Dan Coats: “You defined it and others defined it in the security business as one of the most major threats that the Nation faces.”

I can confirm that one of my staffers who was aware of the controversy requested that I modify that assessment, but I said no. No, we need to stick to what the analysts have said.

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…

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