; Whereas the declassified version of the Intelligence Community Assessment stated that the CIA and the FBI have high confidence in this judgment and the NSA has moderate confidence; Whereas it was reported by American news media that intelligence community officials presented to Donald J. Trump classified documents that included allegations that there was a continuing exchange of information during the presidential campaign between persons affiliated with Donald J. Trump and persons affiliated with the Russian government and allegations that Russian operatives claimed to possess compromising personal and financial information about Donald J. Trump; Whereas following the news reports, Donald J. Trump ridiculed intelligence agencies in a tweet that said, Intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to leak into the public. One last shot at me. Are we living in Nazi Germany? ; Whereas James Comey, the Director of the FBI, during testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on January 10, 2017, refused to say whether there was contact between persons affiliated with Donald J. Trump and the Russian government during the presidential campaign or whether the FBI was investigating the issue; Whereas the chairman and ranking minority member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence issued a joint statement on January 20, 2017, announcing that the Committee will investigate intelligence regarding links between Russia and individuals associated with political campaigns as part of an investigation into Russian cyberattacks and election meddling