thank you. thank you so much for joining us. sienna news night with abby. phillip starts now the president who says he build back better, is being advised to keep whatever is minds off of what s behind. that s tonight on newsnight good evening i m abby phillip in new york and tonight, joe biden and donald trump, they are 72 hours away from when they re due on that stage and atlanta with jake tapper and dana bash. this week s cnn s debate, maybe the moment that defines this entire campaign, it is the earliest such debate in modern history. three and tonight sources are telling cnn that the president has now been told by his advisors to shy away from talking too much about what he s done for the bulk of the last three years washington post suggested republicans may have to find something else to criticize me for. now that inflation is coming down maybe low losartan and peace me because it s coming down. i don t know i love that one anyway, notice juror you ll also see a
next day and i m quoting i believe mr. trump was institutionalized in a mental hospital in 1990 which is why he won t release his medical records. do you see on one day criticizing the press for being lazy and inaccurate and the next day you are being lazy and inaccurate. a journalist would ask the question why did you send that tweet? i will answer it for you now. i have been covering donald trump. i started writing about him in the late 1980s. at that time i oained his medical records from his real doctor, not from this guy who sent out medical report then. it showed that in 1982 he was given a very heavy prescription for an amphetamine derivative and he remained on that prescription for many years. i knew from people inside the trump organization that they were deeply concerned about his condition that he was getting reckless, that he was getting impulsive. that he wasn t sleeping. that he was speaking with