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I don't get weirded out by that much stuff in the news but this puts a shiver down my spine. it's very clear. this was the statement our incoming president put out after he got highly classified version of this report. and, again, the public version that we all have now, that we can all see, its conclusions are identical to those in the highly classified report. he gets briefed on the classified version of this, he comes out and he makes this statement "president-elect donald j. trump released the following statement at the conclusion of meeting with intelligence community leaders. while russi...

Parliament. and that was very embarrassing to vladimir putin because that election was supposed to be the runup to him running for president again. that election should have been a moment of triumph for him. that election was just a few months before he was going to take this historic step of regaining the presidency. it was embarrassing to him that his party lost all those seats. his party got rejected. the number of seats they held in parliament dropped by dozens because of this election result in december, 2011. that was not what he wanted at all as he was ready -- getting ready to go be pr...

Democrats nuts. but it's just -- it's an accident of the way we make maps and the way we show electoral votes, right? people who live in rural areas tent to vote republican, that shows up on the map as big swathes of the country looking red on the map even if those swathes of the country death to have very many people in them. and it happens every election, it happens in a national election like that. this is california from this year. california this year, hillary clinton absolutely destroyed donald trump. she beat trump in california by a 30-point margin. but look at the map. still looks wic...

The news. i'm not that cynical but most things don't personally bother me. i'm personally bothered by the fact that the president-elect came out after his classified briefing getting the highly classified assessment of this version came out and said there was no impact on the election of this russian interference. as far as i understand it and what seems to be explicitly in the public report, the intelligence community did not assess whether or not what the russians did affected our election. whether or not it can ever be known, they didn't even ask that question. when he says definitively it ...

Elections. this is just released late today by the director of national intelligence. this is from the fbi, the cia, and the national security agency and i know you know this is out today, i know the bottom line you have already heard, but here it is, "we assess russian president vladimir putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the u.s. presidential election. russia's goals were to undermine public faith in the u.s. democratic process, to denigrate secretary clinton and to harm her electability and her potential presidency. we further assess putin and the russian government develo...