You've meddled in it, and look what mess we're in.
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I mean, Putin denied he meddled in the election strongly.
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Like Trump, he's not sure Russia meddled in the election.
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Moscow has denied allegations it meddled in the election campaign.
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"The fact is Russia meddled in our 2016 elections," he concurred.
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Trump has continued to question whether Russia meddled in that race.
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Today, there is little doubt Russia meddled in the 22019 election.
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Russia has also denied it meddled in the U.S. presidential election.
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There is no evidence that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election.
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Russia has repeatedly denied allegations that it meddled in the race.
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Russia has repeatedly denied allegations that it meddled in the race.
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Q -- had meddled in or are meddling in -- THE PRESIDENT: That's right.
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In one, he is alleged to have meddled in the media industry.
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France and Italy similarly meddled in recent deals within the European Union.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has denied his government meddled in the election.
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U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Moscow meddled in the 2016 election.
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The U.S. intelligence committee concluded that Russia meddled in the 2016 election.
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So, we're finally all in agreement that Russia meddled in our elections.
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Q — had meddled in or are meddling in — THE PRESIDENT: That's right.
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"Look, we all know that Russia meddled in the election," Ohio Rep.
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There is no evidence to suggest Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election.
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No one (not even Trump) can deny Russia meddled in our election anymore.
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Yes, Russia meddled in the election and President Obama failed to stop it.
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The Kremlin leader promised him that Russia had not meddled in American politics.
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Even though I am still not convinced Russia meddled in the 2016 election.
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He reiterated that it was Russia, not Ukraine, that meddled in the race.
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Yeah, maybe they meddled in our election, but that wasn't a big deal.
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It's also true that Russians meddled in the 22016 election on Obama's watch.
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The emails, from 2017, suggested the producer had meddled in the actress's case.
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Putin himself admitted that "patriotic" Russian hackers may have meddled in the election.
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The Republican report, however, does concede that Russia meddled in the presidential election.
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There is no evidence to suggest that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election.
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"I'm 1,000 percent convinced that the Russians meddled in our election," he said.
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Delrahim, however, has maintained that the White House never meddled in his affairs.
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The Kremlin denies U.S. intelligence agencies' findings that it meddled in the election.
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Mueller spent nearly two years investigating allegations that Russia meddled in the 2016 election.
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President Donald Trump is convinced that Ukraine, not Russia, meddled in our 2016 election.
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The issue is that we know for certain that Russia meddled in the election.
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Clapper: Russia 'absolutely' meddled in the 2016 election How did she become a suspect?
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On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin denied accusations that Moscow meddled in U.S. elections.
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It is about a cyberhacker for hire, one who meddled in Latin American elections.
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Trump has often cast doubt on whether Russia meddled in the election at all.
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" Even Sanders on Tuesday said: "It's very clear that Russia meddled in the election.
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The Russian government denied that it had meddled in the American presidential election of 2016.
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Trump, in even starker contrast, has often denied that Moscow meddled in the U.S. election.
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Russia repeated its denial of U.S. intelligence agencies' findings that it meddled in the election.
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But he stopped short of saying whether he thinks Russia meddled in the 2016 election.
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At the time, "leave" supporters argued that Obama should not have meddled in Britain's affairs.
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All 17 US intelligence agencies concluded that Russia meddled in the 2016 US presidential campaign.
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"One thing we know for certain is that Russia meddled in our election," he said.
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The Kremlin has denied assertions by U.S. intelligence agencies that it meddled in the election.
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This is not the first time the Democratic establishment has meddled in their own election.
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A hostile foreign power meddled in our elections, and we remain unprotected against future infiltration.
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"It is true, yeah, of course" the Russians had meddled in the election, he said.
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The current fact is that Russia successfully meddled in the U.S. presidential election in 2016.
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Donald Trump in his heart of hearts is not convinced that Russia meddled in the election.
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But Trump's chief preoccupation Wednesday was the question of whether Russia meddled in the US election.
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In April, he released a video railing against the idea Russians had meddled in the election.
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Trump has also pushed back against the intelligence community's assessment that Russia meddled in the election.
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Russia has repeatedly denied accusations that it has meddled in other countries' elections and domestic affairs.
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Through his connection to Wexner, Epstein reportedly meddled in the model selection process for Victoria's Secret.
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A lawyer representing Dmytro Rossoshansky, Igor Eismont, denied that his uncle had meddled in the case.
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Trump said he believes Putin "means it" when he denies that Russia meddled in the election.
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Russia has denied it meddled in the election, contrary to the conclusion of U.S. intelligence agencies.
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CNN reported this week that Trump is still not convinced that Russia meddled in the election.
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Russia is widely accepted by U.S. intelligence agencies to have meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
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"We ought to instead focus on the outrage that the Russians meddled in our elections," Portman added.
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Trump has repeatedly called into question whether Russia meddled in the 2016 election to help him win.
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State-sponsored hackers may have meddled in political campaigns from the US to France to the Netherlands.
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Trump denounces the probe as a "witch hunt" and Russia denies that it meddled in the election.
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U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Moscow meddled in the 2016 election to help Republican Trump's campaign.
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Trump was inaugurated in January 2017 and continued to question whether Russia had meddled in the election.
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Russian officials have repeatedly tried to knock down allegations that the Kremlin meddled in the U.S. election.
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Unlike many other Trump associates, Caputo has clearly affirmed his belief that Russia meddled in the election.
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The House and Senate Intelligence committees are still investigating whether Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
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Epstein also reportedly meddled in the model selection process for Victoria's Secret, The New York Times reported.
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We are told this investigation began as an inquiry into whether Russia meddled in the 2016 election.
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"While other nations possessed the capability, the fact is, Russia meddled in our 2016 elections," Pence said.
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Mr. Trump even questioned the determinations by his intelligence officials that Russia had meddled in the election.
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"Do you believe Ukraine meddled in the election in 2016?" moderator Chuck Todd asked Cruz on Sunday.
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Indeed, this is precisely what (Russian President) Vladimir Putin intended when he meddled in the 2016 election.
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John KennedyJohn Neely KennedyMORE (R-La.) argued this week that both Russia and Ukraine meddled in 2016.
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In January 22016, the US intelligence community concluded that Russia had meddled in the US presidential election.
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Russia denies U.S. intelligence agencies' accusations it meddled in the election, and Trump has denied any collusion.
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Mueller is investigating whether Russia meddled in the 2016 election and whether Trump's campaign colluded with Moscow.
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He has also been indicted in America for running a troll farm that meddled in the 2016 election.
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"I am confident that the Russians meddled in this election, as is the entire intelligence community," Pompeo said.
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The poll also noted 37 percent of independents believe Russia meddled in the election process to help Trump.
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Mueller is investigating whether Russia meddled in the presidential election and if Moscow colluded with the Trump campaign.
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The probes are looking into allegations that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. election to help Republican Trump.
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US intelligence agencies have determined Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election in the hopes of helping Trump.
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Trump sought to pursue the debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine, not Russia, meddled in the 2016 U.S. elections.
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South Africans were outraged by the revelation that a British P.R. firm had meddled in their nation's politics.
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First of all, the US intelligence community has unanimously said that Russia actively meddled in the 2016 election.
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When Trump complains that Obama didn't stop Russian interference, he is admitting that Russia meddled in the election.
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Putin was "extremely strong and powerful in his denial" that Russia meddled in the election, Trump said Monday.
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A declassified intelligence community report concluded that Russia's government meddled in the 2016 contest to help Trump win.
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U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Moscow meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election to help elect Trump.
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Transition Briefing ■ For the first time, President-elect Donald J. Trump concedes Russia probably meddled in the election.
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Because on "Meet the Press" on Sunday, Kennedy went back to claiming Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election.
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They've also cited U.S. intelligence conclusions that the Kremlin meddled in the U.S. election in favor of Trump.
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By that time, multiple American intelligence agencies had confirmed that Russia had meddled in the 85033 presidential election.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has illegally seized Crimea, invaded Ukraine, and meddled in the US and French elections.
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The panels' efforts are part of a larger investigation into whether Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
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You suggested that the Chinese had meddled in or are meddling in — TRUMP: That's right, that's what I hear.
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The Kremlin has denied it meddled in the election campaign to try to tilt the vote in Trump's favor.
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U.S. intelligence agencies have also concluded that Russia meddled in the campaign to help Trump defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton.
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Although prosecutors concluded the investigation without additional charges, there is no indication that Mr. Barr meddled in the outcome.
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U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential campaign using tactics including fake Facebook accounts.
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It's why he's been so accepting of Russian President Vladimir Putin's denials that Russia meddled in the 2016 election.
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He says, yeah, some Russians may have indeed meddled in the election, but they weren't working for the government.
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Obama has faced pressure to provide evidence Russia meddled in November's election, a charge which Trump has vehemently denied.
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The intelligence community has found no evidence that other countries also meddled in the election, an intelligence official said.
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During the trial, prosecutors called Blankenship a bullish micromanager who meddled in the smallest details of Upper Big Branch.
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The U.S. intelligence committee previously concluded that Russia meddled in the 2016 election and developed a preference for Trump.
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The U.S. intelligence community concluded in a report made public in January that Moscow had meddled in the election.
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The US intelligence community believes one reason Russia meddled in the election was to damage Clinton's chances of winning.
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It would direct that sanctions be placed on overseas companies that U.S. intelligence found to have meddled in elections.
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New indictments of 2628 Russians who allegedly meddled in the 28500 election set the political world abuzz on Friday.
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Again, Yovanovitch refused to take the bait or acknowledge that anyone in the Ukrainian government meddled in the race.
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Trump has resisted the conclusion of U.S. intelligence agencies that Moscow also meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Mr. Trump has expressed severe doubts that the Russians meddled in 2016, contradicting the conclusions of his intelligence officials.
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The briefing revealed that American intelligence agencies had concluded that Russian operatives meddled in the election to hurt Mrs.
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That indictment includes the most detailed U.S. accusations yet that Moscow meddled in the election in favor of Trump.
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The aftermath: More than a dozen Russian nationals were indicted after investigators said they meddled in the 2016 election.
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There is no evidence that the Bidens engaged in any corrupt dealings, or that Ukraine meddled in the race.
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Trump also pushed Zelensky to look into a bogus conspiracy theory suggesting that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 race.
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Here's what Kennedy told host Chuck Todd: KENNEDY: I think both Russia and Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election.
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He's also long questioned Moscow's involvement, accepting Russian President Vladimir Putin's denials that the Kremlin meddled in any way.
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While intelligence officials and many Republican senators have said there's no evidence that Ukraine meddled in the election, Sen.
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The U.S. intelligence community concluded that Russia also meddled in America's 2016 campaign to help elect Trump as president.
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U.S. intelligence agencies have said Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election in an effort to help Trump's candidacy.
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Either you believe that Russia meddled in the election, as was confirmed by every national security agency, or you don't.
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Former President Obama imposed new sanctions on Moscow in December amid revelations that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential race.
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But one place where he has never wavered is in his skepticism that Russia actively meddled in the 2016 election.
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Trump has said his campaign did not collude with Russia, which flatly denies allegations it meddled in the U.S. vote.
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U.S. intelligence officials concluded that Russia meddled in the 2016 election, a charge Trump has cast doubt on at times.
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"President Trump has stated that he accepts our intelligence community's conclusion that Russia meddled in the 2016 election," Pompeo said.
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Bolton echoed that on Sunday, adding that he has not changed his view that Russia meddled in the U.S. elections.
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Intelligence officials believe Russia meddled in the election as part of an effort to help Trump's campaign and hurt Clinton.
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As the CIA and FBI have noted, the Russians actively meddled in the election to hurt Clinton and help Trump.
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He defied U.S. intelligence info, and said he didn't see any reason why Russia would have meddled in our elections.
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But separate resolutions supporting the intelligence community's findings that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election have repeatedly been blocked.
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Russia denies allegations by U.S. intelligence agencies that it meddled in the election and President Donald Trump denies any collusion.
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Afterward, the men held a remarkable news conference where both addressed accusations that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
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Imagine that Russia meddled in our election and that members of the Trump campaign were knowingly complicit in that effort.
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H.R. McMaster, the national security adviser, served in Afghanistan, where he saw firsthand how Pakistan meddled in its neighbor's affairs.
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In the process he gave fresh currency to a discredited conspiracy theory that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 presidential race.
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Trump also pressured Zelensky to investigate a bogus conspiracy theory suggesting Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election to help Democrats.
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M.B.Z., as he is widely known, is a socially liberal autocrat who has meddled in Egypt, Libya, Somalia and Yemen.
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The editorial team says Univision has not meddled in its content but has pushed to expand the company's video output.
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The president said, "I don't see any reason why it would be " Russia that meddled in the 2016 presidential elections.
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The president has downplayed the investigation, saying Thursday that other countries besides Russia could have meddled in the U.S. election.
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Mr. Trump referred elliptically to allegations that Ukraine meddled in the 20163 election and brought up a related conspiracy theory.
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Despite the intelligence community's conclusion that Russia meddled in the 2016 election, Trump on occasion has seemingly dismissed this analysis.
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On Sunday, Mr. Todd persistently pressed Mr. Priebus on "Meet the Press" about allegations that Russia meddled in the election.
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Russia has denied it meddled in the election and Trump has denied that his campaign colluded with the Russian government.
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But since then, ties have soured further after U.S. intelligence officials said Russia meddled in the presidential election, something Moscow denies.
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As you know, Stone was referenced in the indictments last week of 12 Russians who allegedly meddled in the 2016 election.
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Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said the United States and other Latin American countries have constantly meddled in Venezuela's internal affairs.
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Trump repeatedly has rejected the US intelligence community's assessment that Moscow meddled in the 2016 election to hurt Hillary Clinton's candidacy.
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The special counsel found no collusion between anyone on Donald Trump's campaign and the Russians who had meddled in the election.
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The report found that he had meddled in internal probes, violated harassment policies and downplayed reports on the use of force.
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Do you agree with your intelligence agencies that Russia meddled in the 2016 election to aid you and hurt Hillary Clinton?
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He also said, yeah, Russia "and others" meddled in the 2016 election but downplayed US intelligence agencies' assessment of it all.
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Trump has seemed to begrudgingly accept the finding that Russia meddled in the election to tip the scales in his favor.
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The indictments from Friday make it clear that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election specifically to hurt the Clinton campaign.
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The Washington Post reported Friday that Russia meddled in the United States presidential election in an effort to help Trump win.
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The US intelligence community has determined with high confidence that Moscow meddled in the race to propel Trump to the presidency.
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She told the Portland Press-Herald that she was "concerned" with Trump dismissing reports that Russia meddled in the U.S. elections.
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The president was widely criticized by Republicans and Democrats for questioning U.S. intelligence that found Russia meddled in the 2016 election.
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The backdrop: Earlier this week, Coats issued a statement reinforcing the intelligence community's assessment that Russia meddled in the 2016 election.
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President Donald Trump said he has "full faith" in U.S. intelligence services and accepts that Russia meddled in the 2016 elections.
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An investigation later found no fault with the police force, but the Mounties were widely criticized as having meddled in politics.
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For a party once obsessed with the notion that foreign actors meddled in our elections, support for these measures is mystifying.
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In her opening statement, Hill chastised the committee for perpetuating the false claim that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
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"The Russians successfully meddled in our democracy and our intelligence agencies have concluded they will do so again," Mr. Schiff said.
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John KennedyJohn Neely KennedyMORE (R-La.) sparked backlash for saying on "Meet the Press" on Sunday that Ukraine meddled in 2016.
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Sen. Mitt RomneyWillard (Mitt) Mitt RomneyRepublicans raise concerns over Trump pardoning service members Mellman: The 'lane theory' is the wrong lane to be in Romney: 'No evidence' Ukraine meddled in 2016 election MORE (R-Utah) said on Tuesday that he has seen no evidence that Ukraine meddled in the 85033 election, contradicting some of his GOP colleagues.
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The latest Fox News poll finds that by a 56-34 percent margin, voters think Russia meddled in the 0013 presidential election.
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Xiomara meddled in Bruce's family life in the past, and tonight, tried to meddle in Rogelio and Darci's friends with kids plan.
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According to the report, hackers did not breach voting machines or computers that tallied election results but Russians meddled in other ways.
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Mueller is investigating U.S. allegations that Russia meddled in the election and whether members of the Trump campaign coordinated with Moscow officials.
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In January 2017, the US intelligence community assessed that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election, helping Trump win the White House.
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Russia has denied that it meddled in the election, and Trump has said there was no collusion between his campaign and Russia.
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In one, he is alleged to have meddled in the media industry and the other concerns gifts he received from wealthy businessmen.
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He added that the decision ultimately lies with the Kremlin, and again denied allegations that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
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Congressional committees and the FBI are looking into allegations by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. election campaign.
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Trump has sought to improve relations with Russia despite U.S. intelligence findings that Moscow had meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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He described Trump as volatile, defensive and concerned more about his own image than about whether Russia meddled in the presidential election.
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U.S. intelligence agencies concluded last year that Moscow meddled in the 2016 campaign to try to tip the vote in Trump's favor.
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And that he will be President through 2020 no matter if he says that, sure, Russia meddled in our election, or not.
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Moreover, they're working to derail a probe into the growing evidence that Russia meddled in an American election on a massive scale.
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But since then, ties have frayed further after U.S. intelligence officials said Russia had meddled in the presidential election, something Moscow denies.
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But there is also no evidence that Ukraine systematically meddled in the 2016 U.S. election in the same way that Russia did.
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" He says he accepts the intelligence community's conclusion that Russia meddled in the election but adds, "It could be other people also.
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Trump also asked Zelensky to investigate a bogus conspiracy theory suggesting it was Ukraine, not Russia, that meddled in the 2016 election.
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Mueller is investigating possible ties between Trump's campaign and the Russian government, which U.S. officials have said meddled in the 2016 election.
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Russia has denied that it meddled in the election and Trump has said there was no collusion between Moscow and his campaign.
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Moscow has denied U.S. intelligence agencies' conclusion that it meddled in the campaign to try to tilt the election in Trump's favor.
