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the u.s. justice department warns the u.s. supreme court that classified documents seized from mar-a-lago are extraordinarily sensitive, urging the high court to stay out of the government 'legal battle with former president trump. and top republicans stand with herschel walker in georgia. closing ranks around their embattled u.s. senate nominee, walker lashing out at political opponents and speaking out tonight about the abortion controversy weighing on his campaign. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you are in the "situation room." this hour officials in ukraine are bracing for russia to strike again after two days of vladimir putin's new and widespread assault on cities across the nation. cnn's nick paton walsh is on the ground in the war zone. >> the second day of smoke over

the capital in skies that had had been quieter for months. a power plant one of many hit today here by an iranian drone attack, officials said, as russia's cruise missiles tried to turn the power off before winter. a smaller wave than monday ukraine saying 33 hit their targets and 33 were shot down. russia's defense spokesman blunt about what it wanted to hit. energy systems and military control. these 48 hours of onslaught new in ferocity but not in purpose. russia has been sitting civilian targets in cities like this one. zaporizhzhia daily for the past week where one person died this day. terror that led the white house to agree to send advanced air defense systems monday. but talking to the g7 leaders, ukraine's president wanted more. declare russia a state sponsor of terror, too, he said.

>> translator: the leader of russia feeling the approach of his end is trying to force the democratic world to surrender with a terrorist rush, to retreat, to lose. this can only be the desire of an insane person. more than 100 missile strikes in less than two days against civilians, against civilian infrastructure, sham referenda, a criminal attempt at annexation. >> reporter: clumsy blasts don't change russia's main problems. it's army is using force conscription and lacks basic supplies. the military leadership a reprieve from rare internal dissent by monday's violence perhaps, but putin's rhetoric less fiery when he met the nuclear watchdog head today to discuss the front line embattled zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant as he blamed everyone else for what he has been doing. >> translator: of course, we see that today there are elements of

excessively dangerous politicalization of everything connected with nuclear activity. >> reporter: still he will meet his turkish counterpart in kazakhstan. they were not against talks with the west if offered. >> translator: this is a lie. i can tell you right away. we did not receive any serious proposals to enter into contact. >> reporter: again a sign russia is not in a position of strength. >> now tonight ukraine's president volodymr zelenskyy said that 20 of the 28 cruise missiles fired at ukraine had been intercepted. we heard from ukraine ace defense minister who said that a german system and air defense system is already in ukraine and that a u.s. and partly norweigian system is on the way waiting separate confirmation from that. we don't know if that's actually

impacted some of the intercepts over the skies today. the main request from zelenskyy to the g7 in a virtual summit today for an air shield seems that is being answered fast and could significantly impact russia if it decides to continue this barrage on civilian areas. >> stay with us. i want to bring in cnn military analyst retired lieutenant-general mark hurtling and cnn national security correspondent kylie at wud. general, you are skeptical ukraine can achieve what president zelenskyy is asking for, an air defense shield. how much a difference could modern air defense systems make on the ground? >> certainly, wolf, any additional air defense system could help. but, yes, i am extremely skeptical not just -- and i am a huge supporter of president zelenskyy, but any commander will tell you that there is no such thing as an air defense shield. you cannot stop all missiles and

rockets from entering a certain location. air defense is based on point targets. and to suggest that you can draw a curtain around the borders of ukraine and in the allow any russian missiles or rockets to enter into that curtain is just not viable. it's not in line with what those systems are meant to do. they have to protect certain locations. we have seen over the last couple of days, as nick has probably experienced, those russian rockets and missiles are going throughout the country hitting multiple targets of infrastructure and schools and hospitals and electrical plants. in order to protect something you have to put an air defense bubble around a certain target. russia is firing indiscriminantly across the board so it's difficult to protect everything and establish a shield. >> it's interesting. what is the message from the united states and other western allies for that matter as russia

