00:00Russia and Putin had on Hillary Clinton, which included possible criminal acts like secret
00:05meetings with multiple named in exchange for supporting Secretary Clinton's campaign for
00:10the presidency. There were high-level DNC emails that detailed evidence of Hillary's, quote,
00:15psycho-emotional problems, uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression, and cheerfulness.
00:20The implications of this are far-reaching and have to do with the integrity of our
00:25democratic republic. I'm going to go over the key findings from the House Intelligence
00:30Report, which investigated the claims that were made by an intelligence community assessment
00:36ordered by President Obama and published in January of 2017. First, Putin's principal interests relating
00:43to the 2016 election were to undermine faith in the U.S. democratic process, not show any preference
00:50of a certain candidate. In fact, this report shows Putin held back from leaking compromising
00:59material on Hillary Clinton prior to the election, instead planning to release it after the election
01:04to weaken what Moscow viewed as an inevitable Clinton presidency. In the January 2017 Intelligence
01:12Community Assessment that President Obama ordered, John Brennan, who was CIA director at the time,
01:17and the intelligence community intentionally suppressed intelligence that showed Putin was saving the
01:23most damaging material that he had in his possession about Hillary Clinton until after her potential
01:30and likely victory. The report goes into great detail about the information that Russia and Putin had
01:37on Hillary Clinton, which included possible criminal acts like secret meetings with multiple named U.S.
01:44religious organizations in which State Department officials offered, in exchange for supporting
01:50Secretary Clinton's campaign for the presidency, significant increases in financing from the State
01:56Department. They also had documents that showed the patronage of the State Department to State
02:03Department employees who would go and support Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. There were high-level
02:09DNC emails that detailed evidence of Hillary's, quote, psycho-emotional problems, uncontrolled fits of anger,
02:16aggression, and cheerfulness, and that then-Secretary Clinton was allegedly on a daily regiment of heavy
02:23tranquilizers. Then-CIA director Brennan and the intelligence community mischaracterized intelligence
02:29and relied on dubious substandard sources to create a contrived false narrative that Putin developed a, quote-unquote,
02:35clear preference for Trump. Brennan and the IC misled lawmakers by referencing the debunked Steele
02:42dossier to assess, quote-unquote, Russia's plans and intentions, falsely suggesting that this dossier
02:49had intelligence value when he knew that it was discredited. The intelligence community excluded
02:55significant intelligence and ignored or selectively quoted reliable intelligence that contradicted the
03:01intelligence community assessment's key findings on Putin's alleged support for Trump, including
03:07this intelligence reporting would have exposed the ICA's claim as implausible, if not ridiculous. The
03:15intelligence community assessment omitted reliably sourced information such as how some Russian
03:20intelligence officials were, quote-unquote, planning for candidate Hillary Clinton's victory, while others assess
03:26neither Trump nor Clinton would respect Russia's interests. As was reflected in the ODNI documents that we
03:33released on Friday, multiple intelligence community assessments released in the months leading up to
03:38the November 2016 election concluded that Russia had neither the intent nor capability to impact the outcome of
03:45the U.S. election. On December 5th of 2016, the FBI and ODNI gave the House Intelligence Committee its first post-election
03:53classified briefing in which there was no mention of Putin aspiring to elect Trump by either agency. The presidential
04:02daily brief, drafted on December 8th of 2016, stated that no Russian or criminal actors impacted vote counts. This document
04:12was pulled just hours before it was to be published due to, quote-unquote, new guidance. If it had been published, it would have been
04:19briefed to both President Obama and President-elect Donald Trump. On December 9th, 2016, a National Security
04:28Council meeting was called to gather President Obama's senior national security officials, which included CIA
04:32Director Brennan, then Obama DNI James Clapper, Susan Rice, and others. Following that secret meeting, DNI Clapper's
04:41president sent an email to the intelligence community with the subject line, POTUS tasking on Russia election
04:47meddling, tasking ODNI leaders to create a new assessment per the president's request. The House
04:54Intelligence Committee oversight report that we released today reveals that, quote, unlike routine
04:59intelligence community analysis, the intelligence community assessment was a high-profile product ordered by the
05:06president, President Obama. It directed senior intelligence community agency heads and created an
05:14intelligence community assessment limited to just five analysts, using one principal drafter. This is not
