The only way to know whether an attack occurred is to look at the evidence and if we are not going to look at the evidence in 2016 by looking at the paper, when will we ever?
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At 6 o'clock in the evening, a setback occurred when New York Magazine published a story about conversations with the Clinton campaign. The story was based on information leaked by someone present, but it got most of the facts wrong. The story claimed that there was persuasive evidence of election hacking, which was the opposite of what they were actually looking for. The speaker's phone started ringing nonstop, and they wrote a medium piece explaining the need for recounts to examine the evidence and determine if hacking had occurred. They emphasized the importance of looking at the paper evidence in 2016.
Speaker 0: But then that same day, at about 6 o'clock in the evening, we also had what may have been the biggest setback. And that is in New York Magazine, there was a story published about the conversations that we were having with the Clinton campaign. And this was based on information that had been provided by the to the press in violation of everyone's confidence by a person who was there, and it was a secondhand account that got most of the facts wrong. In fact, it quoted it it said that I and others had found persuasive evidence that the results may have been hacked. Well, wait a minute.
That's a 180 degrees the opposite. We want to check and see if there's evidence that the results have been hacked. We know it's a possibility, but that's all at this point. What to do? If this is the the thing that, I have to respond to.
And my phone started ringing off the hook at that moment and continued to ring off the hook for weeks. In fact, I just checked my voice mail yesterday, and I have a call a month ago from my congresswoman. I'll I'll call you back on Monday, Debbie. So what to do? So what I did to try to, not have to answer the press in a way that says, well, we don't really have any evidence, end of story, because I stayed up all night with Matt and others and wrote this medium piece that some of you may have read in which I present the case for recounts that the only way to know whether an attack occurred is to look at the evidence.
And if we're not going to look at the evidence in 2016 by looking at the paper, when will we ever? A candidate needs to