joining us now is former obama white house press secretary, robert gibbs. boston globe senior writer. kristen stays with us. brendan, a lot of people are criticizing rafael warnock. he was better in a debate that did not have walker face-to-face last night. but for not going after him more and also the format because it seemed when a moderator asks walker after all this controversy over the abortion issue when christian showed him a check and he acknowledged that was indeed his signature, but fact he was given one minute to rebut that from the moderator then warnock didn't follow up. was there a missed opportunity, brendan, do you think from the democratic incumbent senator in that debate? >> well, warnock clearly has a strategy that he doesn't think he needs to get into the mud on this and that he's hurting walker. in the second debate when walker wasn't there, he thought to bring it up. i think the debate was really good for walker in a few ways. one, he skated on this issue largely that we're discussing, but he also showed up and looked a lot more compet

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nobody if you're focused on trying to get a republican to regain that seat in georgia. >> and robert gibbs to see a single interview with walker on any subject, even before this all came bubbling up to the surface, that indicates he's qualified to be a senator for six years. on any subject. >> yeah, andrea, that's a whole other state of affairs, really, for this senate race. look, i think it will be interesting. friday night is likely their only debate in savannah. i think herschel walker is going to have to look like a candidate who can be that senator for six years. he's likely going to have to answer questions about the news that has come out over the past week. he's denied even knowing this person even though i believe nbc reported, was the first to report that his current wife was texting with his woman. so it's pretty clear herschel walker know who is this person is and i'm going to be fascinated to watch quite frankly both of these candidates, but how does herschel walker respond to these charges? how does he respond to the issue of abortion? and for senator warnock, how does he res

>> by the way, robert gibbs, it is interesting, just listening to everybody here. is getting some support and people are saying they want somebody a little more muted than donald trump. this isn't really too complicated about why people are believing what they're believing as far as stolen elections go because the guy that they looked up to almost in a personality cult type way knew he was going to lose to biden and so he started saying six months before the election that the election was rigged, that mail-in voting was rigged. that all of these states were going to be rigged, and we said on this show, three months, four months before the election that wisconsin, michigan, and pennsylvania should do their voting just like florida. just like ron desantis's florida, count the early votes when you have them, and we'll know by 10:00 or 11:00 at night, who the winner is. we have now found out from steve bannon that trump and everybody else didn't want that to happen because they knew the day of votes that would be counted first would go in their direction. so this actua

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robert gibbs, we worked in politics in hindsight in what seems lik a quainter time.o doesn't accept you as the legitimate president? >> it's a great question. thequ good news is there are cybersecurity experts and intelligence experts that are monitoring this. i have no doubt the state department and even the white house will countries about this and i hope we're particularly vigilant in russia as things go south for vladimir putin in ukraine,ir i have to imagine the are plans in and around his desk to get -- to do something nefarious around our elections. as frank said, it just doesn't make sense that they wouldn't. >> robert gibbs and frank begluzzi, we'll continue to cover what to expect in terms of how people with expected to vote, but i feel it's important to cover what the national security and domestic security picture looks like. we'll do that frequently. thank you for spending time with us. quick break for us. we'll be right back. ♪wow, uh-huh♪ advantage: me! can't wait 'til i turn 65! take advantage with an aarp medicare advantage plan... only from unitedhe

so i said, no more picking on robert gibbs! you have those moments. there are those times when you are all together, and you're having a serious conversation about where you will be sending u.s. troops. these are things that allow you to come back, and trust each other with the debate. and again, having that moment with you, and i'm going to disagree with, you but i will disagree, with you respectfully. i think those trips were, very, very important. not the least of which is, to bear witness to what goes on in the world, and to bring it back. i know there are people who have a tendency to brag that they didn't have a passport, but i think, when you are elected to the u.s. house of representatives of the united states senate, you do call the president a leader of the free world. it's nice to be able to get to know places outside of the united states, in order to make appropriate decisions. >> this is just a wrap up question. because, when you served, there was relatively so few women in congress, at that time. do you feel that you didn't only represen

. >> joining me now is msnbc political analyst, robert gibbs.secretary under president obama. it is always good to have. you let's get into this year. the assault on paul pelosi's renewing attention to this -- to the disturbing rise in threats to lawmakers. how different is this political environment compared to what you experienced in the obama white house years? >> yeah. a great question. in the very end of my tenure in the white house, gabby giffords life of senator mark kelly, he was shot at a grocery store outside of tucson. we have been dealing with hateful old discourse like the vice president talked about. there is the man asked the manifestation of violence. that has lasted for quite some time. in talking to some former colleagues who worked in the white house in the last two years, i think that the threat level that they have received is exponentially larger than the threat level that many of us underway and. even though i had an alarm system by the secret service put inside of my house when i became prosecco terry. i think that we hav

still doing some punditry, it was christmas eve or june the our father and i looked over it was a robert gibbs. [laughter] no more picking on robert. you have those moments when you're on the trip there times when you all cried together, you have have a real serious conversation about where you're going to be sending the u.s. troops. those are things that allow you to come back and trust each other with the debate. again if i'm having that moment with you overseas or in a war zone, i'm going to disagree with you but i'm going to disagree with you respectfully. i think those trips were very, very important. not the least of which is to bear witness to what goes on in the world and to bring it back. i know there are people have a tendency to brag they did not have a passport. i think when you are elected to the u.s. house of representatives of war the united states senate we do call the president the leader of the free world. it's nice to get to know places outside the united states in order to make appropriate decisions. >> matches some wrap up questions, because when you serve the relatively s