The former DNC president at Trump before the Helsinki summit: "Confronting Mr. Putin" on electoral interference

The former chairman of the Democratic National Committee reacted to the latest indictment of 12 Russian intelligence officers accused of hacking the DNC server during the 2016 presidential campaign by calling President Donald Trump to "face" Vladimir Putin. at their summit on Monday.

"First and foremost, it is finally acknowledged that hacking was a crime," said Donna Brazile about the indictment of the roundtable "This Week". "At the time of the piracy, no one believed us, we had no one to come to our defense."

"When the country was attacked, the DNC was attacked, the DCCC and the Clinton campaign," said Brazile, who took the interim presidency of the DNC in the summer of 2016 after the first hacking and flight of DNC. e-mails forced the resignation of former DNC president Debbie Wbaderman Schultz. "So, here is what I would like to say to the President: Confront Mr. Putin, give him this document, let him know that the United States will not tolerate a new hacking of our elections."

"The most important thing now is that we know that there are several witches, not a 400-pound guy sitting on the bed," added Brazile. "The president must recognize this and realize that he has to protect and defend our democracy: the Russians took our emails, took our data and they could always use this information to try to sow discord try to damage our democratic institutions. "

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Special advocate Robert Mueller filed an indictment Friday charging 12 police officers Russian intelligence conspiring to interfere in the US presidential election of 2016. The indictment alleges that a dozen Russians were working at GRU, the Russian intelligence agency. The defendants cited allegedly participated in a sustained effort to hack into the networks of the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the campaign of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.

In an excerpt from an interview with Trump with Jeff Glor of CBS News, the president said the DNC was responsible for the hacking.

"I heard that they were trying or that people were trying to hack the RNC too, the Republican National Committee, but we had much better defenses, I was told by a number of people, so they could not, "said Trump, who later conceded that he" may be wrong "on Republican servers with better defense mechanisms in place.

"I think the DNC should be ashamed to allow it to be hacked," Trump added. "They had bad defenses and they could be hacked."

"President Trump said this morning that the Democratic Party should be ashamed of itself," said Brazile on "This Week". "Well, my answer to the president is that it was impossible to go to Staples, Best Buy, Office Depot or OfficeMax to buy anti-GRU military intelligence software to protect and defend us. . "