As recently as two weeks ago, the president called the allegations that Russia helped him win the 2016 election a hoax.
“One of the great hoaxes,” he said at a campaign rally in Alabama.
Congress sees it differently. The Senate’s investigation into Russian meddling and whether Trump’s 2016 campaign helped isn’t complete, but lawmakers announced Wednesday that they’ve reached some conclusions, and those conclusions contradict how Trump has approached Russia.
Here are four things a Republican senator and a Democratic senator say they know about Russia after eight months of investigating, hundreds of hours of interviews with more than 100 people and nearly 100,000 pages of documents reviewed.
Click to continue reading. By Amber Phillips – October 4, 2017.