I am sure my colleagues were struck, as I was last week again and am struck every time I have access to relevant information, by the reality that all of us are actually victims.
What better way to undermine confidence in every derivative function of government than to cast doubt on the election results as a whole?
We should not have been forced to read about it in a press release.
In July of 2016, a Russian intelligence officer, and his co-conspirators, hacked the website of a State board of elections.
We should have the intelligence community here as well.
He publicly cast doubt on Russian interference in our election.
We implored him to help us get from the Trump administration these documents about how Russia attacked our States.
Our committee must act swiftly to determine what would cause President Trump to act in this way.
I was very concerned by the President's statements last week in Helsinki about his 2-hour one-on-one meeting with Vladimir Putin.
Because we're probably going to want to know more about the Illinois case and whether there were other States like that.
President Trump capitulated to Mr. Putin on nearly every point of contention in the bilateral relationship with Russia.