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And in February 2018, McMaster told an audience at the Munich Security Conference that Russia had meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
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By three different metrics, Americans' belief that Russia meddled in the 2016 election — the consensus of the US intelligence community — is rising.
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In addition, they allege that Trump asked his counterpart to look into whether or not Ukraine had meddled in the 2016 election.
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The president still questions the idea that Moscow meddled in the 2016 election, viewing such talk as a challenge to his legitimacy.
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" Wallace pushed back, saying, "So getting a tax bill is more important than finding out if Russia meddled in the 2016 election?
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Sekulow accused Democrats of creating a "false dichotomy" and suggesting that either Russia or Ukraine meddled in the election, but not both.
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The EU had undeniably become far too bloated and bureaucratic and meddled in affairs that should never have been within its jurisdiction.
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He has repeatedly questioned the idea that Moscow meddled in the 22016 election, viewing such talk as a challenge to his legitimacy.
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Appearing before Congress Thursday, Fiona Hill deflated right-wing conspiracy theories that Ukraine, and not necessarily Russia, meddled in the 2016 election.
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In recent weeks, Mr. Trump has questioned the intelligence agencies' conclusion that Russia meddled in the United States election on his behalf.
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And, despite days of testimony refuting this assertion in particular, they say there's evidence Ukraine meddled in the US election in 2016.
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She also criticized the "fictional narrative" that Ukraine, not Russia, meddled in the 2016 elections, denouncing a theory embraced by President Trump.
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Mueller's report found Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and that Trump's election campaign had multiple contacts with Russian officials.
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His dismissal of assessments by US analysts that Russia meddled in November's election has already soured his ties with America's leading espionage agencies.
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Did President Trump bungle the moment in Helsinki by casting doubt on American intelligence findings that Russian agents "meddled" in the 2016 election?
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In a tweet on Friday, Trump gave his most direct acknowledgement that Russia had meddled in the election, which he has frequently disputed.
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Trump also cites Assange's interview to back his assertion that a rogue hacker, not the Russian government, may have meddled in the election.
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On the Senate side, Republicans are discussing a new measure to back the intelligence community's findings that Russia meddled in the 2016 election.
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The Russians hackers who meddled in the 255 election were intelligence officers who worked for Russia's military intelligence agency, known as the GRU.
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" Trump has denied any collaboration with Russians, who meddled in the 2016 presidential election, and has called Simpson's dossier "made up" and "fake.
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Of the many countries that have meddled in Congo since the end of the cold war, Angola has arguably wielded the strongest influence.
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And they're just one side of the ongoing investigation into whether Russia meddled in the U.S. election — and whether Trump campaign officials helped.
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Russia denies U.S. intelligence agencies' findings that it meddled in the 2016 election campaign to try to tilt the vote in Trump's favor.
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Russia has denied U.S. intelligence agencies' conclusion that it meddled in the election and Trump has said there was no collusion with Moscow.
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Speaking to a group of Russian media executives, Putin said U.S. allegations that Russia had meddled in the U.S. presidential election were nonsense.
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After all, he noted during Mueller's hearing last week that Russia meddled in "sweeping and systematic" fashion, echoing the special counsel's own words.
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Trump has repeatedly denied any collusion with Russia, and Moscow has denied the U.S. intelligence community's conclusions that it meddled in the election.
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This, and continued investigations into possible connections between Trump's associates and Russians who meddled in the election, were causing a presidential temper tantrum.
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Why it matters: The U.S. intelligence community determined just months after the election that Russia meddled in the U.S. presidential election last year.
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But Comey also confirmed he told Trump that he wasn't personally under investigation in the probe that Russia meddled in the 2016 election.
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Though he walked back those comments on Tuesday, he continued to insist Russians were not the only party that meddled in the election.
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Trump attempted to walk back the comments on Tuesday, saying he believes the U.S. intelligence assessment that found Russia meddled in the election.
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In one incident, the Republican counsel, Steve Castor, raised questions suggesting Ukraine might have meddled in the 28503 elections in the United States.
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Although there is no doubt the Russian government meddled in the election, they did so to no substantive effect and without American criminality.
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Trump has repeatedly cast public doubt on US intelligence conclusions that Russia meddled in the 278 election in favor of his presidential campaign.
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The president has repeatedly minimized the conclusion of the U.S. intelligence community that Russia meddled in the 2016 election to help him win.
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Senate Democrats are doubling down on their push to create a commission to probe allegations that Russia meddled in the White House race.
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He also wanted Zelensky to look into a bogus conspiracy theory suggesting it was Ukraine, not Russia, that meddled in the 2016 election.
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The new sanctions were in part a response to conclusions by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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As recently as last month, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said he didn't know whether Trump believes Russia meddled in the election.
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Mr. Trump also wanted the Ukrainian government to look into unfounded claims that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election to help Hillary Clinton.
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Russia has denied U.S. intelligence agencies' findings that it meddled in the 2016 campaign to try to tilt the vote in Trump's favor.
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Mr. Trump fired him last month during an investigation into whether the president's campaign colluded with Russians who meddled in last year's election.
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Dr. Hill also criticized the "fictional narrative" that Ukraine, not Russia, meddled in the 2016 elections, denouncing a theory embraced by Mr. Trump.
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Trump said he had "confidence in both" the U.S. officials, who say Russia meddled in the election, and Putin, who denied any interference.
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But he made no mention of the finding by US intelligence agencies that Russia meddled in the 2016 election and favored his campaign.
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This spring, numerous intelligence officials, including Mr. Brennan and Mr. Johnson, have testified before Congress and confirmed that Russia meddled in the election.
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One of the theories that Giuliani investigated is that Ukrainians were the ones who meddled in the 2016 U.S. elections, not the Russians.
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This includes claims of uncontrollable corruption, improper ties between Ukrainian officials and the Obama administration, and allegations that Ukraine meddled in US elections.
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The GOP has been increasingly willing to embrace unhinged conspiracies, including the idea that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election rather than Russia.
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Ms. Hill also criticized the "fictional narrative" that Ukraine, not Russia, meddled in the 2016 elections, denouncing a theory embraced by Mr. Trump.
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The 37-page indictment of 13 Russian nationals shed light on the size and scope of how Russia meddled in the US election.
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But the pages were not run by the Russian trolls who meddled in the US' 2016 election, and have continued doing so since.
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Mike Rogers about the soon-to-be-published intelligence community report that concluded that Russia meddled in the election to help Trump win.
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The President and his allies have insisted that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 presidential election to help then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
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John KennedyJohn Neely KennedyMORE (R-La.), who said on "Meet the Press" on Sunday that both Russia and Ukraine meddled in the election.
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Some of Comey's harshest criticism during the hearing was directed at the Russian government, who Comey says directly meddled in the US election.
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Trump has raised questions as to whether Russia actually meddled in the election by repeatedly calling it a hoax and CNN reported this month that Trump remains unconvinced that Russia interfered in the 2016 election, even as his intelligence chiefs unanimously told a Senate panel Tuesday that Russia meddled in 2016 and is planning to do so again in 2018.
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Trump said last month after meeting Putin in Vietnam that he believed Putin's denial of accusations that Moscow meddled in the 2016 U.S. election.
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Trump has repeatedly blamed a U.S. investigation into whether Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election for hindering an improvement in U.S.-Russian relations.
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However, relations between Trump and his team and Russia have been under scrutiny following allegations that Moscow meddled in the US election last year.
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In a wide-ranging hour-plus conversation, Clinton said the Russians who meddled in last year's election had to have been guided by Americans.
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Multiple witnesses in the impeachment probe have testified that Giuliani meddled in foreign policy related to Ukraine, circumventing the diplomatic process in some cases.
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What does matter is this: the Russians successfully meddled in our democracy, and our intelligence agencies have concluded that they will do so again.
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Most notably, the accusations that fake news shared on the platform influenced the 2016 election and how the Russians meddled in the midterm elections.
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And when the US intelligence community assessed Russia meddled in the US elections, Trump took Putin's side and refused to fully acknowledge Russia's involvement.
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After those talks, Trump said he believed Putin's denials Russia had meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election - remarks Trump later backed away from.
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Nearly six months into his presidency, President Donald Trump declined yet again Thursday to state definitively that Russia meddled in the 2016 US election.
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Trump publicly scolded McMaster in February after his national security adviser said there was "incontrovertible" proof that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
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The U.S. intelligence community has given a similar assessment, though it did prove convincingly that Moscow meddled in the 2016 election through cyber warfare.
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And resolutions that would give the Senate's support to the intelligence community's finding that Russia meddled in the 2016 election have routinely been blocked.
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In the 1790s, the French ambassador to the United States formed political societies in America favorable to France and otherwise meddled in American politics.
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U.S. intelligence agencies determined that Russia had meddled in the 2016 U.S. election to help Trump, a Republican, defeat Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton.
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The move to Singapore comes as Russia and the West are in a stand-off over allegations that Moscow meddled in the U.S. elections.
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US intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia, at Putin's direction, meddled in the 2016 election to help Trump and hurt Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
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MONROVIA (Reuters) - Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's spokesman on Monday denied allegations from her own party that she meddled in this month's presidential election.
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Democrats were quick to seize on the indictment as further proof that Russia meddled in the election, an idea Trump has repeatedly challenged. Sen.
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It invaded Ukraine, doped the Russian Olympic team, meddled in the American elections and apparently released a deadly nerve agent in the English countryside.
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Donald Trump continues to shrug off a CIA report that Russia meddled in the 2016 election with the specific goal of helping him win.
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That has been complicated by U.S. allegations - denied by Russia - that the Kremlin meddled in last year's U.S. presidential election to help Trump win.
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I know you've been vocal about disproving them or putting them down, including the accusation that Ukraine meddled in the US elections in 2016.
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The panel came as a political firestorm was spreading in the United States over intelligence reports that Russia had meddled in the presidential elections.
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So the more Trump can be shown to have meddled in Assange's fate outside regular legal channels, the more evidence he hands the defense.
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Yet six months later, Trump said in a press conference in Poland that "nobody really knows for sure" if Russia meddled in the election.
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U.S.-Russia relations have also skidded to a new low, with the special prosecutor's ongoing investigation alleging Russians meddled in the U.S. election process.
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Washington (CNN)Former President George W. Bush said Thursday that there is "pretty clear evidence that the Russians meddled" in the 2016 presidential election.
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It was already known that Russia meddled in last fall's U.S. election, and that Facebook was weaponized to help spread misinformation during the campaign.
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Russia has denied U.S. intelligence agencies' findings that it meddled in the election to help Trump by spreading disinformation and hacking political party emails.
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Ranadivé bears much of the blame—he has meddled in personnel, draft picks, free agents, trades, and schemes with no success to show for it.
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TARLOV: OK, so it&aposs the seven times he received the classified information before his inauguration day that the Russians had meddled in the election.
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But it wasn't until Russia meddled in the 2016 US presidential campaigns and began probing digital voting systems that the topic took on pressing urgency.
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Expect questions about the intelligence community's January assessment that the Russian government meddled in last year's presidential election to help Trump and hurt Hillary Clinton.
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There's no longer any question at all: Russians meddled in the 2016 U.S. election, and they relied on social media tools we can all use.
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In reality, things are much murkier; Trump and Putin, during the meeting at the G20 summit, clarified that Moscow hadn't meddled in the 2016 election.
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In return, Netanyahu and his wife meddled in the content of Walla, one of Israel's major news websites owned by Elovitz, and demanded positive coverage.
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The elections will serve as a test of polling security in the United States after intelligence agencies concluded that Russians meddled in the 2016 elections.
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Affleck's comments come just days after The Wrap founder Sharon Waxman claimed Damon and Russell Crowe meddled in a 2004 story about Weinstein's alleged behavior.
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Trump has also said he has low expectations for the meeting, which could be overshadowed by accusations that Russians meddled in the U.S. 2016 election.
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But he said he and U.S. President Donald Trump accepted the assessment by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia had meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
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The FBI, CIA, and NSA have concluded, to varying degrees of confidence, that Russia meddled in the 2016 elections and wanted to help Trump win.
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Green's adamant Trump's committed impeachable offenses, but his beef has nothing to do with Robert Mueller's investigation into whether Russians meddled in the 2016 elections.
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The ongoing investigations -- in Congress and by the FBI -- are aimed at understanding the extent to which (and how) Russia meddled in the US election.
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The potential new penalties would come amid investigations into potential contacts between President Trump's campaign and the Russian hackers who meddled in the presidential election.
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President Donald Trump has revealed that he now believes Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election – but adding that "other countries" may have also interfered.
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Trump has denied any financial connection to Russia, which US intelligence agencies allege meddled in the 2016 election in an effort to help Trump win.
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Fears of foreign interference in the 2018 midterm elections have been amplified after Russia was determined to have successfully meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
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Susan Rice, former President Obama's national security adviser, on Sunday dismissed Russian President Vladimir Putin's denials that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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"I want Trump to come out and say unequivocally 'Russia meddled in our election' and I want him to press Putin on that," Jankowicz said.
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"He meddled in one election, and he will do it again because it worked and because he has not been made to stop," McCain wrote.
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On Wednesday, Senate Intelligence Committee leaders said that Russia intended to help Trump and hurt Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton when it meddled in the election.
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" Bartiromo said on her show "Mornings with Maria" that there's no question "that the Russians tried to undermine the West ... and meddled in our election.
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According to South Korean prosecutors, Ms. Choi not only meddled in official affairs but also used her connections to extort millions of dollars from businesses.
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But they repeatedly found themselves locked in tense disputes over the effects of American sanctions and Russian denials that they had meddled in American politics.
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The C.I.A., the National Security Agency, the F.B.I. and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence all determined that Russia meddled in the election.
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The sanctions come as President Trump's presidential campaign continues to face a federal investigation into improper coordination with Russia, which meddled in the 2016 election.
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Dr. Hill criticized Republicans for promoting what she called a "fictional narrative" embraced by Mr. Trump: that Ukraine, not Russia, meddled in the 2016 elections.
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It is no coincidence that Russia deliberately meddled in the one process that makes us most American—the sovereign right to free and fair elections.
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The US intelligence community determined with high confidence in January 2017 that Russia meddled in the 2016 race specifically to propel Trump to the presidency.
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The United States is roiled by allegations that the Kremlin meddled in the American presidential election and has had covert dealings with the Trump campaign.
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The job, all the more high-profile because of allegations that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, requires confirmation by the U.S. Senate.
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Trump acknowledged that Russia meddled in the U.S. election during a press conference in Warsaw last week, but said other countries could have as well.
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He subsequently said he had misspoken a single word, and that he actually accepts the intelligence findings that Russia meddled in the U.S. political race.
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But the Burisma line came up as Giuliani was exploring conspiracy theories alleging that Ukraine -- not Russia -- meddled in the 2016 election, to benefit Democrats.
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Perkins said the Trump campaign has not meddled in the platform fight and is instead letting the delegates do what they were elected to do.
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Multiple intelligence agencies, including the CIA, FBI and NSA, agree that Russia meddled in the election, and that its involvement was intended to favor Trump.
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The Senate is also seeking any communication related to "derogatory information" about Hillary Clinton or communications about Russian attempts to meddled in the 2016 election.
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"What do you do?" he asked after recounting that President Vladimir V. Putin twice denied to him that Russia had meddled in the presidential election.
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Once that happens, Nadler has said he plans to investigate whether Trump has improperly meddled in Justice Department affairs and ensure Mueller's probe is protected.
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Nevertheless, some are still calling for probes of Ukraine and corruption, and false claims that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 presidential election have also resurfaced.
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Several defeated candidates held protests, and some went on hunger strike outside the presidential palace, claiming that the country's leadership had meddled in the results.
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"What does matter is this: The Russians successfully meddled in our democracy and our intelligence agencies have concluded they will do so again," he said.
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President Donald Trump claimed he misspoke about whether he thought Russia meddled in 2016 presidential elections — and Twitter is having a field day with it.
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Republicans on the committee agreed with 98 percent of what American intelligence agencies had concluded about Russia having meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Russia, whose agents U.S. agencies said meddled in the 2016 election with cyber attacks and disinformation, remains a determined U.S. intelligence adversary, security officials said.
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It was after reviewing these documents that the Obama administration concluded Russia had meddled in our election, which resulted in new sanctions slapped against the country.
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Comey wrote that U.S. President Donald Trump pressured him into watering down the Federal Bureau of Investigation's probe into whether Russia meddled in the November vote.
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Washington (CNN)President-elect Donald Trump was "obviously aware" that Russia meddled in the US election to benefit his own campaign, the White House said Wednesday.
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Jovel said on Thursday that the International Commission Against Impunity had meddled in Guatemala's affairs, pressured Congress to change laws and violated the presumption of innocence.
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During last week's summit, Putin denied the accusations that Trump meddled in the election but he acknowledged that he preferred Trump over Clinton in the contest.
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The 2017 sanctions package leading to the list being drawn up was prompted partly by Washington's belief that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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In addition to the Foreign Relations Committee, the Armed Services and Intelligence committees are expected to investigate allegations that Russia meddled in the White House race.
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Concord Management is being prosecuted in Mueller's investigation of U.S. allegations that Moscow meddled in the American democratic process to help Trump defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton.
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Officials on Thursday went further, saying without a doubt that Moscow meddled in that election and is already engaging in efforts related to the 28503 contests.
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His comments deriding the impact of Russia's election interference sparked backlash from intel leaders, who had determined that Moscow had successfully meddled in the 2016 election.
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" In Poland last week, Trump said that he thinks Russia and "people in other countries" likely meddled in the 2016 presidential race, but "nobody really knows.
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Russia intended to help Donald Trump secure the presidency when it meddled in the 2016 election, Senate Intelligence Committee leaders said after a closed hearing Wednesday.
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Trump stirred controversy during a joint press conference with Putin when he challenged the U.S. intelligence community's assessment that Moscow meddled in the 22019 presidential election.
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Trump continues to face bipartisan backlash after appearing to cast doubt Monday on the U.S. intelligence community's assessment that Russia meddled in the 28503 presidential election.
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Officials went further on Thursday, saying without a doubt that Moscow meddled in that election and is already engaging in efforts related to the 2018 contests.
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He has repeatedly refused to definitively endorse the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion that Moscow meddled in the 2016 presidential contest in order to aid his campaign.
