And Nick, stay with us as we shift our focus to the White House now, where Director of National

Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard ramped up efforts to sow doubt about the investigation that found

that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. Today, Gabbard briefed reporters on what she

called the most egregious weaponization of intelligence in American history.

They manufactured findings from shoddy sources.

They suppressed evidence and credible intelligence that disproved their false claims.

They disobeyed traditional tradecraft intelligence community standards and withheld the truth from the American people.

So manufactured findings from shoddy intelligence, what is she talking about?

Tulsi Gabbardt today released a previously classified House intelligence report that questioned the intelligence community assessment about 2016 that Vladimir Putin preferred

Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton.

The report was written by Republican staff in 2017 and amended in 2020 and concludes, quote,

the judgment that Putin developed a clear preference for candidate Trump and aspired to help his

chances of victory did not adhere to intelligence

community standards because it came from information that was, quote, unclear of uncertain

origin, potentially biased or implausible. That echoes a document released by CIA director

John Ratcliffe last month, you see it right there, that accused former CIA director

John Brennan of coming into conclusion that Putin preferred Trump with a, quote, highly

compressed production timeline, stringent compartmentalization, and excessive involvement of agency

heads, all of which led to departures from standard practices.

Jeff, I've talked to former intelligence officials who worked on all of these reports,

and they stand by the conclusion that Putin preferred Trump.

But they do acknowledge that that specific conclusion was from a single source,

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