Walker acknowledges sending $700 check to woman who alleges he paid for abortion but denies it was for that purpose

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🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Republican Georgia Senate nominee Herschel Walker acknowledged he sent a $700 check to a woman who is alleging he paid for her abortion, but he denied it was for that purpose. Walker’s campaign has been rocked by allegations the former football star, who supports a national abortion ban without expectation, asked an ex-girlfriend to have the procedure twice and paid for it on the occasion she did. CNN Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash tells Anderson Cooper whether she thinks Georgia voters care about Walker’s changing stories. Plus, actor William Shatner joins AC360 to discuss his new book, “Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder.” Guests: Dana Bash, William Shatner. Airdate: October 17, 2022. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening tonight.
0:02.0	What some candidates are saying and what that says about where we are is a functioning
0:05.8	reality-based democracy.
0:07.5	First, Georgia Republican Senate candidate, Herschel Walker, versus reality, starting with
0:11.4	what is indisputably true.
0:13.7	In his college and pro football career, he accomplished what most can only dream of.
0:17.6	He's a three-time all-American running back, three-time player of the year with a national
0:21.1	championship and a Heisman trophy to his name.
0:23.8	He played pro ball for some of the best teams in the league, competing in the 1992 Winter
0:27.7	Olympics in the late last administration, co-chair the president's council on physical
0:31.9	fitness and sports.
0:33.5	All of that, in short, to say that Herschel Walker has planned to be proud of.
0:37.5	Among those accomplished bench, though, is not a degree from the University of Georgia as
0:41.1	he's claimed, because he never graduated, let alone as he also claimed in the top 1% of
0:45.4	his class.
0:46.4	He's claimed he was a high school valid historian, he wasn't, and he suggested he was an FBI
0:52.0	agent.
0:53.0	I spent time at Quantico, if you had trained in schools, you had an office agent.
0:58.2	Yeah, he wasn't.
0:59.7	He did claim he was obviously joking, which he did not make clear at the time.
1:03.5	And this year, when the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported his comments as a serious claim, Walker's
1:07.9	campaign did not tell the newspaper that he was joking.
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