so guccifer 2.0 seemed very eager to point the finger away from the russian government. it turned out, of course, the gru had created guccifer 2.0, and this was sort of a fig leaf for russian intelligence. ♪♪♪ michael: wikileaks wanted whatever guccifer had. correspondence revealed in the u.s. indictment of the russian hackers, shows that on june 22, wikileaks sent guccifer a private message on twitter: "send any new material here for us to review, and it will have a much higher impact than what you're doing." ♪♪♪ scott: wikileaks was there for them. it was a huge boon to distribute those e-mails through wikileaks, which had a, sort of, established audience in the millions around the world. ♪♪♪ michael: two wks later, wikileaks sent another message to guccifer: "if you have anything hillary-related, we want it in the next two days preferably because the democratic national convention is approaching." soon after, guccifer sent wikileaks an encrypted file. ♪♪♪ neera tanden: so, the dnc e-mails were hacked. the dnc e-mails go public righ before the democratic convention at