accept your nomination for the presidency of the united states. >> reporter: the final red flag came on the day after donald trump accepted the republican nomination. on july 22nd, 2016, days before the democrats were to open their convention, wikileaks published thousands of stolen democratic party e-mails. >> that was something new. that was something we hadn't seen before, and it clearly shook up the democrats. >> reporter: malcolm nance said it was the moment he knew america was under attack. >> when wikileaks released that whole trench of information, the first thing i thought was, this is an old-style kgb, political warfare operation, but it's been modernized with computer technology, and that they've conducted watergate 2.0. successful watergate. >> reporter: soon after the wikileaks dump of dnc e-mails, christopher steele filed another trump memo.