Dan Coats: “it is my understanding that I have 20 minutes of time allotted under morning business. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore.…”

One of the first things you can do--at this hearing, even--is to make a strong statement of support for professionalism in the IC and pledge that you will not tolerate politics influencing the analytical process.

We need to inform the American public that this is real, that is going to be happening and the resilience needed for us to stand up and say we're not going allow some Russian to tell us how to vote, how we ought to run our country. And I…

we can create a discipline, a way of thinking about these challenges.

Russia and other foreign countries, including China and Iran, conducted influence activities and messaging campaigns targeted at the United States to promote their strategic interests.