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Both sides and the president s side, the Special Counsel side had a facetoface meeting last week. A rare facetoface meeting after weeks of informal discussions and were told by a source familiar myself, my colleague that Robert Muellers Team Provided more granularity on the topics they would like to discuss with the president in a possible interview under the umbrella of the firing of james comey as well as the firing of the former National Security adviser Michael Flynn. The specifics include t...

And this was this data that became the foundation of the company because this is what we used to build the algorithms that then were -- you know, that actually became the basis of the company itself. so the question that i would have is, well, what happens to the foundation of your company, you know, if you didnt indeed use it on the trump campaign? what were you using, then? >> because that was the basis of your company, right? thats how your company started? that was the foundation of your com...

Thats how the company started. >> yeah. there was no data before that point. so we went from no data to harvesting all of this data off of facebook and then combining it with all this consumer data sets -- >> at the behest of steve ba bannon? >> yeah. the company got funded in the spring of 2014 and he wanted to be able to have functioning program in time for the mid terms. so we had sort of a steve bannon and a billionaire breathing down our necks saying where is the data? where is the algorith...

Core of the companys activities was the access facebook provided. >> so we went from no data to, you know, harvesting all of this -- this data off of facebook and then combining it with all this -- you know, the consumer data sets and voter data sets. so, you know, we had sort of a steve bannon and a billionaire breathing down our necks going, wheres the data? wheres the algorithms? wheres our information weapons? and thats where kogan came along, alexander kogan, the professor at cambridge. >> ...

But christopher wylie, the former uk-based cambridge analytica employee-turned whistle-blower said that the core of the companys activities was the access facebook provided. >> so we went from no data to, you know, harvesting all of this -- this data off of facebook and then combining it with all this -- you know, the consumer data sets and voter data sets. so, you know, we had sort of a steve bannon and a billionaire breathing down our necks going, wheres the data? wheres the algorithms? wheres...