In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
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Question: (CNN) In the final months of the 2016 campaign, longtime Donald Trump associate Roger Stone repeatedly discussed his backchannel communications with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and claimed knowledge of forthcoming leaks from the group, a CNN KFile review of his public statements shows. Stone's comments about WikiLeaks have come under increased scrutiny as the FBI and congressional committees investigate whether Trump associates were involved in Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election. Stone has repeatedly and publicly denied that he had any contact with Russian officials during the campaign. Stone declined to answer questions from CNN for this story. After this story was published, WikiLeaks tweeted, "WikiLeaks & Assange have repeatedly confirmed that they have never communicated with Stone."Stone repeatedly discussed his back channel communications with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.Stone has repeatedly and publicly denied that he had any contact with Russian officials during the campaign. 
 Question:Stone tweets -- then deletes -- about communicating with _, writing that he "never denied perfectly legal backchannel to Assange who indeed had the goods on #CrookedHillary."

Answer: Julian Assange


Question: (CNN) Donald Trump is aiming to pull off one of the greatest political comebacks in history. The Republican nominee is rebounding from a summer of repeated stumbles that threatened to undermine his candidacy, underscoring his ability to claw his way back and stay competitive despite controversies that would sink any other politician. Poll: Nine weeks out, a near even race Trump and Hillary Clinton enter the critical post-Labor Day phase of the campaign in a dead heat. A CNN/ORC national poll released Tuesday finds Trump ahead of Clinton by two points -- 45% to 43% -- among likely voters. The race is also tight among registered voters, where Clinton has a three point advantage. Both findings are within the margin of error.CNN/ORC national poll shows Trump, Clinton in a dead heatTrump needs to make election a referendum on Clinton 
 Question:Unless he starts making headway soon, with early voting only weeks away, it may take something that jarring for _ to win.

Answer: Donald Trump


Question: Washington (CNN) The organizers behind the Women's March earlier this year returned to the streets of Washington DC on Friday, this time with a new mission: To protest the National Rifle Association. Hundreds trekked 18 miles by foot from NRA headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia, to the Department of Justice in 90-degree weather to demonstrate against the organization. The marchers chanted "Hey hey, ho ho, the NRA has got to go" while holding up signs with slogans ranging from "none of us are safe until all of us are safe" to "91 Gun Deaths a Day: Enough is Enough." Ahead of the march, some set up large banners outside the NRA headquarters. One read "Love Trumps Hate," and another displayed gray silhouettes of the Sandy Hook Elementary School students and teachers -- with their names and ages -- who were killed in 2012.Hundreds showed up to walk in a 17-mile march from the NRA headquarters in Virginia to the Department of Justice in DCThe NRA created a recruitment video that Women's March organizers argue attacks the First Amendment 
 Question:I think black and brown folks who are lawful gun carriers are not being defended by the _.

Answer:
National Rifle Association