So August 31st of 2016, a DHS official tells former DNI director James Clapper that there was, quote, no indication of a Russian threat to directly manipulate the actual vote count. That's in August of 2016. Then September 2, 2016, the FBI said it was, quote, uncomfortable, implying that there was definitive information that Russia intended to disrupt our elections. Then on September 9, 2016, quote, the intelligence community concluded that Russia was probably not trying to influence the election by using cyber means to target election infrastructure. That continued. (04:47–04:59)
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Asserts that the FBI expressed discomfort about implying definitive Russian intent to disrupt elections on September 2, 2016.
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