we were, frankly, more concerned in the run-up to the election to the possibilities of vote tampering, which we did not see evidence of and were confident that we could guard against. >> remember last week opening monologue i said they are not your friends? obama is not donald trump's friend. now, in the same interview president obama took the russian hacking idea even further by alleging that president-elect trump has direct ties to russia. let's take a look. you had what was very clear relationships between members of the president-elect's campaign team and russians, and a professedw on a bunch of issues. >> now, when it comes to working with the russians, well, president obama clearly has a pretty short memory.