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that that doesn't just affect Democrats
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or Republicans. It's not a Democrat or
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Republican issue. This is an issue with
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such significant impact that it should
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concern every American because it has to
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do with the fabric and integrity of our
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democratic republic that we had a
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situation here where in the in the
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months leading up to the 2016 election.
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The intelligence community assessed and
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this is what the documents detail. The
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intelligence community assessed
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essentially Russia doesn't have the uh
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tools, the capability, or the intent to
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try to change the outcome of the US
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presidential election. Donald Trump
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pulls off a historic victory against
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Hillary Clinton in November of 2016.
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Even in the days after that election,
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the intelligence community continued
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their consistent assessment that
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reflected the same thing in the months
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leading up to the election.
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All of a sudden, uh, in the early days
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of December, uh, there was a president's
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daily brief that was drafted. This is
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put together by, uh, the different
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elements of the intelligence community
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that reflected that same assessment.
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Russia did not try to hack the election.
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In essence, that PDB, that document was
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pulled hours before it was supposed to
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be published for the president to see
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that following morning. That document
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was never published until we released it
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yesterday. One day later, President
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Obama calls a a meeting of his National
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Security Council, his top officials, to
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be held on what they called a sensitive
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topic. and the results of that meeting
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which we released yesterday in these uh
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over hundred documents that talk about
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in detail how President Obama and his
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team uh he directed a manufactured piece
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of intelligence that detailed not if but
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how Russia tried to influence the
