there. people, the know the bigger the support can be for this bill thank you both thank you so much for joining us. see you in a news night with abby phillip starts now donald trump tries to set expectations for both debate possibilities. that s tonight on these good evening. i m abby phillip in washington. great expectations or not so great expectations tonight. new sound from donald trump shows that the care that he s putting into a soft landing should joe biden put them on the canvas at next week, cnn presidential debate? trump thinks that he will do well and the biden is in cognitive decline. there s no evidence for that, of course, but trump also says, the biden is a worthy debater. just listen all i could change this. i watched him with paul ryan and he destroyed paul ryan boride with the water he was chugging water at a left and right. i didn t think a human being would be able to drink so much water at one time and he d be paul ryan. i m not underestimating him.
Today officials authorize today know. Trump supporters complaining about the source of leaks rather than the substance of the leak, jim sciutto. Reporter a source close to ambassador susan rice tells me the claims she improperly unmasked u. S. Citizens caught up in surveillance is in a word false coming from ambassador rice, but ive also spoken to Senior Intelligence officials from democratic and republican administrations to ask them about the process of unmasking. Is it unusual, illegal . And the answer is usually no, not unusual, not illegal. They say a couple of things, one the law allows it, two for it to happen the official requests,
the Intelligence Community has to approve it, it is often times approved because that official wants to provide more information as they are reading Intelligence Report they want to know more about the significance, that is shared between the briefer. Its possible that official could do that him or herself but by nature of it it is only exchanged one
ukraine. so there s going to be a lot of spinning here, it seems to me. aaron, we just heard from the cia director, bill burns, he said that president putin is in a frame of mind where he doesn t believe he can afford to lose. if the cia director is saying that, what do you believe we can expect to see in the next phase of the war that started a couple weeks ago? how much more brutal do you think it can get? as a former ambassador to moscow, bill burns is able to read putin and clearly they re reading intelligence. there s no question about it. whether or not the russians have achieved what they wanted so far, putin is in this for keeps. it s the end game for him. in his own mind, he cannot lose. it s a mix of grievances and an ideology about return to russian greatness. in answer to your question, the
is true, so i think that satellite footage will tell us where russians are, where russians are not and where ukrainian forces are and to the time that we re seeing these mass atrocities, critical over time. shawn, you spent years in intelligence, reading intelligence, analyzing it at times. there s a lot of speculation about the strength of putin s leadership, given the economic costs, his economy is now paying right now but also the embarrassment of the loss so far in ukraine. is it realistic to imagine that his leadership, his power is under threat or do you think it s premature to be speaking in those terms? yeah, jim, i think it s premature to be speaking in those terms at this point. when we think about russia, russia is what we call a hard target. we do our very best over time to the best intelligence we can and we ve gotten better over the years and continue to get
the calls of the joint chiefs with china. you heard that somehow milley communicating to china with secret information. a source said no. the conversations with china are regularly, quarterly and particularly in october four days before the election and then after the january 6 insurrection that there was as described to me plenty of reason to believe that china was m misinformed basically. reading intelligence and conspiracy theories believing that the u.s. might attack and then president trump might order an attack in effect a red phone conversation for him to say we are not going to war here. things are under control. and this was a pattern in the trump administration where the