SANCHEZ: Hello. Thanks so much for joining me. I'm Boris Sanchez, in Fredricka Whitfield. Thanks so much for joining us in the CNN NEWSROOM. We appreciate you hanging with us. And we are following some breaking news this hour. New details on the seeds that were planted by a Trump campaign aide that may have launched the Russia investigation. "The New York Times" is reporting today that it all started not with a salacious dossier as many the President's closest allies claim, but rather with a drunken conversation between Trump aide George Papadopoulos who is cooperating in the investigation and has pled guilty and an Australian diplomat in the U.K. back in May of 2016. Let's discuss this further with David Sanger. He is a national security correspondent for "The New York Times" and a CNN national security contributor. Thanks so much for joining us, sir. First and foremost, how significant are the revelations in this story from your perspective, the fact that according to "The New York Times" Papadopoulos knew that the DNC and Hillary Clinton's campaign had been hacked well before that became public knowledge.</s>DAVID SANGER, CHIEF WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT, THE NEW YORK TIMES: Well, this was pretty terrific reporting by my colleagues, Mark Mazzetti, Sharon LaFraniere and Matt Apuzzo. The essence of this is that it takes the timeline to May of 2016. Now, think about --
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