"That is, after all, why the President-elect called on Russia to hack Secretary Clinton's email," Earnest said referring to Trump's comments in July encouraging Russian hackers to look for Clinton's deleted emails. "That is presumably why the coverage of the hack and leak operation that Russia carried out was focused on emails from the Democratic Party and Clinton campaign staffers and not the Republican Party and Trump campaign staffers. It wasn't a secret. It's obvious what the impact was," he said.