According to reports, CNN will host a special documentary, “The Russian Connection: Inside the Attack on Democracy,” Tuesday night.
The documentary will be reported by CNN chief national security correspondent Jim Sciutto Sciutto, a veteran of the Obama State Department who joined CNN in 2014. According to the announcement, the documentary “recounts and tracks the story of Russian hacks targeting the 2016 presidential election from the very beginning to the investigations still underway today and to new fears of Russian attacks on upcoming U.S. elections”.
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For the making of the documentary, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, former national security adviser Tom Donilon and former CIA Moscow Station Chief Steven Hall are among those interviewed, the Hill reports.
The documentary is billed to be “the first comprehensive telling on television of Russia’s attack on the 2016 race, with jarring lessons for American leaders and the public about more attacks to come. It will air Tuesday night at 10:00 p.m. ET.that three of its staffers resigned after the network retracted a story tying a top President Trump ally to a Russian investment bank.
This follows the resignation of three of CNN staff who resigned after the network retracted a story connecting a Trump cabinet member to dealing with Rusia.
