Intelligence Links Putin to Hacks

These statements, like any nonsense, "cannot have any grounds," the Kremlin spokesman said.

The report by NBC News cited two unnamed "senior U.S. intelligence officials" as saying the Russian president personally intervened in the 2016 presidential election.

U.S. intelligence officials now believe with "a high level of confidence" that Russian President Vladimir Putin became personally involved in the covert Russian campaign to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, senior U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News.