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Searching on the dark web for russians who may have had clintons 33,000 missing e-mails. to be clear, the idea that the data firm reached out to wikileaks alone, does not meet a crime at face value and we should note there have been no accusations of wrongdoing. anderson. >> joining our panel tonight is also josh green. josh, we talked yesterday, you actually wrote an article where you were basically embedded, i think with 12 days to go in the campaign, in the data operation of the trump campaig...

>> steve bannon became ceo of the trump campaign. before that he was vice president of cambridge analytica. while working for firm had urged trump campaign to hire them as far back as april. in september 2016, trump campaign made biggest payment, $5 million, eventually totaled nearly $6 million, payments for data management services. the firm has offices in london, new york and right in washington, d.c., three blocks away from the white house. cnn has reached out to cam bridge analytica for a re...

The talent from cambridge analytica. 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 really liked him, they wanted to hire him. he was under contract with cambridge analytica. so they did a deal where they could get this particular individual and several others to work within the operation. sort of what theyre differing on is the data. and that really is key. c...

Reaching out to wikileaks. so this will be part of a puzzle with other pieces, such as roger stone telling the hill he had an intermediary who connected him with julian assange, and according to the p wall street journal, there was a reach out to the dark web. to be clear, the idea that the data firm reached out to wikileaks alone, does not meet a crime at face value and we should note there have been no criminal accusations. >> josh green joins the panel. you wrote an article where you were emb...

There was some specific reason. and im speculating here because i dont know, pertaining to partly liaison sensitivities or some interaction with some trade craft that perhaps is still viable. so i really dont have a good answer for that. im speculating. >> why do you think after all these years people are so fascinated by this? >> well, i think theres always been an aura of conspiracy about it. theres always been the speculation that lee harvey oswald didnt act alone, that hassling erred over ma...

These years people are so fascinated by this? >> well, i think theres always been an aura of conspiracy about it. theres always been the speculation that lee harvey oswald didnt act alone, that has lingered over many, many years. i was around when kennedy was assassinated. i was an officer in the air force when that happened. and those doubts have sprung eternal. >> lets turn now. i want to talk to you about currently whats happening with the administration and this new information about cambrid...

Blocks away from the white house. cnn has reached out to cambridge analytica for a response in the wake of the revelations about wikileaks, but despite our repeated attempts, we have not heard back. >> but in november just before the election, cambridge analyticas ceo alexander knicks did speak to cnn about his data operation and the newly reopened fbi investigation into, you guessed it, hillary clintons e-mails. >> clearly there are unknown nns. you know, such as whats recently happened in the ...

Beating heart of the trump campaigns data operation, including this bbc tour of where the operation had been housed. >> cambridge an lit ka was here. so it was just a line of computers. this is where their operation was and this is kind of the brain of the data. this was the data center. >> this is the data center, the center of the data center. >> exactly right. yes, it was. >> im joined by business insider political correspondent natasha bare trant whos been covering this and msnbc contributor...

If this is true, it means that the trump campaigns data firm was trying to help the russians disseminate anti-clinton documents stolen by agents of a foreign government. the trump campaign is trying to play down its connection to cambridge, claiming in a statement that it relied only on data from the rnc. quote, any claims that voter data from any other source played a key role in the victory are false. according to the campaigns own fec filings, the trump campaign paid cambridge an lit ka $5.9 ...

They were certainly interested in those. >> it sounds like raiders of the lost ark. look, the data operation i think is a principle focus for investigators. because i think one of the questions everyone is wondering now that we have more information, probably not all the information were going to have about the extent of russian use of social media to target vote issers in the u.s. is whether somebody sitting at a basement in moscow, 400 pounds on a bed, as donald trump said, knew where to targe...