undermine his candidacy. president trump had good reason to be worried about ukrainian election meddling against his campaign. it is remarkable thing that the republican defense of president trump in his impeachment inquiry is for them to keep trying to advance this theory that it s ukraine that s the entity that really meddled in the 2016 election, right? the theory that ukraine is really the entity that meddled in the 2016 election, it s the invention of russian security services to hurt the united states. so to see the republicans use that, participate in that effort as their way to defend the u.s. president against impeachment, it s just i mean, like i said what a time to be alive. you know, there s the top republican on the intelligence committee hammering away, pushing that line for the kremlin over and over again. there s also the top republican in the house, kevin mccarthy. he was asked yesterday after fiona hill s testimony, she
they have provided classified briefings specifically on this to u.s. senators, letting u.s. senators know that when you hear this whole thing about ukraine meddling in our elections, that a russian op. that is something that is in fiona hill s words perpetrated and promulgated by the russian security forces to hurt the united states and help russia. this is the headline in the times tonight. charges of ukrainian meddling a russian operation, says u.s. intelligence. quote, american intelligence officials informed senators and their aides in recent weeks that russia has engaged in a years-long campaign to essentially frame ukraine as responsible for russia s hacking in the u.s. election. republicans have sought for weeks amid the impeachment inquiry to shift attention to president trump s demands that ukraine investigate any 2016
this is a fictional narrative that has been perpetrated and propagated by the russian security services themselves. as i told the committee last month, i refuse to be part of an effort to legitimize the ultimate narrative that the ukrainian government is a u.s. adversary and that ukraine not russia attacked us in 2016. these fictions are harmful even if they re deployed purely for domestic political purposes. in the course of this investigation i ask that you please not promote politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance russian interests. dr. fiona hill testified yesterday in those words then being, you know, burned into our history of what it s like to be alive as an american citizen at this time in our country s history. her words, you know, bold and all-caps on the front pages of newspapers in red states and blue states and everywhere in between. well, now, in the wake of that testimony from fiona hill and the weight with which it landed, now we ve got a remarkable adva
photo of fiona hill at her testimony. and there s the headline. ukraine meddling lie. and you see the subhead there, narrative furthered by russia, she asserts. here s that tampa bay times from florida. hill, discord serves putin. former security aid and expert fiona hill warns the gop of fictions and dramatic comments on thursday. up in the great state of maine this was the portland press herald today. witness: fictions about ukraine help russia. testimony in the last scheduled public hearings reinforces the case that the president s efforts work toward the detriment of u.s. security. and then you see the subhead there below the fiona hill photo. ex-white house aide says moskow was behind the claim. this is the washington post
new york times. as dramatically as it landed for someone with the gravitas and credibility of fiona hill to issue this warning yesterday, right? her telling republican members of the impeachment committee, stop spreading this disinformation that it was ukraine that attacked our election in 2016 and don t try to rope me into it. if you re going to do that it s a falsehood created by the russians, they re promoting that to hurt our country, do not do that. it s one thing to get that warning, that dramatic warning from fiona hill. now today in this new york times scoop, now we know that s it s the conclusion of u.s. intelligence agencies that that alternate theory that ukraine attacked us in 2016, it is the conclusion of u.s. intelligence agencies that that is a russian disinformation campaign. but also crucially that u.s. intelligence agencies have briefed u.s. senators about it. oh.