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That's fairly shocking: You have the party in power ignoring, for the sake of political expedience, evidence that a hostile foreign state meddled in our election.
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Russia has repeatedly denied U.S. intelligence agencies' conclusions that Moscow meddled in the election and Trump has denied any collusion between his campaign and Russian officials.
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"We ought to instead focus on the outrage that the Russians meddled in our elections," said Mr. Portman, who serves on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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The Ukraine election interference claims are propagated by the Russian government, which has sought to deny that Russian intelligence meddled in the election to help Trump.
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Trump had refused to say he believed U.S. intelligence agencies' findings that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election and showed a clear preference for Trump.
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Efforts to reauthorize the law could face renewed opposition amid a broader debate over the intelligence community's assessment that Russia meddled in the 7023 US election.
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Allegations that the Russian state meddled in the U.S. election in 2016, and possible collusion between the Donald Trump campaign and Russia, are still being investigated.
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Amazon claims that Mr. Trump meddled in the decision because of his feud with Jeff Bezos, the company's chief executive and owner of The Washington Post.
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She has frequently referred to Trump as "Putin's puppet" since intelligence officials confirmed Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election in an effort to boost Trump.
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Now, it embraces a Kremlin-hatched conspiracy theory that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election -- despite US spy agencies' conclusion that Russia itself is to blame.
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Then in June, Carter said he believed there was "no doubt" that Russia had meddled in the 2016 election and that Trump's victory was therefore illegitimate.
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During his roughly 10-minute speech, Trump made no reference to U.S. allegations that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. election that brought him to power.
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After meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump told Reuters in an interview that he asked Putin whether or not Russia meddled in the US election.
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Team Trump has repeatedly said that while Russia may indeed have meddled in the election, there was no coordination or communication between Moscow and their campaign.
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U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that the Russian state meddled in the election campaign, and a number of Russian citizens and entities were charged by then-U.
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"President Trump has stated that he accepts our intelligence community's conclusion that Russia meddled in the 2016 election," Pompeo told lawmakers during a hearing in 2018.
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According to the assessment of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Moscow meddled in the US election with an "influence campaign" of hacking and propaganda.
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Relations between Russia and the U.S. have been strained since the former was found to have meddled in the 2016 election and was punished with U.S. sanctions.
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And Coats responded to Trump's Helsinki press conference with his own forceful statement, reiterating the intelligence community's assessment that Russia most definitely meddled in the 2016 election.
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From John Kennedy, who publicly shamed steel firms in the 1960s, to Barack Obama, who bailed out car companies in 2009, all presidents have meddled in markets.
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He once suggested on national television that it was ridiculous to claim that Trump's campaign had any contact with any Russians who meddled in the 2016 election.
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Russia has denied U.S. intelligence agencies' conclusion that it meddled in the election, and Trump has said there was no collusion between his campaign and Moscow officials.
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"I want to draw your attention to the fact that there is no — and there can't be — confirmation that Russian media meddled in election campaigns," Putin said.
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Russia has denied U.S. intelligence agencies' conclusion that it meddled in the election and Trump has said there was no collusion between his campaign and Moscow officials.
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Some British politicians have suggested that Russia may have meddled in the 2016 Brexit referendum in an attempt to weaken the West, an allegation Moscow has denied.
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Later, in his first answers to questions from senators, Comey said he had no doubt that the Russian government meddled in the US election in November 2016.
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Comey was leading the FBI's probe of possible collusion between Trump's campaign and Russian operatives whom U.S. intelligence officials say meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Standing beside Putin, Trump did little to counter the Russian leader's denials and show support for the US intelligence community's findings that Russia meddled in the election.
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Britain's Electoral Commission is investigating whether a leading anti-EU campaigner breached referendum finance rules, after speculation mounted that Russia may have meddled in the Brexit vote.
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Trump also asked Ukraine to look into a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine and not Russia meddled in the 2016 election to help Hillary Clinton, not Trump.
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Congress has made moves to prevent the products from being used, which comes after the intelligence community largely found that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
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In her documentary "Dark Money," Kimberly Reed sets out to shine a light on obscure groups that, with deep-pocketed anonymous donors, have meddled in Montana elections.
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As C.I.A. chief, Mr. Pompeo has embraced the intelligence community's conclusion that Russia meddled in the election, though he changes the subject quickly when asked about it.
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But this isn't the first time witches have meddled in Trump's affairs, and the magical Trump resistance is far more fractured than most media coverage would suggest.
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In some ways, there were similarities with the earlier Russian efforts, including those by the Internet Research Agency, the troll farm that meddled in the 2016 election.
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There is no indication that China meddled in the American election, but the Communist government's use of Facebook is ironic given its apparent fear of the platform.
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Mr. Putin has meddled in the Baltic States, cultivated far-right-wing allies in Hungary and wooed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey on NATO's eastern flank.
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Moscow has become increasingly aggressive as Mr. Putin annexed Crimea, waged war in eastern Ukraine, meddled in the American and European elections and intervened militarily in Syria.
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Russian officials offered no evidence—on that day or on any other day—that it was really Kyiv and not Moscow that meddled in the 22017 election.
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Schiff also said he thought it was a "huge mistake" that Trump's lawyers repeated a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 US presidential election.
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"But it's way out of bounds when the said country is an adversary, and one that has been judged to have meddled in the election," he added.
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Trump caused a stir during his trip to Asia when he suggested that he believed Russian President Vladimir Putin's denials that his government meddled in the election.
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Republicans on the committee said there was no collusion and even contradicted the intelligence community's assessment that the Russians meddled in the presidential election to help Trump.
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The CIA, FBI and National Security Agency have all said in no uncertain terms that Russia meddled in the 2016 election to help then-candidate Donald Trump.
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Zelenskiy in that call was asked by Trump to "look into" the Bidens and a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine, not Russia, meddled in the 2016 election.
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The U.S. tech sector pushed the government to keep ties with Russia's spy agency, despite reports that Moscow meddled in the U.S. presidential election, according to Reuters.
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The reported dispute on the House committee is the latest sign of a divide over the intelligence community's conclusion that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
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Trump's interest in CrowdStrike and the DNC server is part of a conspiracy theory that it was Ukraine, and not Russia, that meddled in the 2016 election.
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The FBI is now investigating possible ties between Trump's campaign and Russia, which the intelligence community concluded had meddled in the presidential election to help Trump win.
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They are politically marginal figures who have pushed publicly for a probe into a theory that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 US presidential election to aid Democrats.
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Sen. John KennedyJohn Neely KennedyMORE (R-La.) doubled down Monday on his claim that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election amid high-profile criticism of his remarks.
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In December, the Obama administration announced sanctions against Mr. Bogachev and five others in response to intelligence agencies' conclusions that Russia had meddled in the presidential election.
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And over the weekend, Trump publicly rebuked his own national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, after he said there was "incontrovertible" evidence that Russia meddled in the election.
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And while a judge let it go through, AT&T couldn't get traction with the argument that the president had inappropriately meddled in the DOJ's decision making.
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One is not to stand behind the intelligence community as everybody&aposs been talking about when the hard evidence, Martha is there that Russia meddled in our election.
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" He pointed to Russian President Vladimir Putin's comments on Thursday in which he dismissed claims that Russia meddled in the US election as "fictional, illusory, provocations and lies.
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For its first year in office, the Trump administration seemed soft on Russia's hyper-aggressive hackers, reluctant even to point out they'd brazenly meddled in the US election.
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But Putin, standing alongside her, bristled at the suggestion Russia had meddled in the U.S. presidential election and that it was planning more of the same in Europe.
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CAITLIN HUEY-BURNS, REAL CLEAR POLITICS: The Senate documents really confirmed what the intelligence community said, which was that Russia meddled in the election to help Donald Trump.
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However, U.S.-Russian relations remain at their lowest point in decades, in part over differences in Syria, Ukraine and U.S. allegations Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. election.
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Even the Russian trolls who meddled in the presidential election did so by posting low-quality, highly emotional content to social media — content they knew would go viral.
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President-elect Donald Trump -- who has publicly expressed skepticism that Russia meddled in the election -- said Thursday it's time for the US to "move on" regarding the hacking.
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In Helsinki, Trump appeared to accept as genuine Russian President Vladimir Putin's denial that the Kremlin meddled in the 2016 election — a position that broke with U.S. intelligence.
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The FBI is investigating possible ties between Trump's team and Russia, which the intelligence community concluded had meddled in the presidential election to hurt Clinton and help Trump.
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Ruben Gallego of Arizona has submitted an amendment for Congress to endorse the conclusions of the January intelligence community report concluding that Russia meddled in the US election.
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Trump dismissed Comey in May last year while the FBI was investigating allegations Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election and possible collusion between Russians and Trump's campaign.
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But if there is one damning conclusion of the Mueller report that ought to unite the left and the right it is this: Russia meddled in our democracy.
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Republicans on Capitol Hill have released a flurry of statements in recent days saying that they disagreed with Trump's hesitancy to say Russia meddled in the 2016 election.
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U.S. senators this week introduced a bill that would impose stiff new sanctions on Russia over its policy toward Ukraine and allegations that it meddled in U.S. elections.
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The U.S. intelligence community released an assessment months after the informant met with campaign advisers that revealed Moscow had meddled in the presidential race to ensure Trump's victory.
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Russia is a committed foe that has not just meddled in our elections, but has also attacked the electoral systems of allies such as Germany, France and Ukraine.
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American companies have long extracted valuable resources from Latin America and the Caribbean, while our government has meddled in their politics, often keeping fragile nations destabilized and poor.
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And there is irrefutable evidence that Russia meddled in the 2016 election, and our intelligence agencies are on high alert for any attempts to interfere in the midterms.
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This is Carlson's attempt to deflect attention from the national outrage over Trump casting doubt on the US intelligence community's determination that Russia meddled in our 2016 election.
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As Democrats sense a moment of political vulnerability for the President, Republicans are under pressure to stand by US intelligence findings that Russia meddled in the 2016 election.
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Trump stirred controversy at that summit when he challenged the U.S. intelligence community's assessment that Moscow meddled in the 2016 election during a joint press conference with Putin.
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Trump attempted to walk back some of his remarks on Tuesday, stating he has confidence in the U.S. intelligence community's assessment that Russia meddled in the 2016 election.
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Lawmakers said this week that they believe that Russia also meddled in the midterms, but not to the extent that it was involved in the 2016 presidential election.
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On Monday, Trump said: "I will say this, I don't see any reason why it would be," when asked if he thought Russia meddled in the 2016 election.
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Trump appeared to embrace Putin during Monday's summit in Helsinki, and accept the Russian president's "extremely strong and powerful" denial that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
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For more than a decade, Russia has meddled in elections around the world, supported brutal dictators and invaded sovereign nations — all to the detriment of United States interests.
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Mr. Trump said he "accepts" the findings of U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election and would fight any such interference in November's midterms.
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The former relates to his belief in a Russian conspiracy theory alleging that the Ukrainian government meddled in the 2016 race to help the Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton.
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The Washington Post reported earlier this month on a secret CIA assessment that found Russia had meddled in the U.S. election in an effort to help Trump win.
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John Kennedy (R-La.) — have renewed claims recently that Ukraine meddled in the election, seeking to justify President Trump's campaign to pressure Ukraine's government to announce an investigation.
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Kennedy also claims that a Ukrainian court ruled that Ukrainian officials had meddled in the U.S. elections by releasing damaging information about former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.
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Waters appeared to be referring to a recent article by The Washington Post reporting that Trump believed Putin's argument that Ukraine, not Russia, meddled in the 2016 election.
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Russia, which has denied the U.S. intelligence community's assessment that it meddled in the 2016 election, said on Friday the allegations regarding its current activities were also false.
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It has annexed Crimea, invaded Ukraine, meddled in elections from Estonia to the United States and sent agents to poison dissidents in Europe, British and other governments believe.
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Lawmakers have warned of potential foreign interference this year after the U.S. intelligence community said Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election in an effort to boost Trump.
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"I'm concerned when the president tweets, you know, Russia denies they meddled in our election," Republican U.S. Senator Lindsay Graham told NBC's "Meet the Press" program on Sunday.
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As Trump's political (and legal) situation has become more imperiled, he has grown increasingly willing to fully embrace wild conspiracy theories (Ukraine actually meddled in the 2016 election!
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into allegations Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election to benefit Trump, as well as possible links to the Trump campaign.
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Trump said both Russia and the U.S. are to blame for the strained relations and did not stand behind U.S. intelligence assessments that Russia meddled in the 2016 elections.
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The indictment broadly echoes the conclusions of a January 2017 U.S. intelligence assessment, which found Russia had meddled in the election, and that its goals eventually included aiding Trump.
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The Israel Securities Authority (ISA) last year began investigating suspicions that Elovitch meddled in the 2015 merger between Bezeq and its satellite TV unit YES for personal financial gain.
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President Donald Trump has barely acknowledged that Russians meddled in the 2200 presidential election, and now it looks like he's doing nothing to prevent Moscow from interfering again. Adm.
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Obama even appointed a Republican, Comey, to succeed him, only to be let down when Comey meddled in the 2016 election in a way that scuppered Hilary Clinton's chances.
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Asked whether he believed US intelligence agents who concluded Russia meddled in the election or Putin's denials, Trump responded, "I don't see any reason why it would be [Russia]."
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Mueller's 448-page report, released publicly in April, found Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election and that President Donald Trump's election campaign had multiple contacts with Russian officials.
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At the press conference in Helsinki, he appeared to take Putin's word over that of his US intelligence officials about whether he thought Russia meddled in the US election.
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A bipartisan hearing is also being held Wednesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee's crime-and-terrorism subcommittee to start an inquiry into whether Russia meddled in last November's election.
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U.S.-Russia relations have been strained over allegations Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Moscow's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine and its backing of the Syrian government.
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Pompeo replied that he has a list of instances in which Trump confirmed that he understands Russia meddled in the 85003 election and need to push back on it.
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The president's comments came after he challenged the intelligence community's conclusion that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election during a joint news conference with Putin in Helsinki, Finland.
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Relations between Western countries and Moscow have chilled rapidly since Russia's annexation of Crimea in 893 and accusations that it meddled in the 2016 U.S. election, which Moscow denies.
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Remember that, according to the intelligence community and the Senate Intelligence Committee, Russia not only meddled in our election but did so to benefit Trump and hurt Hillary Clinton.
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Clinton's animosity toward Russia dates back years and was further heightened in 2016, when the country meddled in the US election to help Donald Trump and hurt her candidacy.
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Vázquez's husband also came under legal scrutiny at one point when it became known that he also meddled in the case, but he was cleared of any ethical violation.
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During a news conference, Trump stood next to Putin and took the Russian leader's side over his own nation's intelligence community on whether Russia meddled in the 2016 elections.
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But there was no strong mandate for the next president because western diplomats meddled in the next election, and the "humanitarian industry" makes many of the most important decisions.
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Last summer, for instance, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a memo affirming the US intelligence community's conclusion that Russia meddled in the election and did so to help Trump.
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Given Putin's belief that the West has meddled in Russia's neighborhood in Georgia and Ukraine, he sees Venezuela as an opportunity to return the favor to the United States.
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Mr. Trump said that he "accepts" the findings of U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia meddled in the 5423 presidential election and would fight any such interference in November's midterms.
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The Russian government meddled in the 2016 election to help elect Mr. Trump, and American intelligence agencies have said they anticipate further Russian interference in the midterms this year.
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Eighty-five percent of Democrats and 53 percent of independents say that Russia meddled in the election, while less than half of Republicans — 46 percent — share this same belief.
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At a joint press conference after the meeting, Trump expressed doubt that Russia had meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, raising alarm among lawmakers and former intelligence officials.
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He views the notion that Russia meddled in the election as an argument that he had help to win, and that he didn't win the election on his own.
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The remarks were made shortly after several media outlets reported that the FBI agreed with the CIA's findings that Moscow meddled in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump.
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The committee's report will conclude that they agree with 98% of the intelligence community's January 2017 assessment that Russia meddled in the 2016 election, according to a committee aide.
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In fact, Mr. Trump repeatedly criticized the intelligence agencies during his transition to office and has questioned their conclusion that Russia meddled in the election to aid his candidacy.
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Trump and Putin's summit in Finland caused a furor after Trump appeared to publicly question the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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On Monday, Trump sparked backlash from both Democrats and Republicans after he sided with Putin rather than his own intelligence services on whether Russia had meddled in the campaign.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Electoral Commission is investigating whether a leading anti-EU campaigner breached referendum finance rules, after speculation mounted that Russia may have meddled in the Brexit vote.
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Haley has also said that Russia "certainly" meddled in the 2016 election, in contrast to Trump's agnosticism on Russian interference ( "nobody knows" is his signature phrase on the matter).
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To this end, Russia has meddled in politics in the Netherlands, France, Germany, Britain and Eastern Europe, supporting anti-establishment parties and causes whose interests align with the Kremlin's.
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He said he was searching for documents and witness to bolster unsubstantiated allegations about Biden's son, Hunter Biden, and the unfounded theory that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election.
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Haley has also said that Russia "certainly" meddled in the 2016 election, in contrast to Trump's agnosticism on Russian interference ("nobody knows" is his signature phrase on the matter).
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And Mr. Trump spent the weeks before taking office attacking the agency, mocking the assessment that Russia meddled in the presidential election and once comparing intelligence officials to Nazis.
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The Kremlin said on Friday that U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller's long-awaited report did not contain any evidence the Russian state had meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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In February, the president tweeted negatively about his national security adviser after McMaster said that there was overwhelming evidence that the Russians had in fact meddled in the 2016 election.
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He also thanked Fox and Friends for running a series of clips showing times in the past in which he had acknowledged that Russia meddled in the 2016 US election.
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U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Kremlin-backed entities meddled in the 2016 presidential election campaign to try to boost Republican candidate Donald Trump, an accusation Moscow has repeatedly denied.
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According to Sondland, Trump began criticizing Ukraine and complaining that "they tried to take me down," an apparent reference to the conspiracy theory that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 elections.
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He is seen as close to the country's powerful military, which was widely accused of having meddled in the 2018 election to guarantee Mr. Khan's victory — an accusation it denies.
