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It? it was all internal to the democratic party. was it donor lists? >> donor lists, research, books, a compilation of clips of vulnerabilities of yourself and your opponent, a donald trump research book. >> so democratic oppo research on donald trump. >> right, but remember at that time donald trump wasn't paying for self-research so the fact that that research book was in there was quite interesting to us and we believed very -- from the first dump that this was intended to help donald trump and undermine hillary clinton and the democratic party. this wasn't about her -- trying to hurt both ...

>> and the guccifer 2 leaks ended up on d.c. leaks web site which is something that didn't exist prior to the campaign. nobody ever heard of. >> it correct. and that dump was a massive amount of data, of documents that was not user friendly and was very hard to get your arms around what was there there was it didn't get an enormous amount of attention. >> what kind of documents was it? it was all internal to the democratic party. was it donor lists? >> donor lists, research, books, a compilation of clips of vulnerabilities of yourself and your opponent, a donald trump research book. >> so demo...

Around. it didn't get an enormous amount of attention. >> what kind of documents was it? it was all internal to the democratic party. was it donor lists? >> donor lists, research, books, which is a compilation of clips of vulnerabilities of yourself and your opponent, a donald trump research book. >> so democratic oppo research on donald trump. >> right, but remember at that time donald trump wasn't paying for self-research so the fact that that research book was in there was quite interesting to us. and we believed very -- from the first dump that this was intended to help donald trump and un...

Dropped out of school. single mother. now there is a question mark every everything else he said. andrea: he wrote this book, but he wrote this in the book. so every other page is going to be in question. harris: i have never done what you and julie do, i have always been on the other side as a journalist. obviously you guys would be tasked for a candidate why didn't his people find this out? julie: self-research is something campaigns don't do. super easy. get an opposition research to do research on you. andrea: the first thing we do on political campaigns is hire a private investigators to ...

It doesn't win us a lot of popularity contests, but it's crucial. >> so you give them valuable information and then you argue because you say look, this may come up about you, too, and you need to be prepared. >> yeah and if you don't do the self-research and a good example of that is probably herman cain, then you're going to find yourself in a lot of trouble when your guy is attacking you so we scrutinize our candidate with the same vigor we do their opponent and try to be objective about that. >> how do you do it? >> you mean literally what do you do? >> we start on the internet, you know, ...