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The covert influence operations originated from 2017 through mid-2021 and targeted both foreign and domestic public debate.

>> let's go through this, all right? so i want to get back to this meeting, okay? the meeting. it's in the oval office. according to president trump, vladimir putin asked him to have that meeting. this is while the russia investigation is going on and only one day after the president fired the fbi director, james comey, which the president would later admit to lester holt on nbc news that he did because of the russia story and now stories of boasting about classified information, is this everything -- i've got to be honest, everything the russians ever dreamed of? >> oh, oh, my. look, let me j...

Honest, everything the russians ever dreamed of? >> oh, oh, my. look, let me join consensus with former dni jim clapper who said that the russians' effort here has had a massive return on investment and succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. this is the most successful covert influence campaign in the history of covert influence campaigns. the russians by what they have done, in fractures within american society and the american political dialogue, have opened these seams and have us now shooting at one another rather than focusing on them. >> so, here's -- i know that, you know that, the pers...

Easier on russian aggression. >> this is the biggest thing russia wanted was to be able to get away with what it did in ukraine. general hayden was right in sort of saying this is the biggest win -- have you ever seen a bigger win for a foreign intelligence service. >> in the history of covert influence. >> better than anything. >> cold war. >> let's bring in nbc news capitol hill correspondent kasie hunt. what was it like there as this was all playing out? >> i do think michael hayden was talking about the anger coming from the intelligence officials, i was picking that up from members of con...

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