Clapper: I Strongly Disagree with Whitaker That the Russians Had No Impact on the Outcome of the Election

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CLAPPER: "I strongly disagree that, you know, the Russians had no impact on the outcome of the election. Now, it’s true that in the intelligence community, assessment we rendered on the sixth of January 2017 briefed then the President-Elect Trump at Trump Tower, we made no call about that because the intelligence community doesn’t have the authority or resources or capability to do that. As a private citizen, and I make this point in the book, to me it stresses credulity and logic to think the Russians didn’t have profound impact on the outcome of the election given the magnitude of the effort they tried to influence it."