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The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

Russia Tried Interfering In 2020 Election To Help Trump

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

CNN

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3.2865 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

A United States inter report is claiming that Russia tried to interfere in the 2020 presidential election in hope of "denigrating" President Joe Biden and helping former President Donald Trump. Russia and Iran tried to influence the 2020 election, but China did not, according to the intel report. "Proxies linked to Russian intel" were used to push unsubstantiated claims about Biden into the mainstream." The United States intel report says "unlike 2016, we did not see persistent Russian cyber efforts to access election infrastructure."  The United States is expected to unveil sanctions related to the election interference as soon as next week.  The United States death tool tops 536,000 with almost 30 million cases. Biden hits the road to tout the covid relief package and highlights aid to small businesses in Pennsylvania.  A study shows that the Astrazeneca vaccine "did not show protection" against South African variant. The World Health Organization meets to discuss the Astrazeneca vaccine as more European countries pause their rollout. A EU officials is saying it's "firmly convinced" that the benefits of the Astrazeneca vaccine outweigh the risks as multiple countries pause their rollout of the vaccine.  According to the CDC, vaccines that have been administered in the United States hits a new high with an average of more than 2.4 million doses a day.  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Available now at Waitros. shows. around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer in the situation room. We're following a

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landmark US intelligence community briefing a report giving the most

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comprehensive assessment yet of foreign threats to the 2020 presidential election here in the

1:25.2

United States. It concludes that Russia once again interfered in the race for the

1:30.4

White House this time trying to get former President Trump re-elected by

1:35.0

demigrating Joe Biden and the Democratic Party. The report says the goal was also

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to undermine confidence in the U.S. election and to further divide the

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American people.

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Let's go straight to our senior national security correspondent Alex, Alex Mark Wartt, he's working

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the story for us.

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Alex, this very detailed lengthy declassified report says proxies linked to Russian

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