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soon as december. and herschel walker now says hes not backing down despite the abortion scandal rocking his campaign. ma maggie haberman joins me this hour on donald trumps decision to back walker despite his checkered past. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." lets begin our coverage in ukraine where a furious counteroffensive is now sweeping russian troops out of territory. moscow has held for months. cnn is your national security editor. nick paton walsh is joining us li...

This administration does not -- again, this is a reckless disregard for reality. the reality is, maduro, the ayatollah, the iranians, they are not going to negotiate in good faith with us. the russians are going to do everything they can to put us into the greatest pickle they can put us in. and china is sitting on the sidelines, somewhat on the sidelines, watching this and deciding whether or not they are going to attack taiwan. i mean, were getting into a real mess here, sean, and this adminis...

Too high and we have to deal with the problem and get as many of them back to the reality side of the line over time. but right now a majority of the country is, in fact, not insane and we watched it play out. we watched trump incite it, we watched trump lie about the results of the election, we watched republicans after it condemn it before they forgot it, and before they became complicit in the whitewashing. what you saw was a fascist mob with extremist groups storm and murder in the capitol o...

All you had to do was listen to the tapes. but i believed him before that. he was an incredible memory. he had very good accuracy. and i think that some other witnesses like mcgahn could be the same and they owe it to the public to do their job and come forward. >> and joyce, on the democratic side of the committee, the reality side of the hearing, what do you think had i were the most important points in terms of the members interest on the democratic side today? >> the democrats seemed to be t...

The tapes. but i believed him before that. he was an incredible memory. he had very good accuracy. and i think that some other witnesses like mcgahn could be the same and they owe it to the public to do their job and come forward. >> and joyce, on the democratic side of the committee, the reality side of the hearing, what do you think had i were the most important points in terms of the members interest on the democratic side today? >> the democrats seemed to be trying to get a sense of we have ...

President said some form of is it better to talk and get along but what on the reality side is the maximum upside for the u.s. to walk away from this with? >> it is a great question. we have big disputes with russia and syria and we would like to reconcile and keeping things from getting worse. we got a continuous dispute thats been at 2014. we got sort of this trans-atlantic russia right now. european elections across the board, it is a big concern fora for angela merkel and macron, those are a...

Nato partners and he wants to meet with putin. >> of course, we could imagine a statement at the end where the president said some form of is it better to talk and get along but what on the reality side is the maximum upside for the u.s. to walk away from this with? >> it is a great question. we have big disputes with russia and syria and we would like to reconcile and keeping things from getting worse. we got a continuous dispute thats been at 2014. we got sort of this trans-atlantic russia rig...

Conflict and former russian spy and britain and we had 60 diplomatic expulsions and sanctions the last few months. hes pushed and pushed until his staff is acting on his desire. thats why john bolton is see fg he can arrange this trip. it is a remarkable thing at a time hes at odds with those nato partners and he wants to meet with putin. >> of course, we could imagine a statement at the end where the president said some form of is it better to talk and get along but what on the reality side is ...

Reality tv star and not a serious politician. and people love the reality side of him, the blunt talk. but the blunt talk also can dig your own grave politically. i think thats exactly what we saw from him. >> except according to some polls hes rising to the top every time this happens. >> theres a lot of people served this country, a lot of veterans will be highly offended. a lot of people in primaries know people or have family members that served in the military. for him to imply if you get s...

Supreme court decision. i dont look for surrender, what i look for is some kind of reconciliation. if it wasnt going to be this issue, it would be another issue, thomas. no question about it. they went after the aca, they were unsuccessful, they know they lost to put it in their terms, but we look at it as something that we should be trying to help this act along, make it better, improve upon it. some states are doing very well. some states that have preferred the federal government are not doin...