CIA Director John Brennan tasked five people in his organization and worked with the FBI to produce this new assessment that was 180 degree flip flop from this several assessments that led up to the election. The Obama directed intelligence assessment said that Putin and Russia did aspire to help elect Donald Trump in that 2016 election. And so the report that we released yesterday was a result of an investigation that the House Intelligence Committee staff majority conducted. (04:13–04:25)
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Asserts that an Obama-directed intelligence assessment claimed Russia aspired to help Trump in the 2016 election.
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