CQ Roll Call’s intelligence reporter Ryan Lucas separates fact from fiction on all the Russia-related reports that have thrown the nation’s capital into a tizzy. 

Show Notes:

• Intelligence Officials Say Putin Ordered Campaign to Help Trump 
• Trump Transforms GOP Into the Softer-On-Russia Party 
• Tillerson Grilled on Russia at Confirmation Hearing 
• Russian Hacking Report Due Next Week

Clapper: Putin always felt that he had deniability re hacking; both the Russian govt and media denying any culpability. @CQnow

— Ryan Lucas (@relucasz) January 10, 2017

Trump: “If Putin likes Donald Trump, I consider that an asset not a liability.”

— Ryan Lucas (@relucasz) January 11, 2017

Christopher Steele, ex-British intelligence officer, said to have prepared Trump dossier https://t.co/3w2TigMcht via @WSJ

— Ryan Lucas (@relucasz) January 11, 2017