First, Putin's principal interests relating to the 2016 election were to undermine faith in the US democratic process, not show any preference of a certain candidate. In fact, this report shows Putin held back from leaking compromising material on Hillary Clinton prior to the election, instead planning to release it after the election. to weaken what Moscow viewed as an inevitable Clinton Presidency. In the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment that President Obama ordered, John Brennan, who was CIA director at the time, … (06:45–06:56)
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Asserts that Putin planned to release compromising material on Clinton after the election.
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