And neither were the people at the fundraiser. All of the context in the article came from later interviews with unnamed administration sources. Only in hindsight does it becomes clear that Biden was talking about the threat of nuclear war based on classified intelligence.
Perhaps some of the people there that night might have thought, “Gee, the Russian threats must be serious,” but they did not know it.
The president has access to all sorts of classified intelligence. Would you rather he not talk about anything outside of the public record because people might make inferences about why the topic is on his mind?
