Well, here we are again, Nicole. It is unsurprising, yet very troubling and very dangerous, as Representative Hein said, that the person who leads our intelligence

community today would put out something like this that just mischaracterizes and misrepresents

in a wholesale manner what the intelligence community did during the 2016 run-up to the presidential

election. Again, the misrepresentations just are ludicrous.

You know, when I read through the material, it reminded me of, you know, sort of a third-rate lawyer

who realizes she got nothing to defend her client and is going to put together an absurd brief

that's laughable on its face because anybody who looks at the intelligence community assessment and the work that was done will see that it was very carefully worded and ticklessly done and it stands up to scrutiny in time. As you pointed out, there have been numerous reviews about it. And it didn't say any of the things that Tulsa Gabbard alleges it said or didn't say.

And I really do encourage people to read it because it was very clear in terms of what it said

that the Russians were using President Putin's direction, influence operations to try to

denigrate Hillary Clinton, try to increase

the prospects for Donald Trump's selection, and also just to undermine the integrity of our

election system. And again, those were the primary judgments. Again, they are ones that certainly

I and others who are involved continue to stand behind. Well, unfortunately, I think she's been able to pull some people together who are going to put together this brief that, again, is ludicrous in terms of the substance, the content of it.

And then they make these specious allegations.

And again, as I said, like a lawyer's brief, what she's doing

is pushing this out into the social media environment and trying to, again, gain some attention

and to ingratiate herself with Donald Trump, because clearly over the past several weeks,

it appears as though she has lost some favor and is trying to now use this as an opportunity

to carry favor once again.

But again, what the specious, specious allegations that both she and Ratcliffe are making,

based on the things that they're putting out, really are quite concerning and quite dangerous.

This is the primal scream of a dying regime.

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