"The first time I was contacted by the FBI was two days after WikiLeaks started dropping my emails," Podesta told NBC's Chuck Todd.

Todd pressed Podesta on when he knew that his emails had been stolen. "In one of those DNC documents that appeared to me ... that might have came from my account," Podesta said. "So I wasn't sure. I didn't know what they had, what they didn't have. It wasn't until October 7 when [WikiLeaks' Julian] Assange ... started dumping them out and said they would all dump out, that's when I knew that they had the contents of my email account."

"By the way," Podesta added, "that was the last time I'd heard from the FBI."

"Do you expect to get a phone call before the end of the year?" Todd asked.

"Maybe before the end of the show," Podesta joked.

Podesta suggested the emails were released to distract from the Access Hollywood tape, which showed Trump bragging about grabbing and kissing women without their permission.