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 information. >> steven hall is the cia's former moscow nation chief. >> it's oftentimes interesting to put myself given my background into the position of the russian intelligence officer. so i can imagine these guys saying, would it be too crazy to think we could perhaps actually pull together an influence operation? and, you know, it probably got run up the chain, somebody said,