"The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg labeled President-elect Donald Trump's senior adviser and former campaign manager Kellyanne Conway as "fake news" on Monday during a conversation about Russia hacking into American political systems earlier this year.
Prior to Goldberg's comment, co-host Joy Behar played a clip from July when Trump sarcastically invited the Russians to find his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton's missing 30,000 emails from her private email server.
"I will tell you this. Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press," Trump joked.
"I mean, it's unbelievable," Behar said of Trump's comments,
"This is about someone coming into our country and continuing to make it seem rigged and not right. He should be the first one spearheading, because I don't know if the results would have been different, but the fact they have proof this this happened is a problem," co-host Sara Haines said.
She also called it a "problem" that Conway has said Russia's involvement in the hackings might be "fake news."
"Kellyanne Conway is fake news," Goldberg said.
"She is coming in this week," Behar responded.
Goldberg said she did not care if Conway would be on the show later this week, adding that the U.S. government would be investigating very thoroughly if any other country had hacked the U.S.
The Obama administration in October accused Russia of hacking into American political systems, including the Democratic National Committee’s computer networks, to influence the 2016 election. The U.S. intelligence community and Department of Homeland Security found cyber actors linked to the Russian government responsible for the attacks, the Washington Free Beacon previously reported.
The DNC hack resulted in the public release of several damning emails, which led to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D., Fla.) being forced to resign as chairwoman of the DNC because of messages showing top party officials working to help Hillary Clinton during the Democratic primary.
The email account of Clinton’' campaign chairman, John Podesta, was also breached, and his messages were leaked through WikiLeaks.
The CIA reportedly found that the Russia hacks were part of an effort to help put Donald Trump in the White House, a conclusion that the president-elect strongly rejects.