Previously on the report.

The defendants allegedly conducted what they called information warfare against the United States.

The intelligence community calls it active measures.

We were dry tender. It was something that was really easy for them to stoke.

The clearly stated the Russian government was in fact behind the interference operations

that we were seeing at the time.

So this is an arms race. I mean they're going to keep on getting better at this.

I want to begin by saying thank you to all of you across the country who have volunteered your time.

You have voted to make Hillary Clinton the nominee of the Democratic Party. This is your victory.

It's July 2016.

John Podesta is running a presidential campaign. It's going well.

His candidate is about to clinch the Democratic Party nomination.

But let's go back to several months before all of this. Back to March 2016.

Podesta is sitting at his computer. He opens an email.

It says something is wrong with his password.

It looks a little fishy, but IT says it's legit.

And so he clicks.

He follows the prompt to input his old password and resets a new one.

And just like that, hackers from a Russian military intelligence unit are in.

It barely takes a minute. One click and a few keystrokes.

And there is no going back.

This is the report, episode two. Hack, dump, divide.

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