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The campaign arm of the party that was designed to elect and re-elect members of congress and didn't tell republican members of congress that it was happening. and despite this being a total secret even with lawmakers themselves, they report that the nrcc, paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars to a prominent d.c. law firm and to a major p.r. firm to manage the response to the hack. why did you hire a p.r. firm, when nobody knows that the hack happened? then there's this. quote, party officials will not say when the hack began or who was behind it. i have a number of questions about this. f...

Was the p.r. firm hired because they want today be ready to respond if this stuff ended up in the public eye? >> it's a great question. they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on a big-name p.r. firm and a big-name law firm. and behind the scenes really while the committee was actually short on cash to spend money on races, remember they were trying to save the house this year, they were spending big bucks to help protect themselves on this hacking matter. and it's the best i can understand, they felt they needed to protect themselves should these e-mails be publicly disseminated. they fel...

Told basically they concluded the attack was of a sophisticated nature. and we haven't really been able to fully come to grips who exactly was behind this. but we heard to names of a couple of countries including china and russia potentially. >> do we know how the nrcc was compromised? were there e-mails just stolen and that was the end of it, was the nrcc damaged in anyway? >> basically you had a situation where there were four of the top officials basically had their e-mail accounts hacked. they discovered in april of this year. and basically whoever it is who hacked them had months and mont...

For months. but in addition russians also collected materials from unspecified republican affiliated targets. the difference is none of that material was ever disseminated to hurt those republican targets in the same way the democrat stuff was. so what was it about, right? is the nrcc implying they were hurt in some way by this intrusion? if so, how? they believe this was a foreign attacker. if so, who? if the material wasn't publicly released, it wasn't used for ransom or blackmail, wasn't used against house republican candidates, what happened to it? i mean, is there any possibility it was g...