Pelosi says Russia intervenes 24/7 because Robert O’Brien says the US should impose maximum sanctions on Moscow

Nancy Pelosi said Russia still poses the biggest threat to electoral interference, claiming that Sunday Moscow spends all day, every day in efforts to create Joe Biden’s chances of being elected.

“Russia is active, intervening 24/7 in our elections,” Pelosi told CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday morning.

‘They did that in 2016, and they do it now,’ the House Speaker continued. ‘The American people, I believe, need to decide who the President of the United States is. Not Vladimir Putin making that decision for us. ‘

Despite Pelosi’s guarantee that Russia is the biggest threat to US elections, National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien said Sunday that the government has the option of sanctioning Russia to expel them in November.

“There is almost nothing the Russians can sanction,” O’Brien told CBS News’ Face the Nation Sunday morning in his first interview since being diagnosed with coronavirus. ‘We have imposed so many sanctions on the Russians that, in fact, the previous administration did not. We have sanctioned the witches of Russians, individuals, companies, government. ‘

‘We have literally outnumbered Russian spies. We have closed all their consulates on the West Coast. We have closed diplomatic facilities, “O’Brien said when listing actions taken by the US against the Kremlin.

Chamber member Nancy Pelosi said on Sunday that Russia still poses the greatest threat to electoral interference, even over new concerns mediated by China and Iran

“Russia is active, intervening 24/7 in our elections,” Pelosi told CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday morning. ‘The American people, I believe, need to decide who the President of the United States is. Not Vladimir Putin who makes that decision for us’

National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien said Sunday that there is nothing left for the US to sanction Russia for postponing it in November. “There’s not much we can do with the Russians,” he said. “But we still inform the Russians and President Trump keeps telling the Russians: ‘Do not get involved in our elections.’

“There is not much left that we can do with the Russians,” he repeated. “But we still inform the Russians and President Trump keeps telling the Russians: ‘Do not get involved in our elections.’

O’Brien insists the same message applies to China and Iran as well, and claims that if one of the three nations tries to interfere in the 2020 presidential election, they will be met with ‘dire consequences’.

However, Pelosi claimed that the threat posed by China was not as bad as that of Russia.

“I’m taking no second on my criticism of China for more than 30 years,” Pelosi told CNN. ‘What they said is that China prefers Joe Biden. Or they do, that’s theirs – that they prefer Joe Biden. ‘

The California Democrat refers to a statement against intelligence that on Friday revealed that China wants the presumed Democratic nominee to win over Trump in November. It also said Iran wants Biden to win.

The statement from counter-intelligence official William Evanina revealed that Russia was “using a range of measures” to “denigrate” Biden because it would rather Trump win re-election.

Russia plunged into disgrace in the 2016 elections, which led to a range of investigations into the mediation and who was involved or knew.

Earlier this summer, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned that China is also trying to influence the results in November and has increased its ability to take an interest in U.S. elections.