Troubling signs in new Trump intel report alarm expert: 'Raises real questions'

A new intelligence report on Iran's military capabilities alarmed an expert during a CNN interview.

CNN reported, citing sources inside the Trump administration, that the president's intelligence community has determined that Iran has roughly half of its missile launchers intact and that thousands of one-way attack drones are still in the country's arsenal. That's despite President Donald Trump claiming that the country had been completely decimated during his national address on Wednesday.

Sue Gordon, Trump's principal deputy director of national intelligence during his first administration, told CNN's Kaitlan Collins on Thursday night that the new assessment worried her.

"What worries me is the signal — why is someone releasing it now? Was this not brought up in the discussion about what the likely outcome is going to be when we planned our assault?" Gordon said.

Gordon added that the assessment also called into question Trump's "two to three week" timeline for ending the war.

"It raises real questions about how we leave this scenario," Gordon said.