from capitol hill republicans right now? i mean, how concerned -- previously bemoaned the quality of gop candidates. >> well, they are concerned for the exact reason that david just articulated. this is an incredibly tight race. this is also the race, or the state, that decided the majority of the senate in favor of the democrats two years ago. so they are well aware of the importance of this state. and understand, as you said, anderson, that herschel walker, despite what i said before, that he is very well known and well regarded as a football player, is very complicated and controversial for all of the reasons that we are talking about now. with regard to these allegations that he denies about paying for an abortion, even though he is pro-life. but also, lots of other, sort of, things that we've taken down any candidate just a few years ago. like suddenly coming out that he has four different children with four different women. and so, on and so forth. that that is definitely not a plus, particularly when you are

asking about these voters who are increasingly independent, there aren't a ton of them, but they exist, and they are trying to decide between these candidates, and those are the voters that -- >> they, but if you revising the war not campaign, what would you tell them to actually kind of lean into these allegations? call herschel walker a hypocrite? or. , you know, stand back and what they have essentially been doing, not engaging on the personal and talking about abortion. but, you know, not taking it personal. >> he, a man, i don't know, there's no rule in politics, when your opponent is destroying himself, get out of the way. >> get out of the way. [laughs] >> i think that is the rule that i think the warnock campaign is following. you can see in the ad that he posted today and in his comments to the media that warnock wants, walker wants warnock and wants to blame him for the stories.

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tonight new york, talking about vladimir putin's threat to use tactical nukes in the ukraine, president biden invoked that moment. kaitlan collins with more on exactly what he said, she joins us now, talk about the words the president used. >> i, mean it must of been pretty striking for the people, the donors in the room tonight. the president wasn't focusing armageddon >> saying that there has not been a situation like this since october of the 1960s, 1962. of course, these threats were being. made the president making very clear tonight that he is taking these seriously. once -- he is speaking in more blunt terms that we have heard any of his officials talk and in recent weeks. they have said they are taking putin seriously at his word, but he says he is not bluffing when he is talking about nuclear weapons. they say that they have communicated to the russians what the consequences would be if russia were to deploy a nuclear weapon. but they have not gone as far as the president is to say that this is the closest we have come to armageddon since kennedy and the cuban missile crisis. one of the quotes that president biden remark that he

made to these donors tonight was saying, you know, he knows president putin is pretty familiar with him. he knows and pretty well. he said, quote, he is not joking when he talks about the potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons. because this military is, as you might say, significantly underperforming. speaking to those humiliating setbacks that russia has faced on the battlefield, they're really unpopular draft that putin is trying to put in place for men in russia that has called caused people to flee. president biden is making clear that he is taking this really seriously. he says i don't think there is any such thing as the ability to easily use a tactical nuclear weapon and not end up with armageddon. those are really striking comments that the president made, this is a closed-door fund-raiser these are not on camera. but reporters were in the same room in the same house for the -- making these remarks tonight. anderson, i think one of the other things that stood out was a comment that he made about putin finding a way out. he said, essentially, that the united states is still trying to figure out what could be the way for putin. what does he believe the way

out is. that is commentary also made five months ago, back in may. when he was talking about the speed of the war in ukraine. that russia is conducting. making clear that they believe that if putin is trying to say face on the world stage, also save face at home, it is not clear to them what that looks like he had. >> kaitlan collins, appreciate it from the white house. joining us now cnn military, analyst retired army, mark hertling, general hertling when it comes to the threat of nuclear conflict, do you agree with the president at this moment in history is the closest we have come to armageddon since the cuban missile crisis? >> certainly a possibility, anderson. when you are talking about nuclear weapons and there is a lot of individuals who have participated in what are called wargames and seen the escalation capability of whenever a first element uses a nuclear weapon, how it escalates rapidly. in fact, kiddingly, i heard one individual in a wargames say, hey, all it takes is a hand green nook. kiddingly, you know, prescribing that to a small weapon that would escalate very rapidly. so i think the president, rightfully so has been very concerned about the potential for mr. putin using nuclear weapons. he is threatening that before, both in to weigh in an overt way.

