President-elect says reports Russia helped him win election is 'ridiculous'
He blamed Democrats for putting out the media reports and said he did believe they came from the Central Intelligence Agency.
US President-elect Donald Trump speaks in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on December 9, 2016
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"I think it's ridiculous. I think it's just another excuse. I don't believe it," Trump said in the interview, taped on Saturday.
A senior U.S. intelligence official told Reuters on Friday that intelligence agencies have concluded with "high confidence" that not only did their Russian counterparts direct the hacking of Democratic Party organizations and leaders, but they did so to undermine Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
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