threat really is. keep in mind the pentagon estimates that russia has an active stockpile of up to 2,000 nonstrategic nuclear weapons. cnn white house reporter natasha bertrand joins us. why the differing opinion? reporter: the differentiation really hinges on the sourcing in this intelligence product. there are some people in the administration who believe it is thinly sourced. that it is mostly analysis whereas others are viewing it with more concern. broadly the administration believes that there is this intelligence that suggests that the russian generals have been speaking about how and when they might use a nuclear weapon in ukraine, basically the circumstances under which they would actually deploy that nuclear weapon but the difference in opinion here comes into play when you consider how the people, the administration officials are actually interpreting this intelligence. obviously, you know, this is not a monolith. not something that is a perfect science. intelligence requi
the new information that was unsealed today and the potential national security implications for the country and legal ramifications for donald j. trump. let s bring in brandon. thank you so much for being with us. i know you don t do a lot of this, but we re grateful that you are here today. yeah, thanks for having me. so, what should we make of the fact that the classified documents, they weren t schedules, they weren t mementos. they included things like human intelligence with the marking human, fisa material, original originator control, which means that the agency that had created the intelligence product didn t want it to be disseminated without their input. intelligence that wasn t to be released to any foreign nationals, not to be shared with other foreign leaders or others, and signal intelligence, some of the most classified and sensitive intelligence because it also reveals a method for gathering. what do we make of someone
at least you could understand a president who s obsessed with reading it, wanted to get at every day and then said as an ex president i want to keep getting briefings, which some presidents have done, and i want to keep reading this material. that wasn t the case with trump. i ll jump in and let you finish. we have cases of intelligence officials who took stuff home before the era of pandemic now, where that happens more often, and they got in trouble just for doing that on the job, but they were taking it home to study, homework. to your point, kind of the opposite here. yeah,some who didn t do that homework, who did get oral briefings. especially early in the presidency. they seemed to go fairly well. they trailed off near the end of his presidency, but he didn t seem to take an interest in reading the intelligence product. so suddenly there s hundred of pages of classified material once he s retired from office and just a citizen again? it doesn t make sense for that reason. so
to the a.g. that the probe raised questions about the involvement of the president himself. now that was from the house side. from the senate today wisconsin senator ron johnson is here and senator, good morning to you. do you agree with these house lawmakers what they want and if so what questions do you have? well good morning, bill. first of all i think the american public deserves the truth here and why senator grassley and i issued our report in september of 2020 that laid out the vast web of foreign financial entanglements of biden,, inc. the press denigrated it and ignored it. we had democrat leaders actually create an intelligence product, a false intelligence product, leaked it to the media that accused senator grassley and i soliciting and disseminating russian disinformation throw everybody off the trail off the corruption and compromise of then candidate joe biden. the day after we issued our