Well phishing is a form of hacking, just not a very sophisticated one. Even social engineering, which might not even involve touching a computer, is technically still “hacking”.
Yes, I know about “social” or “soft” hacking, but c’mon, they are trying to mislead the public into thinking the Russians employed a crack team of cyber spies who put great time and effort into bypassing our digital defenses to get into Podesta’s creepy emails. In reality he was so stupid he basically just said “duurrrrrr here you go comrades!”