Editor’s Note: The following is a transcript of the Feb. 26 program of CBS TV’s “Face the Nation program.
DICKERSON: Should Russia be monitored, what are they going to do next, or should they be confronted?
BRENNAN: I think it has to be a little bit of both.
Certainly, the Russians have an agenda when it comes to trying to exert their influence in different parts of the world. We see what they did in Ukraine. We see what they did in Syria and also here in our elections.
They look at the European landscape also as ripe for exploitation in terms of trying to have individuals who are sympathetic to Russia’s agenda be elected.
