Klobuchar gives Yates another chance to sum up the threat: "The Russians were coming at us with multiple ;attacks]. There was a, an organized effort to break into the DNC and to hack the emails and to systematically release them."

Yates: "There was a social media campaign aimed at Hillary Clinton [and] they were monkeying around in the state election system. All of this is going on. And then, we find that it is for the purpose of trying to put a thumb on the scale, or one particular candidate.. "

".. to try to aid the election of Donald Trump.. And then beyond that, we find out then, early on from Mr Papadopoulos that the Russians had actually reached out to the Trump campaign prior to this release of emails, offering and suggesting they could assist."