a republican rival kari lake mocked the camp for tying the crime to the election calling it jussi smollett part two, which refers to the actor convicted of lying to police. we re also watching president biden this afternoon. he is expected to speak this hour from syracuse about the economy and the election. and joining us now is cnn political analyst and david chalon. good to have both of you with us. this herschel walker news and i ll start with you, margaret, he s now making jokes about it. he says that, well, i didn t kill jfk either. it doesn t seem like it that the voters in georgia, the republican voters are making any moves based on this, and the republican, i guess, establishment didn t make any moves because it comes down to an equation and they need georgia. yeah, victor. i think that s right, and i think the calculation in terms of the gop is that this is sort of baked in now, and it s not,
tell us what happened during this event today. reporter: well, victor, certainly they were expecting this briefing. they thought they would get new information. the officials at the dps indicated to family members that there would be some kind of high level briefing that they would get new information, and families traveled here to get that information. qui quite simply it didn t happen. the families got to vent their frustration, their grief, their pain of just continually being denied this information. it s sort of cruel, you know? they make them come here, sit through this explain themselves, and then they get no information. the other thing really, the big thing here was that the family members called on the director to resign, steve mcgraw, the director of the department of public safety to resign and really was just kind of these moments here where he was trying to explain himself and he then tells the families, well, there was no failure on the part of the dps as an institutio
because a lot of experts would suggest that now would not be the time for him to deploy a nuclear weapon if he s just mobilized some 200,000 troops and sending them out on the front just to nuke them doesn t really make sense, but on the topic of a dirty bomb, do you view that as potentially a pretext to then setting up this new front in kherson or in the southeast to bring in some of these mobilized troops that have been trained over the past few weeks? well, thank you, bianna and victor. i do not believe that he is serious about using them. i agree with kim in the assessment that a lot of this is just speaking to an audience back in russia. the hardliners that he has surrounded himself with, trying to appease them and to act tough to the rest of the world and to the u.s. and nato and the ukrainians, you know. he s losing the imaneuver war ad
from the map you just showed, they target where to send him very, very carefully and deliberately to places where the landing of trump s plane and he can hold a rally there that could juice republican turnout. so he goes to a republican area or where there are a big base of trump-aligned voters, and he can turn up their participation in the election. we saw them do this when he was president, and it is what helped the republicans have sort of a surprise victory in some house races in the 2020 cycle, and that s sort of how they re deploying him now. i do like that you caught that florida detail, victor, that he s on that one just going for marco rubio, but ron desantis doesn t seem to have been invited there, as they continue this shadow boxing pre-2024. quite a difference in that relationship from where it was four years ago where you had the former president endorse him. things have changed on that
partial air cover to prevent these. attacks on energy facilities and infrastructure. short of what you are recommending, is there any way to avoid what officials in kyiv now are saying that could potentially be this complete blackout as we get into the colder months? well, i think that if we get the right systems in there, victor, we could shoot down these iranian drones that are wreaking havoc right now. they ve launched them in swarms and the intent ukrainians are successful in knocking about 85% to 90% of them, but enough of them are getting through and they re targeting the critical infrastructure and as kim pointed out, winter s coming up and they re trying to make life painful. so i definitely think that we can improve our air defenses, specifically i would like to see the c-ram system, the counterrocket artillery and mortar system that was used so incredibly successfully in iraq and afghanistan. i have personal experience with them. these are available, they are