Official White House by Pete Souza(WASHINGTON) — President Obama has ordered a “full review” of what the intelligence community has called hacking activity related to the 2016 election and expects to receive the report before he leaves office, a senior White House official said Friday.

“The president has directed the intelligence community to conduct a full review of what happened during the 2016 election process,” Lisa Monaco, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, told reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast Friday.

“We may be in — crossed into a new threshold and it is incumbent upon us to take stock of that, to review, to conduct some after action, to understand what, what this means, what has happened and to impart those lessons learned and that’s what we’re going to go about doing,” she added.

Monaco did not know whether the report would be made public, but said it will be given to a range of stakeholders, including Congress.

Just weeks before the election, U.S. intelligence agencies accused the Russian government of hacking intended to influence U.S. political institutions and elections.

“These thefts and disclosures are intended to interfere with the U.S. election process,” the Department of Homeland Security and Office of the Director of National Intelligence said in a joint statement.

In his interview with Time for Person of the Year, Trump contended he still doesn’t believe Russia was responsible for the election-related hacking.

“I don’t believe it. I don’t believe they interfered,” Trump said.

Asked whether he thought the intelligence community’s conclusion about the hacks was politically driven, he said, “I think so.”

The White House has said the president will consider a “proportional” response to the hacks, likely one that won’t be announced ahead of time.

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