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Reuters reported Tuesday that Trump could sign the order as soon as Wednesday, directing that sanctions be placed against overseas companies that U.S. intelligence found to have meddled in elections.
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The Senate Intelligence Committee is separately conducting an investigation into allegations that Moscow meddled in the White House race to help Trump, including any contacts between his campaign and Russia.
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On a phone call, Mr Trump also urged Mr Zelensky to look into a debunked theory that his country had meddled in the 2016 election in favour of Hillary Clinton.
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Trump later clarified his remarks by saying he believes "in our intel agencies" – referring to the U.S. intelligence community's assessment that Moscow meddled in the election using cyberattacks and disinformation.
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Let's be clear: There is no dispute over whether foreign actors meddled in the 2016 elections, and ultimately, we'll never know whether Russia's interference made a difference in the outcome.
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If the director of national intelligence finds that the Kremlin has meddled in a federal election, the DETER Act would impose sanctions on Russian finance, energy, defense and mining interests.
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A federal special counsel and several congressional panels are investigating allegations by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election to hurt Clinton and help Trump.
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Well-intentioned legislative proposals, like the currently proposed DETER Act which would impose sanctions if the intelligence community determined Moscow had meddled in U.S. elections, risk causing major market upheaval.
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Why it matters: The U.S. intelligence community is unified in its conclusion that Russia both meddled in the 2016 election and continues to attempt to interfere in American electoral systems.
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Just yesterday, Trump said that he accepts the conclusions reached by the U.S. intelligence community that Russia meddled in the 2016 election, but that there "could be other people also."
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But to Mr. Coats, who has been at odds with Mr. Trump about whether Russia meddled in the election, the prospect of another one-on-one encounter was clearly rattling.
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Mueller's 448-page report, released publicly in April, found Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election and that Republican President Donald Trump's election campaign had multiple contacts with Russian officials.
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On January 6, 2017, the intelligence community released a unanimous report that concluded Russia meddled in the US election with the explicit goal of helping Trump win the White House.
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He asked whether Congress should consider impeaching the president "assuming there's facts and evidence" that President Trump knew about collusion or coordination with Russians who meddled in the 2016 election.
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This was a response to deteriorating relations with the neighbouring European Union following a string of incidents, including Russia's conflict with Ukraine and allegations that it meddled in U.S. elections.
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Foreign meddlers like Russia's Internet Research Agency are unlikely to appear in a federal court to defend non-compliance with FARA while denying that they meddled in the first instance.
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In the last four years, Russia has annexed Crimea from Ukraine, meddled in a US election and helped turn the tide of the Syrian war in Bashar al-Assad's favor.
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The Kremlin has denied that it meddled in the election and has blamed news reports on the topic for a growing anti-Russia sentiment in the U.S. and Western Europe.
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Mr. Maduro's move to rally Venezuela behind new military exercises seemed driven by a desire to remind Venezuelans of previous eras in which the United States meddled in Latin America.
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As recently as his interview with NBC's Megyn Kelly, he said he "couldn't care less" if Russians meddled in the election and that any hackers do not represent the state.
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On one hand, top officials, publicly and privately, stake out a hawkish line toward Moscow and endorse the intelligence agency assessments that Russia meddled in the election to help Trump.
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In fact, the Senate Intelligence Committee controlled by Republicans concluded three years ago that there was scant evidence to support the idea that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election (Politico).
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Russian interference in the 2016 election Asked after his Putin comments whether he thought Moscow meddled in the 2016 presidential election, Trump said he didn't think it was just Russia.
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H.R. McMaster, who is also a lieutenant general in the U.S. Army, told a conference in Germany that there was "incontrovertible" evidence that Russia had meddled in the U.S. election.
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The lawmakers accused House GOP leaders of actively undermining their efforts to learn about the extent to which the Kremlin meddled in the election in order to protect the president.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin told NBC News he "couldn't care less" if citizens of his country meddled in the 2016 U.S. elections because they were not linked to the Kremlin.
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Last year, U.S. intelligence agencies found that Russia had meddled in the election and that its goals eventually included aiding Trump who won a surprise victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton.
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Senior U.S. intelligence officials face questions at a Senate hearing that will be dominated by the intelligence community's assessment that Russia meddled in the presidential election to help Donald Trump win.
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If you consider CIA and FBI history jointly, it is evident both that the agencies have meddled in politics and that they have been meddled with in a highly political way.
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In his investigation, Mueller spotlighted Russian interference, indicting 12 Russian military intelligence officers last year and indicating newly discovered ways that Russia meddled in the 2016 election in his final report.
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Interestingly, Putin has also sought to distance the Russian state from the hacks, saying that "patriotic hackers" might have meddled in American politics, but they were not directed by the Kremlin.
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But if he legitimately accepts that Russia meddled in the 2016 campaign in a way that's unacceptable, then Mueller's inquiry is not a witch hunt; it's an inquiry into the meddling.
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He's kept a healthy skepticism toward it despite the intelligence community and special counsel Robert Mueller's assertion that there is zero question that Russia meddled in the election to help Trump.
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France colonized Syria, the British carved out Saudi Arabia, the United States meddled in Iran in the 1950s, and Washington and Tehran became implacable enemies after the Islamic revolution of 1979.
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Comey's firing led to the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller to investigate allegations that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election and possible collusion between Russians and the Trump campaign.
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Moscow (CNN)Russian President Vladimir Putin seemed to suggest Thursday that "patriotic hackers" may have meddled in the US election, but insisted that none of their potential activities were state-backed.
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The president has publicly questioned the value of the information they have provided him and has refused to acknowledge its unanimous, high-confidence assessment that Russia meddled in the 2016 elections.
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The Kremlin, which has denied U.S. allegations it meddled in the presidential vote, had heaped praise on Trump during his election campaign, saying it supported efforts to improve Russian-American relations.
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I'll never admit this but I botched it totally when I didn't tell Putin that Russia meddled in the election and that he needs to stop now or face serious consequences.
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Trump has long been fixated on the unsubstantiated conspiracy theory that Ukraine, not Russia, meddled in the 2016 race and did so in order to help the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton.
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But the president's defenders have weaponized them to suggest that Joe Biden acted corruptly as vice president and Ukraine — opposite of Russia — meddled in the 2016 election on Hillary Clinton's behalf.
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WASHINGTON — Kirstjen Nielsen, the homeland security secretary, recently warned dozens of foreign diplomats — including the Russian ambassador — that the United States would retaliate if adversaries abroad meddled in its coming elections.
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S. relations are at post-Cold War lows, strained in particular by U.S. allegations that Moscow hacked and meddled in order to tilt the 2016 presidential election in Donald Trump's favor.
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If you're a US president, it's probably not a great idea to meet with a foreign leader who meddled in your country's elections without some way to record what's being discussed.
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Eugene Rumer, a former U.S. national intelligence officer for Russia, suggested Trump's approach may ultimately be guided by Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into whether Russia meddled in the election campaign.
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Mueller has hired 17 prosecutors in the investigation, which is looking at how the Russian government meddled in the 2016 presidential campaign, and whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russian officials.
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The Russian government has murdered its political opponents, seized territory that belongs to its sovereign neighbors, killed countless civilians in Syria and meddled in democratic elections, including in the United States.
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Why it matters: Republicans are using a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 presidential election to justify President Trump's decision to freeze congressionally approved aid to the country.
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He is a subject in investigations by intelligence committees in the House and Senate, as well as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, into allegations Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. election.
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Mueller, as well as several congressional committees, are looking into the success and extent in which Russians meddled in last year's election and whether Trump campaign aides colluded with Kremlin officials.
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The most important, special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russians who meddled in the election, might be cooled if Kavanaugh joins the court.
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Meanwhile, United States Congress is considering drafting legislation to impose more sanctions against Russia sovereign debt and its biggest bank, in order to revenge Russia who meddled in US presidential election.
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To answer those facts with outrageous claims like that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election or a decorated combat veteran is somehow disloyal to his country are both outlandish and embarrassing.
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" But he argued that if someone had successfully meddled in the 2016 election to sway the outcome, "then they should be held accountable to the highest possible penalty of the law.
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Though the premise seemed obviously speculative when Mr. El Akkad first dreamed up the plot — what if a foreign power meddled in American politics, driving a deeper wedge into partisan fissures?
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Kennedy's comments come after he sparked backlash during an interview on "Meet the Press" over the weekend when he told host Todd that he believed Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election.
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Since then, a resurgent Russia has annexed Crimea in a move Western nations say was illegal, backed separatists in eastern Ukraine and meddled in Western elections including the U.S. presidential election.
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His testimony comes as Special Counsel Robert Mueller appears to be near the end of his investigation into whether Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election in collusion with Trump's campaign.
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Trump held a one-on-one meeting with Putin during that summit and drew criticism for siding with Moscow over U.S. intelligence findings that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
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"As I said to @ABC @GStephanopoulos, 'I respect our nation's intelligence agencies who determined that Russia, had in fact, interfered or meddled in our democratic process,&apos" Cohen tweeted on Monday evening .
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Trump has repeatedly expressed doubt that Russia meddled in last year's presidential election and the House vote on Tuesday suggests that such doubts about Russian actions are confined to the White House.
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Senior U.S. officials will answer questions at a Senate hearing expected to be dominated by the assessment from intelligence agencies that Russia meddled in the presidential election to help Donald Trump win.
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Trey Gowdy (R-SC), the chair of the House Oversight Committee, seemed to suggest that that officials just haven't tried hard enough to persuade the president that Russia meddled in the election.
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The Senate and House Intelligence Committees are separately conducting an investigation into allegations that Moscow meddled in the White House race to help Trump, including any contacts between his campaign and Russia.
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Contact between the Trump campaign and Russia has been under intense scrutiny since intelligence agencies asserted in December that the Kremlin had meddled in the election with the intention of favoring Trump.
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"But President Trump just fired the man investigating how Russia meddled in our election and whether members of his campaign were involved, an investigation President Trump called 'charade' only 24 hours ago."
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The FBI, CIA and National Security Agency have concluded Russia meddled in the 2016 election, and the panel's review of voting networks across the country would provide valuable insight on outside interference.
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Trump's administration has been battered by repeated controversies involving ties between his campaign team and Russia, as well as allegations that Moscow meddled in the election to boost Trump's chance of winning.
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Ex-CIA Director James Woolsey, dismayed by Trump's refusal to accept the intelligence community's assessment that the Russian government meddled in the election, has resigned as senior advisor to the Trump administration.
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The election itself was pitched into new controversy this weekend after a Washington Post report asserted that the CIA now believes Russia meddled in the campaign in order to help Trump win.
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Standing next to Putin at a joint press conference, Trump sided with the Russian president in saying he didn't think Moscow meddled in the 2202 presidential election, directly contradicting U.S. intelligence agencies.
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The Helsinki summit and a subsequent joint press conference with Putin sparked days of criticism after Trump publicly questioned the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion that Russia meddled in the 85033 presidential election.
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New Knowledge was among the companies that authored reports for the Senate Intelligence Committee given this week that showed how Russian's meddled in the 2016 election and how rampant its efforts were.
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Asked directly how he reconciled the intelligence community's conclusion that Russia had meddled in the election with Putin's denials, Trump punted -- saying both sides made good points and believed their view strongly.
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During the joint press conference with Putin, Trump said he didn't see "any reason" Russia would have meddled in the 2016 US election, despite his own intelligence agencies' assessments to the contrary.
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ISA said in June it was investigating suspicions that former Bezeq chairman Shaul Elovitch had meddled in the 2015 merger between Bezeq and its satellite TV unit YES for personal financial gain.
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Democrats are more than twice as likely as Republicans to call the country that US intelligence says meddled in the 2016 election a "very serious" threat, by a 45% to 19% margin.
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" CNN asked Nielsen, "Do you have any reason to doubt the January 2017 intelligence community assessment that said it was Vladimir Putin who meddled in the election to help President Trump win?
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump said Thursday he believes the idea that Russia meddled in the 2016 election is a "made-up story" that Democrats are using to explain away his victory.
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He stirred controversy during a joint news conference with Putin in July when he appeared to question the U.S. intelligence community's assessment that the Russian government meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
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The Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday announced they back prior findings by U.S. intelligence agencies that conclude Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. election in an effort to boost Donald Trump's campaign.
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Yet Facebook claims it was promoted by agents of misinformation, and even showed ties to Russia's Internet Research Agency (IRA), a Kremlin-connected troll factory that meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
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Democratic lawmakers, joined by some Republicans, immediately said Russia was at fault, after Trump and his supporters have tried to cast doubt on the idea the Russians meddled in the 2016 election.
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DANANG, Vietnam (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said he believed President Vladimir Putin when he denied accusations that Russia meddled in last year's U.S. election, despite U.S. intelligence agencies' conclusion of Russian interference.
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For example, China is building islands in the South China Sea to enhance its claim there, and Russia annexed part of Ukraine in 2014 and meddled in the 2016 US presidential election.
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But the president and many of his allies, like his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, believe Ukraine meddled in the race to undermine Trump and benefit Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic Party.
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Mr. Poushter noted the surveys were conducted in the spring amid national attention on the finding that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election by hacking Democrats' emails and distributing online propaganda.
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On that call, Trump asked Zelenskiy to open a corruption investigation into Biden and his son Hunter, and into a discredited theory that Ukraine, not Russia, meddled in the 2016 U.S. election.
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Trump has repeatedly said there is nothing to the investigation, and this week he again questioned the degree to which Russia had meddled in the election, saying other countries also likely interfered.
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Leadership analysis might give clues Russian defense minister: 'We won't do anything' in Europe unless US places missiles there MORE "means it" when he denied Moscow meddled in the United States election.
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Though President Donald Trump has recently admitted that Russia meddled in the 2016 US election, his administration has been far more hard and direct with the nation than the commander in chief.
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If a foreign official criticizing Trump is the standard to prove a government-sanctioned interference campaign in the 2016 election, that would mean well over a dozen countries meddled in the race.
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President Donald Trump has only glancingly and grudgingly acknowledged the consensus view of US intelligence agencies that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential campaign with a view to helping him get elected.
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Rohrabacher made headlines last month when he met with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange over his claim that he could provide evidence disproving the notion that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
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She called President Trump's pressuring of Ukraine a "domestic political errand" and called out several GOP conspiracy theories, including the idea that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election to harm Trump's campaign.
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In the CBS interview, Trump said it was "true" that Russia meddled in the election and said he would hold Putin responsible for that interference "because he's in charge of the country."
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His comments to a reporter for The Hill that there should be an investigation into whether Ukrainians had meddled in the 2016 US election may have helped fuel Giuliani's focus on Ukraine.
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In the aftermath of that investigation, Trump and some of his allies have continued to claim Ukraine meddled in the 2016 race despite the insistence to the contrary of national security officials.
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Coats memorably shot back at Trump in July, after the president appeared to take Russian President Vladimir Putin's side over the U.S. intelligence community's findings that Russia meddled in the 2016 election.
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John Kennedy said he's done talking about Ukraine, days after stirring up a controversy with his on-again, off-again, on-again theories about whether Ukraine meddled in the 2016 US election.
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So when Trump reportedly began that meeting by asking Putin point blank whether the Russian government had meddled in the election, Tillerson was taken aback, according to a New York Times report.
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Psychology tells us that people are going to pick the narrative of what&aposs going on depending on their party identity, like that it was Ukraine that meddled in the 2016 election.
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Russia denies having meddled in the 2016 election, but three U.S. intelligence agencies reported in January 2017 that Moscow had intervened and tried to help Trump beat Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
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President Donald Trump may soon place sanctions on Russia for interfering in the 2016 presidential election, a surprising move given that Trump continues to deny that Russia actually meddled in the campaign.
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However, the president angered members of both parties by saying both countries share blame for damaged relations and by not firmly standing by U.S. intelligence assessments that Russia meddled in the 2016 elections.
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Lam was chosen to be Hong Kong's next leader on Sunday amid accusations that Beijing had meddled in the election to ensure her victory and deny the financial hub a more populist leader.
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A 37-PAGE indictment against 13 Russians issued on February 16th by Robert Mueller, the special counsel, is packed with damning, astonishing evidence that Russian agents meddled in the presidential election of 2016.
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Despite that the CIA, FBI, and NSA all concluded that Russia meddled in the election, Trump continues to deny and obfuscate the facts—and we kept track of every time he did it.
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But what's more unusual are the attempts by Trump's campaign and administration to hide the links, even as the U.S. intel community says Moscow actively meddled in the U.S. election to Trump's benefit.
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It also called for Ukraine to probe a discredited conservative conspiracy theory that maintained that Ukraine, not Russia, had meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, a person familiar with the briefing said.
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But fewer than 24 hours later, amid bipartisan criticism of the idea due to the intelligence community's assessment that Russia meddled in the 2016 election, Trump appeared to reverse course on the proposal.
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Stoltenberg said NATO was concerned by a more assertive Russia that he said had annexed Crimea, destabilized eastern Ukraine, backed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and meddled in the affairs of other nations.
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House and Senate Intelligence committees are investigating whether Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election, and whether the Kremlin might have coordinated with Trump campaign associates in an attempt to help him win.
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The official bilateral meeting will bring Trump face-to-face with the leader of the country that United States intelligence says meddled in the 2016 election in an effort to get Trump elected.
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But what's more unusual are the attempts by Trump's campaign and administration to hide the links, even as the U.S. intel community says Moscow actively meddled in the U.S. election to Trump's benefit.
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The hearing comes amid heightened security concerns that malicious actors may seek to interfere in the November midterm elections, following the U.S. intelligence community's assessment that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
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On Tuesday, Trump amended his position in a statement to the press that has him affirming his confidence in his intelligence agencies and agreeing with them that the Russians meddled in our elections.
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In an HBO interview in May, Epshteyn repeatedly refused to say that Russia meddled in the 2016 election, putting him at odds with assessments from the CIA, FBI and NSA that Russia interfered.
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He also asked Zelensky to look into an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory that it was Ukraine, not Russia, that meddled in the 2016 election and that it did so to help Hillary Clinton's campaign.
