Flashback – 'We are confident in the outcome': Obama officials say hacks did not affect vote count

William A. | 11:04 PM on April 04, 2017

Sometimes a look into the past reveals a comment that was overlooked at the time.

Here in December 2016 is White House Special Assistant Lisa Monaco in an interview done for PBS NewsHour:

Watch @hari's interview with Lisa Monaco here: https://t.co/R13Exag0Zn https://t.co/lJh5T0afi9

— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) December 29, 2016

Quote:

HARI SREENIVASAN: Now, since you have laid out that you know who is doing this, you know how they’re doing this, can you say with any certainty that either the hacks have stopped and that we have defended against them?

LISA MONACO: Well, what we did over the summer was to be very clear about what the threat is, and we did that by briefing both Congress and state and local officials, who, of course, own and operate and manage the electoral infrastructure in this country.

And we enabled them to take steps to defend themselves and provided them assistance in shoring up their defenses. So, we also were very clear, during the election season and on Election Day, that we were monitoring and making sure that there had not been an increase in that malicious activity, and we didn’t see an increase.

And, indeed, we are confident in the outcome that there wasn’t a malicious cyber-meddling, such that it affected the vote count or the voting operations.

Other than the DNC, who else was hacked? @hari speaks with Lisa Monaco, special assistant to the president #PBSNews pic.twitter.com/YVjQ8ot7lf

— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) December 29, 2016