a little off topic, but mike pompeo, when we re on the subject of him, questioned whether ukraine meddled, and he basically took on this conspiracy theory that the president is pushing, saying that they take very seriously anybody who might have disrupted our elections. he is the secretary of state. he s going around the world, representing the united states, when this is something that nobody else believes. the intelligence community didn t assess this. said that russia was the one that attacked in our elections. he s going around and pushing a story that, according to fiona hill, somebody that works in the administration, was russian propaganda. yeah, katy, he found his benghazi tinfoil hat once again and using it on the ukraine scandal, which is incredible. because when he ran the c.i.a., he said that russia meddled. they re all twisted in knots right now in making a back-dated justifications for illegal acts, just like they re doing on the budget, failure. the illegal use of our
bad actors and greed and opportunityism. . u.s. senator from louisiana is fact check on comments about election meddling. republicans including trump have been repeating a conspiracy theory that ukraine not russia meddled in the election. hill addressed the issue last week. some of you on the committee appear to believe that russia and the security services did not conduct campaign against counter. that perhaps somehow for some reason ukraine did. this is a fictional narrative. that s perpetrated by the russian security services themselves. completely ignored her testimony. and the tv interview on sunday. senator kennedy, who do you believe was responsible for
says, yes, there was a quid pro quo linking ukrainian aid to digging up dirt on the bidens. rudy giuliani, the president s personal attorney announces he has insurance against getting thrown under the bus for any of this ukraine business. and something you may have lost sight of in the tornado of breaking news, we learned russia could be behind that theory being pushed by some republicans blaming ukraine for meddling in the 2016 election. it is entirely possible for two separate nations to engage in election meddling at the same time. we all know that russia meddled in the election, but that s not to say ukraine didn t try to influence the election. why as long as russia does it is it mutually exclusive only to russia? rush raw is doing it but other countries are as well. and we know russia is involved in our elections but we have credible information ukraine was meddling and engaged. is that a fact? no, not according to fiona hill who testified to the house intelligence comm
very firmly urged members of the intelligence committee to stop giving weight to this unsupported theory that ukraine played a part in the election meddling. and yet republicans wouldn t have it. listen. entirely possible for two separate nations to engage in election meddling at the same time. we all know that russia meddled in the election, but that s not to say ukraine didn t try to influence the election. why is as long as russia does it is it mutually exclusive only to russia? russia is doing it, but other countries are, as well. and we know that russia s involved in our elections, but we have credible information that ukraine was meddling and engaged. reporter: and again, for our viewers, there is no credible information that ukraine was doing what russia was doing in 2016. now listen to congressman denny heck. he, too, sits on the intelligence committee and says it s widely known among he and his colleagues, including the republicans in congress, that it was russia, an
horowitz, who has been doing the investigations, about part of the origins of the russia investigation. that will come out december 9th. cnn has exclusive reporting on what will be inside that report. and there will be a criminal referral for a former fbi lawyer. fairly low-level lawyer, for falsifying a document, i understand. changing a document. changing the meaning of what a document is. this is something that republicans will point to as, oh, my gosh, the republican investigation was flawed. but our reporting is clear, there s no way this would change the overall thrust of the investigation, the idea that russia meddled in the election, and any of the purposes for which the whole thing began. what s the significance here? it depends. we need to know more and we will wait with bated breath for michael horowitz s report. it s always significant when an fbi official of any sort lies in