Reince Priebus: 'RNC Was Not Hacked'

Republican National Committee Chairman and incoming White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus pushed back on a New York Times report that the RNC was hacked by Russians, asserting that it is "absolutely not true."

"We contacted the FBI months ago when the [alleged hacking of the Democratic National Committee] issue came about. They reviewed all of our systems. We have hacking-detection systems in place, and the conclusion was then, as it was again two days ago when we went back to the FBI to ask them about this, that the RNC was not hacked," Priebus said today on ABC News' "This Week."

The Washington Post and The New York Times in separate reports late Friday said the CIA presented evidence to some government officials that Russia sought through hacking to help Trump win. The New York Times reported that intelligence agencies have concluded with “high confidence” that Russians hacked into both the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee’s internal communications but released only information they obtained from the Democratic committee in an effort to undermine the legitimacy of the Clinton campaign and the presidential election as a whole.

But Priebus told ABC's George Stephanopoulos today that the report pertaining to the Republican National Committee "is based on unnamed sources who are perhaps doing something they shouldn't be doing by speaking to reporters or someone talking out of line about something that is absolutely not true."

The Trump transition team released a statement Friday responding to the news reports by questioning the credibility of U.S. intelligence agencies.

“These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction,” the statement said. “The election ended a long time ago in one of the biggest Electoral College victories in history. It’s now time to move on and ‘Make America Great Again.’

But Priebus told Stephanopoulos that Trump "trusts the CIA."

"This is about 17 or so unnamed agencies in an unnamed report that based the report on something that is totally false," Priebus said.

Priebus also criticized the media for running with the story about the RNC getting hacked.

"It is unbelievable that the press would run with unnamed sources about something, that they agree is inconclusive, but ignore the fact that the people actually involved in the other side of the story are telling you it's not true," Priebus said.

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