forever. this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. reporting tonight from washington. pelley: tonight the central intelligence agency is confident that a russian hacking plot tried to influence the u.s. presidential election in favor of donald trump. the hacking did not affect the actual vote totals. instead it was centered on the leaking of embarrassing e-mails and a campaign of misinformation. now with 39 days to go before the president-elect takes the oath on the steps of the capitol, jeff pegues looks at the case against russia. > reporter: the evidence that the russians were trying the influence the u.s. election dates back to mid-june when private e-mails, opposition research and campaign information stolen from the democratic national committee appeared online. u.s. investigators said the russians were to blame. did their actions impact one candidate over another? i would say that their actions definitely were more detrimental to one candidate than the o
a priceless gift. i hope she will keep that for forever. this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. reporting tonight from washington. pelley: tonight the central intelligence agency is confident that a russian hacking plot tried to influence the u.s. presidential election in favor of donald trump. the hacking did not affect the actual vote totals. inea leaking of embarrassing e-mails and a campaign of misinformation. now with 39 days to go before the president-elect takes the oath on the steps of the capitol, jeff pegues looks at the case against russia. > reporter: the evidence that the russians were trying the influence the u.s. election dates back to mid-june when private e-mails, opposition research and campaign information stolen from the democratic national committee appeared online. russians were to blame. did their actions impact one candidate over another? i would say that their actions definitely were more detrimental to one candidate than the other
forever. this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. reporting tonight from washington. reporter: the evidence that the russians were trying the influence the u.s. election dates back to mid-june when private e-mails, opposition research and campaign information stolen from the democratic national committee appeared online. u.s. investigators said the russians were to candidate over another? i would say that their actions definitely were more detrimental to one candidate than the other. reporter: adam myers works for crowd strike, the cyber security firm that investigated the hack and that works closely with u.s. intelligence. what did you see? imagine somebody breaks into a bank and they use some sort of special saw to cut through the safe. we found that saw as they were using it. reporter: you caught them in action? we did. reporter: myers said the cyber attacks beganned with russian-backed hackers he nicknamed fancy bear and cozy bear. the information th