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White House counselorKellyanne Conway expressed frustration Friday at being asked repeatedly what President Donald Trump was doing to discourage future election interference by Russia, eventually suggesting that Americans who doubted Trump could win the election similarly interfered in the democratic process.

The Washington Post reported Friday that the White House had received intelligence from the CIA last summer that showedRussian President Vladimir Putin personally ordered a cyber campaign to disrupt the 2016 election, with the goalofhurting Hillary Clintons chances.

In an appearance on CNNs New Day, Conway was asked for the White House response to the report.Instead, she pointed to various officials who she saidhad confirmed that there had been no evidence of collusion, number one, and number two, that this didnt have an impacton the electoral result.

Youve got everyone saying that there is no nexus, that not a single vote changed and were going to stand by that, she added. We know that Donald Trump won fairlyand squarely, 306 electoralvotes had nothing to do with interference.

Host Alisyn Camerota tried to steer the conversation to the question at hand: The Posts report on the evidencethat Putin himself had ordered the election interference.What is the current White House doing about this? she asked.

Well, Alisyn, the Presidenthas said previously, and hestands by that, particularly asPresident-elect, that he wouldbe concerned about anybodyinterfering in our democracy, Conway said.

We saw a lot of peopleinterfering with our democracy bysaying he couldnt win here athome, she added, presumably referring to pundits who doubted Trumps chances of winning the election.

Conway changed topics, pointing to former DHS Chief Jeh Johnsons testimony Wednesday that, in Conways words, the Democratic National Committee refused federal help in dealing with the hack of their servers (the actual timeline of events is complicated). That promptedCamerota to ask again:What is theWhite House, what is President Trump now doing to preventRussia from doing this again?

This report is new and welldiscuss it with him later, Conway said. Hes been very clear on therecord that he believes in any typeofnumbers of measures to make surethat democracy flourishes and that our voter integrity is intact, and in fact he has an entire commission on that.

Such as? Camerota pressed. I mean, againstRussia what is he doingspecifically to try to stopthis?

Alisyn, I realize that we just like to saythe word Russia, Russia tomislead the voters, Conway said. And I know that CNN is aiding and abetting this nonsense as well, but youve asked me the same question three times now and Ive answered it.

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