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Executive privilege could only apply to his time in the white house. but i am betting there is a lot of questions about his role during the campaign and his role at cambridge analytical, he was closely dedicated to the data mining for their campaign, before he came into the campaign itself. >> reporter: theres no doubt that congressional investigators and the special counsel will want to ask about all of that, andrea. i just spoke to an official here at the white house who provided a few more de...

Had been hacked out of the democratic national committee. he was also at trump tower on june 9th. he was a campaign manager. in my experience, at least working on campaigns, campaign managers usually know what the important things are going on in the campaign. then with steve bannon, he was in charge of the whole data mining and data targeting program with cambridge analitica that was allegedly conspireing with russia to suppress the hillary clinton vote. im not surprised they have been called. ...

>> well, number of analysts i have spoken to said its unlikely that the russians would have been able to target the ads the way they targeted them, target the people they targeted during the campaign without any help from americans who would have had the kind of knowledge of the sbi ka sys of american politics to really be able to figure out who was going to be vuler in to the fake newses, who was most, you know, susceptible to changing the vote as a result of this barrage of disinformation and ...

Politics to really be able to figure out who was going to be vuler in to the fake newses, who was most, you know, susceptible to changing the vote as a result of this barrage of disinformation and propaganda. an enthat according to people i have spoken to very much something they thought that americans would have had to have been involved in. >> isnt that their expertise. >> data mining and data analysis. >> indeed. thank you very much. appreciate it. >> thank you. coming up, on a big news nig...

Done the very precise data mining of work from the e-mails, from the john podesta e-mails, to target specific voters and specific precincts or others who think this they had to have some american help. >> well, andrea, we certainly know the russians have vast capabilities. however, what we want to understand is, you know, how far do those capabilities go and then we also know that they did work, you know, with americans to disseminate those e-mails. and thats why we will be bringing in individua...

National television to lester holt that he wanted to get rid of the rusaninvestigation. so all of this comes back to the russian investigation, what did the trump campaign have to do with the wikileaks that related to the break-in with the computers at the clinton campaign, and two, to what extent did the campaign, the trump campaign, collude with the russian government with almost to the data mining and the micro targeting of voters in order to suppress the vote hillary clinton, and to increase...

Fbi investigations. clearly, the only issue here is what was the presidents intent in firing comey. hes basically admitted on national telision to lester holt that he wanted to get rid of the russi investigation. so all of this comes back to the russian investigation, what did the trump campaign have to do with the wikileaks that related to the break-in with the computers at the clinton campaign, and two, to what extent did the campaign, the trump campaign, collude with the russian government wi...

With the wikileaks that related to the break-in with the computers at the clinton campaign and, two, to what extent did the campaign, the trump campaign collude with the russian government with respect to the data mining and the micro targeting of voters in order to suppress the vote on hillary clinton arched nd to increase te for donald trump. >> when you were a nixon watergate special prosecutor, when you worked on that team, the view of the justice department then as now is you cant indict a ...

Because hes not going to want witnesses appearing in front of committees and giving testimony without first knowing exactly what they say. i think itd be irresponsible for the committees not to do that. i dont think theyd want to be put in a political position where they didnt do it and somehow could be accused of undermining the ongoing investigation that is critical in nature. i mean, keep in mind, in this case, the cover-up may not be as bad as the underlying crime, and the allegation that we...

All of us, im very careful with you, i dont say collusion, i dont say treason. whats the theory of this case. clearly reporters at reuters and others are talking to those involved with the case. and if they are to believed, you know, i understand the concerns with leaks, if they are to believed, one of the animated theories of the case is that this had less to do with the campaign and collusion, all those thats still out there because remember jared ran that data mining office within the campaig...