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I’d like to have them released," he said. In a followup question from NBC reporter Katy Tur, though, Trump said he wasn’t worried - and sent mixed messages about his earlier claim that Russia wasn’t behind the DNC hack. Reporter asked Trump if he had qualms about asking Russia to hack Clinton. "If it is Russia and they are interfering in our elections, I can assure you both parties and the United States government will ensure there are serious consequences." "The FBI will get to the bottom of who is behind the hacking," he wrote, as quoted by The Guardian. Shortly after Trump’s comments, his running mate Mike Pence issued a more politically acceptable statement. There are legitimate, major problems with Clinton’s use of a private mail server, but he is actively hoping for the worst-case scenario to come true, effectively because it would politically damage his opponent. So, to be clear, Donald Trump hopes that a foreign power has intercepted private State Department communications. A small number of these deleted emails have been recovered from other sources and publicly released by the State Department, along with tens of thousands of work-related messages. Trump is referring to roughly 30,000 emails that Clinton deleted from the private mail server she used as secretary of state, claiming that they were personal and unrelated to official business. Donald Trump: "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing."