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Of information from the campaign and released it tonight, that we're not sure. but we know that the campaign was under attack for about a month starting in mid-march and apparently ending a month after that by this russian backed group. >> we know theampaign saying tonight in their statement that these documents that have been dumped tonight that have been posted line appear to have been stolen several weeks ago so that would fit that time frame. >> reporter: they said several weeks ago. the time frame fits perfectly and also throughout this time frame, starting even somewhat before the fishin...

>> the parallels with what happened to our election are remarkable. you get the media campaign run by the russian state-run media outlets and also the bots that trace back to russia. certainly you get the fake news stuff. then you get the hacked documents that are strategically released at just the right time, putton line on these anonymous posting sites. we appear to have the same perpetrators here. but remember when the russians were doing it to us, they thought hillary clinton was going to win. they didn't think it would work they diplomat think they would throw election to trump. their int...

Has already been seen in the united states during the last esidential campaig we call on the media who want to report on this operation to be responsible. it is not a simple piracy operation but an attempt to destabilize the french presidential election. it is therefore important to take into account the nature of the leaked documents. the fact that a large part of them are pure and simply false. i plead with the media to consider, quote, the desirability of echoing this destabilization operation. you can hear the clinton campaign in that play, right? and however far this plea is going to go i...

They posted it right before the blackout deadline in the french media. that deadline went into effect at midnight localtime which means french media can't report on this. they can't talkbout it. they can't discuss its existence. get this,t four minutes to midnight local time, four minutes before the deadline, the macron campaign put out their statement explaining what had happened to them and i'm quoting from our nbc news translation here enmarcher. was the victim of a massive and coordinated pierssy action this evening causing the dissemination of internal information of various kinds, e-mail...

And released it tonight, that we're not sure. but we know that the campaign was under aattack for about a month starting in mid march and apparently ending a month after that by this russian backed group. >> we know the campaign saying tonight in their statement that these documents that have been dumped tonight that have been posted line appear to have been stolen several weeks ago so that would fit that time frame. >> reporter: they said several weeks ago. the time frame fits perfectly and also throughout this time frame, starting even somewhat before the fishing attacks there has been a med...