to give a to ro e accounting of the known facts, to pose the questions that still need answers and to best protect the property functioning of our government. that the subcommittee s first hearing we heard tr witnesses about the russian tool box for interfering in the poll iitics other countries. now we can ask which tools were used against us by the russians in 2016. here s a checklist. propaganda, fake news, trolls and bots. as they told the snee on intelligence in march, russian state-sponsored media turned out manipulated truths, false news stories and conspiracies, end quote, provide iing a weaponize fake news effort openly supporting donald trump s candidacy, quoting while consistently offering negative coverage of hillary clinton. this was to watch a deliberate,