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american democracy while finding that china decided against meddling in the u.s. election last year. let's go to our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto who's been watching all of this so closely. how extensive, first of all, was russia's election interference? >> reporter: i spoke this evening to a former senior u.s. intelligence official who was involved in the 2016 assessment. he said to me that russia is nothing if not consistent here. when you look at this assessment, the headline figures in this assess, it is almost verbatim from what we reported on 2016. we asses...