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Hitting at his family business. >> kurt, you have done, just to your point, extraordinary, extensive reporting on all of this for months. and donald trump won. he's the next president of the united states. despite all of that reporting, all of the conflicts you speak of. is he doing anything or any of these activities he's engaging in illegal and would actually call for legal action? because as it relates to the american people, they seem to be saying, or at least if you look at the electoral college results, it's okay by me. >> i have always found it, you know, uncomfortable whenever you take...

The united states as a threat, potential threat to their own national security. >> now, kurt, in general the feeling has been that the reason that dawned trump doesn't want to do it. look, hillary clinton has said he's putin's puppet. but does your reporting suggest that, no, actually, russia's motivation is more about hurting clinton who they have antipathy for rather than boosting trump? >> well, it's interesting because it did start -- putin despises clinton. and it did start out as an attempt to weaken clinton. and, also, to disrupt. i mean, they disrupted in the brexit vote in england, th...

His tear, attacking the kahn family, the goldstar family where the father had spoken at the democratic national convention. their son had died. >> yeah. >> fighting in iraq. and when trump started off on that tear, the folks in the kremlin came to believe that he would have to withdraw from the race because he was showing himself to be psychologically unfit. at that point, they decided to stop distributing hacking information that they had until they could get a sense of who the next candidate was going to be. now they were naive, it is still trump. >> wow, okay. kurt, thanks for sharing all o...

The reason, american officials tell nbc news the u.s. government believes hackers from russia or elsewhere may try to undermine the election's results. at the same time, there's a brand-new report out this morning about russia's links to donald trump. joining me now is the author of that article, newsweek senior editor kurt eichenwald. you wrote american intelligence officials know that russia used cyber attacks and misinformation to interfere with elections in western europe. what have you learned that could pose a threat to tuesday's election here? for the biggest issue going on here is that...

Lot of documents that had been hacked, but they stopped distribution of them. they decided to hold off and see if things stabilized both if trump personally stabilized and if the polls stabilized. and at that point, when they did, they resumed the campaign. i mean, people cannot underestimate this. this is a horrifying development. this is an effort by a foreign enemy trying to break the nato alliance, trying to splinter the nato alliance, and we have a presidential candidate who's going along with it. >> vladimir putin and his attempt to rock our democracy. kurt, thanks so much. thank you for...