she s now suggesting that putin ordered cyber attacks against her campaign and the democratic national committee because he has a personal grudge against her. we ll guess a republican response from marcia blackburn, and our correspond ens and analysts are standing by as we bring you full coverage of today s top stories. first to our white house correspondent michelle kosinski. you were there at the president s news conference. there were a lot of questions about russian hacking. reporter: this was abhour and a half long news conference focused on the hacking, russian influence on the election. you could almost picture vladimir putin watching this and being very pleased with the turmoil he s been able to cause. you re right, the president said it without saying it, making it very clear, though, that he does believe that putin himself had a direct role in all of this. the president defended his administration s actions, defended the fbi, when asked if this was a free and fair election