campaign committee realizes what's happened in june of that year. the consequences, you write, became clear in august. what happens? these documents start to trickle out then. >> sure. well, we know that in july, it was the dnc when the convention was occurring where there was all the attention on the fact that the democratic party documents were coming out. but it wasn't until august that gucifer 2 began to release a separate set of documents and spread them out in states across the united states. in particular, florida. and what happens in august is these documents, which are -- essentially the democrats looking at the weakness of their own candidates and identifying what are their weaknesses. that stuff was stolen by the russians and then was given to the republican lobbyists, for example, in florida, who then put it out on his blog. and it sort of then began to play a role in the race itself. >> yeah. this guy, this lobbyist, goes by the name hello fla, hello florida. what were those conversations like, and in the piece you talk