Washington Post: Sanders briefed by U.S. officials on Russian efforts to help his campaign, U.S. officials tell Sanders Russia is interfering in his campaign, Nevada caucus volunteers given confidentiality agreements

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🗓️ 22 February 2020

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Washington Post: Sanders briefed by U.S. officials on Russian efforts to help his campaign, Sanders: some "ugly stuff" on the internet may not be coming from "real supporters", U.S. officials tell Sanders Russia is interfering in his campaign, Nevada caucus volunteers given confidentiality agreementsTo 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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0:00.0	This is CNN breaking news.
0:06.3	This is CNN breaking news.
0:08.7	I'm Wolf Blitzer in the situation room
0:10.3	and we're following breaking news.
0:12.2	The Washington Post now reporting that Bernie Sanders
0:15.2	has been formally briefed by top US intelligence officials
0:19.6	on Russian efforts to help his presidential campaign.
0:24.8	We're also learning new details tonight
0:26.5	of the heated intelligence briefing US lawmakers got
0:30.0	on Russian interference designed to help re-elect President Trump.
0:35.0	Get some more on the breaking news right now.
0:37.4	Our senior justice correspondent Evan Perez is joining us.
0:40.2	Evan, a pretty significant development, a formal briefing now by the US
0:44.2	intelligence community to Senator Sanders that the Russians are trying to help him.
0:49.0	That's right. Well it's happening again and this is exactly what certainly the intelligence
0:53.3	community has been looking for they were waiting for sometime this year in the
0:57.7	election season to brief the campaigns about what exactly they're seeing
1:01.0	and it appears according to the Washington Post
1:03.0	that they've now approached the Bernie Sanders campaign to let him know that the
1:07.1	Russian government is behind some efforts to try to assist this campaign now we
1:11.5	don't know exactly what those efforts entail, but we
1:15.2	certainly saw this in 2016. There was some efforts by the Russian online trolls to not
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