Reince Priebus: Yes, Trump Accepts that the Russians Were Behind the Hacking

EXCERPT:

WALLACE: "The nation’s intel chiefs laid out the full classified report to President-elect Trump and others in his team, including you that Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered a cyber attack to interfere with the election and eventually came to try to help Donald Trump. Simple question: does the president-elect accept the findings and the evidence of the intelligence community?"
PRIEBUS: "Well, I think he accepts the findings, Chris.  But here’s the thing that I think everyone needs to understand — when this whole thing started, it started from the Russians 50 years ago.  In other words, this is something that’s been going on in our elections for many, many years, both the Russians, the Chinese, the Iranians.  It happens every election period. Now, in this particular case, it started way back in 2015 before either nominee of either party was chosen, and it started, and this is declassified, as a spear phishing exhibition over many different institutions.  It just so happened that the DNC had nearly no defenses on their system, and when they were warned multiple times by the FBI, they didn’t respond. And so, suddenly, you have a major political party, one of the biggest political parties in the world, that by their own admission lacked defenses, lacked training, and allowed a foreign government into their entire email system without responding to the FBI. "