clearly is doubling down on these brutal strikes against civilian targets? >> yeah, well, the message is twofold. you heard from the leaders of the g7 after they had a phone call today coming out and saying that they condemn in the strongest possible terms these missile strikes that russia has continued to carry out against ukraine in recent days and calling it deliberate escalation from russia. really coming out with forceful rhetoric there. in addition to that, what they are trying to get the united states along with its allies to do is continue its support. we have heard from that the biden administration, the united states stands with ukraine, we'll continue sending them support, additional support in the coming days. and then the other part of it, of course, is trying to make sure that the united states is able to get other countries around the world to stand by as the united nations votes to connecticut dem in the strongest

possible determines these russian annexation of areas in ukraine over the last week or so. so they are trying to do both of those things. continue support and make here condemnation continues. >> is this latest wave of attacks also about putin trying to score points with his domestic audience in russia? >> yeah, i mean, there have been civilians killed. there has been a degree of fear and horror amongst cities not too close to the front line and it has been 30% of their energy infrastructure hit over the past couple of days. but really ukraine is possibly going to emerge from this with some greater resilience, possibly better air defense systems. what putin has done is possibly answer his critics domestically who have seen the appalling execution of a partial mobilization system that's forcing people from ordinary jobs on to the front line. seen on three separate fronts how the troops have been

retreating because of apauling supply lines, terrible command and control structures and looking to the kremlin saying when are you going to get your war together. even from high-profile members of russia's elite over the past 48 hours we heard from those around the kremlin, supporters normally, saying that they've possibly adjusted their opinion and now think the war is being conducted correctly. possibly russian president vladimir putin experiencing rare dissent, has used this display of might, brought in a new commander for what he calls a special military operation and maybe bought himself a brief respite from criticism. can they sustain this? doesn't seem to be the case. he may have bought himself a break from domestic criticism. >> general, britain's top spy chief now says russia faces what he calls a desperate situation with supplies running out and

forces exhausted. can russia sustain this fight through a cold winter that's upcoming? >> they cannot with man, maneuver and material. what they can do, this is what we're seeing, this is not a new strategy by mr. putin, he has been conducting criminal strikes since the beginning of the war, the missile and rocket strikes, and increasing them now because he just doesn't have the manpower or the incapability to conduct any kind of defense or maneuver warfare. this mobilization that he is attempting to do is interesting to be an utter failure. there will be more russians killed on the battlefield because they can't move and they have very poor leadership. even with the new leader, surovikin, who has gone on the field. they can't counter what the ukrainian army is doing in terms of momentum and action. >> guys, thank you much. ahead, president biden on vladimir putin's state of mind

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the midst of russia's extensive and brutal bombing campaign in ukraine, president biden today sat down with cnn for an exclusive interview. my colleague jake tapper asked him about putin's state of mind. >> do you think putin is a rational actor? >> i think he is a rational actor who is miss calculated significantly. i think he thought -- you remember i pointed out they were going to invade, oh, those 100,000 or more troops there, no one believed he was going to invade ukraine. you listen to what he says. if you listen to the speech he made after when that decision was being made, he talked about the whole idea of he was needed to be a leader of russia that united all, the russian speaker -- i mean, i just think it's irrational. >> so if he is not rational and -- >> i didn't i he is not

rational. >> you said the speech? >> i think the speech, his objectives were not -- i think he thought -- i think he thought he would be welcome with open arms, that this is the home of mother russia and kyiv and he was going tok welcomed. i think he just totally miscalculated it. >> you can see much more of that exclusive interview with the president on cnn tonight with jake tapper. that's at 9:00 p.m. eastern. let's discuss with the former director of national intelligence, retired general james clapper, a cnn national security analyst. thanks for joining us. you heard president biden saying putin is a, quote, rational actor who has miscalculated significantly. his words. what do you make of that assessment? >> well, i kind of agree with it. i think putin's is not necessarily crazy in a clinical sense, but he is kind of isolated. he is in his own world. so he is rational, but just made

a lot of bad judgments. so i think the president's right. >> the head of british intelligence now says putin is making strategic errors and that exhausted russian forces are running out of weapons. how do ukraine and the united states capitalize on that? >> well, keep pouring it on. and on my comment, parenthetically, i never have seen british -- the british intelligence enterprise as open and transparent as i they have been. and for the direct of gchq, the british analogue to our national security agency, to be speaking publicly as he has is very unusual. i think it's helpful and welcome. so and again, i think what we need to do, we the west, is keep pouring it on. incidentally, president zelenskyy has asked president

