the indictment from the special counsel s office claims that during the summer of 2016 stone spoke to senior trump campaign officials about organization one, a reference to wikileaks and information that might have had that would be damaging to the clinton campaign. the indictment goes on, stone was contacted by senior trump campaign officials to inquire about future releases by wikileaks. it goes on to say stone also continued to communicate with members of the trump campaign about organization one in its intended future releases. the indictment claims stone took steps to obstruct investigations by the house, the senate and the fbi accusing stone of making multiple false records to congress and atemping to persuade a witness to provide false testimony. on march 19th, 2016, russian hacker accessed the e-mail
and john podesta, thank you for joining us on this really important night. i just want to read for the audience the portion of the indictment that describes how the russians attacked you and how they got to you. the indictment says that on march 19th, 2016, a russian military officer and his coconspirators created and spent a spearphishing e-mail. they used the account john 356gh at an online service that abbreviated length think website addresses. referred to as a shortening service. they used the account to mask a link contained in the spearphishing e-mail. which directed the recipients to a gru created website. the military officer altered the appearance of the sender e-mail address in order to make it look like the e-mail was a security notification from google, a technique known as spoofing,
presidential campaign, including the campaign chairman starting in march of 2016. that campaign chairman was john podesta. and he joins our discussion now from california. and john podesta, thank you for joining us on this really important night. i just want to read for the audience the portion of the indictment that describes how the russians attacked you and how they got to you. the indictment says that on march 19th, 2016, a russian military officer and his coconspirators created and spent a spearphishing e-mail. they used the account john 356gh at an online service that abbreviated length think website addresses. they used the account to mask a link contained in the spearphishing e-mail. the military officer altered the
presidential campaign, including the campaign chairman starting in march of 2016. that campaign chairman was john to decembpo d podesta. and he joins our discussion now from california. and john podesta, thank you for joining us on this really important night. i just want to read for the audience the portion of the indictment that describes how the russians attacked you and how they got to you. the indictment says that on march 19th, 2016, a russian military officer and his coconspirators created and spent a spearphishing e-mail. they used the account john 356gh at an online service that abbreviated length think website addresses. they used the account to mask a link contained in the
longer timeline, it s clear that the hunt for russians with e-mail dirt on hillary clinton was a recurring theme in the trump campaign. let s go back to march 19th, 2016. when russian operatives first hacked clinton campaign chairman john podesta s e-mail account which wasn t public knowledge until wikileaks released those later that year in october. a month after the podesta hack, in april, learned russian government hacked the dnc. during that same month, april 26th, trump campaign adviser george papadopoulos met in london with a professor who claimed to have contacts with russian government officials in possession of dirt on hillary clinton. in the form of thousands of e-mails. about two weeks later on may