Robby Mook, Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, tells CNN's "State of the Union" that experts say Russian hackers are behind the leaked emails from the Democratic National Committee disparaging Democratic primary candidate Bernie Sanders.
Hillary Clinton's campaign manager on Sunday accused Russian hackers of releasing internal emails to help Republican Donald Trump win the presidential election.
On CNN's "State of the Union," Robby Mook, who heads up Clinton's presidential campaign, told Jake Tapper that "experts" have told the campaign that "Russian state actors broke into the DNC, stole these emails, and other experts are now saying that the Russians are releasing these emails for the purpose of actually helping Donald Trump."
He added that he didn't think it was "coincidental that these emails were released on the eve of our convention." Mook didn't provide evidence that Russians are behind the hack or release of emails, but when pressed by Tapper, he emphasized the accusations came from unnamed "experts."
Last month, the DNC revealed that hackers believed to be working for two different Russian intelligence agencies had broken into its servers and accessed research the party had amassed on Donald Trump, leading up to the general election.
The Clinton campaign is now suggesting that the Russians also accessed internal emails regarding the contentious Democratic primary. On Friday, WikiaLeaks released emails that showed Demoratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and other DNC staffers disparaging the Bernie Sanders campaign. (Schultz has reportedly been replaced as chair of the Democratic National Convention over the email scandal.) In one email, staffers dismissed Sanders' campaign as "a mess" and added that his campaign "never had their act together." The 20,000 pages of hacked emails nearly overshadowed Clinton's announcement Saturday that Read More Here
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