Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) said Sunday that the media used hacked emails from the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) "unfairly."

Christie said on ABC's "This Week," where he serves as a contributor, that the Justice Department's indictment of 12 Russian intelligence officers for conspiring to hack Democratic servers during the 2016 election underscored the problems with how the media used those documents.

"At the time you were playing this, the media was playing this at the time as if this was credible sourcing," Christie said.

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"And what [former interim DNC chairwoman] Donna [Brazile] said is absolutely right, you had to know they didn't have all of her emails," he continued. "They just took the most embarrassing ones. And you can't assess the credibility of somebody who is just part of a story, but the media banged her and a lot of other people in the Clinton campaign unfairly."

Special counsel Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) MuellerCNN's Toobin warns McCabe is in 'perilous condition' with emboldened Trump CNN anchor rips Trump over Stone while evoking Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting The Hill's 12:30 Report: New Hampshire fallout MORE handed down indictments on Friday against 12 Russian intelligence officers, alleging they interfered in the 2016 U.S. election.

Mueller charged 11 of the officers with conspiring to hack into the DNC and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee networks. The other officer was charged with conspiring to hack into election systems, including a state elections board website.

Brazile, who took over as the DNC chairwoman in July 2016 and maintained that role through the election, said Sunday that the charges prove once and for all that the organization was hacked, and called for President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden on Trump's refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power: 'What country are we in?' Romney: 'Unthinkable and unacceptable' to not commit to peaceful transition of power Two Louisville police officers shot amid Breonna Taylor grand jury protests MORE to acknowledge as much.

"I think the most important thing, now that we know there are several witches, not some 400-pound guy sitting on the bed, the president needs to acknowledge this and recognize that he has to defend and protect our democracy," she said, referencing a Trump riff during a 2016 debate.

The president has not condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin for the latest indictments, instead blaming the Obama administration and the DNC for allowing the hacks to happen.