'I believe it's China'For top Trump administration officials, foreign election interference was all about China. It's not clear what US intelligence had assessed about China's potential election interference at the time of Barr's interview with CNN in September. The US intelligence report says that Putin "had purview over the activities" of Derkach. Telizhenko was not referenced in Tuesday's intelligence report. The Senate Intelligence Committee's bipartisan report on election interference released last year said that Telizhenko "participated in a documentary film that aired on a US news channel" attacking the Bidens over Ukraine in January 2020 -- the same time frame as a documentary cited in the US intelligence report as part of Russia's election interference.

Source: CNN March 17, 2021 23:48 UTC