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00:00I'm going to go over the key findings from the House Intelligence Report which investigated
00:05the claims that were made by an intelligence community assessment ordered by President Obama
00:10and published in January of 2017. First, Putin's principal interests relating to the 2016 election
00:18were to undermine faith in the U.S. democratic process, not show any preference of a certain
00:23candidate. In fact, this report shows Putin held back from leaking compromising material
00:32on Hillary Clinton prior to the election, instead planning to release it after the election
00:37to weaken what Moscow viewed as an inevitable Clinton presidency. In the January 2017 Intelligence
00:45Community Assessment that President Obama ordered, John Brennan, who was CIA director at the time,
00:50and the intelligence community, intentionally suppressed intelligence that showed Putin was
00:55saving the most damaging material that he had in his possession about Hillary Clinton until
01:01after her potential and likely victory. The report goes into great detail about the information
01:09that Russia and Putin had on Hillary Clinton which included possible criminal acts like secret
01:15meetings with multiple named U.S. religious organizations in which State Department officials
01:20offered, in exchange for supporting Secretary Clinton's campaign for the Presidency, significant
01:27increases in financing from the State Department. They also had documents that showed the patronage
01:34of the State Department to State Department employees who would go and support Hillary Clinton's
01:39presidential campaign. There were high-level DNC emails that detailed evidence of Hillary's, quote,
01:45psycho-emotional problems, uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression, and cheerfulness, and that then-Secretary Clinton
01:53was allegedly on a daily regimen of heavy tranquilizers. Then-CIA director Brennan and the intelligence community
02:01mischaracterized intelligence and relied on dubious substandard sources to create a contrived false narrative that Putin
02:07developed a quote-unquote clear preference for Trump. Brennan and the IC misled lawmakers by referencing the debunked
02:15Steele dossier to assess quote-unquote Russia's plans and intentions, falsely suggesting that this dossier
02:23had intelligence value when he knew that it was discredited. The intelligence community excluded significant
02:29intelligence and ignored or selectively quoted reliable intelligence that contradicted the intelligence community
02:35assessment's key findings on Putin's alleged support for Trump. Including this intelligence reporting
02:42would have exposed the ICA's claim as implausible, if not ridiculous. The intelligence community assessment
02:50omitted reliably sourced information such as how some Russian intelligence officials were quote-unquote
02:55planning for candidate Hillary Clinton's victory, while others assessed neither Trump nor Clinton would
03:02respect Russia's interests. As was reflected in the ODNI documents that we released on Friday, multiple
03:09intelligence community assessments released in the months leading up to the November 2016 election
03:14concluded that Russia had neither the intent nor capability to impact the outcome of the U.S. election.
03:21On December 5th of 2016, the FBI and ODNI gave the House Intelligence Committee its first post-election
03:27classified briefing in which there was no mention of Putin aspiring to elect Trump by either agency.
03:35The Presidential Daily Brief, drafted on December 8th of 2016, stated that no Russian or criminal actors
03:42impacted vote counts. This document was pulled just hours before it was to be published due to quote-unquote
03:49new guidance. If it had been published, it would have been briefed to both President Obama and President-elect
03:56Donald Trump. On December 9th, 2016, a National Security Council meeting was called to gather
04:02President Obama's senior national security officials, which included CIA Director Brennan,
04:07then Obama DNI James Clapper, Susan Rice, and others. Following that secret meeting, DNI Clapper's
04:14assistant sent an email to the intelligence community with the subject line, POTUS tasking on Russia election
04:20meddling, tasking ODNI leaders to create a new assessment per the President's request.
