… coordination on warnings of Russian intent to influence the 2016 presidential election, stating that such a judgment would be misleading. Misleading is underlined. Yet by January, at least one of The intelligence community elements that had pushed back the Federal Bureau of Investigation had seemingly altered its position and embraced a judgment of Russian intent to influence the election. Seemingly without any new data other than the election's unexpected result and public speculation that Russia had hacked the vote, a scenario that we in the IC judged simply did not occur. (07:37–07:49)
CLAIM
Asserts that some intelligence community elements changed their stance on Russian intent to influence the election.
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