"You said in your report... that the Russian intervention was sweeping and systematic. ...I don't think it was just an intervention. I think it was an invasion. ...I don't think it was just sweeping and systematic. I think it was sinister and scheming. ...[O]ne of my colleagues earlier here referred to this Russian intervention as a hoax, and I'd like to get your comment on that. On page 26... you talk about the , and how tens of millions of U.S. persons became engaged with the posts that they made, that there were some 80,000 posts on Facebook; that Facebook itself admitted that 126 million people had probably seen the posts, that were put up by the Internet Research Agency... [T]hey had 3,800 Twitter accounts and had designed more than 175,000 tweets, that probably reached 1.4 million people. The Internet Research Agency was spending about $1.25 million a month on all of this social media in the United States, in what I would call an invasion in our country. Would you agree that it was not a hoax, that the Russians were engaged in, trying to impact our election?"
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Speier, 1:03:38 — Absolutely. It was not a hoax. The indictments we returned against the Russians—two different ones—were substantial in their scope, using that scope word again; and I think... we have underplayed, to a certain extent, that aspect of our investigation—that has, and would have, long term damage to the United States—that we need to move quickly to address. — Mueller
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