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Article snippet: The former director of national intelligence, according to a report from Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee. The journalist Clapper spoke with was CNN host Jake Tapper, whose name appeared on a bombshell report in January 2017 that first revealed that former FBI Director MORE had briefed Trump on the dossier's salacious allegations. Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee on Friday released the results of their year-long investigation into Russian election meddling. The GOP-authored document — denounced by Democrats as a partisan whitewash — found no evidence of collusion between Trump and Russia. House Republicans interviewed Clapper for the report. They say that Clapper at first “flatly denied” leaking the contents of the dossier, but later admitted to discussing the dossier with Tapper and other journalists in early January of 2017, shortly before Trump’s inauguration. Clapper has been a vocal Trump critic, questioning his fitness for office and warning that law enforcement officials and the intelligence community are “under assault” by the president. According to Comey’s personal memos, Clapper asked him to brief the president on the contents of the dossier, which he did before the inauguration. Comey did so, and according to his memos, warned Trump that " The CNN report about Comey briefing Trump on the dossier first published on Jan. 10. The report had bylines from Tapper, Evan Perez, Jim Sciutto and Carl Bernstein. Shortly after CNN... Link to the full article to read more