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>> this is an attempt -- this was an attempt and successful attempt to hack into the dnc. this wasn't just an influence campaign through social media. that was also there. this was a hack into the dnc. and a hack into john podesta's e-mails. >> there is amle evidence of computer hacking out of north korea, china, out of -- >> are you trying to -- >> i'm trying to say that the issue of meddling in our elections is a real threat. and it is clear that russia was part of it. that didn't mean russia is the only actor that engaged in that not only in 2016 but before. and what we should do as a cub -...

Monies being targeted into u.s. presidential campaigns or any campaigns for that matter. don't forget that there could be computer fraud and abuse in the sense that any hacking that occurred, the social media propaganda, the theft of data could be a computer -- federal computer hacking violation and conspiracy to commit that if that was part of what was in the circle of knowledge for the campaign. so, that's what they're looking at. but it's helpful to think of the mueller team almost as epidemiologists tracking the origin of an infection. increasingly with this reporting, we are seeing that c...

Information that shimon and others have been reporting it is showing us what the direction is going to be, and it makes it harder for the president to make the argument there is nothing to see here. >> there is a difference, though, paul, between contacts and criminal conspiracy. so knowing that, mueller knows that as he's looking at this, what would very to prove of gates and this former manafort firm employee with ties to russian intelligence in order to make something of this? >> i think that's a very important point because, you know, we have fallen into this trap of talking about collusio...

Further back or even back to the '80s. >> and ann, do you agree, what we were talking about with maggie before, that this certainly does indicate that the special counsel investigation is not coming to a close anytime soon? >> i do agree very strongly. i think if you were to imagine the special counsel's office, you would think about, there's a whiteboard with lots of different lines that are different parts of the investigation. and russia remains a central part of the investigation. there is this question, was there a quid pro quo. remember, we still have not seen charges brought in relation...

Here that the operation did come in contact with the trump campaign. some defendants posing as u.s. persons without revealing enter russian association communicated with unwits individuals associated with the trump campaign to seek and coordinate political activities. they are interpreting that because they were saying they were unwitting. do you share that view? >> no. there is an entirely different part of the mulleller investigation, which concerns computer hacking and we already know there was collaboration. this indictment covers the social media side of what the russians were doing and h...