In a 2018 interview with the Harvard Gazette, he talked about how he provided Trump with the same classified assessment that President Obama received, which included the high confidence judgment that Putin directly ordered the hacking and election interference. Clapper then went on to add, I think they the Russians actually influenced the outcome. This is a brief summary of the details that you'll find within the House Majority Staff's report in their investigation into The Obama directed January 2017 intelligence community assessment. (12:10–12:16)
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Asserts that James Clapper believed Russians influenced the election outcome.
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