NBC journalist Cynthia McFadden gives some context on the intelligence report about Donald Trump's alleged ties to Russia that was published Tuesday night by Buzzfeed. She reports that it was attached to Donald Trump's classified briefing to serve an example to show the president-elect the sort of "political junk" floating around that they do not believe to be credible.





CYNTHIA MCFADDEN, NBC: The intelligence officials go farther and say that as far as they are concerned, and I’m going to quote now, ‘Intel and law enforcement officials agree that none of the investigations have found any conclusive or direct link between Donald Trump and the Russian government, period.’



So you might wonder, why was it part of this addendum, if the intelligence community didn't believe it to be true, says it wasn't verified.



It was context.



They wanted it available, we are told, so that if they felt they needed to explain to the President-elect the difference between vetted intelligence (the Russians tried to influence our election) and this raw kind of disinformation that’s out there....



Trying to explain to the president elect [information that is] just political. 'We'll show you the political junk that's out there, we don't believe it.'