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Republican party. >> dangerous we the party to rely on big-name donors. he is running constantly about impeachment, he will pour $110 million and the left leaning progressive candidates this fall, the democratic party often doesnt align with him so dangerous to throw in big money. >> you hit the nail on the head, that is the heart of the issue. in 2015, writes priebus, not much in the weeds, data inside the confines of the rnc, to have their own data network. and cant rely on a billionaire, deve...

Brian: president obama has this reaction to president trumps election victory in 2016. ainsley: in a new memoir by former aide ben rhodes obama said. this maybe this is what people want. i have the economy set up well for him. no facts, no consequences. they can just have a cartoon. here to react is white house press secretary former white house press secretary sean spicer and author of the book "briefing, the politics, the president and the press." >> congratulations. im behind pete here. brian...

Anybody on either side disclosing it. thats the allegation for the brexit campaign, and by allegation thats for the republican 2014s midterm elections where they allegedly had foreign workers coming over here working as a dry run for the 2016 election race. and thats a question for the 2016 election itself where the trump campaign paid cambridge analytica just under $6 million for the data operation, that was brought up on our show a couple days back, people should start looking at the smallness...

>> you look at what facebook said since then, and tried to crack down and get this data deleted or reclaimed. what does this say about how the process is and how difficult it will be. >> it is extremely difficult for them to verify that in fact all of this data is under wraps and has been deleted. clearly it has not been. our u.k. partners have seen the data. in fact they used the data to find voters in colorado. they went knocking door-to-door. some of those voters say it is very unsettled to k...

And said what they were doing in republican campaigns in 2014 appeared to be illegal. quote, two former cambridge workers that spoke on the conditions of anonymity that violated laws said concerns about the legality of come brid cambridges work were regular employee conversations after the 2014 vote. two former workers said employees worried the company was giving former employees potentially inaccurate immigration documents to provide upon entering the united states. the dock the shk document s...

Laurie asked specifically do you believe facebook impacted the result opening statement of 2016 election. mark zuckerbergs said it is hard to have a full assessment. do you believe facebook as a whole did impact the election? >> yes. there are still many questions about whether the adversary worked with the trump campaign and whether the trump campaign used facebook to amplify a stolen hacked information that the russians were using in their campaign. we should continue to explore this in our ho...

Go. >> in a cnn exclusive, facebook ceo mark zuckerberg said he will talk to congress about how cambridge analytica used facebook data without their knowledge. what questions would they have for zuckerberg specifically eric swalwell, good to have you with us. >> good morning. >> hes happy to if hes the right person. he is the ceo. do you believe he is the right person to speak to you? and what do you want to know? >> mark zuckerberg is the right person for congress to hear from and someone we sh...

>> we know for a fact cambridge analytica was one of the trump campaigns data providers or contractors, how invaluable they really were has been a matter of debate. this is one of those cases where robert mueller knows a lot more than we do. mueller reportedly sought out documents from cambridge analytica last year according to the wall street journal as part of the wider investigation into russian interference. we know mueller is looking at trumps data operation. >> brian stelter, thank you so ...

Instead used data from the republican national committee. but in may of last year, forbes magazine published a number of never before seen quotes from its november 2016 interview with kushner on the data operation. kushner told moshs that facebook and digital targeting were the most effective ways to reach the audiences. after the primary we started ramping up because we knew that doing a national campaign is different than doing a primary campaign. that was when we formalized the system because...