05:21something that occurs in the normal path of producing an intelligence community assessment that reflects the
05:28views across the intelligence community. The production of this intelligence community assessment was subject to
05:34unusual directives directly from the president and senior political appointees, especially the former
05:41director of the CIA, John Brennan. The House Intelligence Committee oversight report also shows how later that
05:47same day, on December 9th, Brennan ordered the publication of, quote, unquote, substandard reporting on Russian
05:53activities, which had previously been withheld from publication of prior assessments because the information was judged,
05:59quote, to have not met longstanding publication standards. Some of the information later used in the Obama ordered
06:06assessment over the objections of veteran CIA officers was, quote, unquote, unclear or from unknown sources. The
06:17Intelligence Committee's oversight report reveals that CIA Director Brennan overruled senior CIA officers who challenged the Obama
06:25the Obama ordered intelligence assessment, stating, quote, we don't have direct
06:30information that Putin wanted to get Trump elected. Yet, the Obama directed assessment was published on January 6,
06:372017, which explicitly stated, quote, we assess Putin and the Russian government aspired to help President
06:44elect Trump's election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him, end of
06:52quote. The CIA and FBI, then led by John Brennan and James Comey, expressed high confidence in this judgment, while the
07:03NSA expressed moderate confidence. Yet, as the report we released today shows, the ICA, the Intelligence Community
07:11Assessment, did not cite any report where Putin indicated helping Trump win was an objective. The opposite is true. With
07:21regards to the Steele dossier, we now know that one of the source documents that the Obama
07:26Administration used in the creation of this intelligence assessment in January of 2017 was none other than the
07:33discredited, unverified Steele dossier. The House Intel report states, quote, contradicting public claims by then CIA
07:41Director Brennan that the dossier was not in any way incorporated into this intelligence assessment. The dossier was
07:48referenced in the intelligence assessment's main body text and further detailed in a two-page assessment annex.
07:55John Brennan lied, and he denied using this dossier in this intelligence assessment that President Obama ordered
08:01because he knew it was discredited. It was a politically motivated, manufactured document. He directed senior CIA
08:09officials to use it anyway. CIA officer told the House Intelligence Committee staff as they investigated
08:18this, quote, the Director of the CIA, John Brennan, refused to remove it, and when confronted with the dossier's
08:25many flaws, responded, quote, yes, but doesn't it ring true? Even the bipartisan Senate Select Committee on
08:33Intelligence Report published in 2020 criticized the FBI's handling of the Steele dossier, noting its
08:40completely unverified nature and purposeful sidestepping of intelligence community procedures in its use.
08:48Now, President Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey, and others, including their
08:54mouthpieces in the media, knowingly lied as they repeated the contrived narrative that was created in this
09:00January 2017 intelligence community assessment with high confidence as though it were fact.
09:06John Brennan, as CIA director, stated in a memo to his agency staff in December of 2016, saying, quote,
09:14there is strong consensus among us on the scope, nature, and intent of Russian interference in our
09:21presidential election. This was reported by NBC News, confirming that Brennan, along with James
09:28Clapper and James Comey, agreed with the CIA's assessment that Russia intervened to help Trump win the
09:34presidency. As Obama's Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper was tasked with overseeing the creation
09:40of this assessment in January of 2017 by President Obama, and he expressed confidence in its findings.
09:47In a 2018 interview with the Harvard Gazette, he talked about how he provided Trump with the same classified
09:54assessment that President Obama received, which included the high confidence judgment that Putin
09:59directly ordered the hacking and election interference. Clapper then went on to add, I think they, the Russians,
10:06actually influenced the outcome. This is a brief summary of the details that you'll find within the House
10:14Majority Staff's report in their investigation into the Obama-directed January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment.
10:23That leads us to the very same conclusion that we announced in the release of our documents on Friday.
10:29The implications of this are far-reaching and have to do with the integrity of our Democratic Republic. It has to do with an
10:37outgoing president taking action to manufacture intelligence to undermine and usurp the will of the American
10:44people in that election and launch what would be a years-long coup against the incoming President of the United States,
10:51Donald Trump.
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