Priebus: RNC better prepared for hacking

Even if hackers had penetrated the Republican National Committee's servers like they did to the Democratic counterparts, Chairman Reince Priebus would not be concerned about data leaks.

"Well, maybe they did and we have a better system at the Republican Party," Priebus told Andrea Mitchell on Monday during an interview on MSNBC, when asked why hackers did not appear to target the RNC as they did the DNC. "Maybe our, maybe our folks are better at securing our email and our cloud and our data than the DNC. I don't know what the answer to that is, Andrea, but at this point, we haven't been hacked. And we don't expect to be. And we're monitoring it every day, but, I can assure if someone hacked my emails, they wouldn't find me calculating against particular candidates, and that's not something that I would do."


The FBI announced earlier Monday that it is investigating the breach, which resulted in the publication of some 20,000 emails from the DNC's servers.

Asked whether he is concerned about Russian hackers being potentially behind the breaches, Priebus responded, “I think you're asking me if it concerns me, if were true, that they would be interfering in the elections, and everything concerns me."

"I mean you'd be concerned. We'd all be concerned if any foreign government, but the point is, is that the DNC is tipping the scale in their election, they did it for Hillary Clinton, they did it in the most dastardly, mean-spirited way. And I believe that there are more emails coming. I think this is just the beginning. I don't believe that WikiLeaks, or these folks, whoever they are, would simply release emails all at once without more to come. I think there's more to come. And I think that they ought to be prepared for more excitement in the email world this week."

Mitchell then asked, "Do you know something about it?"

"I don't know anything about it, but I know something about, I think, human behavior, and these sorts of people that like to play games, and they normally don't deliver every shot they have in one blow," Priebus said. "They usually do it one at a time. And they'll do it through a thousand cuts, and that's been my experience in these kinds of situations."