biden for more air defense equipment, and better air defense equipment, and this will serve to negate further the one thing that the russians seem to be able to do, which is to attack, you know, do terror attacks of civilian infrastructure. if that, the one thing they can do is neutered even more, that puts putin in an even more difficult position. so what we need to do is to keep doing we have been doing and keep the coalition together as i think we've been successful at to this point. >> how concerned are you, general clapper, that putin will now increase the brutality against the ukrainian people and that the pain for ukrainian civilians will increase the longer this war grinds on? >> well, i am concerned about

that. i mean, it's terrible to watch this bombing of apartment buildings and playgrounds, no less. you worry about the ability of the ukrainian citizenry to withstand this punishment. that's why i think we need to move with lacrity. they have done really with what they have. on the first day strikes by the russians, the ukrainians succeeded in shooting down half the attacking missiles, to include the drone systems provided by the iranians. so if we further negate that, neuter that capability, that will go a long way towards lessening the impact of these attacks by the russians. >> that could be a huge game changer. james clapper, thanks as usual

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georgia, herschel walker. he claims the woman who said he paid for her abortion as two prominent senators rallied behind walker today. on the campaign trail tonight.

>> reporter: it's all hands on deck for herschel walker's senate campaign. >> there is way too many reasons that each one of you should vote for herschel walker. >> reporter: out chair of the gop committee tasked with regaining control of the senator, vick scott, an arkansas senator tom cotton hitting the trail for the candidate outside atlanta. >> people get tired of television ads and the lies they tell about herschel walker. >> reporter: walker's campaign rocked last week by allegations the former football star twice asked an ex-girlfriend to have an abortion and paid for the woman to have one in 2009. he has repeatedly denied the reports including in an interview with abc news. >> did you ever have a conversation with this woman at any time about an abortion is? >> no. >> is you ever to your knowledge give money to pay for the cost of an abortion? >> no. >> is she lying? >> yeah, she's lying. >> reporter: cnn has not independently confirmed these allegations. >> you see what they are doing. they will do whatever it takes, say whatever they have to say because they want this seat right here.

but i don't think they know that they woke up a bear. >> reporter: as a candidate walker said he supports a national abortion ban with no exceptions. supporters of walker say they question the timing of the stories. in the final weeks of the campaign. >> i probably am doubtful with some of the allegations that they have come out so late into the game. >> i feel like if that did happen, which i don't think it did, why now? why do you have to go to the news? why not have worked it out with him? >> reporter: some georgia conservatives say there will be split ticket reporters supporting kemp and warnock. the latest allegations a bridge too far. >> if he just owns up to it, you know, not telling the truth about them, that's not good. >> reporter: the georgia senate race which could determine control of the u.s. senate is seen as crucial for both parties. warnock criticized today's event.

writing in a statement, herschel walker is campaigning with rick scott, fighting to cut social security for 1.9 georgians who rely on it. >> he threatened to kill us and had us move six times. >> reporter: while warnock's campaign has been careful not to directly attack walker over the allegations, a democratic outside group launched a tv ad tuesday highlighting accusations from walker's adult son christian, an outspoken conservative. a republican super pac up with a new tv ad highlighting a march 2020 incident in which warnock's ex-wife told police he ran over her foot with a car. >> i try to keep the way he acts under wraps for a long time and today he crossed the line. >> reporter: he denied the accusation, was not charged and a police report stated they did not find any visible signs of injury. you know who was not in the mix today? republican governor brian kemp. he was holding separate campaign

events. i think that is noteworthy. as we see national republicans rush to herschel walker's side expressly concerned about the future of this senate seat, we are not seeing georgia republicans take on as robust of a defense. wolf. >> good reporting. stick around. i also want to bring in chief political analyst gloria borger. we just heard walker doubling down on denials of these allegations. this comes as republicans are urging walker to mount a more so-called trumpian response. how is this playing out? >> i think he has mounted a trumpian response all along because he is deny, deny, deny. that's what he is continuing to do. my question is, as you see the voters that eva interviewed, the question is, is this already baked? these republicans are coming down because the senate seat is so important to them. this is something i think that donald trump would like them to

