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Whistle blower. who says the firm used illicitly acquired facebook data from tens of millions americans to run the core business of the operation. in the case of john boltons super pac? cambridge analytica reportedly used that american facebook data to make ads for candidates who bolton supported. but also appear to have used boltons pac as a way to try to get more americans data off of facebook. the times reviews the agenda of a 2014 meeting. where the company explained the company wanted to us...

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...

Publicly underscores a key reality here. they never expected those happen. a senior democrat telling me that clinton needed time to digest this. really get her message together. the speech itself we dont know when its coming or where its coming. it is coming this morning. and it will be talking about healing. kind of a reflection on where this campaign needs to go. gracious was one word a democratic supporter used to describe the message that hillary clinton will try to get across. this wasnt ex...

There fly ging, and i am comfortable with it, and we have to keep it that way. >> and matthew, the last word, quickly, because i am up against the clock. >> well, different idea, talking about the voice recorder it is not tape, but it is chips. and there was a crash in cali colombia where they found the chips and wired them back together, and read the data off of them and the guys on the mountainside tomorrow morning where they r they are going to be looking for the computer chips, but they may ...

Secondly, you have to have support teams for these. you need to have technicians, scientists, who know how to program them. how to read the data off of them. how to maintain them. how to even put them in and out of the water. this thing weighs about 1,700 pounds its like lowering a small car into the water and retrieving it over and over again. it is difficult, and it is dangerous. and lastly, there is the issue of the terrain. weve talked about this many times, were ut we have this image theyre...

How to operate them. how to retrieve them. how to get the data off of them. they weigh about 1,700 pounds each. putting one in and out of the water is dangerous and difficult. not unlike taking a small car and lowering into the ocean and retrieving it time and time again. youre going to need more ships, more support for the ships. everything, wolf. then beyond that, the basic question weve come back to time and again, think about a whole fleet of them out here mowing the grass on a flat surface ...

Flight data recorders, and this is the old technology and this is the changing technology, and -- >> well, don, if it is relative to the operation, they will talk about it, but this is not something that we get. we know that the black boxes exist, and we only get involved with them if we have an incident or accident of some sort. so this is not necessarily, and not necessarily an area that we would get into. >> but is there something, because obviously, when, as a pilot, you are the number one t...

United states has been relatively quiet at the highest echelons about what is going on here. you would bet that there is more going on here than we know and if in fact that -- in a positive way the airplane has been taken and taken someplace. will may be a ransom going on with the malaysians. the united states may be aware of what is going on. in the meantime, the search continues but these are all possibilities and -- you said something earlier. we talked about the act. the act of him deleting ...

What is the certainty that the black boxes could be recovered? >> the odds of recovering the black boxes and getting useful data off of them are really very high. several years ago we had the air france a-330 that went from brazil to france. and it was lost. in that case it was lost because of a high altitude upset in a severe, severe thunderstorm. they didnt find the black boxes for two years and they were still able to recover usable data off of that. and that was over 10,000 feet. >> wow, and...