they could even see the president's schedule nonpublic parts of it in realtime.h the state department. once they got in there, they used that access to trick someone to get into the executive office of the president. now, investigators tell me wolf this is one of the most serious cyberattacks they have seen against the u.s. government and it's something that -- it's one reason why they've increased warnings about the threat from russia. >> was the information that the russians presumably obtained from the state department and the white house classified information? >> well it wasn't. when the white house first disclosed this back in october, they described it as suspicious activity and said it affected an unclassified e-mail system. ben rhodes in the last hour addressed that saying this was not a new hack it was something that they previously addressed. our story today details who was doing, this how they got in through the state department and the kinds of things they saw, including the president's schedule and other sensitive things wolf. >> because we intervie