Hillary Theory: ‘A Plan from Putin and the Highest Levels of the Kremlin’ Sought My Defeat

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LAUER: "Another area where you seem to come close to drawing a conclusion but you stop just at the line is Russia."
CLINTON: "Right."
LAUER: "You shay there’s so many coincidences, so many connections between people in the Trump campaign and Russia, but you stopped short of saying this, and I’m asking you if you will. Do you think that the trump campaign with the knowledge of the now president colluded with Russia and stole this election?"
CLINTON: "Matt, I can’t say that. That’s what this investigation is to determine. What I try to do in the book is to put forth all the information that I think should trouble Americans, whether you’re Republicans or Democrats or anything else. My book, manuscript was turned in at the end of June, Earl el July. Lots has happened since then."
LAUER: "Has it led you more in the direction of collusion?"
CLINTON: "It has suggested to me that there was certainly, we know, a plan from Putin and the level — and the highest levels of the Kremlin to influence our election. We now know that it was everything from Facebook ads and phony people acting like Americans who were Russians. We know so much more than we did even when I turned the manuscript in, and we know that there was communication. That certainly has come out, and we know that there was a lot of interesting coincidences, if you will, between what people associated with trump were saying at the time and what later came to pass. I mean, had you trump associates saying in August, oh, John Podesta is going to end up in the barrel. Well, how would he have known that? The Russians hacked those e-mails. They stole them. Let me just quickly say though that getting to the bottom of this, which I hope everybody agrees we must. If I had been elected and this had come to light. If I had known once I walked into the oval office what we now know I would have stopped at nothing to make sure this never happened again to anybody."