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And in particular, theyre looking at the data operation of the trump campaign. now, theres no accusation here that anybody committed any wrongdoing, but one of the things that the fbi is interested in is perhaps anybody might have wittingly or unwittingly helped the russians target the data. now, last year jared kushner did an interview with "forbes" magazine in which he described helping build this data operation that was headquartered down in san antonio, texas. and he described that they were...

Campaigns data operation, which kushner has said helped microtarget certain voters in key states that helped win the white house. the fbi is interested in finding out whether russian spies somehow, either through witting or unwitting help, were able to piggyback on that operation to push negative information about hillary clinton through social media in certain parts of the country. now, investigators are also trying to look at his relationship with michael flynn. the presidents fired national s...

Lets turn to our other breaking news, jared kushner under fbi scrutiny in the russia investigation. i want to bring in cnn law enforcement analyst, james, a retired fbi superviserer agent, special agent. globe affairs analyst kimberly dozi dozier. justice correspondent evan per are rez is back with us. so, evan, bring us up to date on whats happening now with jared kushner. >> well, don, the importance of what were learning today is that the fbi is essentially taking a look at all of the differe...

Operations of that campaign. now we learn they are looking at the data operations and the russians have had access in some way to the data operations, which would be very important if you were trying to target swing voters with misinformation as has been suggested. in terms of the contacts with russians, i think the focus could be not so much the contact with kislyak, but the contact with that russian banker and what was discussed from a bank that had been sanctioned by the obama administration ...

Honestly. whats so interesting about his role is that he has been involved in every aspect of the campaign. and has an extremely broad portfolio within the white house. youre evan perez was reporting earlier tonight that beyond the two meetings you mentioned this also has something to do with the fact that he huss had oversight within the campaign of the data operation, which was run out of -- out of texas. so there -- there is a lot more things that we need to learn about this, whether or not y...

So explain how it is possible there was a nexus with the russian data program and they may have piggybacked on what jared kushner was doing? >> i think jared and the team lucked into a way to use that data to realize that wisconsin and michigan instead of becoming automatically becoming a blue state on november 8th, were fertile ground for donald trump by selling hats and t-shirts. this is a place to target resources and social media campaign. in the end, it was helpful, obviously on the ground ...

Senior adviser helped build the campaigns data operation, which kushner has said helped microtarget certain voters in key states that helped win the white house. the fbi is interested in finding out whether russian spies somehow, either through witting or unwitting help, were able to piggyback on that operation to push negative information about hillary clinton through social media in certain parts of the country. now, investigators are also trying to look at his relationship with michael flynn,...

Social media to promote negative hillary stories and positive trump stories. whether or not the data analytics operation that jared kushner was helping run was a partner and if they were hacked into and an unwilling collusion. we are yet to find that out. that sounds obviously like a very dramatic question. it is the thing that would -- it makes sense in terms of the question of collusion. what was michael flynn doing with the russians if people suspect him of collusion? the data operation seems...

Said, we will get 305 305 elecl votes. i spoke to him that day of the election, he sounded like he was a little bit nervous, although, you are saying to him, it is going to be okay. >> i felt like we were going to win multiple states of the people thought we were worried we were going to lose. i felt very comfortable that day. i was also nervous. you got to say, it was a nerve-racking thing to have all those months come. all of a set in, it is they are. all the data by showing us, we were in a v...

Votes. i spoke to him that day of the election, he sounded like he was a little bit nervous, although, you are saying to him, it is going to be okay. >> i felt like we were going to win multiple states of the people thought we were worried we were going to lose. i felt very comfortable that day. i was also nervous. you got to say, it was a nerve-racking thing to have all those months come. all of a set in, it is they are. all the data by showing us, we were in a very good position. >> martha: yo...