do. the two republicans, potential presidential candidates, and it's all winning control of the senate. in a way, for them it's probably less about herschel walker himself than about the fact that they want to remain in control of the senate. and so the answer is, wolf, we just don't know. we really don't know. but a lot of people have already made up their minds on presuming in the state of georgia. >> yeah, we will see how that unfolds. we saw prominent reasons rally with walker in georgia today. is the support of walker going to be a well thought out political strategy at least in the long run? >> i think if he wins, everybody is going to look brilliant for sticking by him despite these allegations which have been mounting over the last couple of days. so they are going down there and it's to gloria's point, they need to flip this seat. you know, herschel walker is, obviously, making that point in

his stump speeches to his supporters as well. republicans have no choice but to stick with him and essentially say these are democratic smears that are coming in the last weeks of this campaign. i think they should worry about not the folks who were at the rally, not sort of tried and true republicans, but swing voters, especially women voters who might have a problem not only with these -- his abortion stance and perhaps his hypocrisy around abortion, and the things that his son and ex woof have said about him, too. we will see. these allegations will matter. we don't know how much in the end. >> the question is also are there split ticket voters. >> yeah. >> where people who vote for kemp also vote for warnock. >> or not vote. >> exactly, not vote at all. we don't know the answer to that. split tickets isn't exactly a s popular thing in this country. >> eva, you attended walker's rally in georgia today where he made a reference to efforts to, quote, separate his family. are voters buying into walker's

attempts to portray himself as a family man into light of these revelations? >> reporter: well, some of his supporters certainly are. as i was working through the crowd today some of them told me that they believe him, that he is a born-again christian, they are suspicious of the timing of the allegations. some came to the rally specifically because they wanted to show their support in light of the negative stories. there was a long line wrapped around the parking lot with supporters asking for autographs, pictures, bringing it their kids to walker to get photos. so he very much has this celebrity status here among conservatives. there was only one split ticket voter i met. he was actually here to see tom cotton, told me he thought that cotton might run for president some day. it seemed like that man was the outlier and a lot of conservatives in georgia support walker. >> republican senate leader james mitch mcconnell says he believes

the battle for the majority of the senate is a true cliffhanger right now. does it surprise you he is not projecting more confidence at this late stage of the election season? >> no, he is looking at the map lake we are. he is looking at candidates, some who are much more flawed than republicans would have liked, much more dicey on the campaign trail, herschel walker being one of them. so he knows this is going to come down to a couple of seats. listen, we might not actually know because that georgia race could go to a runoff. we might not know for months and months and months what the outcome will be. >> also, one question that mitch mcconnell did not answer was the question that manu asked him about his wife and the racist name that donald trump called her. it was very interesting to me because i thought, first i thought, that's kind of interesting. why wouldn't he say anything?

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new tonight the u.s. justice department urging the u.s. supreme court to stay out of its fight with former president trump over the highly classified documents the fbi found at his florida home. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider is working the story for us. >> the justice department really going point by point to the supreme court here, laying out why the supreme court should not step into this fight and why they shouldn't grant trump's emergency petition. remember trump is asking the supreme court for a very narrow relief here. he wants the supreme court to say that the special master and his attorneys can look at those 100 classified documents. but the doj here is saying that the 11th circuit was right to step in and to cope those classified documents out of view, especially because they say it contained extraordinary sensitive information that implicate national security. so they don't want the supreme court to undo that. furthermore, they are saying that trump has not suffered any harm here. this is what they said

