Trump to seek probe of secret report he says was given to NBC

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[January 07, 2017]    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump said on Friday that he would ask congressional committees to investigate NBC's receipt of top secret information, apparently referring to a report on Russian hacking to influence the 2016 U.S. election.

President-elect Donald Trump exits One World Trade Center following a meeting in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., January 6, 2017. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

"I am asking the chairs of the House and Senate committees to investigate top secret intelligence shared with NBC prior to me seeing it," Trump said in a post on Twitter.

Several news outlets carried stories on Thursday evening on a U.S. intelligence report on Russian efforts to influence American presidential election. The report was delivered to President Barack Obama earlier in the day.

(Reporting by David Alexander)

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