Herschel Walker is finally copping to the check that a woman says,
he gave to her to pay for an abortion, that he also pressured her to have.
Now he's not admitting to all of that, but
he's right there on the cusp take a look at this.
Why not reach out to her?
>> And if why should I?
Why do I need to?
>> NBC News has now spoken to that former girlfriend who provided us with what she
says is a copy of a $700 cheque that Walker gave her to pay for the abortion.
And a receipt from the medical center in Georgia where she alleges it took place.
NBC news is not revealing the woman's identity or
the documents to protect the privacy of all parties.
But, we did show a copy of the cheque to Walker who said the allegation he paid for
an abortion isn't true.
>> This is still a lie, because she's the mother of my child.
So, you're gonna see me a cheque of somebody giving a cheque.
So, that's what I'm saying it's a lie.
>> Do you know what this $700 dollars?
>> I have no idea what that can be for.
Is that your signature on the cheque though?
>> It could be, it doesn't matter whether it's my signature or not.
>> When pressed Walker said definitively for the first time.
The cheque is his.
>> Yes, that's my cheque.
>> Why should voters believe you in this?
>> Voters should believe me,
because I've been very transparent about everything I've ever done.
>> Transparent to the extent that God that guy can't lie.
He is really, really bad at hiding when he's lying.
And I don't just mean that it wasn't for an abortion.
That obvious lie.
Did you see the other lies in that?
It might not have been super clear unless you've been covering this story for
a long time.
Now, he seems to understand to the extent that Herschel Walker can be said to
understand anything.
That accepting that he wrote the woman the $700 cheque,
is going to be really damning.
But, he has a defense and the defense is well hold on,
you can't just assume that the $700 is for an abortion.
After all, I give her cheques, because she's the mother of my child.
So, that's just a normal cheque that I would send to her.
Except that they didn't have a child together four years after the abortion,
years after the cheque was sent out again.
It's a horrible defense that falls apart if you just breathe on it,
just a little bit.
But, it doesn't have to be a good defense, because at the end of the day.
He doesn't need to reassure right wingers in Georgia that he's telling the truth,
because and I can't stress this enough.
They don't care, every single one of those republicans
who believes that abortion is literally murder.
And that if you assist someone having an abortion, you who are assisting in murder.
Do not care that he is in their own eyes a murderer, it is irrelevant.
He can do a stupid thing where he pretends to need to put his glasses
on to see the cheque.
It can be transparent, because the only thing that's more transparent is how
little his base actually cares about the things they profess to hold as principles.
Anyway, Michael, what do you think?
>> And then you have Tom Cotton and Rick Scott going to Georgia, to support him.
And clearly they're both ostensibly pro life,
anti abortion candidates or senators and
they're supporting a candidate who is professing to be that.
However, he has this cheque past, they don't care.
They want that vote on the senate floor and
they want to take Raphael Warnock's vote away.
And so, that hypocrisy is the kind of hypocrisy that we were talking about
earlier and that we talked about all the time, they don't care.
They want the majority and it doesn't bother them.
One iota that this guy is lying through his teeth about a cheque what he's saying.
He wrote this cheque and then had a child four years later.
He's saying he's putting a down payment on child support payments.
Which also presumes that if he were gonna have had a child with this woman,
he would not have been present in that woman's life to begin with.
So, you don't go in with sort of the prenuptial of child support payments.
It's just crazy.
>> Exactly.
Yeah. And if you're gonna try to present
yourself as a person who would give future child support.
Don't live your life as the guy who regularly has to be dragged into court to
pay the child support that you've already been mandated to have to give.
So again, justice see through.
He lied.
He continues to lie.
Nobody cares.
He just did this campaign event basically on Sean Hannity's show.
This is the guy who's more explicitly riddled with scandals,
than maybe anyone since Donald Trump, put in soft quest nothing.
No attempt to dig, no ethical obligation.
No journalistic obligation.
Nothing.
>> I Mean, he's not a journalist.
So, you shouldn't say journalistic obligation.
I saw Sean Hannity.
I was at a Ted Cruz rally, where Sean Hannity was a speaker in the 2018 midterm.
And so, you look at that's not a journalist anymore.
That is somebody who is not a journalist.
So, he doesn't have an obligation to ask tough questions.
So, it doesn't bother me that he didn't, because he's not a journalist.
>> Great point.
Let's very quickly just mention this.
You would think perhaps, if you're new to American politics.
That having a candidate who has regularly lied about being
a member of law enforcement.
Stand on stage at a debate and then bring out effectively a fake badge,
some honorary thing that was given to him as defense of these claims.
He's made to be an FBI agent in the past would be damaging to him,
that it would hurt him in some way.
But, I would like to welcome you to America in 2022.
Know they're doubling down on this.
We are not doubling down on it, that would imply that you'd end up with two badges.
Now, they're going for 1000 badges.
As you'll soon see.
Strategist for Herschel Walker says, Herschel walker has been a friend of law
enforcement and has a record of honoring police.
If senator Warnock wants to highlight this, then bring it on.
It just gives us a chance to talk about Herschel support of law enforcement and
law enforcement support for him.
It's a great issue for us.
Well, generally it's a great issue for them.
Every once in a while, on January 6th,
they try to beat every cop they can see to death with their bare hands.
But, other than that they're generally supportive of law enforcement.
That is true.
So, what are they doing?
They're cutting the video of him holding up the stupid fake badge and
they're using it in their ads.
Or also their campaign is ordered 1000 imitation plastic law
enforcement badges that say I'm with Herschel, as a fundraising tool.
So, you can get one of those and
you too can be an honorary police lieutenant like Herschel walker is.
No but, seriously, this is a comical, laughable,
needless own goal from a candidate.
And it is going to work.
They're gonna raise a ton of money,
nobody's gonna care, because nobody has any expectations for this guy.
He can stand up there and act like a petulant, dimwitted four year old and
the republican base will just cheer all the louder.
The race, by the way, its within a few points in the aggregate.
And God only knows with the flaws in polling and enthusiasm and all that.
Michael, God only knows he could end up being a senator.
>> There's no question.
I think we have to prepare for what we've prepared for on election night,
where we couldn't possibly see how somebody could elect this person A,
because it's possible that that person could win.
There's a governor's race there.
It is a red state that has two blue senators and went for
Biden and Harris in 2020.
But nonetheless, it's still, I would say, a very rurally dominant state.
That Cobb County and Atlanta make up a big portion of that vote.
But, still it's a big big state Georgia.
And it's not a foregone conclusion, even with and
I've seen a lot of candidates who have made it to be the featured candidate,
the number one for the party, the nomination for the party.
This is probably the weakest,
worst candidate in a serious race that I've ever seen, ever.
And it's a shame, I mean, it's a shame, because of what how insulting it is.
But also,
that there are republicans in that state who would have made better candidates.
So, it's a shame for republicans, I'm sure.
But, you know, Raphael Warnock is a serious senator and a cleric.
And he's somebody who has taken his job seriously to have to go up against this
and possibly lose is crazy.
>> It is embarrassing and we're gonna turn to that in just one sec.
But, first I agree, I think he is the worst candidate.
There was a candidate not that many years ago.
That had to make an ad reassuring republican voters that she was not in
fact a witch.
>> Right. >> And
she doesn't look like the most embarrassing candidate anymore.
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