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Ex-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates: ‘Russians tried to intervene in our election’
Robert Gates, who served as defense secretary under Presidents George W. Bush and Obama as well as CIA director under President George H.W. Bush, tells TODAY, “I have no doubt that the Russians tried to intervene in our election.” He also says that although President Trump’s statements on Twitter and elsewhere can be “a little mindboggling,” people he has spoken to have reported having “serious conversations” with the president.