future. but that pure hacking effort going after state and local elections software, and elections infrastructure, that was the first part of the russian attack. second prong of the attack was their attack on political institutions. specifically the democratic national committee, the clinton campaign. this is where russian hackers stole information off of american servers, and unlike a normal spying operation, where the russians would, you know, keep those documents, keep those secrets for themselves, so the russian government could use that information to inform its own actions, instead they took that information, they repackaged it, and then they fed it back to us, they fed it back to the american public in a way designed to do maximum damage to one presidential candidate hillary clinton and maximum benefit to donald trump. that was the second prong. first was the attack on the election infrastructure, the