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A committee aide told The Daily Beast that the former official said the Trump administration actively sought to avoid confronting Russia over the intelligence community's conclusion that Moscow meddled in the 2016 election.
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On Monday, Putin said at a news conference alongside Trump in Helsinki, Finland, that he wanted Trump to win the 2016 election over Hillary Clinton, while denying that Russia meddled in the election.
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The poll results come just over a week after Trump stirred controversy at a joint news conference with Putin by challenging the U.S. intelligence community's assessment that Moscow meddled in the 2016 election.
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And therein lie the two narratives of social media in 2018: One is of a platform so porous that users have been manipulated and mind melded, all while Russians meddled in U.S. elections.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov challenged that narrative, however, saying Johnson himself had recently said he had no proof that Moscow had meddled in last year's British referendum on leaving the European Union.
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THIS SECTION WILL ALSO BE RUSSIAN HACKING RELATED: Senators are preparing to unveil legislation this week that would crack down on Russia amid allegations that Moscow meddled in the White House race. Sen.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin told Washington to send him hard evidence that his citizens meddled in U.S. elections, mocking accusations to date as "yelling and hollering in the United States Congress".
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A more worrying poll showed that just 60 percent of Americans—and only 46 percent of Republicans—believe that Russia meddled in the election, which it did according to every US intelligence agency.
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Today, Trump told reporters that he accepts the intelligence community's conclusion that Russia meddled in the election, adding that he meant to say, "I don't see any reason why it WOULDN'T be Russia."
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Trump also caused a stir Friday after his transition team slammed the CIA following a Washington Post report that the intelligence agency had concluded Russia meddled in the presidential election to help Trump.
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President Donald Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon will meet behind closed doors on Tuesday with a U.S. House of Representatives committee that is probing whether Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
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Mueller's findings, released in a redacted two-volume report here in April, showed Moscow had meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and that Trump's election campaign had multiple contacts with Russian officials.
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Jimmy Kimmel held President Trump's feet to the fire on Tuesday after the president backed away from his comments in Helsinki, Finland, the day before on who had meddled in the 2016 election.
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"I want you to know, President Trump has stated that he accepts our intelligence community's conclusion that Russia meddled in the 2016 election," Pompeo said in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations committee.
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Government official were very upset by Acharya's comments, which included a reference to problems created in Argentina when its government meddled in central bank affairs, senior sources in the administration said on Monday.
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While Cruz does not deny, like the President, that Russia meddled in 2016, the argument that Ukraine did so also is apparently meant to frame a rationale for Trump's strong-arming of Kiev.
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The false equivalency over who interfered in the 2016 election continues House Republican counsel Steve Castor used his testimony to again call into question who actually meddled in the 2016 election and why.
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Meanwhile, the day's impeachment hearing -- into a scandal partly spawned by Trump's bid to prove that it was in fact Ukraine that meddled in the election three years ago -- descended into choleric feuding.
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While things get messy and complicated throughout, in the end, Emma and Mr. Knightley (205-year-old spoiler alert!) end up happily together, as do the others whose love lives she meddled in.
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They're all going after a very different reality, which is based around one central conspiracy theory that it wasn't Russia that meddled in the 2016 election, it was the Democrats colluding with Ukraine.
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Trump is under pressure from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into whether Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. election and whether there was collusion with Trump's campaign - something both he and Moscow deny.
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John Lewis' pre-inauguration statement that he did not see Trump as a legitimate president, as well as U.S. intelligence agencies' assessment that Russia meddled in the election in order to help Trump win.
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In January, the US Intelligence Community published a declassified version of a report concluding the Kremlin had meddled in the 2016 election specifically with the goal of "denigrating" former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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In July, Trump sparked outrage at a news conference in Helsinki, when he likewise sided with Putin, who was standing next to him, over American intelligence agencies who say Russia meddled in the election.
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" And on Sunday's "State of the Union," after CNN's Dana Bash played the clip of Trump saying "Nobody really knows," US Ambassador Nikki Haley still said, "Everybody knows that Russia meddled in our elections.
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" Just hours before, however, Reckless Trump refused to accept the national security community's assessment that Russia meddled in the 2016 election, insisting instead that "I think it was probably other people and/or countries.
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Trump's failure to confront Putin over U.S. intelligence agencies' findings that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. election and Putin's proposal that Russian authorities be allowed to question U.S. citizens caused a domestic uproar.
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As far back as 2016, Manafort was pushing the theory that Ukraine — not Russia — meddled in the election, according to documents from the Mueller investigation released just this weekend following a lawsuit from BuzzFeed.
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U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Moscow meddled in the 2016 election with a campaign of email hacking and online propaganda aimed at sowing discord in the United States, hurting Clinton and helping Trump.
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Remember that Burr's committee released its report on Russia and the 2016 election earlier this month -- concluding that Russia indeed meddled in the election with the intent of helping Trump and hurting Hillary Clinton.
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Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn told CNN Monday that talks have begun on the Hill to put forth a measure in support of the intelligence community's assessment that Russia meddled in the 2016 elections.
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But that task has been complicated by the U.S. intelligence committee's determination that Moscow meddled in the 2016 election and the ongoing special counsel probe into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
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Despite the fact that the Russians meddled in our election, they failed to get anyone connected with the Trump campaign to participate in that and the integrity of our most basic institution was preserved.
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Nielsen's comments put her at odds with the Intelligence Community Assessment released in January 2017, which concluded Russia meddled in the US election and aimed to boost Trump's campaign at the expense of Clinton's.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Friday accused the U.S. Embassy of having meddled in Russia's internal affairs when it published a map online showing the route of an unauthorised anti-government protest earlier this month.
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" On Trump's comments about "others" who could have meddled in the 2016 elections: "We are aware of others that have made attempts, but I can't get into any of that here at this point.
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Trump came under fire earlier in the week from a broad array of Republican and Democratic lawmakers after publicly questioning the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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The legislation comes after U.S. intelligence agencies found that Russia meddled in the 2016 American presidential elections and as Moscow has been accused of trying to influence the outcome of elections in other democracies.
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C.), a senior member of the Armed Services Committee, introduced the legislation nearly one week after President Trump cast doubt on the intelligence community's assessment (ICA) that found Russia meddled in the 2016 election.
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In one July 2017 op-ed, Bolton declared that Putin had lied to Trump in a face-to-face meeting when the Russian leader denied that his government had meddled in the U.S. election.
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Trump's source could be Putin -- Russian President Vladimir Putin himself may have planted or reinforced Trump's disproven conspiracy theory that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 US presidential election, according to a Washington Post report.
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At a joint news conference that followed the leaders' meeting, Trump equivocated on whether Russia meddled in the 2016 election — even though Coats and multiple U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that the Kremlin did interfere.
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That same week, Mr. Giuliani was vigorously pressing State Department officials to persuade President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine to publicly announce investigations into the Biden family and whether Ukraine meddled in the 150 election.
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Hill took a baseball bat to GOP conspiracies Hill forcefully rejected and dismantled a handful of Trump-backed conspiracy theories, chiefly the notion that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election to prevent his presidency.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow wanted to publish U.S.-Russian communications that he said cleared Russia of allegations it meddled in the 2016 U.S. election but that Washington had blocked their release.
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The rouble began the day's trading marginally stronger after a U.S. Senate committee on Wednesday delayed a vote on imposing new sanctions against Russia over accusations that Moscow meddled in the 2016 U.S. election.
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The Israel Securities Authority is investigating Bezeq, focusing on allegations that former chairman Shaul Elovitch had meddled in the merger in 2015 between Bezeq and its satellite TV unit YES for personal financial gain.
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The effort comes amid escalating inquiries into possible ties between Trump campaign aides and the Russian government, which intelligence agencies have concluded meddled in the 2016 election in an effort to help Trump win.
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Trump took that offer a step further while responding to the question of whether he believes his own intelligence agencies, who say Russia meddled in the election, or Putin, who says Russia did not.
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The legislation was in part a response to conclusions by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and to further punish Russia for its annexation of Crimea in 2014.
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Last month, Washington imposed further sanctions on Moscow in the strongest action against Russia since 2014 - in part as a response to conclusions by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia meddled in the presidential election.
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Everybody in the world had woken up to this fact that the Russians had meddled in the U.S. election in a variety of ways and that that effort was personally directed by Vladimir Putin.
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For Putin the summit is an opportunity to show that Russia remains a major global player despite being under sanctions itself over its intervention in Ukraine and allegations that it meddled in U.S. elections.
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A federal special counsel and several congressional panels are investigating allegations by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and potential connections between Russian officials and the Trump campaign.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House Intelligence Committee said on Friday it will interview White House adviser Jared Kushner on Tuesday as part of its investigation into allegations that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. election.
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Trump has been dismissive of the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion that Russia meddled in the election, and said in Poland earlier this week that "nobody really knows for sure" whether Russia hacked U.S. election targets.
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Mr. Trump said he believes it's 'true' Russia meddled in the 2016 election and said he directly warned Putin against interfering in U.S. elections during their one-on-one meeting in Helsinki, Finland, on Monday.
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Meanwhile: A special counsel has been appointed to investigate the matter, there are House and Senate probes, the FBI has been investigating and several intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia meddled in the U.S. election.
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Trump swatted McMaster in a Twitter post after his comments at a European conference last weekend that he was certain Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. election campaign, which Trump has been reluctant to acknowledge.
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The U.S. intelligence committee unanimously concluded late last year that the Kremlin meddled in the 2016 election to help Trump, and he has spoken warmly of Putin, expressing a desire to improve U.S.-Russian relations.
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Some controversies involving the president have included his comments at the Helsinki summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, in which he refused to acknowledge the intelligence community's assessment that Russia meddled in the 85033 elections.
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He's an unapologetic defender of someone viewed as a villain in Washington and a sharp skeptic of the widely held view in Congress and from US intelligence agencies that Russia meddled in the US elections.
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I asked every student whether they grew up hearing from their parents about the 1980 coup, which many Turks believe the Americans may have had a hand in, or the CIA meddled in Turkish politics.
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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said everyone knows that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. elections, as well as other elections around the world, despite President Trump's refusal to say they did.
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What Mr. Trump wanted, Mr. Giuliani told him, was a public declaration that Ukraine was investigating two matters: Burisma, the firm that had hired Hunter Biden, and whether Ukraine had meddled in the 2391 election.
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Propaganda and misinformation have been at the center of concerns that Russia meddled in foreign elections, including the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the recent French election on May 7 that put Macron in power.
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The ISA announced in June that it was investigating Bezeq, focusing on allegations that Elovitch, its controlling shareholder, had meddled in the merger between Bezeq and its satellite TV unit YES for personal financial gain.
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Trump also asked Zelensky to look into a bogus conspiracy theory suggesting that it was Ukraine, not Russia, that meddled in the 2016 US election and that it did so to benefit Hillary Clinton's campaign.
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Democrats and Republicans may have been watching two different Helsinki summits last Monday when President Donald Trump cast doubt on the US intelligence community's assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin meddled in the 2016 election.
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Trump did not condemn Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and he appeared to side with Putin's denial over the unanimous conclusion of the U.S. intelligence community that Russia meddled in the election.
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During that time, Trump and his allies in Congress have pushed unfounded claims that Biden intervened in a Ukrainian criminal investigation and that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election to help Hillary Clinton.
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Johnson is also looking into conspiracy theories that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 elections, which impeachment witnesses like Fiona Hill said were part of a Russian disinformation campaign to distract from Moscow's election meddling effort.
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Telizhenko is a stalwart Giuliani ally who has traveled with the former mayor and has promoted the conspiracy theory that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election to weaken Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and defeat Trump.
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Its "war room" of employees working around the clock to fight false news stories collaborated with the F.B.I. last week to thwart a Kremlin-backed group of trolls that had meddled in the 1003 election.
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Its dogged by allegations that it meddled in the 2016 U.S. election and was responsible for a nerve agent attack in the U.K. It's military role in Syria has also caused rifts with the West.
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At the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado on Thursday, Thomas Bossert, the president's homeland security adviser, said there was no question that Russia had meddled in the 2016 election in comments reported by USA Today.
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The US intelligence community's conclusion that Russia meddled in the 2016 election to bolster Trump, and former and current administration officials' warnings that it will meddle again in 2020, have lent urgency to congressional efforts.
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In March 2018, after a year-long investigation, Committee Republicans issued a 240-page report describing in detail how the Russians meddled in the 2016 elections and making specific recommendations to improve our election security.
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The sweeping investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller confirmed that Russia meddled in the 2016 election but did not establish that there was a criminal conspiracy of collusion between Trump's team and the Russians.
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Since then, a resurgent Russia has annexed Crimea in a move much of the international community say was illegal, backed separatists in eastern Ukraine and meddled in Western elections, including the 85033 U.S. presidential election.
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Special counsel Robert Mueller is also leading an independent investigation on behalf of the Justice Department in addition to several congressional panels who are looking into where and how Russia meddled in the presidential election.
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Trump swatted McMaster in a Twitter post after the latter's comments at a European conference last weekend that he was certain Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. election, which Trump has been reluctant to acknowledge.
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As Vox's Jane Coaston has explained, Giuliani and several of his associates have long maintained — without verified evidence, and despite federal assertions otherwise — that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election on behalf of the Democrats.
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Washington (CNN)The former Russian ambassador to the US called the allegations that Russia meddled in the US election part of a "hunting spree" and says it has "spoiled the trust" between the two nations.
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Fact Check of the Day President Trump contradicted U.S. intelligence assessments that Russia meddled in the 0013 election, and President Vladimir V. Putin said he didn't know that Mr. Trump was in Russia in 2013.
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U.S. intelligence agencies concluded shortly before Trump took office in January 2017 that Moscow meddled in the election with a campaign of email hacking and online propaganda aimed at sowing discord in the United States.
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Trump fired Comey as head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in May 2017 as Comey probed allegations that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election and possible collusion between Russians and the Trump campaign.
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A federal special counsel and several congressional panels are investigating allegations by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as potential connections between Russian officials and the Trump campaign.
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However, the question of motive—why the Russians allegedly meddled in the election — is entirely separate from the more basic question of whether the U.S. has strong evidence that the Russian government sponsored the covert campaign.
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But many top Republicans are accepting the US intelligence community's assessments... Yes, most congressional Republicans accepted intelligence and law enforcement officials' conclusions that Russia meddled in the presidential campaign and orchestrated the hack of Democratic groups.
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Only hours before the U.S. intelligence community was set to brief Donald Trump on the findings that led it to conclude Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. election, the president-elect again forcefully denied the accusations.
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Before he was surprised with the Putin news, Coats had earlier in the interview stressed that Russia, at the direction of its president, had meddled in the 2016 election and was trying to undermine American democracy.
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On Friday, a federal grand jury charged 12 Russian intelligence officers with hacking Democratic computer networks in 2016 in the most detailed U.S. accusation yet that Moscow meddled in the election to help Republican Donald Trump.
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Facebook, Twitter and Google are appearing before congressional committees for two days of marathon hearings to testify on the content of accounts and advertisements linked to the Russia-based operation that meddled in the US election.
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The idea that Republicans would be willing to side with Russia — which is widely believed to have meddled in the 2016 election to help Trump get elected — seems like a parody of the way Republicans think.
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At Wednesday's press conference at Trump Tower in New York, his first since winning the election, Donald Trump was grilled by reporters about allegations that Russia meddled in the election to help him defeat Hillary Clinton.
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The poll results came days after Trump stirred controversy during a joint news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, where he challenged the U.S. intelligence community's assessment that Moscow meddled in the 28503 election.
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Reminiscent of time in the Oval Office spent by one of Russia's top US spies and spy recruiters, former Ambassador Sergei Kislyak -- all smiles and happy snaps as his country had just meddled in the elections.
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The focus of the inquiry has been on Trump's July 25 call urging Zelenskiy to open a corruption investigation into the Bidens and a discredited theory that Ukraine, not Russia, meddled in the 2016 U.S. election.
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Those investigations largely centered on Joe Biden's son Hunter, who sat on the board of Ukrainian energy giant Burisma, as well as a dubious conspiracy theory that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election to hurt Trump.
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The US intelligence community concluded in 2017 that Russia had meddled in the 2016 presidential election and that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an "influence campaign" aimed at helping Donald Trump and hurting Hillary Clinton's campaign.
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Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Tuesday she was "not aware of" the intelligence community's conclusion, first stated in January 2017, that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election with a clear preference for Donald Trump.
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This doesn't include interventions below the threshold of military action: from 1946 to 1393, Washington meddled in foreign elections more than 80 times (compared to 36 by the Soviet Union or Russia over the same period).
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After Trump and Putin met briefly in Vietnam in November 2017, Trump was criticized in the United States for saying he believed Putin when the Russian president denied accusations that Russia meddled in the 2016 election.
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In the days since the summit, Trump has faced criticism from officials on both sides of the political aisle over his handling of Putin and Russia, which intelligence officials say meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
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Trump faced a flurry of bipartisan criticism following the summit after suggesting during a joint news conference with Putin that he did not believe the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion that Russia meddled in the 2016 election.
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Relations between Russia and the United States have been fraught because of rows over Russia's annexation of Crimea, and allegations — denied by Moscow — that the Kremlin meddled in the 2016 presidential election to help Trump win.
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Mueller's investigation arose in part from the findings of U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia had meddled in the election and that its goals eventually included aiding Trump who won a surprise victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton.
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Following brief meetings with Putin on the sidelines of this year's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Vietnam, Trump told reporters that accusations the Russian government meddled in the 2016 U.S. election have insulted President Putin.
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On other issues, Ms. Nielsen has seemed more conflicted about toeing the president's line, such as on the question of whether Russia meddled in the 2016 elections specifically with an eye toward helping Mr. Trump win.
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LONDON — Whether it be the suspicion that he meddled in the Brexit referendum or the accusation that he ordered the poisoning of a former spy, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia stirs strong emotions in Britain.
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The California Democrat played a video of the news conference in Helsinki, Finland, where Mr. Trump stood next to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and accepted his denial that Moscow meddled in the 2016 election.
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During a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in September, Trump asked about "CrowdStrike" and "the server, they say Ukraine has it" — references to a debunked conspiracy that Ukraine, not Russia, meddled in the US election.
