WASHINGTON — Last week, U.S. Intelligence officials warned lawmakers on Capitol Hill that Russia was interfering in the 2020 election in an attempt to get President Donald Trump reelected.

Shelby Pierson, the American intelligence community’s top election security official, reportedly left out key details in the briefing with lawmakers. Officials are now calling the information “misleading.”

“The national security adviser gets pretty good access to our intelligence. I haven’t seen any intelligence that Russia is doing anything to attempt to get President Trump reelected,” National security adviser Robert O’Brien said in an interview airing Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”

CNN reported: The US intelligence community has assessed that Russia is interfering in the 2020 election and has separately assessed that Russia views Trump as a leader they can work with. But the US does not have evidence that Russia’s interference this cycle is aimed at reelecting Trump, the officials said.

“The intelligence doesn’t say that,” one senior national security official told CNN. “A more reasonable interpretation of the intelligence is not that they have a preference, it’s a step short of that. It’s more that they understand the President is someone they can work with, he’s a dealmaker.”

"I haven't seen any intelligence that Russia is doing anything to attempt to get President Trump reelected," Robert O'Brien tells @GStephanopoulos amid reports that intel officials told lawmakers Russia is meddling in 2020, with a preference for Trump. https://t.co/h6CMFu6cDl pic.twitter.com/zWxLIhRAAf — ABC News (@ABC) February 23, 2020

WH national security adviser Robert O'Brien denies new U.S. intelligence reports that Russian actors are interfering to help Trump win a second term, but admits to @GStephanopoulos he hasn't looked at or sought out materials surrounding those reports. https://t.co/Rv0C5hSbVw pic.twitter.com/mW5NQQjnA9 — ABC News (@ABC) February 23, 2020

“Are any Democrat operatives, the DNC, or Crooked Hillary Clinton, blaming Russia, Russia, Russia for the Bernie Sanders win in Nevada,” Trump tweeted Sunday. “If so I suggest calling Bob Mueller & the 13 Angry Democrats to do a new Mueller Report, Democrat Edition. Bob will get to the bottom of it!”

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