Tulsi Gabbard: “Putin's principal interests relating to the 2016 election…”

“I'm going to go over the key findings from the House Intelligence report which investigated the claims that were made by an intelligence community assessment ordered by President Obama and published in January of 2017. 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.” (12:45–12:55)

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