there were two main prongs of the strategy, the russia based internet research agency pretending to be americans to discord and try to sway voter opinion. also, a dozen russian officials trying to gain access to e-mails. now with just 98 days until the midterm election, here is where we are. senator claire mccaskill has already been targeted by hackers using these same kind of password stealing techniques that exposed john podesta in 2016. and today facebook announced it had uncovered a coordinated attempt to influence the midterm election many they say that quote some of the activity is consistent with what they saw from the russian based agency.