04:27The House Intelligence Committee oversight report that we released today reveals that quote,
04:31unlike routine intelligence community analysis, the intelligence community assessment was a high
04:37profile product ordered by the President, President Obama. It directed senior intelligence community
04:44agency heads and created an intelligence community assessment limited to just five analysts using
04:52one principal drafter. This is not something that occurs in the normal path of producing an intelligence
04:59community assessment that reflects the views across the intelligence community. The production of this
05:06intelligence community assessment was subject to unusual directives directly from the President and senior
05:11political appointees, especially the former Director of the CIA, John Brennan. The House Intelligence
05:18Committee oversight report also shows how later that same day on December 9th, Brennan ordered the publication
05:24of quote, unquote, substandard reporting on Russian activities, which had previously been withheld from
05:30publication of prior assessments because the information was judged, quote, to have not met longstanding
05:36publication standards. Some of the information later used in the Obama ordered assessment over the
05:43objections of veteran CIA officers was quote, unquote, unclear or from unknown sources.
05:50The Intelligence Committee's oversight report reveals that CIA Director Brennan overruled senior CIA
05:56officers who challenged the Obama ordered intelligence assessment stating quote, we don't have direct
06:03information that Putin wanted to get Trump elected. Yet, the Obama directed assessment was published on
06:09January 6, 2017, which explicitly stated quote, we assess Putin and the Russian government aspired to help
06:16President-elect Trump's election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton and publicly
06:23contrasting her unfavorably to him, end of quote. The CIA and FBI, then led by John Brennan and James Comey,
06:33expressed high confidence in this judgment, while the NSA expressed moderate confidence. Yet, as the report
06:40we released today shows, the ICA, the intelligence community assessment did not cite any report where
06:47Putin indicated helping Trump win was an objective. The opposite is true. With regards to the Steele dossier,
06:56we now know that one of the source documents that the Obama administration used in the creation of this
07:02intelligence assessment in January of 2017 was none other than the discredited unverified Steele dossier.
07:09The House Intel report states quote, contradicting public claims by then CIA Director Brennan that the
07:15dossier was not in any way incorporated into this intelligence assessment. The dossier was referenced in
07:22the intelligence assessments main body text and further detailed in a two-page assessment annex.
07:27John Brennan lied, and he denied using this dossier in this intelligence assessment that President Obama
07:34ordered because he knew it was discredited. It was a politically motivated manufactured document.
07:40He directed senior CIA officials to use it anyway. The CIA officer told the House Intelligence
07:50Committee staff as they investigated this quote, the Director of the CIA, John Brennan, refused to remove
07:56it. And when confronted with the dossier's many flaws, responded quote, yes, but doesn't it ring true?
08:03Even the bipartisan Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report published in 2020 criticized
08:10the FBI's handling of the Steele dossier, noting its completely unverified nature and purposeful
08:16sidestepping of intelligence community procedures in its use. Now, President Obama, Hillary Clinton,
08:23John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey, and others, including their mouthpieces in the media,
08:28knowingly lied as they repeated the contrived narrative that was created in this January 2017
08:35intelligence community assessment with high confidence as though it were fact.
08:41John Brennan as CIA director stated in a memo to his agency staff in December of 2016 saying quote,
08:47there is strong consensus among us on the scope, nature and intent of Russian interference in our
08:54presidential elected election. This was reported by NBC News confirming that Brennan, along with James
09:01Clapper and James Comey agreed with the CIA's assessment that Russia intervened to help Trump win the
09:07presidency. As Obama's director of national intelligence, James Clapper was tasked with overseeing
09:12the creation of this assessment in January of 2017 by President Obama, and he expressed confidence in
09:19its findings. In a 2018 interview with the Harvard Gazette, he talked about how he provided Trump
09:27with the same classified assessment that President Obama received, which included the high confidence
09:32judgment that Putin directly ordered the hacking and election interference. Clapper then went on to add,
09:38I think they, the Russians, actually influenced the outcome. This is a brief summary of the details that
09:46you'll find within the House Majority Staff's report in their investigation into the Obama-directed
09:53January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment that leads us to the very same conclusion that we announced
09:59in the release of our documents on Friday. The implications of this are far-reaching and have to
10:06do with the integrity of our democratic republic. It has to do with an outgoing president taking action to
10:13manufacture intelligence, to undermine and usurp the will of the American people in that election,
10:20and launch what would be a years-long coup against the incoming president of the United States, Donald Trump.
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