activated around gun rights and conservative issues. they worked both sides of the coin effectively. >> some of it was encouraging people to people to vote for trump and to discourage them from voting for clinton. >> craig, does this report reach any conclusion as to how this may have impacted the election? >> it does not wrestle with that question and, of course, on some level it's unanswerable. there's no way we can runt election again and take this out and see what happened. >> right. >> it does suggest that the campaign was real shrewd and sophisticated in its understanding of american politics, was sustained and was -- and kept going even longer than most us even understood. in fact, there's no reason to think that this ended in 2017. social media companies, facebook and such were still taking down, you know, accounts affiliated with this right up until the mid-term election. now, this report doesn't reveal what happened with that kind of data, but there's no reason to think that the russians stopped.