specifically. most notably, trump has not even attempted to explain how he is irreparably injured by the court of appeals' partial stay, which simply prevents disclosure of documents bearing classification markings in the special master review during the pendency of the government's expedited appeal. it's sufficient reason to deny the extraordinary relief he seeks in this court. and another thing that was remarkable here, wolf, is throughout this 34-page filing that the doj just submitted to the supreme court, they blasted the lower court judge here, aileen cannon, in canada. they said she never should have appointed the special master, and said she shouldn't have let the special master and trump's team get the view of these classified documents. the district court's order was a serious and unwarranted intrusion on the executive branch's authority to control the use and distribution of extraordinarily sensitive

government records. so now, wolf, we wait for the supreme court to act. it's likely been referred to the full court despite going to justice santa claraens thomas. it will take five justices to g trump the relief he is seeking. just last december or earlier this year when trump asked the supreme court to block his white house records from the january 6th committee, they denied that. so it's possible they could do the same here. >> we will find out soon. stay with us. i also want to bring in the state attorney for florida, dave ehrenberg, and defense attorney shan wu. dave, from your perspective, has the justice department gotten this one right? should the supreme court stay out of this fight? >> yes, wolf, the supreme court should reject this appeal. there is two reasons why trump filed this appeal. first, he wants to further delay the investigation. that's trump's m.o., delay,

delay, delay. secondly, he wants his lawyers to get access to the 100 classified documents. neither is a good reason to rule in trumpies favor. delaying this puts our national security at risk and if trump's legal team gets to see the documents, christina bob and evan corcoran seeing these documents, those trump lawyers are witnesses in this near and could be doj targets. also, wolf, why would the supreme court after the dobbs ruling want to dirty themselves up with this politically charged matter? they would be stepping on a rake. but lately they have been doing a lot of that. >> interesting. you know, the justice department is arguing these documents are so sensitive, so highly classified, that national security of the united states could be jep ziezed even by the judge alone in chambers. what do you make of that depa department of justice argument? >> i think we can see the evolution of doj's growing confidence here. they started out with a very modest request, which is just

let us see these so we can investigate them. now they are a little bit em boldled and letting both barrels going against the district court ruling by cannon. their point is very well taken. there is really an unprecedented for a judicial interference with this criminal investigation and the irreparable harm is simply disclosing sensitive national security documents. and on the other side of that equation, trump just can't demonstrate irreparable harm from not seeing them. they just want a preview of the case. as dave said, to delay it. >> where does this go from here? >> we are really on two separate parallel circuit appeal so movi forward. doj has to file their brief in the 11th circuit by friday. we are waiting for what the supreme court does. it will take five justices if trump gets his way.

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very serious new questions tonight about the u.s. relationship with saudi arabia. the white house now says president biden will, quote, re-evaluate ties with the

kingdoms based on the decisions to cut oil production and support for russia. some senate democrats go further, including the majority whip dick durbin. they want more and they are being more blunt. >> this notion that they are going to raise our gasoline prices more, call them good old boys, the heck with that. this is a terrible regime. it is a kingdom in the 21st century that should be out of business. >> let's discuss this and more with fareed zakaria. the top democratic senators are now calling on the biden administration to freeze relations with saudi arabia. what consequences would matter to the saudis? should the u.s., for example, as some democrats are demanding, stop selling the saudi's weapons? >> i think these are very risky moves. we are in the middle of a war with the world's second largest energy exporter. this does not seem to me to be the time to declare war on the

world's largest energy exporter. you know, this is one of the reasons why it's a good thing that the executive branch takes the lead on foreign policy. the saudis did something they shouldn't have. it was a mistake or, rather, put it differently, it was a way of asserting their economic interests and disregarding america's. the biden administration should take that into account, recalibrate relations, make it clear to them that they are very displeased. but we have to figure out what is the goal here. is the goal to punish saudi arabia? in which case, remember, as i say, it's the largest energy exporter in the world. you can't punish saudi arabia without plunging the world into more economic turmoil. or is it to get mohammad bin salman, the cruise ship, t crow prince, to change his mind? that's a different strategy. you have to figure out how to re-engage in the relationship in

a way that both asserts american interests, but also recognizes some saudi look, international relations is not for the feint hearted. we are dealing with regimes that are different from us all the time. but if we are trying to win this war against russia, this does not seem to me the time to open a second front with the other great oil exporter in the world. >> as you know, fareed, the whole world saw president biden fist-bump with the saudi crown prince mohammad bin salman when they met in jetta, saudi arabia, a few weeks ago. i was there on that trip. has the u.s. lost its power in its relationship with saudi arabia? >> yes. it's lost its power and its relationships with many countries around the world over the last decade or so. for all kinds of reasons, largely, as i wrote a book about this called "the post american war," because these countries are much more powerful, they're more richer, more stable.

