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and gave facetime on corruption in the obama administration. allies both have a questionable track record. both publicly called for an investigation into hunter biden and his claims that ukraine meddled in 2016. a theory denounced by russia expert fiona hill in a recent testimony. . this is a fictional narrative perpetrated and pop gated by the russian security services themselves. reporter: he says he s concerned the theory was picked up and amplified by the russians but willing to present it in an interview with the senate. because, first of all, it s for me to dry to discredit the story of putin. if russia was smart enough, they would be quiet. if putin is using them, unfortunately they can stop him. reporter: while giuliani is gathering new information in
the entire intelligence committee said it was russia. right. but it could also be ukraine. i was wrong. the only evidence i have and i think it s overwhelming is that it was russia who tried to hack the dnc computer. so why are these statements from senator kennedy, a sitting member of the senate judiciary committee, so misleading? i laid out the facts. russia interfered in the 2016 election to a degree no other country ever has. their effort tur bo charged. that assessment is backed up by intelligence and the senate intelligence committee. this is a fact, not an opinion. also a fact, u.s. intel agencies are aware of a year s long campaign by russia to shift blame away from themselves and onto ukraine. that s what russia expert fiona hill said in public testimony.
hill over the picture of her while she s testifying, quote, in the course of this investigation, i would ask that you please not promote politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance russian interests. you see the headline below that for the self-supporting story with a warning about russia, blitz of testimony in house wraps up. it s one thing to watch these hearings live as we ve been doing for these last couple of weeks and keep up with the roiling broil of developing news around the impeachment scandal and all the reporting that has explained and put in context the president s behavior we ve had from all these witnesses. it is kind of another thing, right, to see reflected in these headlines from coast to coast all over the country, right, these dramatic words, this dramatic warning from in this case the u.s. government s top russia expert fiona hill. her words, what she warned about is sinking in.
it s one thing to watch these hearings live as we ve been doing for these last couple of weeks and to also keep up with the roiling broil of developing news in the impeachment scandal and all that has supported and explained and put in context the descriptions of the president s behavior we ve had from all these witnesses. it is kind of another thing, right, to see reflected in these headlines from coast to coast all over the country, right, these dramatic words, this dramatic warning from in this case the u.s. government s top russia expert fiona hill. her words, what she warned about is sinking in. right, it s landing. it s the front page. all across the country people are hearing what she had to say. some of you on this committee appear to believe that russia and its security services did not conduct a campaign against our country and that perhaps somehow for some reason ukraine did.