Pentagon Intelligence News Today

after a year of russian brutality and ahead of an expected counteroffensive. the mayor of kyiv will join us live this hour. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. im wolf blitzer. youre in the situation room. we begin this hour with president biden making his 2024 plans official, and making the case that he deserves a second term. cnns phil mattingly reports on the presidents big announcement and how trump figured into his message. >> four more years...

they have to be presumed -- you cant presume that this was just something that happens with a bureaucratic snafu, this is outrageous. >> well, the explanation for the quote, lost data sounds more suspicious this morning based on a new time line from lawmakers, julia insley is standing by with more on this story. plus, new subpoenas for supporters of former president trump. good news out of fulton county, georgia. nearly a dozen fake elects from one state could face criminal charges f...

Put it, many in the media badly screw up when it came to that terrible bombing of the Hospital Grounds in gaza city. New york times, and the paper was not alone, ran this Banner Headline israeli strike kills hundreds in hospital, palestinians say. At least theres that attribution, but that really means hamas said it. The Terrorist Group that controls the gaza government with, that launched the war with unspeakable atrocities, that that has a long history of deception. Well, it turns out the accu...

In the sunni ar arists of iraq. wherever he is hes going to be keeping his location incredibly secret it will be known to a few number of isis operatives hes going to be limiting or eliminating his electronic footprint not using a cell phone. >> so how do u.s. officials feel about al sadr being the enemy of their enemy? officials at the pentagon and sia would not comment. they may not mind isis having another formidable enemy. what does worry leaders here in washington is the possibility that an...

>> the u.s. led effort faces its own delays and obstacles. iraqi forces have now been held to a stalemateealalemate and rounded in ramadi even as they outnumbered isis fighters and backed by a u.s. led air campaign. military officials say the pentagon has not given up on the syrian rebels training program, they add theres been no shortage of volunteers including more than 1,000 more volunteers signing up in just the last ten days the key problem is those volunteers are either not fit to fight ...

Thousands of acres in washington state, dozens of homes already have been destroyed. can crews get the upper hand before entire communities are wiped out? im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. were following the breaking news growing concern of a terrorist attack inside the united states in the coming days. sources are telling cnn the apprehension is greater than in recent years, in part because of the growing number of isis sympathizers inside the united states. that has local and fed...

Nominated. >> theres a power struggle going on between the department of defense and the entire rest of the intelligence community. i dont see how you have a four-star general heading up the cia. >> we should not have a military person leading a civilian agency at this time. >> you cant have the military, i think, control, you know, most of the major aspects of intelligence. >> the fact that he is a part of the military today is the major problem. >> tom, one of the concerns there is the cia wou...

Between the extremes between collecting and analyzing intelligence and operations. it seems like you are always asking the cia to do several impossible things. one is the untraceable operations that max mally impact the foreign policy or you are asking them to predict the future. neither of which, this expectation is healthy for the conduct of, you know, the intelligence we need. >> i want to show this. its interesting. there was a lot of concern when michael hayden was nominated to run the cia ...