Rubio: Russian meddling did not affect election outcome

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said Sunday that Russian meddling in the U.S. elections did not affect their outcome. 

{mosads}“I do not believe that in any way what they did ultimately changed the outcome of the election,” he told CBS News’s “Face the Nation.”

The Obama administration formally accused Russia of trying to interfere in the U.S. elections in October, following a hack of Democratic National Committee emails. 

Rubio also said he did not discuss Wikileaks during his reelection campaign because “it’s the work of a foreign intelligence agency.”

Wikileaks periodically released emails allegedly hacked from the account of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, in the weeks leading up to the election.

“But the American people need to be made aware if in fact there is evidence that a foreign government tried to interfere with or influence the direction of — of our politics,” he said.