Good to know:
Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, suggested on Tuesday that it’s a fact of life that countries try to interfere in other nations’ elections.
Corker, who has been mentioned as a candidate for secretary of state, said he didn’t have proof that Russia interfered in the presidential election, but believed it had. What was surprising, he said, was not that Russia had taken such action, but how obvious it was.
“In the world of covert activities, countries, large sophisticated countries do things against each other to understand what’s happening within those countries. I think people who have been around for awhile understand that’s what happens,” he said during an interview on MSNBC.
“I think what was unprecedented, Steve, was the fact that they did so so overtly,” he added. “The fact is, there’s nothing Putin would like more than to discredit the electoral process here in our country. Look, we in some ways helped discredit their process back in 2011. What was unprecedented about this was the overt nature. Again, things constantly are occurring where countries are doing things to in some ways destabilize. It happens, we know that.”
We’ll see if he gets offered the job now.