Here are the talking points that DNI Director Clapper had prepared for him. Quote, foreign adversaries did not use cyber attacks on election infrastructure to alter the US presidential election outcome. The next day, December 8, Barack Obama's presidential Daily brief read as follows. Quote, we assess that Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent U.S. election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against election infrastructure. That's an important point there, by the way. That's what Barack Obama was briefed on December 8. And then December 9, 2016, everything changed. (05:47–06:06)
CLAIM
Asserts that Obama's daily brief assessed no impact from Russian cyber activities on election results on December 8, 2016.
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