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She slammed the "fictional" conspiracy theories that Ukraine meddled in the US election that she said were dreamed up by Moscow in another attempt to fulfill Putin's goal of stoking political division and diminishing America's prestige.
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"This is a fictional narrative that has been perpetrated and propagated by the Russian security services themselves," Hill told lawmakers in her opening statement, referring to the allegations that Ukraine meddled in 2016 to harm Trump.
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She was bulletproof from the moment she decried "the fictional narrative" that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 US election and showed her authority in a way that was somehow steely and disarming at the same time.
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Trump himself has publicly praised WikiLeaks and Assange for casting doubt on the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion that Russia meddled in the 2016 election in order to swing the race in the real estate mogul's favor.
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Furthermore, the report says that Trump conditioned a White House visit and nearly $400 million in US military aid on the investigation and a probe into a conspiracy theory that Ukrainians meddled in the 2016 election.
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U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Moscow meddled in the election with a campaign of email hacking and online propaganda aimed at sowing discord in the United States, hurting Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and helping Trump.
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So it's very confusing as to what the US government thinks Trump believes because Trump, it's pretty clear at this point is unwilling to just unequivocally say Russia was the one who meddled in the 2016 election.
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During a meeting Tuesday with members of Congress, Trump backtracked on his widely criticized comments from Monday dismissing U.S. intelligence agencies' conclusion that Russian meddled in the 2016 American presidential election and accepting Putin's denial of interference.
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U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election to try to help Trump win, in part by hacking and releasing emails embarrassing to his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, and through online propaganda.
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Here are the major moments from today's events on Capitol Hill: House Republicans confused the top diplomats who weren't exactly well versed in the theory that it was Ukraine — not Russia — that meddled in the 2016 election.
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The Kremlin brazenly violated the territorial integrity of Georgia and Ukraine, launched a massive cyber attack against Estonia, meddled in the U.S. presidential and European elections, and reinvigorated its influence in Latin America and the Middle East.
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Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Tuesday that she was "unfamiliar" with the US intelligence community's repeated and unanimous assessment that Russia meddled in the 2016 election in an effort to help Trump and hurt Hillary Clinton.
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Trump has frequently sought to discredit the special counsel and has often described the investigation as a "hoax" and a "witch hunt" even as his own intelligence officials have said that Russia meddled in the 2016 election.
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Trump has said he wants to find ways to work with Putin, a goal made more difficult by sharp differences over Russia's actions in Syria and Ukraine, and allegations Moscow meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Trump will meet Russia's Vladimir Putin for the first time on Friday afternoon, an encounter that will be intensely scrutinized following allegations by U.S. intelligence agencies that Moscow meddled in the U.S. election to help Trump win.
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Flynn lied to the F.B.I., too, about asking the Russian Ambassador not to escalate the diplomatic situation between the U.S. and Russia after the U.S. expelled Russian diplomats following the revelation that Russia meddled in the election.
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Why it matters: U.S. security agencies are taking action on Russian meddling without guidance from the White House — which now stands in the crosshairs of U.S. intelligence assessments on whether Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. elections.
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Relations between United States and Russia face a number of strains, including over Russian support for President Bashar al-Assad in the Syrian civil war and U.S. allegations that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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As they ruminated, supporters who had publicly called out the president this week for standing beside Mr. Putin in Helsinki, Finland, and saying he did not believe Russians meddled in the 2016 election, seemed to be pivoting.
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American intelligence officials say they are certain that he meddled in the 2016 American election on behalf of Mr. Trump and is trying to meddle again in the 2018 election, as well as in many European elections.
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Relations between Russia and the United States are at post-Cold War lows, strained by everything from Russia's detention on spying charges of a former U.S. Marine to U.S. allegations that Moscow meddled in its 2016 election.
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CNN has reported that the US intelligence community believes that some of the theories Nunes endorsed, especially that the Ukrainian government meddled in the 2016 election, originated from Russian operatives as part of an orchestrated disinformation campaign.
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Under Putin's control, Russia apparently meddled in 2016's presidential election and shows no sign of stopping this behavior, as U.S. intelligence officers have warned that Russia is likely to engage in the same tactics in 85033.
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With elections slated for France, Germany and possibly Italy this year, officials across Europe are warning that the Russians are actively interfering, echoing the Central Intelligence Agency's assertions that Moscow meddled in the United States presidential election.
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Top homeland security and intelligence officials in President Trump's administration have thrown their support behind the intelligence community's conclusion that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential campaign, breaking from the president's own wariness to endorse the findings.
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They have been skittish over his repeated suggestions that the nation had not meddled in the United States' presidential election, contrary to copious intelligence information, and his frequent hints that his administration could lift sanctions against Russia.
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President Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that his Russian counterpart would rather see Hillary Clinton as president, despite the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion that the Kremlin meddled in the 2016 election to boost Trump over the Democratic nominee.
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We learned from the Mueller report that the Russian government meddled in the 2016 election in a "sweeping and systematic fashion" through social media disinformation and documents aimed to sow divisions and disparage the Hillary Clinton campaign.
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Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen asks judge to reduce sentence MORE on Tuesday distanced himself from a growing narrative among Republicans that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 U.S. election, saying he hadn't personally delved into the matter.
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John Kennedy on Sunday ignored the expertise of US spy agencies, congressional probes and the first half of the Mueller report to lend credibility to Trump's claim that it was Ukraine that meddled in the 2016 election.
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President Donald Trump's siding with Russian President Vladimir Putin rather than his own intelligence services — who said Russia had meddled in the U.S. election in 2016 — has prompted a litany of eye-grabbing headlines in the press.
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The documents show that the FBI believed that Page, who served as a foreign policy advisor to the Trump campaign, had been "collaborating and conspiring with the Russian government" as the Kremlin meddled in the 2016 election.
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Russia's broadside is likely to further sour battered U.S.-Russia relations and is part of the fallout from allegations that the Kremlin meddled in the U.S. presidential election last year in Donald Trump's favor, something Moscow denies.
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Most Republicans have acknowledged the report as further evidence Russia meddled in the 2016 election, while Democrats have blasted Trump for not speaking out or taking action to push back against further interference in this year's midterms.
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Lindsey Graham on Tuesday said he is "1,000% confident" that Russia, not Ukraine, meddled in the 2016 US presidential election, breaking from President Donald Trump and others in his party who have pushed the discredited conspiracy theory.
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The US intelligence community believes that some of the theories Nunes endorsed, especially that the Ukrainian government meddled in the 2016 election, actually originated from Russian operatives as part of an orchestrated disinformation campaign, CNN has reported.
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Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device: Via Apple Podcasts | Via RadioPublic | Via Stitcher Yesterday, we looked at the origins of President Trump's baseless theory that Ukraine, not Russia, meddled in the 2016 election.
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Note: Trump's belief that Ukraine meddled in 2016 revolves around a baseless conspiracy theory that the Russians did not hack the Democratic National Committee and that the Ukrainians have been hiding the DNC server that proves it.
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Mueller is investigating whether Russia meddled in the presidential election and if Moscow colluded with the Trump campaign, as well as whether Trump committed obstruction of justice by trying to thwart the U.S. Department of Justice probe.
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On Friday, a federal grand jury charged the 12 Russian intelligence officers with hacking Democratic computer networks in 2016 in the most detailed U.S. accusation yet that Moscow meddled in the election to help Republican Donald Trump.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump, who spent months belittling charges that Russia meddled in the 2016 election, has managed to revive questions about how his predecessor, President Barack Obama, handled suspicions about Russia in the months before the election.
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The charges stemmed from a probe being conducted by U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is looking into whether Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. election and, as part of that, whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.
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While Trump has refused to concede that Russia meddled in the elections, and has repeatedly expressed his admiration for Vladimir Putin, his first official National Security Strategy, released Monday, acknowledges Moscow as a growing threat to the U.S.
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Mueller's investigation arose in part from the findings of U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia had meddled in the 2016 U.S. election and that its goals eventually included aiding Trump who won a surprise victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton.
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A federal special counsel and several congressional panels are investigating allegations by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and potential connections between Russian officials and the campaign of then-candidate Donald Trump.
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"While other nations certainly possess the capability, the fact is Russia meddled in our 2016 elections," Pence said, "That is the unambiguous judgment of our intelligence community, and, as the president said, we accept the intelligence community's conclusion."
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His surprise policy pronouncements also provide temporary distraction from prosecutor Robert Mueller's probe into allegations that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, an investigation where the president holds no control – to his clear frustration and fury.
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Putin's comments, made at his annual news conference, are likely to irk some British politicians who have suggested Russia may have meddled in the 2016 Brexit referendum because it wants to weaken the European Union and the West.
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Trump wants to make it clear now -- he fully supports the intelligence community's conclusion that Russia meddled in the 2016 election ... though he still believes it had no influence on the result, and suggests maybe they weren't alone.
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SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that allegations that Russia had meddled in last year's U.S. presidential election were based on rumors and that Moscow did not want foreign powers to interfere in Russian politics.
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Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the foreign ministry, said that a search that U.S authorities carried out at Russia's diplomatic facilities was an attempt to prove that Moscow meddled in U.S. presidential elections, TASS state news agency reported.
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Three sources told Vanity Fair on the condition of anonymity that Kelly was furious after Trump stood with Putin during their summit in Helsinki, Finland, and sided with his denial that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
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His excuse — that he meant to say "wouldn't" instead of "would" when talking about whether Russia meddled in the U.S. election — would never be acceptable for any of our children, let alone the leader of the free world.
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" Pompeo also said that he "personally made clear to the Russians that there will be severe consequences for interference in our democratic processes" and that Trump "accepts our intelligence community's conclusion that Russia meddled in the 2016 election.
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It's a stunning response to what should be a very straightforward answer: Yes, I believe our intelligence community and the Senate Intelligence Committee that Russia actively meddled in the election to help me, hurt Clinton and sow chaos.
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By John SolomonOpinion Contributor For most of the past two years, the U.S. intelligence community has presented a united front on all the key conclusions in the January 2017 report that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
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Trump and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani allege that Joe Biden meddled in a criminal investigation into Burisma Holdings — whose board Hunter Biden sat on from April 2014 through early 2019 — led by Ukraine's prosecutor general, Viktor Shokin.
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His testimony will come a week after Trump sparked intense, bipartisan backlash in Washington when he appeared next to Putin at a joint press conference in Helsinki, Finland, and denied that Moscow meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
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A federal special counsel and several congressional panels are investigating allegations by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and potential connections between Russian officials and the campaign of then-candidate Donald Trump.
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Trump and his personal attorney, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, had been pressuring Ukraine to investigate corruption allegations against the Bidens, as well as the US intelligence community's assessment that Russia meddled in the 2016 election.
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Johnson says Telizhenko, a Rudy Giuliani ally who worked at the Ukrainian embassy in 2016 and has spread conspiracy theories that Ukraine meddled in the election in 2016, has expressed a willingness to cooperate with the Senate probe.
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Clapper was the national intelligence director when his office in January released the conclusion reached by the CIA, Federal Bureau of Investigation and National Security Agency that Russia had meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election told Reuters.
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Israel's securities regulator in 2017 said it was investigating suspicions that Elovitch, a family friend of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, had meddled in the 2015 merger between Bezeq and its satellite TV unit Yes for personal financial gain.
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Ties improved after Iran struck a nuclear agreement with Western nations in 2015, but many Iranian hard-liners distrust Britain, accusing the country of having historically meddled in its affairs, and view Ms. Zaghari-Ratcliffe as a spy.
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Among them: that Russian missiles shot down an airliner in July 2014 over eastern Ukraine; that Russian troops supported a bloody separatist rebellion there; and that Russian hackers meddled in the 2016 presidential election in the United States.
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SAN FRANCISCO — A Kremlin-backed group of internet trolls that meddled in the 2016 presidential election appeared to be trying to influence American voters using Facebook days ahead of the midterm elections, the social network said Tuesday night.
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MOSCOW — Shifting from his previous blanket denials, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia suggested on Thursday that "patriotically minded" private Russian hackers could have been involved in cyberattacks last year that meddled in the United States presidential election.
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"We want to make sure that all of the reforms are on track," he said, an apparent reference to Trump's push to get Ukraine to investigate debunked theories that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election — and perhaps Biden.
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One dealt with former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his son Hunter; the other centered on claims that Ukrainians meddled in the 2016 election, including a debunked theory that Ukraine — and not Russia — stole Democratic emails.
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He also addressed a notion Trump has long held that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, a theory that runs counter to the U.S. intelligence community's findings that it was Russia that meddled in the campaign.
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While he has expressed admiration for Mr. Putin — and has been fighting accusations by critics that Russia meddled in the American election to help him win — Mr. Trump has asserted that he wants to increase America's nuclear might.
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Those relations went into a deep chill in December, when the Obama administration accused Russian intelligence agencies of having meddled in the 2016 election by hacking computers of the Democratic National Committee to help Donald J. Trump win.
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President Tayyip Erdogan said the attack, which targeted a club popular with local celebrities and moneyed foreigners, was being exploited to try to divide the largely Sunni Muslim nation and that the state never meddled in how people lived.
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Conway's comments come a day after White House press secretary Josh Earnest ramped up his post-election criticism of Trump, saying it was obvious to Republicans that Russia meddled in the election to increase the GOP's chances of winning.
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To help quell the hysteria over one word he said at his summit press conference, President Trump clarified Tuesday that he misspoke when he appeared to indicate he was uncertain about whether Russia meddled in the 2016 election campaign.
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Trump has cast doubt in the past on the notion that Russia meddled in the election, telling Time magazine in his "Person of the Year" interview that the idea of Russian interference became a "laughing point" during his campaign.
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Asked if Russia meddled in the election, Putin replied, "Read my lips: No." He cited former President Reagan in his quote, though "read my lips" was actually former President George H.W. Bush's 1988 campaign pledge not to raise taxes.
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To Trump, any acknowledgment that Russia actively meddled in the 2016 election with the express purpose of helping him to win is the equivalent of saying he didn't win fair and square and maybe shouldn't have won at all.
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill may have forgotten about their past contacts with Kislyak, but they are not under suspicion of cozying up to a foreign government that allegedly meddled in the U.S. election.
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While Trump has claimed "nobody is tougher on Russia" than he is, he has drawn frequent bipartisan criticism over his refusal to condemn Putin and Russia for the intelligence community's conclusion that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. election.
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The whistleblower pointed to articles published in March detailing how several Ukrainian officials, including Yuriy Lutsenko, the prosecutor general at the time, alleged that other Ukrainian officials had meddled in the 2016 US election with the Democratic National Committee.
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Comey's tweet on Monday afternoon saw the FBI director who Trump fired last year join several of his former Obama administration colleagues in rebuking the President's break with the intelligence community's assertion that Russia meddled in the 2016 election.
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The announcement came days after Trump held a controversial joint news conference with Putin in Helsinki, during which he appeared to side with Putin's denials over the U.S. intelligence community's assessment that Moscow meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
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It's a stunning response to what should be a very straightforward answer: Yes, I believe our intelligence community and the Senate Intelligence Committee that Russia actively meddled in the election to help me, hurt Hillary Clinton and sow chaos.
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However, Democrats this week were hesitant to say exactly what actions they would take if Russia is found to have again meddled in the 2018 midterms, saying they want to read the assessment before considering any retaliatory actions. Sen.
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LONDON, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Multimillionaire Brexit donor Arron Banks wrote to Britain's Electoral Commission on Thursday to imply he was the subject of a politically motivated investigation amid speculation that Russia may have meddled in the 2016 referendum vote.
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The Israel Securities Authority (ISA) has been investigating Bezeq, focusing on allegations that former chairman Shaul Elovitch, who owns Eurocom, had meddled in the merger in 2015 between Bezeq and its satellite TV unit YES for personal financial gain.
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In addition to accusations that Russia meddled in the 22019 U.S. presidential election and is complicit in the poisoning of an ex-Russian spy in the United Kingdom, the latest episode concerns Moscow's support for the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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The big picture: This shows that the recent outburst in criticism against President Trump's back-and-forth on whether he believes the intelligence community's assessment that Russia meddled in U.S. elections may not be enough to translate into votes.
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U.S. intelligence agencies have said Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign, and Russia is also blamed for a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy in Britain last month, which the G7 statement strongly condemned.
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Trump has sought to ease tensions between the former Cold War foes despite friction in the relationship that was exacerbated by U.S. intelligence findings that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election, trying to tilt the outcome to Trump.
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Twelve Russian intelligence officers were indicted by a federal grand jury on July 13, accused of hacking Democratic computer networks in 2016, in the most detailed U.S. accusation yet that Moscow meddled in the presidential election to help Trump.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal grand jury charged 2000 Russian intelligence officers on Friday with hacking Democratic computer networks in 13, in the most detailed U.S. accusation yet that Moscow meddled in the presidential election to help Republican Donald Trump.
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The morning after the public hearings wrapped, Fox News gave President Trump 57 minutes mostly unchallenged time on the air to repeat debunked conspiracies including the idea that it was Ukraine, not Russia, that meddled in the 2016 election.
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Trump drew outrage back home from Democrats and Republicans alike for refusing at the Helsinki summit to accept the conclusion of U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies that Russia meddled in a the 2016 election to help him win.
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"We've never meddled in American domestic affairs, and are confident that the American people can solve their own problems," Mr. Wang said in a speech in New York in late September, according to Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency.
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There is no evidence that Ukraine meddled in the last election, and there is no evidence that either of the Bidens engaged in any corrupt or legally dubious activity while the younger Biden sat on the board of Burisma.
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At one point in the call, Trump brought up the cybersecurity incident response firm Crowdstrike, indicating that he still doesn't believe the US intelligence community conclusion that Russia hacked the Democratic National Committee and meddled in the 20173 election.
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Democrats are looking into whether Trump used the withholding of U.S. aid to Ukraine as leverage to press Kiev to launch investigations into the Bidens and allegations Ukraine meddled in the 2016 U.S. elections to hurt the Trump campaign.
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They've meddled in elections, blacked out power grids, innovated devious new forms of espionage, hacked the Olympics, and unleashed the most destructive worm in history—a list that makes even China's cyberspies look like tame clerical workers by comparison.
