Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said she believed Russia was involved in the controversy of President Trump and a call he made to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

"I think Russia has a hand in this, by the way," the California Democrat said in a Friday interview on MSNBC's Morning Joe. "We saw what the Russian disruption of our election last time, their interference, 100% confidence of the intelligence community, high confidence in the intelligence community, that the Russians disrupted our election. That was wrong. The integrity of our elections is central to our democracy. So what the president did in inviting outside intervention into our election, it goes beyond the pale."

Pelosi, 79, said the Trump administration was involved in a cover-up and that Attorney General William Barr had "gone rogue."

The interview comes as House Democrats have initiated an impeachment inquiry into Trump on whether he attempted to threaten Ukraine military aid if they did not investigate Joe Biden.

The Trump administration contends that Biden, when he was vice president, tried to get Ukraine's top prosecutor fired because he was investigating his son, Hunter Biden.

Trump released a call transcript showing he did ask for Ukraine to investigate potential Biden corruption, but he has denied threatening to cut military aid.

