Sen. John Kennedy reiterated his belief that Ukraine and Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election during a contentious interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

NBC host Chuck Todd pushed back at the Louisiana Republican by saying that the US intelligence community had concluded that Russia was behind the interference and that Russian President Vladimir Putin was pushing the Ukraine angle to get the Kremlin off the hook.

“I think both Russia and Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election. I think it’s been well documented in the Financial Times, in Politico, in The Economist, in the Washington Examiner, even on CBS,” Kennedy said.

Kennedy also pointed to a report in the New York Times that said a Ukrainian court had ruled in December 2018 that some of the country’s officials violated Ukraine law by interfering in the election.

Todd asked if Kennedy was among the lawmakers briefed by Fiona Hill, a former top Russian analyst for the White House, that efforts to link Ukraine to the 2016 election was advancing a Russian intelligence propaganda campaign.

Kennedy said he did not attend the briefing, adding that Hill “is entitled to her opinion.”

Todd pressed that the US intelligence community and America’s allies came to the same conclusions about Russia’s involvement in the election.

“You should read the articles, Chuck. They’re very well documented,” Kennedy said.

The NBC host recalled that Putin, speaking at a Russian economic forum last month, said pressure was subsiding because Ukraine had also been implicated.

” ‘Thank God nobody is accusing us anymore of interfering in US elections. Now they’re accusing Ukraine. Well, let them sort this out among themselves,’ ” Todd told Kennedy, quoting Putin.

“You have done exactly what the Russian operation is trying to get American politicians to do. Are you at all concerned that you’ve been duped?” Todd asked.

“Just read the articles. Do you believe The Economist magazine is a reputable journal? It’s been around, I think, since 1843,” Kennedy replied.

Democrats allege Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate a theory that internet security firm CrowdStrike hid the hacked Democratic National Committee’s server in Ukraine.

Kennedy first raised doubts about Russia’s involvement during an interview on “Fox News Sunday” on Nov. 24.

Hill, testifying last month in the impeachment inquiry, warned lawmakers of disseminating the Ukraine theory.

“Some of you on this committee appear to believe that Russia and its security services did not conduct a campaign against our country — and that perhaps, somehow, for some reason, Ukraine did,” she said. “This is a fictional narrative that has been perpetrated and propagated by the Russian security services themselves.”