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Despite the pleadings of one key witness for them not to recycle Russian propaganda -- former National Security Council Russia policy chief Fiona Hill -- several prominent Republicans highlighted claims that Ukraine had meddled in the 2016 election to hurt Trump.
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WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions, facing a storm of criticism over newly disclosed contacts with the Russian ambassador to the United States, recused himself on Thursday from any investigation into charges that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
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The GOP report states as a fact that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election, even though that was dismissed as a conspiracy theory by several witnesses in the impeachment inquiry and has been refuted by multiple US government investigations.
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The Russian government always consistently denied having anything to do with either the troll farm or the election hacking, although Russian President Vladimir Putin conceded that "patriotic" hackers acting without state backing may have meddled in the US election.
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During a visit to Russia last week, the British foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, told his counterpart, Sergey V. Lavrov, that there was "abundant evidence" Moscow had meddled in foreign elections and had tried to interfere in British internal affairs.
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Moscow's military support starting in 2015 of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the Syrian war, Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine and the conclusions of U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia meddled in the election have soured relations.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Tuesday that U.S. charges against President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort and another aide showed Moscow had been unfairly maligned in accusations that it meddled in last year's U.S. presidential election.
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Senators will likely press Coats and Rogers on a Washington Post report last May that Trump attempted to goad the officials into publicly denying claims that Russia meddled in the election—an "inappropriate" request that both men allegedly refused.
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Trump's naming of Whitaker as acting attorney general caused controversy in part because it meant that the president's appointee oversees the probe by Special Counsel Robert Mueller into whether Moscow meddled in the election and colluded with Trump's campaign.
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The chief of AMA said he could not continue without Minenna, who had chosen him, and the director general of ATAC said city hall had meddled in personnel issues and he had not received funds promised to turn the company around.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Allegations that Moscow meddled in the U.S. presidential elections in 2016 are groundless, as there have been no criminal cases brought in the United States against those who allowed such alleged meddling, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said on Thursday.
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In the most detailed U.S. accusation to date that Moscow meddled in the presidential election, a federal grand jury said Russian military intelligence agency officers covertly monitored computers of Clinton's campaign and Democratic campaign committees, and stole large amounts of data.
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Trump has praised Putin and signaled that U.S.-Russia relations could be in for a makeover under his leadership, even after U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign to help Trump defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton.
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Findings by the intelligence community that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election to help Donald Trump win were "accurate and on point," according to an unclassified report and accompanying statement by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released Tuesday.
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S. President Trump said that he heard firm assertions from Russian President Putin that it is not true and that Russian authorities have not meddled in the elections," Lavrov claims that Trump "said that he accepts these assertions — that's it.
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Cohen's testimony coincides with talk in Washington that Special Counsel Robert Mueller appears to be near the end of his probe into whether Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election in collusion with Trump's campaign, which Moscow and Trump deny.
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A report in 2016 by South Africa's public protector, an independent ombudsman, detailed allegations that the Guptas had meddled in cabinet appointments and used their connections to scoop lucrative government contracts (they and Mr Zuma have repeatedly denied any wrongdoing).
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Firstly, he has never fully accepted the idea that Russia meddled in his election victory, even questioning the conclusions of his own intelligence agencies, notoriously, while standing next to the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, at their Helsinki summit last year.
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Defense attorneys made the allegation to the Miami Herald on Monday, saying Sessions called Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis to voice his objections concerning a possible plea deal, raising concerns that the two Trump administration officials have meddled in the trial.
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Trump continues to be the lone dissenter -- among people in a position to know -- on the conclusion drawn by the CIA, FBI and National Security Agency that Russian meddled in the election with the goal of helping Trump and hurting Clinton.
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The President of the United States saying that he has previously not meddled in Justice Department business but threatening that if they keep up this course of action -- presumably meaning the Russia investigation -- he could change his mind on that.
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The focus is a July 25 phone call in which Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to open a corruption investigation into Biden and his son and into a discredited theory that Ukraine may have meddled in the 2016 U.S. elections.
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At a May hearing, Clapper said that a report concluding that Russia meddled in the US election was prepared by three agencies -- the CIA, FBI and National Security Agency -- and managed by Clapper's office, which oversees the entire intelligence community.
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From the lights inexplicably going out in the White House during Tuesday's statement, to Trump's "double negative" comment, and his refusal to clearly state a belief that Russia meddled in the election, the talk show host was not here for it.
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Remember that he spent the last 48 hours -- and, really, the last 18 months as President -- ignoring or playing down the intelligence findings that Russia meddled in the 2016 election for the purpose of helping Trump and hurting Hillary Clinton.
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Washington (CNN)CIA Director Mike Pompeo stands by US intelligence assessments that Russia meddled in the 2016 election, the agency said Saturday, despite President Donald Trump saying he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin when he says his country didn't interfere.
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Multiple diplomats have testified under oath that the Trump administration explicitly conditioned lifting the military-aid hold on Zelensky publicly announcing investigations into Burisma and a discredited conspiracy theory that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 US election to benefit Hillary Clinton.
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Washington (CNN)Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen pushed back Tuesday on the intelligence community's January 2017 assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin meddled in the 2016 US election in an attempt to help Donald Trump and hurt Hillary Clinton's campaign.
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" "Somehow many Americans have forgotten that Russia is our adversary, not our ally...For more than a decade, Russia has meddled in elections around the world, supported brutal dictators and invaded sovereign nations — all to the detriment of United States interests.
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Any meeting would come amid continued tensions between the two countries, with Mr. Trump under pressure in Washington for seemingly dragging his feet on implementing new sanctions against Russia over accusations that it meddled in the 2016 American presidential election.
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When asked by a reporter whether he believed the unanimous consensus of the US intelligence community that the Russian government meddled in the 2016 election, the president responded, "My people came to me ... they said they think it's Russia" that interfered.
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Mr. Trump's agenda is the "exact opposite" of American policy in Europe after World War II, when the United States also meddled in European politics — but to bolster the Continent's liberal order rather than to bring it down, said Mr. Valasek.
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FBI Director Christopher Wray has also said the bureau has no evidence indicating Ukraine interfered in the 2016 presidential election; Mueller as well as the congressional intelligence committees have also backed the intelligence assessment that Russia meddled in the vote.
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The case against Trump is focused on a July 25 telephone call in which he asked Zelenskiy to open a corruption investigation into the Bidens as well as a discredited theory that Ukraine, not Russia, meddled in the 2016 U.S. election.
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A Trump-Putin news conference, which followed an unusually secretive meeting between the two leaders, created an international stir when the American president failed to confront Putin over U.S. intelligence agencies' determination that Moscow meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
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Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) argued in a testy exchange on NBC's "Meet the Press" that he believes "both Russia and Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election," claiming without evidence that former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko "actively worked" for Hillary Clinton.
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And finally, Mr. Trump, during a phone call on July 25, asked Mr. Zelensky for a "favor" to open investigations not only of the Bidens but also into a widely debunked theory that Ukraine had meddled in the 2016 election.
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While Democrats are at odds with the key findings laid out in the Republican report, Conaway said he was still hopeful they would sign on to some of what the Republicans had written, such as how Russia meddled in the election.
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Jeff Sessions — The attorney general, who offered to resign in recent weeks as he told Mr. Trump he needed the freedom to do his job, previously recused himself from any investigation into charges that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
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Democrats want him to confirm that Trump ordered him to make nearly $400 million in US military aid conditional on Kiev opening investigations into a conspiracy theory that Ukranians meddled in the 2016 election and into former Vice President Joe Biden.
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Trump, who had the opportunity to publicly rebuke Putin during the news conference in Helsinki, instead praised the Russian leader for his "strong and powerful" denial of the conclusions of U.S. intelligence agencies that the Russian state meddled in the election.
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Jamie Raskin chided Republicans for corralling the debate into process arguments and conspiracy theories, like the false claim that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election, instead of focusing on what actually transpired between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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President Trump's first official National Security Strategy classifies Russia as a growing threat to the United States, in spite of his own well-documented personal admiration for Vladimir Putin and reluctance to concede that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. election.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, President Donald Trump's nominee to be ambassador to Russia, said on Tuesday there was "no question" Moscow meddled in the 2016 U.S. election, and pledged to bring up the matter with the Russian government.
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Other accusations, denied by Moscow, include that it meddled in U.S. and European politics, supplied the weapon that shot down a passenger plane in 2014 over Ukraine and tried to kill a former Russian spy in Britain with a nerve agent.
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But the country has loomed large over the first six months of his administration as a special counsel and U.S. congressional panels investigate allegations Moscow meddled in the 2016 U.S. election to help Trump and also examine any potential role by Trump aides.
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Wasserman Schultz, who was forced to resign her post atop the DNC over the summer following a steady release of hacked DNC emails, challenged Comey during a classified briefing for House lawmakers about the intelligence assessment that Russians meddled in the US election.
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He had repeatedly challenged the agencies' assessment that Russia meddled in the presidential race to help him win and suggested intelligence officials were behind the leak of an unverified dossier that claimed Russia had collected compromising financial or personal information about him.
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The tweets were in reference to a damning story published in the New York Times on Sunday about how administration officials meddled in a United Nations global health meeting in May that was set to approve a simple, uncontroversial resolution supporting breastfeeding.
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William Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, testified on Tuesday that Trump had made the aid contingent on Zelenskiy announcing he would investigate the Bidens and a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine, and not Russia, meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Pompeo said he still agreed with the CIA's conclusion last year that Russia had meddled in the 2016 presidential election, and he declined to endorse Trump's view that the investigations into Russian meddling were responsible for the deterioration in US-Russia relations.
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She began before it was clear that the Kremlin had meddled in the 2016 elections, and long before special counsel Robert Mueller indicted several people connected to the Internet Research Agency as part of his investigation into Russian interference in the election.
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The memo gives more detail on the scope of how many states and cities had concerns about the potential risk of a cyberattack last year, even before the Obama administration had issued its report confirming Russian hackers meddled in the US election.
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MANILA (Reuters) - A group of Philippine opposition senators has sought a public inquiry into the navy's 15.7 billion peso ($310 million) acquisition of a frigate from a South Korean firm, after media said the president's closest aide had meddled in the deal.
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Mr. Trump froze nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine shortly before a July 25 call with the country's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, in which Mr. Trump personally sought investigations into the Bidens and claims that Ukrainians had meddled in the 2016 election.
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Ryan Costello, R-Pennsylvania, if he was worried about fallout following his strong condemnation of Trump's performance in Helsinki, in which the President would not endorse US intelligence agencies' finding that Russia meddled in the 2016 election over the denial of Putin.
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Since then, fears that Russia meddled in Western elections and the poisoning of a former Russian spy in England have prompted a debate in the West over how to deal with Putin, who has been Russia's paramount leader since the end of 1999.
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Other accusations, denied by Moscow, include that it meddled in U.S. and European politics, supplied the weapon that shot down a passenger plane in 2014 over Ukraine and tried to kill a former Russian spy in Britain this year with a nerve agent.
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The House and Senate intelligence committees are broadly investigating whether Russia meddled in the 2016 election, including Trump's accusations that the Obama administration surveilled Trump and his associates before he took office as well as possible ties between Trump associates and Russia.
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The meeting comes just days after 12 Russian intelligence officers were charged by a U.S. federal grand jury for hacking the Democrats ahead of the 2016 election, the most detailed U.S. accusation yet that Moscow meddled in the election to help Trump.
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But this year's "no" vote was higher than last year's, perhaps reflecting dismay over a scandal that stirred up allegations — dismissed by the government — that supreme court judges had meddled in a controversial property dispute and spirited away important files from the case.
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Russia is waging a proxy war against Ukraine, has forcibly annexed part of that country, has meddled in other nations' elections, gives crucial support to the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, and stands accused of using a chemical weapon on British soil.
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Democrats, however, immediately cast the decision as an effort by Trump to thwart an investigation by the FBI into any ties between Trump officials and Russia, which the intelligence community says meddled in the U.S. election to hurt Clinton and help Trump.
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Trump is thought to have made Giuliani responsible for seeking announcements from Ukraine that it would investigate Joe Biden, a domestic political rival of Trump&aposs, as well as an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 US presidential election.
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Even as his intelligence chiefs unanimously told a Senate panel Tuesday that Russia meddled in 2016 and is planning to do so again in 2018, three sources familiar with the President's thinking say he remains unconvinced that Russia interfered in the presidential election.
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The president has repeatedly cast doubt on the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion that Russia meddled in the presidential election, as the federal investigation into election interference and whether there was coordination between Trump's campaign and Moscow has dogged his first months in office.
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Late last year, Mr. Giuliani began to pursue information in Ukraine that he believed might show that the Mueller inquiry was built on a false premise, that it was really Ukrainians who meddled in the election and then framed the Russians for it.
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Multiple diplomats testified under oath that the Trump administration explicitly conditioned lifting the hold of the military aid to Ukraine on Zelensky publicly announcing investigations into Burisma and a discredited conspiracy theory that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election to benefit Hillary Clinton.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump once stated explicitly that he believes that it was Ukraine -- not Russia -- that meddled in the 2016 election because Russian President Vladimir Putin "told me," The Washington Post reported Thursday, citing a former senior White House official.
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The inquiry's focus is a July 25 telephone call in which Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to open an investigation into Biden and his son Hunter Biden and into a discredited theory that Ukraine, not Russia, meddled in the 2016 U.S. election.
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Simon Rosenberg, a longtime Democratic strategist who has spent recent years focused on online disinformation, points to Trump's promotion of the theory that Ukraine significantly meddled in the 2016 U.S. election, a charge that some experts trace back to Russian security forces.
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In the impeachment hearings, former National Security Council official Fiona Hill and other witnesses made clear how those who, like Fox News hosts and the president, advance the false narrative that Ukraine meddled in the US election are serving the Kremlin's interests.
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Conspiracies take center stage Many of Solomon's columns included unsubstantiated claims that Biden abused his powers to protect his son's position on the board of Burisma, and that the Ukrainian government meddled in the 2016 election to help Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
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Former CIA Director John Brennan complained late last year in an internal memo revealed Thursday that some lawmakers he had briefed on his agency's assessment that Russia meddled in the 2016 election did not "appreciate the importance and gravity" of the matter.
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This was three days after the president's fateful news conference in Helsinki, in which Trump steamrollered the conclusion of United States intelligence agencies that Russia meddled in the 2016 election while accepting that Vladimir Putin was "extremely strong and powerful" in his denial.
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The president of the United States thought it was a good idea to work with Russia — the country that US intelligence agencies assess purposely meddled in the election to help him — to set up a new "Cyber Security Unit" to prevent campaign meddling.
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Donald Trump has had a hard time stating definitively that Russia meddled in the 2016 election, even though 17 U.S. intelligence agencies said they did, and on Thursday he kept it going, saying Russia "could have" interfered but other countries probably did too.
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But this time there was no joint statement to formalize the outcome of the talks — just a meandering, 45-minute press conference where Trump stoked controversy by appearing to side with Putin over U.S. intelligence agencies&apos assessment that Russia meddled in the 2016 election.
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The White House has faced an uproar over several issues from the summit including Trump's failure to confront Putin over American intelligence agencies' findings that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. election and Putin's proposal that Russian authorities be allowed to question U.S. citizens.
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At the same time, he said, some of the same Russian actors who meddled in the 2016 campaign again are using fake social media accounts and other means to spread false information and propaganda to fuel political divisions in the United States, he said.
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That said, we cannot address these recent hurricanes' crippling of the Caribbean without addressing the US militarism and business interests that have meddled in Caribbean affairs for over a century and the US consumerism that has rendered this region a mere playground for the privileged.
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As part of their probe, the lawmakers are examining whether Trump withheld $391 million in security assistance until Zelenskiy publicly committed to both an investigation of the Bidens and a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine - not Russia - meddled in the U.S. 2016 presidential election.
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But pressed on actions they would take, Republicans stressed what they had done so far — a Senate committee confirming the Russians meddled in the presidential election, leveling sanctions on Russia, increasing spending on election security — while saying there is not much more they can do.
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Such a move would likely cause consternation among European allies as well as many in the U.S. Congress who are also troubled by Russia's intervention in the Syrian civil war and by U.S. intelligence agencies' finding that Moscow meddled in the U.S. election campaign.
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Mr Clapper added that he stands by his formal finding, issued in January, that the Russian government meddled in the presidential election to help Mr Trump, but said he had seen no evidence of active collusion between members of the Trump campaign and the Russians.
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While the intelligence community has concluded that Russia meddled in the election through online activities -- with a preference for helping now-President Trump and hurting his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton -- Russia's meddling has not been limited to pro-Trump activities, especially this election cycle.
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The delay in signing the Russian sanctions, and silence from Trump, are the latest in a long list of more muted responses to the Russian President Vladimir Putin, who the United States intelligence community said meddled in the 2016 election that saw Trump elected.
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In a recent closed-door briefing on Capitol Hill, National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers expressed frustration to lawmakers about his inability to convince the President to accept US intelligence that Russia meddled in the election, according to a congressional source familiar with the meeting.
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But the moment has long moved past Trump's angry attempts to muddy the waters: There is now widespread consensus that Russia meddled in the election to help him, and the internal politics of the DNC is not the story that it was a month ago.
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Facebook Vice President of Ad Product Rob Goldman tweeted Friday that he can "very definitively" say that swaying the election was not the main objective of the Russian actors that meddled in the 2016 elections using social media, but rather sowing discord was their goal.
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Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer and fellow Democratic Senator Jack Reed questioned on Sunday why Sessions was involved in Trump's May 9 dismissal of Comey after he had recused himself from investigations of whether Russia meddled in the election, possibly with help from Trump associates.
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Lynch is the latest Obama official who will be questioned by Congress as multiple committees try to assess how Russia meddled in the election, whether there was any collusion with the Trump campaign and whether the Obama administration did enough to thwart the Russian efforts.
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The press conference with Putin in Helsinki, where Trump said he saw no reason why Russia would have meddled in the election, only seemed to confirm suspicions that he still sees Russia as a personal ally, or at least not an enemy of American democracy.
