Roy Blunt: ‘I’m Not Concerned’ About Trump Urging Pompeo to Meet with Conspiracy Theorist William Binney

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BLITZER: "He’s a key member of the Senate intelligence committee. Senator, you agree with the U.S. Intelligence community’s assessment that Russia was, in fact, behind the meddling, behind the 2016 hacking in the election interference, the presidential election interference. Does it concern you as a result of that that the CIA director Mike Pompeo met with someone who is seen as a conspiracy theorist, a man who is peddling this theory that the DNC hack was really an inside job, that Russia had nothing to do with it and that he met with this individual, Pompeo, at the request of President Trump?"
BLUNT: "You know, I’m not concerned about that. My view on all of this has been we should talk to everybody that a reasonable person should talk to. We should look at everything that a reasonable person should look at. If there is somebody out there who has a dramatically contrary point of view, I don’t have a problem with talking to them. I do think the Russians were involved in our elections. Other countries may have been also. Russians have been involved in our elections for a long time. I’m interested in the new information coming out about how Donna Brazile, who was the chairman at the time, said that the Russians did a lot more damage to their internal systems than I believe they’ve admitted up until now. I don’t know why this is all coming out a year later. You would think that the chairman of the party would be yelling about this even before Election Day if their files were messed up in some way. But, you know, another thing, wolf, in an open hearing we had the other day with Facebook and Twitter and Google, I asked the Facebook attorney who was there how much money did the Russians spend on Facebook? And it was $46,000 before the election. So my next question was, well, how much did the two campaigns — not the Republicans and Democrats, but just Clinton and trump spend? It was $81 million. I think we can pretty quickly get a lot of this out of proportion. It probably didn’t turn the elections around, but we’d be naive to think that the Russians don’t want to do things that make our system look bad. They’ve got to love it that we’re still talking about what they may or may not have done in our elections."