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All of those things are now stacking up in the chronology. there is a lot going on. there's a lot of new reporting coming out now. really, i will tell you it is starting to feel very orderly. it's starting to feel like i finally get how this thing stacked up. i'm less confused than i have been in a long time. but this is a time when the news is moving fast. shane harris from "the wall street journal" is going to join us next. and we've got greg gordon joining us from mcclatchy tonight as well. if you haven't heard of mike pence's onair discussion of his problems, you'll want to stay around for...

The bots and products were largely millions of twitter and facebook posts on internet sites like breitbart and infowars as well as on kremlin-backed rt news and sputnik news. that was the scoop that mcclatchy had in march. importantly, in march, mcclatchy noted that those bot attacks, those were now the subject of federal investigation being led by the fbi counterintelligence. the fbi was looking into whether conservative websites in the united states, sites like breitbart news and infowars, whether they might have knowingly helped russian operatives who were carrying out this attack. that was...

Posts on internet sites like breitbart news and infowars as well as on kremlin-backed rt news and sputnik news. that was the scoop that mcclatchy had in march. importantly, in march, mcclatchy noted that those bot attacks, those were now the subject of federal investigation being led by the fbi counterintelligence. the fbi was looking into whether conservative websites in the united states, sites like breitbart news and infowars, whether they might have knowingly helped russian operatives who were carrying out this attack. that was in march. investigative reporter peter stone and greg gordon, ...

Their news media manipulation. and the stuff they did via social media. greg gordon is one of the two mcclatchy reporters on that story today. we'll talk to him live in a few minutes tonight. i should also tell you that for that story, mcclatchy spoke with a former pentagon official, an official that just left the defense department in january after serving there as the deputy assistant secretary of defense for russia. and ukraine and eurasia. that senior pentagon official responsible for russia now says about that part of the russia attack last year, quote, there appears to have been signific...

Now, russians did this and used a computer that was based in the united states from what i'm told, it would be pretty tough to reconstruct it. so then it comes do you know to who knew what, and who's going to talk about it. >> i see. so human intelligence, human evidence about what may have happened in the cyber environment. fascinating stuff. greg gordon, investigative reporter for mcclatchy news, thank you for helping us understand this tonight, sir. great to have you here. >> my pleasure, rachel. still ahead -- the vice president having trouble explaining how the russian investigation rel...