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On Polish soil, he told reporters "nobody really knows for sure" who meddled in the 2016 election, and justified his doubts by comparing the intelligence community's Russia assessment with the Bush administration's manipulation of intelligence to claim that Iraq was harboring weapons of mass destruction.
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And contrary to rumors that the Justice Department meddled in the case to assist Prevezon (whose lawyer was the one who met with Donald Trump Jr.), it appears the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Joon Kim, simply walked off the battlefield.
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The #releasethememo Twitter cloudburst also appears to be a microcosm of what U.S. intelligence officials say are Kremlin efforts to fan political divisions in the United States after having meddled in the 2016 presidential election, according to a declassified January 2017 U.S. intelligence assessment.
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ALGIERS/BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel has decided Germany's domestic intelligence agency chief must go as she thinks he has meddled in day-to-day politics, a newspaper reported on Monday, but she said she had nothing to add to comments she made last week.
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Trump claimed he misspoke at the Helsinki press conference and that when he told reporters, "I don't see any reason why it would be [Russia]" who meddled in the 2016 election, he meant to say he didn't see why it wouldn't have been Russia.
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The root of the unfolding political fiasco for Mr. Trump is that as a candidate and as president-elect he reportedly sought to do something beyond daft: to lift sanctions on Russia right after they had blatantly meddled in an election partly on his behalf.
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Multiple diplomats and other officials testified under oath that the Trump administration explicitly conditioned lifting the hold of the military aid on Zelensky publicly announcing investigations into Burisma and a discredited conspiracy theory that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election to benefit Hillary Clinton.
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The case against Trump is focused on a July 25 telephone call in which he asked Zelenskiy to open a corruption investigation into Biden and his son Hunter, as well as a discredited theory that Ukraine, not Russia, meddled in the 2016 U.S. election.
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Nixon aides suggested that Baker call the hearings a "witch hunt" and suggested to Baker that Nixon could prove that the Democrats bugged his offices, just like the laughable assertion today that it was the Ukrainians rather than the Russians who meddled in our election.
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Sondland, a Trump donor, said Giuliani told him that Trump wanted Zelenskiy to make a public statement on investigating corruption, and was particularly concerned about probing Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company, and a debunked theory that Ukraine, not Russia, meddled in the 2016 U.S. election.
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But Mr. Pompeo could be excused for snapping: He runs an agency that is certain Russia meddled in the election, yet serves a president who has dismissed the talk of Russian interference as "fake news" and denounced the investigation into it as a witch hunt.
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Washington (CNN)Lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle are praising the Trump administration's new Russian sanctions Friday, saying it was much needed after Russia meddled in the 2016 election, though some prominent members of Congress are calling for more to be done.
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HELSINKI — President Donald Trump on Monday said at a joint briefing with Russian President Vladimir Putin that while he had "great confidence" in the U.S. intelligence community, Putin was "extremely strong and powerful in his denial" that Russia meddled in the 212 U.S. presidential election.
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Democrats' core argument is that Trump tried to coerce Ukraine's leaders into announcing investigations that would hurt his most likely 2020 opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, and bolster a conspiracy theory that it was Ukraine, not Russia, that meddled in the 2016 election.
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House Democrats are investigating whether Trump abused his power by pressuring Ukraine to announce that probe of Burisma, as well as an inquiry involving a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, to help his own reelection in 2020.
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Rohrabacher told Business Insider on Tuesday that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and "a coalition of people in the White House" have barred him from speaking to President Donald Trump about potentially clearing Russia from allegations that it meddled in the election.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein does not see a need at this time for a special prosecutor to investigate allegations Russia meddled in the U.S. election and possible collusion between Russian officials and the Trump campaign, CNN reported on Friday, citing unnamed sources.
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I think -- first of all, the meeting itself was a kind of rehabilitation because, obviously, the criticism in the U.S. political system has been, look, you meddled in our elections, and now Robert Mueller on Friday indicted 12 more Russians for hacking the Democratic National Committee.
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Yates testified at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing that focused primarily on Flynn, and did not shed much light on other aspects of investigations of allegations that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. election and whether there was collusion between President Donald Trump's campaign and Moscow.
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President Donald Trump The indictment of 13 Russians by special counsel Robert Mueller should erase doubts that Russia meddled in the 20073 presidential election, but it does not resolve the bigger question of whether they got help from President Donald Trump's campaign, according to experts and lawmakers.
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The truth is literally the opposite of all of that: Russia meddled in the 2016 election while favoring Trump; the company the president maligns — CrowdStrike — is headquartered in the US, not Ukraine; and there was never an actual physical server for anyone to take to Ukraine anyway.
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Trump's lukewarm endorsement suggests he has lost tolerance for his chief strategist, Steve Bannon, writes CNN Editor-at-Large Chris Cillizza Russian President Putin is meeting with US Secretary of State Tillerson in Moscow, Kremlin confirms It is "well established" Russia meddled in US election, Tillerson says.
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In May testimony to a Senate panel, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper clarified that the intelligence community's report concluding that Russia meddled in the US election was prepared by three agencies: the CIA, FBI, NSA, and managed by Clapper's office, which oversees the entire intelligence community.
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Trump had previously claimed that only "three or four" U.S. intelligence agencies came to the conclusion that Russian meddled in the presidential race, however Coats said agencies, such as the Coast Guard and the Drug Enforcement Agency, do not focus on the subject of election meddling.
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Johnson's visit comes at a time when relations between London and Moscow are strained by differences over Ukraine and Syria as well as by allegations, which Russia flatly denies, that Moscow has meddled in the politics of various European countries by backing cyber attacks and disinformation campaigns.
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The former National Security Council member, who served as the White House's top Russia expert until early July, flayed House Republicans for their repeated, misleading claims during the hearings that Ukraine substantially meddled in the 2016 election, and for ignoring Russia's actual serious interference in American politics.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg emerged from a Washington, D.C., federal courthouse on Friday after spending some six hours before a grand jury convened by Special Counsel Robert Mueller as part of his investigation into whether Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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The document calls attention to Russian attempts to meddle in democracies and makes clear that the US is keeping a wary eye on Russian influence campaigns -- even though Trump has repeatedly cast doubt on the US intelligence community's conclusion that Russia meddled in the 2016 US election.
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Russia casts Trump as a hostage of the U.S. political establishment who it accuses of reducing his room for maneuver by boxing him in with the special investigation into his associates' possible collusion with Moscow and what Russia says are false allegations it meddled in U.S. politics.
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The relationship, if true, looks questionable, at best, for Flynn, who had to resign a few weeks into his tenure and is now under investigation as part of special counsel Bob Mueller's probe into whether Russia meddled in the U.S. election — and whether the Trump campaign helped.
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Part of the investigation centers on whether Trump temporarily cut off congressionally approved aid to Ukraine earlier this year to pressure President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate Biden and a debunked theory that it was Ukraine and not Russia that meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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" While other officials have said there is no convincing evidence so far of collusion between Mr. Trump's campaign and Russian officials who meddled in last year's election, Mr. Brennan said that "it would be premature at this time to make any determination, or rule anything out.
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Democrats launched impeachment proceedings in the House in late 2019 to investigate Trump's efforts to have Zelenskiy announce probes involving former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, as well as a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine and not Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
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The inquiry's focus is a July 25 telephone call in which Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to open an investigation into Biden and his son Hunter, and a discredited theory promoted by Trump and his allies that Ukraine, not Russia, meddled in the 2016 U.S. election.
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Democrats argued that seven public hearings over the past two weeks had buttressed their case that Republican Trump acted improperly in asking Ukraine for investigations of Democratic former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, and of whether Ukraine meddled in the 2016 U.S. election.
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Mr. Trump's mocking response to accusations that Russia meddled in the election has opened an extraordinary breach between an incoming president and the C.I.A., and the revelation that intelligence chiefs briefed Mr. Trump last week on the dossier of unsubstantiated reports is likely to deepen the divide.
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The North Carolina senator has become the latest member of the GOP to embrace a conspiracy theory that's convenient to Trump but has little basis in fact: that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election to defeat Trump, in the same way Russia did to boost him.
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The most common explanation for how these teams share the same address but reside on different planets is that their embattled owner, James L. Dolan, attracted by the pizazz and celebrity culture of the N.B.A., has meddled in the affairs of the Knicks, with lousy results.
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Multiple career diplomats and national-security officials testified that the Trump administration explicitly conditioned a lifting of the military-aid hold and a White House meeting on Zelensky publicly announcing investigations into Burisma and a discredited conspiracy theory that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 US election.
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Facebook's team searching for what suspicious behavior on its platform has had a number of successes over the past year, including recently thwarting a network of accounts that appeared to be linked to the same Russian troll group that meddled in the 2016 US presidential election.
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The directive comes as the White House spars with congressional Democrats over the work of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who led a two-year investigation into whether Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. election and if there were any ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
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Everyone is worried about Russian interference except for Trump Everyone is worried about Russian interference except for Trump Donald Trump continues to shrug off the bombshell CIA report out Friday that says Russia meddled in the 2016 election with the specific goal of helping him win.
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His stint in Russia came at a time when relations between Washington and Moscow hit a post-Cold War low and were strained over everything from Syria to arms control and allegations, denied by Russia, that Moscow meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election to help Trump win.
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Amid the mounting revelations of sexual harassment or abuse against Weinstein, The Wrap founder Sharon Waxman on Sunday claimed Damon and Russell Crowe meddled in a 2004 story she was writing for the New York Times about behavior by Weinstein and the the-head of Miramax Italy, Fabrizio Lombardo.
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Critics of the president point to his delays in implementing congressional sanctions and frequent praise of Putin's leadership, as well as apparent reluctance to act on Moscow's cyber aggression and dismissive attitude toward U.S. intelligence conclusions that the Kremlin meddled in the U.S. election in favor of Trump.
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Twitter is releasing all the content associated with 4,611 accounts it has tied to two previously announced misinformation campaigns by Russia and Iran — 3,814 accounts linked to Russia's Internet Research Agency, which meddled in the 2016 elections, and 770 that were linked to state-backed activity from Iran.
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Amid the mounting revelations of sexual harassment or abuse against Weinstein, The Wrap founder Sharon Waxman previously claimed Damon and Russell Crowe meddled in a 2004 story she was writing for the New York Times about behavior by Weinstein and the the-head of Miramax Italy, Fabrizio Lombardo.
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Bigwigs from the two parties were also as one in adopting grave expressions and tones of outrage, when pondering evidence that Russian spooks meddled in the election of 2016, notably by stealing and leaking embarrassing e-mails from Hillary Clinton's campaign chief and from the Democratic National Committee.
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Representatives Devin Nunes, chairman of the House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and Adam Schiff, the panel's top Democrat, have called FBI Director James Comey and NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers to testify as part of their committee's probe into allegations that Russia meddled in U.S. elections.
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TRUMP WALKS BACK HELSINKI SUMMIT REMARKS, CALLS RUSSIA PROBE A &aposHOAX&apos Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers fiercely criticized Trump&aposs performance at the Helsinki summit, saying the U.S. president had improperly cast doubt on his own intelligence community&aposs conclusions that Russia meddled in the 2016 election.
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The question is whether Trump believes that Russia meddled in the election (as the intelligence community said they did) or Putin (who says, "very strongly," that they didn't.) None of that has anything at all to do with the hacked email server at the Democratic National Committee. Nothing.
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Multiple diplomats have now testified under oath, in both closed-door and public sessions, that the Trump administration explicitly conditioned lifting the military-aid hold on Zelensky publicly announcing investigations into Burisma and a discredited conspiracy theory that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election to benefit Hillary Clinton.
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If the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has proved anything in his 18-month-long investigation — besides how intensely Russia meddled in an American presidential election — it is that Mr. Trump surrounded himself throughout 2016 and early 2017 with people to whom lying seemed to be second nature.
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Speaking after meeting privately with Mr. Putin on the sideline of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting in Danang, Vietnam, Mr. Trump said that he had again asked whether Russia had meddled in the contest, but that the continued focus on the issue was insulting to Mr. Putin.
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Mr. Trump offered the General Assembly a strikingly selective definition of sovereignty, threatening to act aggressively against countries like North Korea, Iran and Venezuela, whose policies he opposes, yet saying almost nothing about Russia, which seized territory from its neighbor Ukraine, and meddled in the American presidential election.
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Republican members of the Intelligence Committee risibly struggle to back up Trump on his demented conspiracy theory — belied by the consensus of the entire U.S. intelligence community — that it was Ukraine that meddled in the 2016 election to help Hillary, rather than Putin who meddled to help Trump.
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The probe is focusing on a July 25 telephone call in which Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to open an investigation into Biden and his son Hunter, and into a discredited theory promoted by Trump and his allies that Ukraine, not Russia, meddled in the 2016 U.S. election.
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The probe is focusing on a July 25 telephone call in which Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to open an investigation into Biden and his son Hunter, and into a discredited theory promoted by Trump and his allies that Ukraine, not Russia, meddled in the 2016 U.S. election.
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The inquiry is focused on whether Trump may have withheld $391 million in U.S. security aid to Ukraine earlier this year until newly elected President Volodymyr Zelenskiy opened an investigation into the Bidens and into a discredited theory that Ukraine may have meddled in the 2016 U.S. elections.
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The probe has focused on a July 25 telephone call in which Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to open an investigation into Biden and his son Hunter, and into a discredited theory promoted by Trump and his allies that Ukraine, not Russia, meddled in the 2016 election.
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David Holmes, a career diplomat serving in the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, testified that his work started to become overshadowed in March by Giuliani, who was pushing Ukraine to carry out probes of the Bidens and a debunked conservative theory that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 U.S. elections.
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The tendency of Trump and his allies to maintain Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election has frustrated intelligence officials throughout the impeachment process — so much so that former National Security Council official Fiona Hill used a portion of her testimony during impeachment inquiry hearings to rebuke Republican lawmakers.
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This was most clear when the GOP report addressed the call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on July 25 when he asked for a "favor" -- a probe into a 2016 conspiracy theory that Ukraine meddled in the election and suggested Kiev also look in the activity of the Bidens.
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The widespread conspiracy alleged in the indictments implicates Russian oligarchs tied to Russian President Vladimir Putin, sets out a vast network of companies, financing and domestic criminal acts, and reconfirms the intelligence community's conclusions from more than a year ago that Russians conclusively meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
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The public lashing came after a turbulent first six months in office during which Trump fired national security adviser Michael Flynn and FBI Director James Comey, then the top official leading the probe into whether Russian meddled in the 2016 presidential election and possible ties to the Trump campaign.
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Mitt RomneyWillard (Mitt) Mitt RomneyRepublicans raise concerns over Trump pardoning service members Mellman: The 'lane theory' is the wrong lane to be in Romney: 'No evidence' Ukraine meddled in 2016 election MORE (R-Utah) advised that Trump should listen to senior military commanders when assessing such difficult situations.
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The US president resisted rebuking Putin during their summit in Helsinki last July, going so far as to favor the Russian leader's explanation over the findings of the US intelligence community, which said unequivocally that the Kremlin meddled in the 2016 presidential election to sow chaos and promote Trump.
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But, as Putin highlighted during his interview, the chances that Russia will agree to hand the defendants over are slim to none, particularly given that they were carrying out the Kremlin's orders when they meddled in the election and that the US and Russia do not have an extradition treaty.
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It is the latest episode in a doping scandal that has reverberated throughout the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, with tinges of bad blood between Russia and the United States that were so familiar during the Cold War and which have resurfaced with evidence that Russia meddled in the U.S. presidential election.
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Following the collapse of Huawei's deal with AT&T, Richard Yu, the CEO of Huawei's consumer products division, made the case that because the US government meddled in its business, American consumers are being robbed of the widest choice of smartphones that people in others parts of the world enjoy.
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Trump still appears to be the only official who does not believe Russia messed with the US elections Trump has consistently questioned the extensive evidence that Russians actively meddled in the 2016 election to help put him in the White House, calling it "fake" and a "hoax" at various points.
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The idea that Trump and Putin are in cahoots has been a popular theme this cycle, and while there is some evidence that Russia has meddled in our elections—such as the hacking of John Podesta's emails—a lot of the stories have had very few legs to stand on.
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Over the next five months, White House emissaries pressured Mr. Zelensky to announce that Ukraine would investigate two matters: Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian gas company that hired Hunter Biden, the younger son of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., and whether Ukraine had meddled in the 225 American presidential election.
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After the Washington Post reported last month on a CIA assessment that concluded Russia meddled in the election in an effort to help Trump win, Trump's transition team slammed the CIA, citing its intelligence about supposed weapons of mass destruction in the lead-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
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Four years ago, well before the furor over allegations Moscow meddled in the 2016 election that put Donald Trump in the White House, at least 195 web addresses belonging to Trump, his family or his business empire were hijacked by hackers possibly operating out of Russia, The Associated Press has learned.
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Growing concern about Mr Trump's stance coupled with anger over the allegations that Russia had meddled in the US election spurred Congress to press ahead with sanctions that — once approved, as is assumed will happen — will both punish Moscow and make it tougher for Mr Trump to ease punitive measures.
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But the elevation of Haspel will install a respected career CIA veteran in the agency's top job, and may reassure a workforce that has been caught up in Trump's assault on the intelligence community over its conclusion that Russia meddled in the 2016 election to help him win the White House.
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There is no doubt that the al-Thani clan, which rules the emirate from its capital, Doha, has funded militants fighting the regime of president Bashar al-Assad in Syria and meddled in the internal affairs of other Arab nations through its support of the Muslim Brotherhood, notably in Egypt.
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"We have known that Russians meddled in the election, but these indictments detail the extent of the subterfuge," Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) said in a statement.
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"Meet The Press" host Chuck ToddCharles (Chuck) David ToddChuck Todd challenges Cruz after senator pushes theory that Ukraine meddled in election Retiring House Democrat says a Trump reelection would be a 'nightmare scenario' for Congress Cruz on House impeachment inquiry: 'This is 'kangaroo court' MORE on Sunday repeatedly challenged Sen.
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The U.S. State Department last month named 39 Russian defense and intelligence-related entities following the signing in August of a new sanctions law by President Donald Trump to punish Moscow after U.S. intelligence agencies concluded it meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, allegations the Kremlin has repeatedly denied.
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