who is working the story for us of the lay it all out for us. this is a new report in the atlantic. >> reporter: right. it shows that messages turned over to kwong showed that wikileaks actively slis sit donald trump jr. beginning in september 2016 two months before the election and that solicitation continued through this past july. that's all according to the report in the atlantic. so the messaging began on september 21st, 2016. that's when wikileaks contacted donald trump jr. via direct message on twitter alerting him to an anti-trump website. now, donald trump jr. did respond saying he'd ask about the source and then he e-mailed top campaign officials, including steve bannon and jared kushner. now, the atlantic report does note that the correspondence here was mostly one-sided. trump junior did frequently ignore these messages. however, donald trump jr. did show particular interest on october 3rd, 2016 when he actually wrote to wikileaks asking about what was behind word of an impending wikileaks