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Let me just start with Tulsi Gabbard, because you served as CIA director for

four years. What would having her in charge or in the role of director of national intelligence

mean for the intelligence apparatus of the U.S. government? She has been an apologist for

Vladimir Putin, Bashar Assad. So many of her substantive comments as well as previous actions have called into question whether or not she has a good understanding of global politics in the U.S. role there.

But also, she doesn't have any experience in intelligence.

She has never served in the intelligence community.

And the Director of National Intelligence is somebody who sits on top of the 18 departments and agencies

and needs to orchestrate these agencies so that they collaborate, so that they coordinate,

so that they're able to pursue the national security priorities in an effective fashion.

Oh!

They love to watch a strut.

There is irrefutable evidence that detail how President Obama and his national security team directed the creation of an intelligence community assessment that they knew was false.

They knew it would promote this contrived narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help President Trump win, selling it to the American people as though it were true.

It wasn't.

The report that we released today shows in great detail how they carried this out.

They manufactured findings from shoddy sources.

They suppressed evidence and credible intelligence

that disproved their false claims.

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