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Reporter fired because it was a reporter that outed her. >> greg: weren't they basically, metaphorically, in bed together from the start? >> juan: yeah. you have a sans now saluting her julian assange saying this information was going to the public. it's important saying what the documents allegedly said was that the russians had fear phishing attacks on local election offices in the country with the intent of disabling the election machines. this is important information. >> greg: you know what phishing is, right? it's just trying to get your password. people mistake fishing for hacking. it's...

Reporter fired because it was a reporter that outed her. >> greg: weren't they basically, metaphorically, in bed together from the start? >> juan: yeah. you have a sans now saluting her julian assange saying this information was going to the public. it's important saying what the documents allegedly said was that the russians had fear phishing attacks on local election offices in the country with the intent of disabling the election machines. this is important information. >> greg: you know what phishing is, right? it's just trying to get your password. people mistake fishing for hacking. it's...

So far, america has avoided the worst effects of the attack. what are your files at risk? they might be. a cyber security expert and a senior fellow at the center for digital government, he joins us tonight. thank you for coming on. because you bet, tucker. >> tucker: how bad was this and why hasn't the united states been affected in the way other countries happen? >> number one, compared to the huge service attack, this is orders of magnitude worse than that. it hit 150 countries, like you said, hundreds of thousands of computers. just from a scale of magnitude, it was huge. why the u.s. hasn...

Worst effects of the attack. what are your files at risk? they might be. a cyber security expert and a senior fellow at the center for digital government, he joins us tonight. thank you for coming on. because you bet, tucker. >> tucker: how bad was this and why hasn't the united states been affected in the way other countries happen? >> number one, compared to the huge service attack, this is orders of magnitude worse than that. it hit 150 countries, like you said, hundreds of thousands of computers. just from a scale of magnitude, it was huge. why the u.s. hasn't been affected, good question....

Information, this nine gigabytes of information from the campaign and released it tonight, that we're not sure. but we know that the campaign was under attack for about a month starting in mid-march and apparently ending a month after that by this russian-backed group. >> we know the campaign saying tonight in their statement that these documents that have been dumped tonight that have been posed online appear to have been stolen several weeks ago so that would fit that time frame. >> reporter: they said several weeks ago. the time frame fits perfectly and also throughout this time frame, star...