russian efforts to possibly interfere in the midterm elections in some criminal way. "the daily beast" is reporting based on a forensic analysis that russian hackers targeted claire mccaskill of missouri as she began her 2018 re-election campaign back in the summer of 2017. this reporting comes just two days after president trump claimed russian hackers might try to help democrats in the midterms. the panel is back. leeanne, nbc hasn't totally confirmed this story yet. "the daily beast," this is this one area of reporting that they seem to be very deeply knowledgeable about in this. this has sort of been one of their signature type of stories. claire mccaskill, it was interesting. she said she'd have more to say about this next week after they went over this. but it's a pretty detailed story. it doesn't look like it's some pr stunt. >> no. but this also goes into the warning signs that the