Subject: BREAKING NEWS: Obama says he told Putin to 'cut it out' on Russia hacking
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Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 14:10:12 -0600
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President Barack Obama said Friday that he told Russian President Vladimir Putin in September to "cut it out" in regard to allegations that his nation engaged in cyberattacks against the U.S. electoral process. Obama added that further hacking by Russia did not occur following Obama's admonition.

By the time Obama and Putin met face-to-face, the Russian cyberattack against the Democratic National Committee had already occurred. Obama said that in speaking with his Russian counterpart, his goal was to prevent any attacks against actual election infrastructure.

"What I was concerned about in particular was making sure [the DNC hack] wasn't compounded by potential hacking that could hamper vote counting, affect the actual election process itself," the president said at his end-of-year press conference. "So in early September when I saw president Putin in China, I felt that the most effective way to ensure that that didn't happen was to talk to him directly and tell him to cut it out and there were going to be serious consequences if he didn't. And in fact we did not see further tampering of the election process."

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