00:00That doesn't just affect Democrats or Republicans. It's not a Democrat or Republican issue.
00:05This is an issue with such significant impact that it should concern every American because it has to do with the fabric and integrity of our Democratic Republic.
00:17That we had a situation here where in the months leading up to the 2016 election, the intelligence community assessed, and this is what the documents detail,
00:26the intelligence community assessed, essentially, Russia doesn't have the tools, the capability or the intent to try to change the outcome of the U.S. presidential election.
00:38Donald Trump pulls off a historic victory against Hillary Clinton in November of 2016.
00:44Even in the days after that election, the intelligence community continued their consistent assessment that reflected the same thing in the months leading up to the election.
00:54All of a sudden, in the early days of December, there was a president's daily brief that was drafted.
01:02This is put together by the different elements of the intelligence community that reflected that same assessment.
01:08Russia did not try to hack the election, in essence.
01:11That PDB, that document was pulled hours before it was supposed to be published for the president to see that following morning.
01:20That document was never published until we released it yesterday.
01:25One day later, President Obama calls a meeting of his National Security Council, his top officials, to be held on what they called a sensitive topic.
01:35And the results of that meeting, which we released yesterday in these over 100 documents that talk about in detail how President Obama and his team,
01:46he directed a manufactured piece of intelligence that detailed not if, but how Russia tried to influence the outcome.
01:56And the results of that meeting of his team, he directed the outcome of the election of the election of the election of the election of the election of the election.
