The hour, and i say that with some confidence because i was just advised as i was rung out here to start the show that we are going to be killing a block that we had previously planned to do a little later on in the show, killing a story we were previously planning on cover in the middle of this hour tonight right after we talk to Stacey Abrams because i have been told there is some breaking news that we are getting a new guest about. At this point, i do not totally understand it. I have just been advised. But i swear by the time we get there, youll know what it is and i will too. So friday nights are just like this. Now bear with me. Things might be a little hurlyburly. All right. June 2016, so the summer before the president ial election, thats when we first learned that the Democratic Party had been hacked. This is the first story that ran about it in the washington post, which also hopefully made clear based on a forensic analysis that was done by a Computer Security firm, that it
Democratic party was carried out by russian government hackers. That was the first inkling we got about russia being all up in our election. That was june 2016. By the time the Democratic Convention started in late july 2016, russia had started their first document dumps of stolen material that they had taken from Democratic Party servers. And those document dumps caused the intended havoc at their National Convention to nominate the Democratic Partys president ial candidate. The Democratic Party also fired the chair of the national party, right . Chaos in the party. Those leaks were specifically designed and curated to stoke maximum dissent among different factions of democrats so the convention wouldnt unify them and wouldnt bring them together to mount a single effort for the election. Republicans of course were ecstatic about it. They loved it. And soon republican candidate donald trump was calling on National Television for Russian Hackers to please hack and steal Hillary Clintons
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