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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 jared occur ner on the trump campaigns data operation. kushner told foeshgs that we found that facebook and digital targeting the most effective ways of reaching the audiences. after the primary, we started ramping up because we knew doing a national campaign is different than doing a primary campaign. that was whe...

>> whats being done to stop it from happening again. >> and inside the texas serial bombing investigation. >> the bombings in austin are terrible. local, state, and federal are working hand-in-hand to get to the bottom of it. >> this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. well, good evening. im chuck todd here in washington. welcome to "mtp daily." buckle up. its been a wild day of headlines involving russia, the president, vulnerabilities in our election system, bob muellers probe, facebook,...

Not close, loyal allies of the president. chris wray over at the fbi, despite the fact that he worked with chris christie is close, is sort of in the same broad social circles, in the same world as joirjs andy mccabe and bob mueller. if the president wanted a justice department that would sort of indicator to his whims, he is not getting it. >> i will note he did get his way on andrew mccabe. >> thats true. >> after berating him for over a year. betsy woodruff and harry litman, thank you for bei...

Not close, loyal allies of the president. chris wray over at the fbi, despite the fact that he worked with chris christie, is close, is sort of in the same broad social circles, in the same world as james comey, andy mccabe and bob mueller. if the president wanted a justice department that would sort of indicator to his whims, he is not getting it. >> i will note he did get his way on andrew mccabe. >> thats true. >> after berating him for over a year. betsy woodruff and harry litman, thank you ...

>> who else in the trump world is getting tied up into this? how does steve bannon factor into this? >> steve bannon was with cambridge analytica from the very beginning. he loved the idea of mining social media for information about people and sending messages to them to change their votes. he was very excited about this idea from day one. >> this is obviously of interest to robert mueller. we know they already were asking questions about the data operation. theyve subpoenaed information about ...

A lot of scrutiny about that question, questions about that. would he perhaps go back to the campaign. would he be more effective? earlier this week, the president announced his re-election campaign manager. would he be more effective -- >> a jared ally. >> exactly. >> you know these people better than any of us. katy? >> interesting choice for campaign manager. he was head of the data operation during the campaign, not one who was managing people in a traditional sense. this is someone thats go...

Extremely close to brad parscale but is embroiled in scrutiny from mueller. and facing scrutiny in the white house where his security clearance was downgraded. and this move putting one of his close associates at the head of the re-election campaign shows jared kushner still has juice and will continue to have juice through the re-election. i also think this timing is usual because there were increasing rumblings that maybe trump would step aside, that all this pressure from mueller, from the ho...

Huge data operation, i remember reading a story about some facility in the desert southwest. >> yeah, thats right. that was actually in the southwest because brad parscales company was based in san antonio, texas, and thats where much of the campaigns digital and data was based. brad himself didnt have a lot of experience in this world before this campaign. he came into the trump orbit because he was essentially a website designer. he designed the website for the trump golf courses. but he had t...

Independent and protected. >> he told the "times" quote i have the absolute right to do what i want to do with the justice department. is that true? >> yes, that is true. thats the carry part. and the reason why he has the absolute right is congress has not passed anything and we need to know the answers to these really important questions about whether or not the trump campaign in anyway colluded with the russians. we dont know the answer until we get the response from mueller. its important no...

Michael issakof, questioning staffers about their digital operation to target voters in key swing states. he says prosecutors are looking into whether theres link to the work of russian trolls and bots that tried to influence last years election. he points out the son-in-law, jared kushner, managed the trump campaigns digital operation. after winning the election, kushner told forbes magazine, quote, i called somebody who works for one of the technology companies that i work with and i had them ...