Trump Asks Congress To Investigate Source Of News Report On Russian Election Hacking

Two weeks before he is sworn in as president, Donald Trump said he would ask Congress to investigate the source of an NBC News report that senior Russian officials celebrated after Trump’s election victory. "I am asking the chairs of the House and Senate committees to investigate top secret intelligence shared with NBC prior to me seeing it," Trump tweeted. The NBC News story quoted an unnamed intelligence official confirming the post-election celebrating, a detail first reported by The Washington Post. The intelligence official also described the findings of a top-secret, multi-agency report, which lays out the case that Russia stole, then released, thousands of e-mails intended to damage Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.