not be driven by a specific plan. the leaked documents also show russian forces are depleted and struggling. tonight there s a new report that one of america s closest allies in the middle east was secretly planning to help the russian war effort. the washington post reviewd one leaked document, indicating that egypt, which receives a billion dollars of american aid each year, was secretly planning to furnish russia with weapons. according to the post, the document, which abc news has not seen, quotes the egyptian president instructing his top military officials to keep the plans secret to avoid problems with the west. today in egypt s pro-state media, an official dismissed the report as rumors. the white house would not confirm or deny that the u.s. had gathered intelligence that egypt planned to arm the russians, only saying that it never actually happened. administration officials frankly admit that they don t have any real sense of who might be behind the leaks, and a top whi
rock until we find the source of this and extent of it. the documents were possessed on the internet weeks ago, but austin says he only found about the leak last thursday. some in the web, and where exactly, and who had access at that point, we don t know. we simply don t know at this point. the documents, some of which were posted on twitter, and other socialed mia including dozens of briefing slides for top officials, including a host of global hotspots, and reveal real concerns within the pentagon about the progress of the war in ukraine. one document included theou fall short in its upcoming spring counter-offensive against russian forces, notching only modest gains. abc news has not seen the document. the defense secretary today downplayed its gloomy assessment. i have every confidence that they will do what good leaders, great leaders do. they will fight the enemy and
2020 election was also spotted entering the building. you know who else was there? an attorney named emmett flood, who represented former vice president mike pets, he was spotted entering the building. we now know that attorneys for trump, pans, and the doj prosecutors met behind closed doors, in a field hearing before the d. c. chief judge of the special counsel ongoing battle to compel pence s testimony before the grand jury. if you are wondering, why trump s attorney were in the mix there it s because they ve claim that executive privilege should prevent the former vice president from testifying. and they re making that case to the judge. as a reminder, jack smith subpoenaed pants for his testimony back in february, and abc news now report to pence s verbal testimony, to subpoena documents and communication for efforts for the 2020 election. the larry at the laps, and efforts to overturn lackey jeffrey clark, you as acting
russia was carrying out atrocities, russia is now saying that these men, who are now in russian custody, are war criminals and nazis, and russian officials say that they want to declare those fighters member of a terrorist group and that they will all be interrogated to see about their involvement in crimes against civilians, presumably ukrainian civilians in mariupol, which they were trying to defend against russia. i guess we shouldn t be surprised that propaganda attempt, considering what happened last week in the first war trial, war crime trial being held by the ukrainian government against a russian soldier. richard engel on the ground in kharkiv. thank you, sir. please continue to be safe. thank you all for being with us this hour. don t forget, our election night special, myself, kristen welker, stream on abc news now, wherever you can get it.