the entire conflict, there has been always this potential for mr. putin to use nuclear weapons, but when you think about how they would be used, there are all kinds of various courses of action. none of them have any rational thought behind them. the targeting of a nuclear weapon, even a tactical nuclear weapon in this kind of conflict would not make any sense. but then again. we are dealing with an individual that hasn't made sense from the very beginning, and that is mr. putin in terms of the execution of this conflict. >> i mean, when you talk about intractable nuclear weapon, how would that, might be used on a battlefield. i mean, how will large of an area will that impact? >> well, during the cold war, anderson, those tactical nuclear weapons were targeted at areas where there were large troop concentrations. when i say large, i am talking about a quarter of, say, 80,000 people and a lot of tanks. and the tackler tactical nuclear up in size could be anywhere from five kilometers to 20 kilometers. now that is much smaller than the kind of nuclear weapon that nagasaki or hiroshima saw. but it is still a tactical nuclear weapon that has a long after effects. so what you are talking about is the potential for hitting a large formation and having an exhibition nuclear weapon where

you would explode it overhead or in the north sea or something like that. to demonstrate a result of using it. and there are several other scenarios. i don't want to get into it here, because they are all just very scary. but they put the enemy in a position to say, hey, this person is serious. unfortunately, whenever you show you are serious about using them, the other side that has nuclear weapons says, we are serious about it too. or we may conduct operations which would cause a significant amount of damage to your force. and there has been all kind of a discussion on what that might be >> which is why the president, i guess, reportedly said tonight that in his view the use of a tactical nuclear upon could likely lead to, quote, armageddon. that if one side chooses to use it for in ukraine, fragrance, in this case.

if russia did that, i guess the u.s. would, i mean, is that what, how does that were game and? >> well, you are talking about the potential for drastic escalation. you can answer a nuclear weapon with a whole -- hand fully -- this might be something that would cause nato to do something. this might cause a potential attack on the russian black sea. that could cause the potential attack on the basin, where are the launch sites for the nuclear weapons, where they come from within russia. ukraine can't do those kind of things but nato and the united states can. and then you can see the probability of what mr. biden said, the potential for

armageddon because once the initial action is made and this is why so many members of the administration have warned mr. putin's administration not to do this. once the potential of this occurs, it is very difficult to restrain yourself from reacting to it. >> yeah, general hertling, appreciate it. thank you, ominous, but appreciate it. more tonight on ukraine's gains, as we mentioned earlier presidents lynskey today said ukrainian forces have taken back more than 500 square kilometers of territory in the kherson region. all in less than a week. now, last night cnn international -- nick paton walsh brought us details on the southern ukraine ground, and southern ukraine where -- abandon and left behind bodies in their own comrade.

he's back tonight with new details. >> nick, what is the status of the ukrainian advance in the kherson region? >> yeah, some remarkable numbers given out by ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy saying that over 1000, sorry, over half 1000 square kilometers of territory have been taken since just october the 1st. now that pretty much confirms, possibly goes a little further than that, that the russian defense ministry that we saw a couple of days ago. but it says -- we have seen ourselves, a video of americans -- literally racing across the open expenses here under russian artillery fire. quite how ferocious their moves are. just put under enormous pressure the provincial capital of kherson, which is on what now seems to be the wrong side of the western side of these advances. anderson? >> a lot of the progress has been in rural parts of kherson. is there a timeframe for when ukraine could make an attempt to actually take that city, you

mentioned it? >> yeah, it is hard to predict that, essentially, because they do appear to be refusing to surround russian strongholds. which has been a tactical -- that could well have success in literally a matter of days. because we do know that russian forces have been under supply to have known this is coming. trying to reinforce themselves, possibly have been asking for more strategic withdrawal. or it could take weeks if they indeed do dig and they do hold. we don't know, but we do know this is obviously emerging question for russian politicians who are now openly bickering about how bad it is. >> vladimir putin is claiming that separation, nuclear power plant, there he is claiming it as a russian federal asset. what is the response been from ukrainians? >> yeah, i mean, obviously ukraine considers that still part of ukraine. a part of territory that russia claimed its full annexation, a matter of days ago. it is yet more leverage of a

nuclear variety from vladimir putin, where essentially he is trying to remind people that this is a card he could play. the card, i, mean sort of staged to some degree. ukraine says, look, there are hundreds of russian troops on that site and russian hardware as well. for un nuclear watchdog, the iaea, they were in, kyiv they will be increasing their staff on the ground. they are between here, frankly, both sides. the need to maintain the safety of the plant but there was some anger, frankly, from ukraine's president about how they haven't been more forthright in condemning russian presidents there. although the iea had himself said, look we don't, resident -- that's all the un says a russian annexation of this. but it is an enormous flash point in the conflict here. because, again, it is essentially some form of nuclear threat from moscow. >> yeah, nick paton walsh, appreciate that, thank you, be careful. coming up next, breaking news on the possibility of more information coming out of, excuse, me having a technical problem, possibly more documents still at mar-a-lago, also, the florida federal judge at the center of the case, she exercising the judgment or is she carrying water for the former president who appointed her, details ahead.

