Senior White House adviser Ben Rhodes pushed back on Democratic criticism of the administration’s slow response to Russian hacking on Thursday by arguing the White House’s pre-election statement was sufficient.

“President Obama did speak to this. I think it was a powerful thing to have the intelligence community, in that statement, verify Russian meddling in our election,” Rhodes said on MSNBC.

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