ned parker, i'd like the start with you. can you tell us a little bit more? what is it you found?hat did you report today. >> right. well, we found there are two documents drafted by an in-house policy shop for the kremlin that reports back to president vladimir putin, and this organization is also headed by a former foreign intelligence service officers. this organization called the russian institute for strategic studies drafted two reports last year, one in june, and one in october. the first in june talked about how do you influence the u.s. electorate through media and social media campaign, to overturn the policies of then-president obama and promote, persuade the u.s. public to choose a new u.s. administration that would promote policies beneficial to both russia and the united states. >> and, ned, staying with you for a second, is this evidence, is this in line with what u.s. intelligence agencies believe the russians did, in fact, do during the election? >> right. i think that's the significance of these documents. they came in after the election. the second document, whi

joining us now, reuters reporter ned parker, a co-author of that article. this is part of the evidence base that the obama administration was using in issuing their public warnings about this back last year. >> right. it would be the one that there was the report published on january 6th by the intelligence community that said the u.s. government believed that the russian government of vladimir putin intended to assist donald trump's then candidacy for presidency in 2016. >> oh, this is the one that took us into the specific objective to elect trump, not just interfere with the election? >> exactly. >> big difference. >> the first was in october. this was the one in january. and the documents were actually obtained after the november election. >> and do the documents indicate a change of strategy by the russians as the campaign was recognizing? >> right. i think it's very fluid. and what you see, these documents, the significance of them are that they are russian government documents written by an internal kremlin think tank that reports to vladimir putin, w

one of the reporters, nate parker -- excuse me, ned parker, is with us tonight, along with david roe and steve hall, cnn national security analyst and cia agent who ran russia operations. david, this think tank, explain what it is. >> in-house funded by the government. former intelligence officials appointed by putin himself. the head of it, who was there when they had these documents, he had a 33 year career in russia's different foreign intelligence services. not an official arm of the intelligence service but very close. >> obviously very different than a washington think tank like heritage foundation or brookings we think of in the united states. >> it reports to a president vladamir putin. he picks the director of the institute. the institute identifies the president of russia as its founder. >> what did you learn through your reporting? >> what we learned essentially this document -- two documents came in after the election. what they did, their internal russian government documents in whereby describe a strategy to influence the u.s. electorate through regular media platforms

ned parker, thank you so much for being here.nk you for your reporting. >> thank you. >> appreciate it. now i want to bring in representative swalwell, subcommittee of the house intelligence comment. representative you just heard what parker was reporting there. the second half he talked about was this putin linked not really think tank but government home for former spies. they decided once they thought hillary clinton was going to within, they warned she was likely to win the election. it was better for russia to end pro trump propaganda but intensifies voter fraud to undermine u.s. electoral system's legitimacy and damage clinton's reputation. does it concern you given that that you have the administration that came in saying it was going to try to prove there was massive voter fraud? >> good morning, joy. yes, the tactics between donald trump and also the russia president seemed to converge there. we know in russia thatll stres flow to putin, whether it's academic, whether it's business or whether it's the media. there really