Page 6 - Data Operation News Today

Witnesses might try to generate information or wear a wire. it would be an awkward phone call if flynn had picked up the phone and said, hey, president trump, do you remember that time when you told me, "a," "b," and "c"? i think most of us would get suspicious and wonder if that phone call was being recorded. in this case, its not likely, but thats very standard for federal prosecutors to use witnesses. and its very standard for someone like me to get up and call them liars. >> i just want to q...

With this big, broad piece of news. hes either got to wrap it up this summer or go into total quiettude, my opinion, until after the election so he doesnt seem to be throwing the election in one way or the other. >> julie, let me ask about this vein were seeing increasingly. data. following the money and 23 following the data over these last two years. and interviews by the house intelligence committee. bob mueller looking into this data operation on the trump campaign and the house issuing an i...

To target voters in swing states. seeking to determine if the joint effort was related to activities of russian trolls and bots aimed at influencing the american election. what are we to make of the fact that investigation appears to be expanding. what does it mean its expanding in this particular direction? joining us, nat ashia bert ron, been covering this in depth and in particular russian intersected with the trump data operations. you wrote about this in connection with fact that two separa...

Funny, in 2012 he tweeted this is like owning a newspaper without the losses. that is what it is. >> and yet those tweets are watched nervously in capitals across the globe. its not just the economic impact. it sets foreign policy. every time he tweets about kim jong-un, you dont think in seoul and tokyo, the alarm bells are going off. >> he tweeted that but he hasnt followed up, so he undermines his own credibility with the dictator. >> john, youre coming back tomorrow? >> i am. >> still ahead,...

Responded to a clinton tweet writing where are your 33,000 e-mails that you deleted? on june 12th, wikileaks founder said he might know. >> we have upcoming leaks in relation to hillary clinton which are great. >> meanwhile jared kushner took over the campaigns data operation in june according to an interview with forbes. it said he gained access to the rncs voter file and soon brought in the form cambridge analytica to target voters. that same month the ceo of cambridge analytica e-mailed wikil...

Go ahead, gene. sorry. >> im leaning toward the latter but well see. you know? well see. this is -- ron mentioned one thing, though, that i think we are all keeping our eye on and because obviously the step beyond michael flynn that could indeed be closer to the president is jared kushner. he was at the meeting at trump tower with donald trump jr. and paul manafort. and he was in charge of the data operation of the trump campaign. the russians -- sophisticated way targeted voters. how do they kn...

Its -- this is very weird and never invent this character as you said and you always want to -- when i listen to him, i wonder is he playing some sort of ultra sophisticated four-dplengsal chess or is he an idiot? and i mean -- >> those are the choices. okay? thats it? all right. let me think. i have to think about it. all right. go ahead, gene. sorry. >> im leaning toward the latter but well see. you know? well see. this is -- ron mentioned one thing, though, that i think we are all keeping our...

Intelligence community and by the fbi. we know that and presumably mueller is the coordinator of all that incoming information about jared kushner. all of these areas come together often on his portfolio as it were, which is so broad that it accident tends to politics, family money, all over the board. and thats why he is -- >> the other area, i think, that kushner is being inquired of is the cambridge analytica data separation. >> which he had talked about, the data operation. >> thats right. a...

And this is not just about an emotional crisis between the sanders camp camp and the clint. furthermore and not just everyone controlling, she reflected on the fact that the dnc has been suffocated for the last eight years. we dont just lose 11,000 candidates for no reason. this is not just about the bernies side or the clintons side. this is about the people that they let down knowing this has been going on for a long time. >> here is interesting and when i heard it, i said is that really a big...

>> yes, ive been doing some reporting on this as well today, trying to figure out why and how they could claim that. and the answer is, its a little bit complicated, but if you think about it, it does make sense. and that is what the trump campaign wanted to do was hire the talent from cambridge analytica. that there was one guy in particular that you probably worked with, he was the head of the data operation during the scott walker presidential campaign, which didnt last very long, and they re...