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This was a war game. over the next few weeks the obama campaigns top secret data group did this over and over and over again, three simulations in which they destroyed everything they had and then they rebuilt it all on the fly. by the end they knew what they would do if the amazon web service went down cold. they could survive that with no down time. they knew what to do, sandy wiped out the entire east coast infrastructure and head a backup that could recon construct it with the touch of a but...

Won and it was not the obama campaigns ground game. how big an effect too do you think it had in the end. >> $600 million was raised on line and 504 came through digital operations. that is like twice what george w. bush was spending in the general election just a few years ago. so there is no doubt it had a huge impact. you cant disconnect what they did in get out the vote from the data operation and what they did in tv advertising from the data operation, it was all wrapped into one thing.

General election just a few years ago. so there is no doubt it had a huge impact. you cant disconnect what they did in get out the vote from the data operation and what they did in tv advertising from the data operation, it was all wrapped into one thing. these people will tell you tech does not win elections. you need a candidate. you need a message. it makes campaigning that much more efficient. there was a lot of talk they were going to reshape politics and continue on into governing mode and...

Of the fact that that investigation appears to be expanding? and what does it mean that its expanding in this direction? joining us now, political correspondent for business insider, whos been covering the russian scandal in depth, and in particular, this question of whether the russian intelligence operation intersected with the trump data operation. good to see you. >> thank you. >> you wrote about this in the context of the fact that there were two pieces of the investigation, one that looked...

Trump jr. didnt see major stories like these during the summer about russian hackers penetrating the dnc or tweets like this from roger stone saying quote of course the russians hacked hillary clintons eem or this joint statement from the intelligence community that i mentioned in early october as trump jr. is in the midst of talking with wikileaks, they released the following. quote, the russian government directed the compromise of e-mails from u.s. persons and institutions on sites like wikil...

Ran that data operation are now pushing back saying wait a minute. we did a good job. >> bill: thats to be debated, too. she was also asked why she was not in wisconsin and she blames scott walker the republican governor there. a bit more about how she forecasts into the future and how she sees power in congress in 2018. >> if we can flip those, if we can go deeper into where i did well, where we could get good candidates, i think flipping the house is certainly realistic. >> bill: well have a l...

During the campaign and where investigators believe russia may have tried to capitalize on his efforts, cnns evan perez has the latest from washington. >> christine and dave, there are many parts of this meddling investigation, and the multiple roles that jared kushner played in the campaign and the transition. the presidents son-in-law and senior adviser helped to build the data operation. which he says may target voters in key states. the fbi is interested in finding out where the russian spie...

Switzer land to talk to iran to negotiate on behalf of hostages or something like that. its not an independent communication system through a foreign governments embassy. >> now everyone before this news broke kushner was under scrutiny of course with the fbi looking at the data operation he developed to target voters during the 2016 election, his relationship with general michael flynn and the relationship he had with the russia so kim, he wears a lot of hats. what are you hearing about this ne...

The data operation is fascinating. one of the questions is how did the russians target what they did. we saw in the congressional testimony earlier this year that they were very focused on spreading their fake news into states that mattered and places that mattered. how did they do that? it has been a question that is reverberating around. this raises the possibility of as the reports said knowingly or unknowingly tagging along with the data targeting efforts of the campaign itself. that will be...

Transition and the campaign where investigators believe russia may have tried to capitalize on his efforts. cnns evan perez has the latest from washington. >> reporter: christine and dave, there are many tentacles in this ongoing russia election meddling investigation, and increasingly, they all connect to jared kushner and the multiple roles that he played in the campaign and the transition. the presidents son-in-law and senior adviser helped build the campaigns data operation, which kushner ha...