a comparatively mild rebuke of republican senator john kennedy for his recent televised claim that ukraine interfered in the 2016 election to her to trump. claims that democrats say have been debunked. >> that is a conspiracy theory put out, promulgated by vladimir putin. to deflect the russian interference in our own election. >> in her testimony, former national security staff or hill acknowledged some ukrainian offn negatively about donald trump, t she blamed ukrainian collusion story on russia. >> this has been perpetrated and propagated by the russian security services themselves. >> on monday, richard burr told nbc "every elected official in ukraine was for hillary clinton. is that very different than the russians being for donald trump?" the ukraine collusion narrative first surfaced in 2017. "politico" reported "ukrainian officials tried to help hillary clinton and undermined before by publicly questioning his fitness were office.