Iran Press/ America: A source familiar with the House of Representatives briefing at CBS News said that briefers pressed for evidence to back up claims Russia 'trying to help POTUS in 2020'. Asked if there was signals intelligence such as phone intercepts or ‘SIGINT’ to back up claims, the source said that briefers had none to offer, CBS News Senior Investigative Correspondent Catherine Herridge wrote on Twitter.
Based on US mainstream media in recent days, intelligence officials warned House lawmakers last week that Russia was interfering in the 2020 campaign to try to get President Trump re-elected, a disclosure to Congress that angered Trump, who complained that Democrats would use it against him.
The Kremlin on Friday denied Russia was interfering in the US presidential campaign to boost Trump's re-election chances.
"These are more paranoid announcements which, to our regret, will multiply as we get closer to the US election. They have nothing to do with the truth." Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
US intelligence continues to accuse Russia of interfering in the American political process in 2016. An investigation into Moscow’s alleged interference, led by ex-FBI Director Robert Mueller, took almost two years to complete.
Mueller eventually announced that there had been no collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russia. Moscow has also repeatedly refuted these allegations.
Meanwhile, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has warned Russia to stay out of the 2020 presidential elections.
Sanders, 78, a self-described democratic socialist senator from Vermont, is considered the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination and is favored to win the Nevada caucuses on Saturday.
"The intelligence community is telling us they are interfering in this campaign, right now, in 2020. And what I say to Putin that if elected president, you are not going to be interfering in American elections," Sanders told reporters on Friday in Bakersfield, California.
Of the eight contenders still seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, Sanders leads in polling in Nevada and nationally by about a dozen points over second-place Joe Biden.
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