joining me is richard haass and tim naftali.hard is the president of the council on foreign relations, and tim is a cnn presidential historian and teaches history at nyu. so that bombardment, this is part of the new general that's been put in place in russia. this is the guy who oversaw the syrian campaign. this is exactly what he did in syria. it is brutal. and they're going for energy infrastructure, they're basically plunging the civilian population into cold and misery, right? can ukraine just keep taking these body blows? >> you're exactly right. this is the aleppo part of the ukraine war. russia went compete on the battlefield, so they're saying we are going to so increase the misery, that we are going to try to get you to shut "unac"uncle"e can claim this was worth it. mass bombing tending to stiffen the spine of civilian populations, but we'll see. he's hoping the new house of representatives here might give him a break. he's hoping europeans get cold this winter, maybe they'll lose their spirit of backing ukraine. and o

with richard haass and tim naftali. also, is china ready to seize taiwan? that is the question the reporter dexter filkins sought to answer in a new story for "the new yorker." what did he learn from his trip to the embattled island? >>> and it's now been more than two months since a woman died after being arrested by iran's morality police. what do we need to know about iran's gen-z, the young people leading the protest? i'll talk to holly dagres. >>> but first, here's my take. it is heartening to see some important republican figures come out against donald trump. but it's worth noting that many of them embrace him when he proposed a muslim ban, was impeached, and then tried to overturn an election. his real sin in their eyes, is that now he's losing popularity. however, trump's slump among republicans could change. imagine that during the 2024 republican campaign, the republican party runs a large and varied field. ron desantis, nikki haley, liz cheney, among other possible candidates. trump would start with a shrunken base but generate publicity and wou

joining us as well cnn presidential historian tim naftali. dana, any thoughts on what you just heard? >> well, he certainly tried to heed the warnings of those around him -- well, what they really wanted him to do was not make this announcement right now. but given the fact that he rebuffed that, in terms of the content of the speech tried to stay on policy, tried to remind people of the issues that many of the republican supporters and some independents believed in and stay away from the grievances. he didn't actually talk about what went wrong in 2020. he did no question mislead in a very, very big way about what happened in 2022. >> he actually intimated that china controlled the election. >> well, there's that too. fair point. thank you. thank you for that. >> but clearly -- >> which by the way nobody has -- >> of course. but he'd also been clearly told not to talk about 2020. he ad-libbed that part and then sort of said okay, but i know -- and moved on. ? ye >> yeah. and one of the main reasons people didn't want him to do this was becau

joining me now to explain is harry enten along with keith boykin and tim naftali.re stacking the deck against us more in the past few years, aren't they? >> yeah, they basically made a shift back in 2015 in which you have to match the white balls, all of them, and then the powerball. they essentially made the white balls -- changed it from 1 to 59 to 1 to 69. that essentially changed the odds. you had a 1 in 175 million chance of winning -- you used to. now it's a 1 in 292 million chance of winning. i should point out of winning you have a better chance of winning the powerball than the mega millions, which is a little north of 1 in 300 million. so the odds are better. >> so you're saying i have a chance. that's crazy. they've made it harder. everybody has noticed there's bigger jackpots, but you just don't know that you don't stand a snowball's chance in hell. >> you really don't. if you line up the last few times that we've gotten the largest jackpots, they all tend to be in the last few years. they've made it significantly more difficult. but to me, it's like, o

. >> here with us now, we have molly jon doss, correspondent, and cnn presidential historian tim naftali, ron brownstein is here and cnn political commentator scott jennings is back with us. molly, your thoughts? >> this is a uniquely american problem, because we are a country that refuses to regulate guns. and so, we have these shootings, and we have them everywhere. we have them in schools, we have them in restaurants, we have them in malls, we have them in bars. i mean, it's happening because we refuse to regulate guns. i think that it is so craven of republicans to say, this is a mental health problem. sure is a mental health problem. it is not either/or. we are happy for you to find mental health, that's great, and then also have sensible gun laws. we don't have to live like this. and, you know, just like we saw in these midterms, most americans don't want to live like this. >> you know it is really affecting my mental health poorly? mass shootings. that is a part of why we have a bad mental health problem. ron, you are a student of trends in america, and history, how are we at this

and then finally last but not least we have tim naftali comes with his clinical associate professor ofpublic service and clinical associate professor of history at nyu where he directs the universities undergraduate public policy major peer prior to joining nyu, kim served as the founding director of the federal richard nixon presidential library and museum where he authored the library's exhibit on watergate and presided over the release of 1.3 million pages of presidential documents. tim is also very noted scholar of the cold war and other topics in modern american history. so with that i think lindsay i would like to start with you. so the idea of presidential records as public property is a relatively modern innovation, but i was soon that didn't mean that past presidents before that were indifferent to their place in historical record. i'm wondering, can you tell us are there seems that emerge from prior use history about presidential records were handled before the presidential records act was enacted? and how did president's view this as part of preserving a record of their admi

tim. naftali who is writing on kennedy is is hopefully getting getting to the bottom of this or at least helping us learn more about how wide that circle really was. thank you. got three questions left if you got another couple of minutes got a minute. yeah one from pam molester even with the presidential records act. doesn't it seem that we are now missing out on much important information about presidential deliberations and discussions. that would be relevant to history or do presidents now always do memcoms that reflect what occurred in conversations and meetings. it's a great question and it's a great observation because we are missing out. the white house is an oral culture so much happens in the hallways in the oval office again. assuming that that no tapes are being made now. and it's really tough to capture the texture of these conversations and policymaking without recreating these conversations certainly in real time, but even even you know immediately after the conversations take place at one point that might have been written down in a diary. but as we learned through the 1990s and