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A sophisticated data apparatus would be needed. by ensuring that every campaign stop was driven by data and reflecting what was currently being seen in the field, he was able to use his travel time most effectively. >> so cambridge analytica was even driving where trump campaign, that directly contradicts the trump campaigns statement. how problematic is that, do you think? >> i think its very problematic that the trump campaign did not reach out and have a very close connection with cambridge a...

With hillary clintons e-mails. all of this within that time frame. now, the campaign has distanced itself from cambridge analytics, basically saying it didnt rely on it at all during the campaign. it relied on the rncs data information. >> i want to bring in now chris. welcome to the panel. >> thanks. >> video of the conference from the may of 2017 surfaced today showing cambridge analyticas top digital officer talking about their role in the trump campaign. watch this. >> we started working wit...

Them these e-mails. we had pretty good proof that thats what happened, so thats what i meant that hes not a witting tool of the russians. perhaps an unwitting tool but not witting. >> the trump campaign tried to distance itself from cambridge analytica. but i want you to listen to this. this is a senior executive for the company at a conference. this is may of 2017. >> we started working with the trump campaign in about june of 2016. when it became obvious that a sophisticated data apparatus wou...

Witting -- >> well, we held that the e-mails that were hacked from the dnc were hacked by the russians and then through a cut out given to wikileaks. wikileaks, assange, of course, denied any connection whatsoever and that the russians are given them these e-mails. we had pretty good proof that thats what happened, so thats what i meant that hes not a witting tool of the russians. perhaps an unwitting tool but not witting the. >> the trump campaign tried to distance itself from analytica. i want...

The head of the firm reached out to wikileaks founder julian assange asking if he needed help with clinton-related e-mails. a request that julian assange said on twitter that he rejected. the firm was, in part, founded by wealthy republican donors, the mercer family, who began supporting trump in june 2016, around the same they started working together, the firm and the campaign. thats also when jared kushner took the reigns of all data operations for the campaigns. he told "forbes" magazine, th...

Russians, asking them to hack hillary clintons 33,000 missing e-mails, as you may recall. and now were learning that in that same time frame in july, according "the wall street journal," the head of the firm actually reached out to wikileaks founder julian assange asking him if he needed help with hillary clintons e-mails. all of this within that time frame. now, the campaign has distanced itself from cambridge analytics, basically saying it didnt rely on it at all during the campaign. it relied...

>> we started working with the trump campaign in about june of 2016. when it became obvious that a sophisticated data apparatus would be needed by ensuring that every campaign stop was driven by data and reflecting what was currently being seen in the field he was able to use his travel time most effectively. >> reporter: despite what we just heard in the time line, the campaign released a statement yesterday distancing itself from cambridge analytica saying it relied on the rnc information. >> ...

New questions tonight about just how closely the data firm, cambridge analytica, worked with the trump campaign and what that will mean for the russia investigation. cnn contributor john dean is here, a former nixon white house counsel. also cnn national security analyst, juliette kayyem. and nada bakos. hello to all of you. thank you for coming on. mr. dean, you first, trump campaign claiming it didnt rely on the data company cambridge analytica that we now know reached out to julian assange to...

. tonight, newly found video throwing cold water on a trump campaign statement. they claimed in a formal statement it did not rely on a data company that reached out to julian assange. so lets start with this new video posted today by the guardian. in it, youll see a senior executive from cambridge anal i analytica. here is just a taste. >> we started working with the trump campaign in about june of 2016. when it became obvious that a sophisticated data apparatus would be needed by ensuring th...

Wanted to help julian assange potentially distribute material that he could have obtained illegally. >> in response to betsys reporting for the daily beast the trump campaign issued the following statement. we as a campaign made the choice to rely on the voter data of the republican national committee to help elect donald j. trump. thats not true. i found sec filings that they paid cambridge $6 million in 2016 for their companies. its owned by robert and rebecca mercer. another sign, sabrina. >>...