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Station chief. >> given my background into the russian intelligence officer. and so i can imagine these guys saying can you imagine they're pulling together an influence operation. somebody said why not. let's give it a shot. >> goosefer took its first shot within days of the story breaking. releasing batches of materials not just from the democratic national committee, but from the hillary clinton campaign and the democratic congressional campaign committee. all had been infiltrated by russian hackers. >> it's the russian services taking the goal, making something out of it that in turn can b...

Chief. >> five months to election day. >> russian hackers managed to infiltrate -- >> and the world is getting the first hints of the deluge of the stolen e-mails and documents to come. >> it's a deep breach, no question about it. >> a mysterious blogger or bloggers nicknamed guccifer 20,0 in fact, a cover for a sophisticated russian hacking operation, began posting the first set of stolen documents. >> they love putting on these false personas and carrying out operations through them. >> so what was russia going to do with all the stolen information? >> they're looking to weaponize informatio...

Registration systems, even some election officials. we knew about some of this before the election in states you may remember, we reported this in arizona and illinois and florida. but this gives more details about that. the nsa has been looking into this and found more information, and they compiled a report to say here's where we saw attempts at penetration of these voting systems, registration systems, et cetera. it gives them more information, but it does not change their assessment that you remember from january, anderson, that said while they did steal e-mails, et cetera, they did an inf...

Spies spy and when they get caught they're asked to leave. that's what we have going on here. russia clear ly conducted an influence operation. the fact that we're talking about the influence operation to get engaged and influence the outcome of our presidential election by way of using the internet and conducting an operation that allowed voters to get certain types of information and disinformation. that's what spies do. we should not be surprised by this at all and my view of all of this is that this should be below the radar. this is the activity that we should be able to take, allow to oc...

What it does, and this is a classified report, dated just a few weeks ago, may, 2017. it gives more details of russian probing attacks of voter registration systems, even some election officials. we knew about some of this before the election in states you may remember. we reported this in arizona, in illinois, in florida. but this gives more details about that. the nsa has been looking into this. they found more information, and they compiled a report to say, here's where we saw attempts at penetration, rather, of these voting systems, registration systems, et cetera. gives them more informat...