Earlier this week, Avril Haines, the Director of National Intelligence, released a declassified report on foreign interference threats in the 2020 election. While there is no evidence that any interference altered votes in the election, the report outlines efforts authorized by foreign leaders including Russian President Vladimir Putin to influence public opinion about the presidential race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
Andrea Bernstein, WNYC Editor most recently with the Trump Inc podcast and author of American Oligarchs: The Kushners, The Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power and Suzanne Spaulding, senior adviser for Homeland Security at the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, joined The Takeaway to discuss.
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