On July 28, 2016, CIA Director John Brennan briefed President Obama on an alleged plan by Hillary Clinton to tie Trump to Russia as вЂњa means of distracting the public from her use of a private email serverвЂќ ahead of the upcoming presidential election.Д«rennanвЂ™s handwritten notes (which were not declassified until 2020) state, in part, the following: Well after the convention, Jennifer Palmieri, ClintonвЂ™s public relations chief, said in a Washington PostВ essay that she worked assiduously during the nominating convention to вЂњget the press to focus on вЂ¦ the prospect that Russia had not only hacked and stolen emails from the DNC, but that it had done so to help Donald Trump and hurt Hillary.вЂќ This caused the Clinton campaign serious political damage at the Democratic convention. TapperвЂ™s latest video, which is based on our story вЂњ TrumpвЂ™s Remarks on Putin and the Russia Investigation,вЂќ is part of a collaboration with CNNвЂ™s вЂњState of the Union with Jake Tapper.вЂќ Previous videos can be found on our website.Much to the embarrassment of Hillary Clinton, the released files showed that the DNC had secretly collaborated with her campaign to promote her candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination over that of Bernie Sanders. The GRU officers вЂњengaged in a sustained effort to hack into the computer networks of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Democratic National Committee, and the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, and released that information on the internet under the names вЂDCLeaksвЂ™ and вЂGuccifer 2.0вЂ™ and through another entity,вЂќ according to the Justice Department. Will HurdВ of Texas about the DNC server.Д¬omeyвЂ™s testimony that the private forensic analysis was вЂњan appropriate substituteвЂќ has since been borne out by the July 13 indictment of 12 members of GRU, the Russian military intelligence agency. вЂњe got the forensics from the pros that they hired which - again, best practice is always to get access to the machines themselves, but this -В my folks tell me was an appropriate substitute,вЂќ Comey said in a March 20, 2017, exchange with Rep. Then-FBI Director James Comey testified last year that the FBI did not get access to the server, but the DNC hired a private cybersecurity firm that shared its forensic analysis of the DNC server with the FBI. вЂњI want to know where is the server and what is the server saying?вЂќ вЂњIвЂ™ve been asking that for months and months and IвЂ™ve been tweeting it out and calling it out on social media. In response, Trump suggested that the FBIвЂ™s investigation was compromised because its investigators did not get access to the DNC server. intelligence agencies, which have concluded that Russian agents hacked into the Democratic National Committee computer server and released hacked DNC emails to help TrumpвЂ™s election chances. In this weekвЂ™s fact-checking video, CNNвЂ™s Jake Tapper reviews a statement that President Donald Trump made about the FBI investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.ДЄtВ a July 16 press conference in Helsinki with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump wasВ asked by a reporter,В вЂњWho do you believe?вЂќ - Putin, who denies that Russia interfered in the 2016 election, or U.S.

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