President-elect Donald Trump has mocked allegations that he knew Russia was involved in hacking during the US election - instead drawing attention to claims that Hillary had an unfair advantage during a debate.

In his early-morning tweet, which he sent at 6.10am, he wrote: 'Are we talking about the same cyberattack where it was revealed that head of the DNC illegally gave Hillary the questions to the debate?'

Trump appeared to not be outright denying the alleged Russian hack, but instead cast the spotlight back onto Democrat Hillary, who was allegedly tipped off by Donna Brazile, the interim chair of the Democratic National Committee about a question in advance of a CNN Democratic primary debate.

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Donald Trump referenced the leaked question again in a tweet this morning

After the alleged leak was made public, CNN president Jeff Zucker branded Brazile 'unethical' and 'disgusting' after the email apparently showed her providing a second debate question to Hillary Clinton's team.

Brazile, who at the time was a contributor at the network, claimed she did not feed a question to the Clinton campaign that would be asked at a CNN-hosted forum, implying that an email on the Wikileaks website indicating she did was falsified, but she resigned on October 14 anyway.

Both the White House and Hillary Clinton addressed the issue of the Russian-led hacks before the election.

The New York Times previously reported that there was some dragging of feet, with the White House not holding a Situation Room meeting on the matter until July, three months after the Democratic National Committee was compromised.

CNN president Jeff Zucker branded Brazile, pictured, 'unethical' and 'disgusting' after the email apparently showed her providing a second debate question to Hillary Clinton's team

Additionally, the White House rejected more robust responses that would have gotten Moscow's attention, the Times wrote.

NBC News yesterday reported that intelligence sources now believe with a 'high level of confidence' that Russian President Vladimir Putin was directly involved.

When asked about the revelation, spokesman Jason Miller said: 'I'll let the president-elect's tweets speak for themselves.'

'I'd say the continued efforts to try to de-legitimize the election at a certain point, at a certain point you kind of realize the election from last month is going to stand whether it's the recount or continued questions along this line,' Miller told reporters.

'And we're moving ahead and putting together a successful administration that's ready to go to work serving the American people,' he added.

President Barack Obama has also said that America must and will take action against Russia in response to cyber interference

President Barack Obama has also said that America must and will take action against Russia in response to cyber interference with the election, sayingthe US will respond at a 'time and place of our choosing.'

He says he's spoken directly to Russian President Vladimir Putin about his feelings about the hacking.

As for why Obama didn't do something when he knew about the hacking before the election, multiple government officials told NBC News it's because the White House thought Hillary Clinton would win and it didn't want to seem to be interfering with the election.

'They thought she was going to win, so they were willing to kick the can down the road,' said one official.

However, the President did apparently intervene behind the scenes. A US official says he confronted Putin at the G-20 summit in China and promised unspecified consequences if the hacks continued

President-elect Donald Trump is questioning the White House's motives for being so interested in Russia's hacks into the Democratic National Committee

The hacks became widespread knowledge back on October 7, one month and one day before the presidential election.

The Homeland Security Department and Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a joint statement saying they were 'confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of emails from U.S. persons and institutions, including from U.S. political organizations.'

The White House and Clinton began addressing the hacks after that.

'We have 17 intelligence agencies, civilian and military, who have all concluded that these espionage attacks, these cyberattacks, come from the highest levels of the Kremlin, and they are designed to influence our election,' Clinton said at the final presidential debate. 'I find that deeply disturbing.'

Trump appeared to not be outright denying the alleged Russian hack, but instead cast the spotlight back onto Hillary

On Friday, the Washington Post broke the news that the CIA had told members of Congress that Russia's intention with the hacks was to assist Trump in winning the White House.

'I think it's ridiculous,' Trump said when asked about it by Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace. 'I think it's just another excuse. I don't believe it. I don't know why and I think it's just – you know, they talked about all sorts of things. Every week, it's another excuse.'

'We had a massive landslide victory, as you know, in the Electoral College,' Trump added, pushing back against the fact that his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton had won the popular vote.

On Monday, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest suggested that Trump knew Russian actors were responsible for hacking the Democratic National Committee and Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta because of remarks the Republican hopeful made at a press conference in July.

'Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,' Trump told reporters at the time. 'I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.'

Clinton had deleted some 30,000 personal emails from her private server before turning the rest of the contents over to the feds.

Trump used this heightened campaign rhetoric at a time when Clinton's homebrew server was already offline and thus couldn't actually be hacked by the Russians.

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest interpreted Trump's statement literally telling reporters on Monday, 'He called on Russia to hack his opponent. He called on Russia to attack Secretary Clinton.'

'So he certainly had a pretty good sense of which side this activity was coming down on,' Earnest added.

Earnest made similar claims Wednesday during the White House press briefing.

'There was ample evidence that was known long before the election, and in most cases long before October, about the Trump campaign in Russia, everything from the Republican nominee himself calling on Russia to hack his opponent,' Earnest said.

'It might be an indication that he was obviously aware and concluded, based on whatever facts or sources he had available to him, that Russia was involved and their involvement was having a negative impact on his opponent's campaign,' the press secretary added.

Trump's Campaign Manager Kellyanne Conway shot back this morning on Fox & Friends calling Earnest 'incredibly irresponsible.'

Donald Trump tweeted this morning asking why the White House was so concerned with the Russian hacks now - suggesting it had to do with the election result

'That is just remarkable,' the top Trump aide said. 'That is breathtaking.'

'I guess he's just auditioning to be a political pundit after his job is over,' she continued. 'That is incredibly disappointing to hear from the podium of the White House press secretary.'

'Because he basically – he essentially stated that the president-elect had knowledge of this, maybe even fanned the flames,' she added.

She wondered aloud if President Obama held these same views.

The hosts pointed to Obama's recent sit-down with Daily Show host Trevor Noah.

'The president-elect in some of his political events, specifically said to the Russians, "Hack Hillary's emails so that we can finally find out what's going on and confirm our conspiracy theories,' Obama said on Monday.

Conway called Obama's statement 'unfortunate too' and suggested the White House was 'trying to re-litigate a political campaign.'

'[Americans] are going to see this as a continuation of the permanent campaign of people who just can't get over themselves, their bad predictions, frankly, and the fact that they wanted a different result,' Conway said.

Donald Trump's campaign manager pointed fingers at Hillary Clinton this morning as she pushed back on White House claims that Donald Trump knew Russia was responsible for hacking the Democrats

She then turned her attention to Clinton.

'She got this party started,' Conway said of Clinton. 'Look, we should really be talking about what we know, not what we don't. And what we know is that Hillary Clinton selfishly set up a private server that put us all at risk.'

'So when you're talking about hacking into emails, why have we left behind this piece of evidence that's right in front of us?'

Trump has diverted attention onto Hillary Clinton amid accusations of email hacking

'But she started this with her illegal server,' the Trump aide stated.

Expanding on Trump's tweets asking why the White House suddenly cared about the Russian hacks, Conway pointed a finger at team Clinton, wondering why they didn't bring up the Russian hacking before the election results were in.

Many of the stories about Russian interference were eclipsed by other news of the day, including the leak of the 'Access Hollywood' video, which briefly looked to have doomed the Trump campaign.

'Let's roll the tape of everyone, all those geniuses on TV, all the people on Team Clinton. Let's roll the tape leading up to the actual Election Day,' Conway said. 'How many people were actually talking about this as interfering in the election?'

'They were talking about what they were going to do in the West Wing, that the path was closed, we can never win,' she continued. 'Nobody talked about this.'

And, as a final ding, Conway ridiculed the celebrity-filled campaign rallies Clinton hosted in the campaign's last days.