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. On December 9, DNI Director Clapper, National Security Adviser Susan Rice, Secretary of State John Kerry, and Deputy FBI Director McCabe, they all met in person. And in that meeting, they reversed course entirely, 180 degrees. They flipped. And they agreed to recommend sanctioning members of the Russian military intelligence because of the Russia hoax. They tasked the intelligence community with creating an assessment of the tools Moscow used to influence the 2016 election. (06:18–06:37)
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Asserts that key officials reversed their stance on Russian interference in a meeting on December 9, 2016.
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