Obama: It’s Not a Secret that Russia Is Behind the DNC Hack

OBAMA: "-- ended up being an obsession, and the fact that the Russians were doing this was not an obsession. This was not a secret running up to the election. The President-elect in some of his political events specifically said to the Russians, 'Hack Hillary's e-mails so that we can finally find out what's going on and confirm our conspiracy theories.' You had what was very clear relationships between members of the President-elect's campaign team and the Russians and a professed shared view on a bunch of issues. The real question that I think we all have to reflect on is what's happened to our political system where some e-mails that were hacked and released ended up being the overwhelming story and the constant source of coverage, breathless coverage that was depicted as somehow damning in all sorts of ways, when the truth of the matter was it was fairly routine stuff. And the reason I say that is because, going forward, I worry that we don't spend enough time on self-reflection about how our democracies and our campaigns work and how all of us have to, I think, do a better job making sure that we talk about what's at stake. For example, these e-mails got a lot more attention than any policy that was being debated during the campaign."