“I think that she’s been very skeptical and very tough on Putin since the days that he came back into power,” Podesta said. Earlier that morning, Trump had encouraged Russian agencies to try to hack and leak information on Clinton’s emails, following a hack these same agencies apparently executed on the Democratic National Committee. PHILADELPHIA ― The chairman of Hillary Clinton’s campaign urged U.S. intelligence agencies on Wednesday to get an ironclad agreement from Donald Trump that he would not leak information to the Russians before providing him with presidential candidate briefings. “I think we have a better sense of information that ― files that they searched, avenues that they were exploiting,” Podesta said. Officials in the ranks have resigned themselves to the high likelihood that more DNC emails will leak.

Source: Huffington Post July 28, 2016 08:03 UTC