"I’m not going to sugarcoat what happened on Election Day," Donna Brazile said. The Democratic Party "has a lot of things that we have to do." | AP Photo Brazile: Democrats' emails were 'weaponized' against them

The interim Democratic National Committee chairwoman said Sunday that Democrats' emails were "weaponized" against them in the months leading up to the Nov. 8 presidential election — and suggested that President Barack Obama could have done more to stop it.

"We were attacked by a foreign adversary, and I think it’s the responsibility of the government to help individual citizens as well as institutions, nonprofits, corporations, to protect us," Donna Brazile said on ABC's "This Week."


The hacked emails "were weaponized ... to sow misinformation," she said.

Her assertion came in response to a question from host Martha Raddatz, who asked Brazile whether she was "disappointed" by the president's response.

Brazile acknowledged the FBI did reach out to the DNC in September 2015 to help strengthen its security systems. But by that point, she said, Russian hackers had already been infiltrating the group's email system for "a long time."

Alothough Brazile said the election was "tainted by this intrusion," she shot down the idea that it cost Hillary Clinton the presidency.

"I’m not going to sugarcoat what happened on Election Day." The Democratic Party "has a lot of things that we have to do," Brazile said. "Donald Trump cracked the blue wall, OK? He cracked the blue wall."