On the 27th of July 2016, then presidential candidate Donald Trump made a comment while at a press conference where he said:
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.
Later that same day, according to an indictment against 12 Russians (p7, 22), hackers from Russia made another attempt at hacking the DNC through the use of spearphishing.
When I saw the press conference comment show up in the news, I thought the comment was odd, then I was somewhat alarmed upon finding out hackers made a spearphishing attempt at the DNC on the same day.
In response to Russia's meddling in general, Barack Obama raised concerns directly with Putin, but my question is:
Did any intelligence officials (e.g. someone at the DHS or FBI or wherever) express concerns over Trump's comments during that press conference? For example that it was a concern to national security that a presidential candidate was seemingly (though he later said it was a joke) asking a foreign power to attack an opponent?
