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Cover this. but if not, certainly people who support le pen will be putting this out through social media, through twitter and facebook, and we'll see how far it gets. especially the troublesome fact that the campaign is stating that there is fake material within the authentic material. so it can be fake news flying across france on facebook, and the campaign is not allowed to say anything. >> shawn, the nine gigabytes is over 600,000 pages, according to some of the back envelope calculations we've seen. how do you deal with that in a world ere the traditional press may not be covering this, b...

>> david, what do you think the timing tells us when as shawn was just emphasizing, french law does have this blackout period. and this, like other russia-related leaks that we have seen show a keen understanding of local or domestic politics. this one also seems very well timed. >> to spell this out for viewers who are just tuning in, the blackout period means that the last day before the election, the election is on sunday, that means all of tomorrow, candidates can't campaign, can't make statements, and the media is not supposed to cover anything. it's like a time-out before the country vot...

And these documents, nine gigabytes worth of material were released one hour before that blackout period began. it was almost in a taunting way to show the macron campaign that look, we're doing this, and you're not going to be able to say anything about this. and we don't know yet how the french media, as shawn just said, whether they're going to cover. this but if not, certainly people who support le pen will be putting this out through social media, through twitter and facebook, and we'll see how far it gets. especially the troublesome fact that the campaign is stating there is fake materia...

There is this blackout. and macron's party is not able to actually make any comments. they can't campaign. so these documents will be out there. and we'll see how the media handles it in terms of making commentary, revealing and disseminating these documents which could have some impact on french voters, ari. >> david, what do you think the timing tells us when as shawn was just emphasizing, french law does have this blackout period. and this, like other russia-related leaks that we have seen show a keen understanding of local or domestic politics. this one also seems very well timed. >> to sp...