look at our relations with turkey where we used to have enormous sway, and we have much less sway. this is all part of a world that we have for figure out how to navigate, where american power is not kind of absolute the way it used to be. we can't jump and these countries will say how high. we do have considerable power. but it's a kind of fantasy that these senators are indulging in. when dick durbin says this regime shouldn't exist in the 2 21st century, haven't we learned lessons about talking about regime change in the middle east? we don't get to choose which regimes we're going to be with around the world. our goal is how to secure american interests. and it seems right now at least in the very short term, it does not make sense to declare war on saudi arabia. you'll feel good about it for a while. the pain of doing it -- oil

prices would go up. you would find yourself with a regime that is even less cooperative on oil, on energy. it's a much messier, more complicated path of some kind of diplomatic engagement that definitely reads them a certain -- but also listens. as i say, this is a very hard diplomatic challenge. >> it certainly is. cnn's fareed zakaria, thanks so much for joining us. really appreciate it. coming up, day five of the oath keepers' trial. prosecutors focusing on the founders plan to keep former president trump in power. this was no bear. it was like a bearsquatch! dad. what's a bearsquatch? it's a cross between a bear and a sass... it's made up.

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using the defendant's own words against them. >> reporter: they have been. you can hear some of the words, you can see some settle words on video, and there are tons and tons of text messages and messages on facebook and parlour and many other things between all of these defendants. we also heard from the third fbi special agent today who testified as well all in an attempt to try and show this plot and plan to try and stop the government from being able to move forward on the peaceful transfer of power. in the first trial for seditious conspiracy related to the january 6th attack on the capitol, prosecutors homed in on the planning to keep former president trump in power, and the motives of oath keeper founder stewart rhodes and four others. prosecutors played video of rhodes from this november 14th,

2020, million maga march rally, where rhodes claimed the 2020 election was stolen. >> the country won't accept this election. anything he signs supposedly signs into law we won't recognize as being legitimate. we want to be very much like the founding fathers. we will resist it. >> what does resisting it mean? >> well, when it comes to try to enforce, we'll defend ourselves against the enforcer. >> reporter: the jury also saw a slew of chatter after that same november march. next time, and there will be a next time, there will be real violence for all of us, read one exchange between defendant thomas caldwell to a member of the oath keepers. it was sent two days after that november rally outside the capitol protesting the 2020 election. prosecutors also showed jurors an open letter stewart rhodes wrote to trump after his election loss imploring the president to invoke the

insurrection act. know this, millions of american military and law enforcement veterans and many millions more loyal patriotic american gun owners stand ready to answer your call to arms and to obey your orders to get this done. prosecutors then turned to jessica watkins, another oath keeper facing seditious conspiracy charges, showing her november 2020 facebook messages about then president-elect joe biden. america's largest militia says it will refuse to recognize biden as president and resist his administration. prosecutors also showed the items the fbi confiscated from watkins' car and home, including army issued goggles, zip ties and pool cues. defense attorneys say their clients saw themselves as peacekeepers, not attackers. >> cnn's sara sidner reporting. thanks, sara, very much. finally tonight, veteran

actress angela lansbury has died. she was america's favorite tv sleuth for over a decade in her iconic role on "murder she wrote." she also starred on stage and in movies including her oscar-nominated performance in "the manchurian candidate." she died at her home in los angeles today. she was 96 years old, just five days shy of her 97th birthday. may she rest in peace, and, as we say, may her memory be a blessing. and to our viewers, thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." be sure to join us again tomorrow starting at our new time 5:00 p.m. eastern. "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. "outfront" next, more u.s. weapons arriving in ukraine tonight on the same day russia warns the u.s. about payback.