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confronted and killed the gunman. as for how she viewed herb responsibilities that day, how she saw her duty to protect the children inside, listen to this moment from shimon's report, as captured on video of her outside the school that morning. >> reporter: an officer asked her children attend robb elementary. elizondo's response -- >> my son is in day care. he is not old enough. yeah, no. if my son had been in there, i would not have been outside, i promise you that. >> "my son had been there," she said, "i would not have been outside. i promise you that." we spoke about her employ...

i'm not going to bite down. the stakes are way, way too high. >> i think every republican knew there was baggage out there. the weight of that baggage is starting to feel a little closer to unbearable. >> announcer: live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster. it's friday, october 7th, 9 a.m. here in london, 4 a.m. on the east coast of the united states where we start in new york. that's where u.s. president joe biden gave a stark warning about nuclear talk coming out of russia. president vladimir putin hinted using nuclear weapons is not off the table. statement came ...

the russian leader. democrat saying we have not face the prospect of armageddon since kennedy and the missile crisis. i don't think there's an ability to use a nuclear weapon and not end up with armageddon. >> look what you just heard from the president, this is stark language. you do not normally hear this from u.s. presidents. not now. and it comes as the u.s. considers how to response to a range of potential scenarios. >> for more let's bring in jeremy diamond. has there been any escalation from russia that prompted these remarks? >> reporter: there's no question there is an eleva...

kennedy and the cuban missile crisis. what is putin's off ramp? where does he find a way out? where does he find himself where he does not lose face but significant power? his military is, you might say, significantly underperforming. cnn's fred pleitgen is in kyiv. fred, significantly under performing. there are voices inside russia saying the same thing right now. >> reporter: there certainly are. i think those voices are growing. we've also seen a lot of in fighting, if you will, between a lot of the power sectors of russia, especially at the top of the country. one of the interes...

soon as december. and herschel walker now says he's not backing down despite the abortion scandal rocking his campaign. ma maggie haberman joins me this hour on donald trump's decision to back walker despite his checkered past. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." let's 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 live from the war zone. nick, this rapid ukrainian advance comes as vladimir putin laid claim to ...