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Information became distorted and misleading and manipulated, like this one from january 17th. this is a story that started it all. it said ukrainian government officials tried to help hillary clinton and undermine trump. this story was limited in scope. it described what yovanovitch called isolated incidents by individuals in ukraine. it did not allege a top down campaign of ukrainian meddling because there wasn't any. hannity leaned on this story for months and months even after the co-author said what the ukrainian officials did is nowhere near what russia did. russia attacked the election. ...

Articles. >> in claiming interference, kennedy is citing articles from 2016 about ukrainian politicians who openly opposed trump's candidacy. politico is now reporting that the republican-controlled senate intelligence committee thoroughly investigated that theory and found no evidence that ukraine waged a top-down campaign to help trump win in 2016. >> first of all, senator john kennedy is a great discredit to his name. >> we can agree on that one. >> secondly, he's not being dup duped. he knows he's being dishonest, trying to defend and protect donald trump at all costs and so he's not going...

Need to destroy her. >> and amanda, there is a difference between this crazy ukrainian conspiracy theory that ukraine hacked crowdstrike blah, blah or whatever and this thing that a lot of republicans hang their hats on which is ukrainian officials, some officials said nice things about hillary clinton and said bad things about donald trump during the 2016 election. not that it was a top-down campaign. it was all out in the open. but that is true. in fact, here is dr. fiona hill pointing that out in her testimony. >> many officials from many countries including ukraine bet on the wrong horse. ...

He couldn't miss in his family. but he also skipped a big event for democrats in california last weekend. what's the message he is sending? is he perhaps taking his front-runner status for granted? >> it's certainly a strategy to run what i've been calling an over-the-top campaign. he's running a campaign as it if he's already in office. it's to be determined whether or not deformic voters will allow that type of a top-down campaign to work. usually progressives particularly want people to fight for the nomination, that they want to earn every vote, they want to take selfies, do the retail pol...