Tulsi Gabbard: “President Obama called a meeting of his National Security…”

“They viewed both as equally bad for Russia's interest. The big shift that happened around what is now commonly known as Russiagate was after the election in early December, President Obama called a meeting of his National Security Council leadership. From that meeting, there was directive that was delivered from President Obama to then Obama's DNI James Cloud, to then CIA Director John Brennan to come up with a new intelligence community assessment that contradicted the ones that had been produced previously by the intelligence community. This new one said that Russia, Putin did try to interfere in the election because he wanted Trump to win.” (01:50–02:15)

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