clinton campaign was trying to pull off on the final weeks of the campaign. jon: there was an op-ed in the washington examiner not written by you but kayla mcgee white, she writes the worst part the intelligence community took the clinton campaign finding which were highly misleading or outright false according to terms investigation and ran with them. the fbi launched an investigation into trump s campaign and congressional democrats started their own investigation for the sole purpose of making trump out to be a russian stooge, three years later two of the people have faced any consequent this. hopefully now that terms investigation is heating up, that changes soon, it is fascinating to read what the filing says that they contacted the tech executive in a tech company and had them tried to spy on the campaign servers of the trump campaign and ultimately when he won the
then candidate trump was saying. and shortly there after he made the comments according to the indictment the russians were sent the spear phishing e-mails, trying to get folks in the clinton campaign to click on fictitious emails lowering the russian access into the hillary clinton campaign servers and campaign information. trying to get passwords and other information. but what happens was it seems the russians were listening and sent the emails according to the indictment it was 76 people in the summer of 2016 who got emails, spear phishing e-mails. this goes to the idea that the russians were doing everything they possibly could to help then candidate trump to win the election. shimon, thank you for that update. coming up more breaking news. fear clashes on the gaza strip.
the past. for more, we can speak to our correspondent in moscow, matthew chance. reporter: melissa, thanks very much. that s right. in the past, allegations have been made by the macron team that russian hackers and ukrainian hackers as well, or ukrainian-based hackers have interfered with their campaign servers, have tried to release damaging information that would have an impact on the macron campaign. we ve spoken to the kremlin this morning, and they ve dismissed any suggestion that they ve been involved in the recent release of data relating to the macron campaign. here s what they say. these, like other similar accusations, are based on nothing but pure and are pure slander. so a categorical rejection there by the kremlin that it is involved in any way. but obviously instant comparisons are being drawn between this massive data dump and the allegations in the united states, of course, that
deadline aived. the blacko deadline arrives at midnight local time. just before that blackout deadline arrived, which shuts down all election related news and discussion in the french media. just before that midnight local time deadline tonight, macron campaign suffered a huge cyberattack. all of their internal stuff got posted online. their internal documents, internal e-mails. things like contracts, accounting documents, strategy documents, all apparently hacked off their campaign servers, all posted online at paste bin. one of those places you can post stuff anonymously. it s apparently about nine gigabytes worth of data. it is legitimate material that is authentic that was definitely stolen off their servers. but they say, whoever posted it mixed in fake documentation as well alongside the real stuff which is a hallmark of a well
tonight their time this story just took a very serious turn. it was just before the blackout deadline arrived. the blackout deadline arrives at midnight local time. just before that blackout deadline arrived, which shuts down all election related news and discussion in the french media. just before that midnight local time deadline tonight, macron campaign suffered a huge cyber attack. all of their internal stuff got posted online. their internal documents, internal e-mails. things like contracts, accounting documents, strategy documents, all apparently hacked off their campaign servers, all posted online at paste bin. which is one of these places you can post stuff anone mounsly. it s apparently about nine gigabytes worth of data. the campaign says most of it is, in fact, legitimate material that is authentic that was definitely stolen off their servers. but they say whoever posted it mixed in fake documentation as well alongside the real stuff, which is a hall mark of a well-run weap