Last Updated Jan 7, 2017 1:13 AM EST
Top intelligence officials briefed President-elect Donald Trump Friday on Russia\u2019s hacking efforts to interfere with the U. S. election.
Following the briefing at Trump Tower in New York, Mr. Trump released a statement on what he called a \u201cconstructive meeting and conversation\u201d saying that the cyberattacks had \u201cno effect on the outcome of the election.\u201d
\u201cWhile Russia, China, other countries, outside groups and people are consistently trying to break through the cyber infrastructure of our governmental institutions, businesses and organizations including the Democrat National Committee, there was absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election including the fact that there was no tampering whatsoever with voting machines,\u201d Mr. Trump said.
The president-elect said there were attempts to hack the Republican National Committee, but they were unsuccessful in breaching the organization. He vowed to \u201caggressively combat and stop cyberattacks\u201d as president and expressed confidence in the intelligence community.
\u201cI had a constructive meeting and conversation with the leaders of the Intelligence Community this afternoon. I have tremendous respect for the work and service done by the men and women of this community to our great nation,\u201d he said.
But on Friday night, Mr. Trump tweeted that \u201cgross negligence\u201d by the DNC allowed the hacking to happen.
Gross negligence by the Democratic National Committee allowed hacking to take place. The Republican National Committee had strong defense!
Earlier in the day, Mr. Trump didn\u2019t explicitly say whether he\u2019s convinced that Russia was behind the cyberattacks against the election.
The officials who briefed him were Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, CIA Director John Brennan and FBI Director James Comey. They\u2019re preparing to point to multiple motives for Moscow\u2019s alleged meddling in their classified report, which will be presented to the public in an unclassified version.
Earlier Friday, the intelligence chiefs briefed senior lawmakers Friday morning, and they briefed President Obama on Thursday.
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At her weekly press conference, Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said the intelligence officials had given a \u201cvery interesting presentation.\u201d
\u201cIt was really quite a stunning disclosure ,\u201d Pelosi said. \u201cWhen you see this report, you will see with confidence how the intelligence community has identified what we have seen.\u201d
But Mr. Trump has been deeply skeptical of allegations that Russia was involved.
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Several advisers were expected to join Mr. Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence for the briefing. That includes his incoming chief of staff and national security adviser and the chiefs of the CIA and Homeland Security department.
In an interview with The New York Times Friday morning, Mr. Trump called the focus on cyber attacks from Russia during the election \u201ca political witch hunt.\u201d
\u201cChina, relatively recently, hacked 20 million government names,\u201d he said about the breach at the Office of Personnel Management. \u201cHow come nobody even talks about that? This is a political witch hunt.\u201d
\u201cWith all that being said, I don\u2019t want countries to be hacking our country,\u201d Mr. Trump said. \u201cThey\u2019ve hacked the White House. They\u2019ve hacked Congress. We\u2019re like the hacking capital of the world.\u201d
The president-elect also tweeted an hour before the intelligence chiefs arrived that he was asking Congress to \u201cinvestigate top secret intelligence shared with NBC prior to me seeing it.\u201d
I am asking the chairs of the House and Senate committees to investigate top secret intelligence shared with NBC prior to me seeing it.
The White House says it was not the source of the leak on U. S. intelligence on Russian hacking to NBC. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Mr. Trump\u2019s tweet \u201cleads me to conclude that his concerns are about something other than protecting classified information.\u201d<\/p>\n

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