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tonight on the breaking news that a possibility of additional governor documents remain at mar-a-lago, even after the fbi searched in august. she reports of the justice department officials have recently demanded the following in her term -- any of signing documents marked as classified. this, according to a person familiar with the demand. now, this builds on reporting time in the new york times suggesting that the department of justice believes it is being prevented by a federal judge's ruling from even knowing what they might have missed. as you, know when it came from a florida federal judge. the decision have already been questioned by a string of conservative legal scholars. partially reversed by an appeals court panel with a majority appointed by the former president. more now from cnn's jessica schneider. my sincere thanks for the president for -- >> judge cannon owes her nomination to the federal bench to donald trump. and now she is front and center in the former presidents legal

fight, siding with trump's team to grant a special master to review the documents seized from mar-a-lago and decide what should be kept off limits from federal investigators. a decision which is now being appealed and has been criticized. >> it is really a very pro-plaintive, pro trump ruling in all respects. >> not only by political pundits, but also three judges on the 11th circuit court of appeals.

two of them trump appointees who described cannons initial ruling pausing doj's review of documents marked classified as untenable. the 11th circuit ultimately an out the doj to continue its probe into the handling of classified materials. while the special master reviewed thousands of other documents. judge cannon also wrote last week that trump did not have to officially declare in court by their fbi agents planted items at mar-a-lago. something that trump and his allies have repeatedly said in public. the special master had requested trump prove his claims, but can instep in and stopped it. judge cannon has not responded to cnn's request for comment on her decisions. but when asked in 2020 during her confirmation if she had any

discussions about loyalty to president trump, she unequivocally wrote, no. >> do you think she has any bias towards trump? >> i don't think she'll any bias at all. >> jason mandela worked with cannonball birth practiced it gives and done, a decade ago. >> we never talked about politics or judicial philosophy, because it wasn't relevant to what we were doing. i still don't know anything about her politics today. >> so she wasn't overtly political? >> no. >> i mean can i was working as a federal prosecutor at the u. s. attorney's office in fort pierce florida when senator marco rubio's office first reached out a very possible nomination to the federal bench in june of 2019. senator rubio gave cnn this statement today. judge cannon is a great judge

who i am very proud to have enthusiastically supported. the attacks against who are just the latest example of hypocrisy from leftist's and their media enablers who believe the only time is acceptable to attack a judge if that judge rules against what they want. rubio isn't the only florida republican candidate linked to. she met with council for relic and senator rick scott just before she was nominated. >> my sincere thanks go to my home state senators. >> and records show she donated $100 to publican governor ron desantis in 2018. she has been a judge for less than two years, but she told senators that her judicial philosophy would be to follow the tax and the history of the constitution. and she shared her personal story to stress her respect for the rule of law, talking about how her mother fled communist cuba. >> at the age of seven, i had to flee the repressive castro regime in search of freedom and security. thank you for teaching me about this country, and for giving the importance of the rule of law for generations to come. >> >> >> jessica schneider, cnn, washington. >> for more on this, now joining us now is quickly law producer and -- john hughes.

and harvard law school senior elector -- former federal judge. judge kirner, how do you think judge cannon has handled everything so far in terms of the decisions she has made? >> well, let me say, first of, all the notion that she met with the senators before she was confirmed, we all met with senators before they were confirmed. so that sort of -- that doesn't suggest that she is tilting in the direction. but put it this way, she appoints a special master because she is concerned about the appearance of impartiality -- and then she intervenes in the decisions that this special master makes. she appoints a special master because she thinks that that would be more expeditious. and then she messes around with the deadlines that he says. so she is behaving, if she was concerned about the appearance of propriety, the appearance of fairness, all of her decisions are inconsistent with that. and that is troubling. >> john, what do you make of that? >> i think she is a young judge, she hasn't been on the bench very long. just dropped in her lap is this really complicated case, high profile case. i don't blame her for calling in a special master. to me it seems like she was calling in the cavalry. she hasn't had much experience with classified information

with the intelligence agencies. i think she was hoping that she would create some space and time where maybe the trump people, sorry, not the trump administration and the biden administration justice department might reach some kind of agreement that would stop these two forces from coming and hitting each other head on. but unfortunately, that is what has happened. instead of drawing the temperature down, both sides have been escalating through this process. where it is almost as if the justice department has painted itself into a corner. they're gonna have to go foreigner diamond. and president trump still gonna claim that the justice department intelligence agencies are biased against him. >> john, as you, know former president trump asked the supreme court to intervene in the dispute over documents seized from mar-a-lago. do you think the court has the update for this? >> no, i have to say, someone -- i think the odds of the court take on this are very very low. way clark there, the clerk's job is to sift through all these petitions and to find the cases that the supreme court should take out of the thousands of thousands of petitions. the court is not there to correct errors, it is not there because they think some lower court judge like judge cannon might have been a mistake. they are only there to settle

