Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was not aware of a plot within his own government to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and that allegations of meddling are “not my problems.”

“Why have you decided the Russian authorities, myself included, gave anybody permission to do this?” Putin told NBC anchor Megyn Kelly in an interview that aired Friday morning.

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