large national problems where the low courts are divided. something important like roe v. wade, for example. where affirmative action, that's coming up this year. what they are not gonna do is going to a case that it's gotten messy facts like this, where there is no split in the lower courts. where there is no really important legal question. we used to call someone like this, we would say that this is their correction and split list. and it is fact bound. that would be the cause of death for any protection. i think that would accurately describe this case. >> judge can, and you think the legal strategy by the former president is a delay tactic? >> i think it is not just i delay tactic, first of all, this is not a complicated case. there is no excuse, none, zip, for having classified information in your beach house. there is just none. this is no conceivable basis for this. so i don't think, i think that what he was doing it to say that this is unfair, this is unfair, and every form that you can find. maybe you will believe that it is unfair. and not step back and say, what is this about? this is about classified documents that you don't in your beaches, for which there is no explanation and no excuse. >> john, have you seen explanation or clips that makes

sense? >> no i think, this is really the problem with trump strategy. i agree with judge gardner that you are not allowed to have classified information in your house. you are not allowed to have it anywhere outside of government facility. trump i think has seems to have violated the law. people him or around him. they are trying i think to keep picking the can down the road, hoping something will happen. but i can't see what their endgame here is. they don't seem to have a really long term strategy that result in anything other than, maybe, hoping that the attorney general garland decides that this is getting to political and a reelection campaign and you don't want to have some kind of precedent set where a following administration prosecutes the previous one. otherwise, they look like they violated the law. >> john, you judge gardner, appreciated. coming up, next new reporting on what appears to be growing legal trouble for hunter biden. while an earnings tool helps you plan your trades and stay on top of the market [school bells] when pain says, “i'm here,” i say, “so are they.” ♪ aleve - who do you take it for?

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chargeable case. now, that is important, but it is not the and decision. because ultimately, this will be decided by the u.s. attorney in delaware who was pulled over from the trump administration. >> what if investigators seaver in on that they think would stand up in court? so there is a couple things, on the tax, front there is a lot of particulars that we don't know for certain. but what we are told is that one of the major issues here is did hunter biden declare all of his income? because if you will recall, the republicans have made a big talking a point from the 2020 election on about his business. so the investigators are looking, how did you declare all the income from those deals? then, as far as the gun charge goes, he bought a gun in 2018 and on that paperwork, he said that he was not using or addicted to drugs. in his autobiography, he described using drugs quite frequently during that time period. so that is another potential

legal pitfall for him. >> and it is a clear, attorney general governor -- >> so when he has been asked about, this attorney general garland has made very clear that this is a case being supervised by the u.s. attorney in delaware. now, obviously the u.s. attorney reports to the u.s. attorney general, but -- no meddling of any kind with that case being handled by that republican appointed attorney general. but obviously this whole case is so intertwined with politics and suspicion about, you know, possible wrong doing or mishandling that, you know, people will look at this very closely. >> do you have a sense of how likely the investigation will actually move forward to a prosecution? >> i really don't know the answer to that. but what are the things that you see, for example, if you

take just a subset of gun cases. in gun cases, the year that hunter biden made that purchase, about 60% of the time, federal agents recommended charging, prosecutors when i hadn't charge that individual. so i don't think it is by any means certain that you will see ultimately an indictment out of this. but what we do know and what we are reporting is that federal agents believe that there is a chargeable case here. >> interesting, appreciate, we'll be right back. ere's no mess or stress. bath fitter. it just fits. visit bathfitter.com to book your free consultation. ♪ ♪ welcome to allstate where anyone who bundles their home and auto insurance saves. isn't that right phil? sorry, i'm a little busy. what in the world are you doing? i'm in the metaverse, bundling my home and auto insurance. why don't you just do that in the real world? um, because now i can bundle in space. watch this. i still don't get it.

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this is don lemon tonight. we begin with breaking news, a chilling warning from the president of the united states. president joe biden at a fund-raiser here in new york warning about the dangers of vladimir putin's threats to use nuclear weapons as his forces suffers step backs in ukraine. the president saying for the first time since the cuban missile crisis, we have the threat of a nuclear weapon. and warning of what he calls the prospect of armageddon. straight to cnn's kaitlan collins now with the very latest on this, caitlin, good evening to. these comments from president biden are frightening, walk us through it. what exactly did he say? -- >> yeah, frightening, alarming, a lot of words you