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Good evening to all of you. welcome to the program. mr. chuto, to you first. we are learning tonight that cambridge analytica, a firm that was central to the data operation of the trump campaign reached out to wikileaks early in the campaign seeking access to hillary clintons private e-mails. how significant is this and what do we know right now? >> well, at a minimum an attempt at collaboration like this raises questions about the willingness of people associated with the trump campaign. their ...

Was that the data operation of the campaign was just trump and his twitter feed. no, in fact, they had three different sources of polling. and not only that, they had a team of kram bridge data scientists embedded in san diego who were doing very sew fists indicate handle work. in the weeks right before the election when stomach started winging wisconsin -- he was there because the cambridge models told him thats where you can pick up voters. >> so in that statement today we only relied on rnc a...

Analytica vastly overstated work did it for the trump campaign during the election cycle. that raises some questions. why was the trump campaign paying millions of dollars to a data firm when wasnt a key player in its own data operation? according to the statements from folks inside the campaign. so the efforts to distance themselves from cambridge analytica, milquetoast as best. >> thank you. >> you covered the white house. >> you look at this report. the direct request to work assange, his den...

Things are headed now. >> i think they are headed exactly where we would expect them to head. i think it would be a lot more important with the mueller investigation. data is the king here. today they had the person in charge of the data operation for donald trump in before the house committee. we also have that clip that you played before with respect to facebook and whether or not facebook basically, the ads they have for the russians were coordinated with the ads the trump campaign was runnin...

Investigations of their background? this guy should have had his clearance pulled and lawyers verified he called not a back channel but a way to get information from russia generals in syria. clearance pulled. and donald trump is allowing him to serve at his pleasure. >> yet it didnt happen. go to another person now pulled from the russian probe. we dont talk enough, robert mercer. and extensive financial ties throughout the trump administration. now it hears according to a daily beast report we...

The report came out that his lawyers verified that he asked the russians for secured crypto graphic communications that he called not a back channel but a way to get information from russian generals in syria. donald trump is allowing him to serve at his pleasure. >> lets go to another person now pulled into the russian probe. thats robert mercer. his daughter rebecca and he have extensive financial ties throughout the trump administration. now it appears the russia probe is now looking into a c...

In. we know that the fbi at a certain point in time and he seems to have information on this, too, asked steel for more information and he was sending them the reports. so hes just basically saying, you know, we need to know more about the motives. actually, some degree you do. some degree you dont. and ultimately what was in the steel dossier is not important in terms of the committee reaching conclusions about interactions between the trump campaign and russian officials or anyone representing...

The top mi-6 intelligence officers on the russian beat. we see the reports that he sent in. we know that the fbi at a certain point in time and he seems to have information on this, too, asked steel for more information and he was sending them the reports. so hes just basically saying, you know, we need to know more about the motives. actually, some degree you do. some degree you dont. and ultimately what was in the steel dossier is not important in terms of the committee reaching conclusions ab...

Things in an unpredictable presidency is whenever the russia stuff comes up, donald trump kind of losing his mind. >> kind of? >> i think were potentially facing that again. we co he feels any questions, any suggestions that russia interfered on his behalf undermined the legitimacy of his election. we know how much the popular vote bothers him. this is in the sail category. >> when you call the white house and ask about the fate of jared and ivanka, the status, the answer has been for nine month...

Tweeter feeds? which facebook feeds? that takes, you know, intelligence analysis on a scale that, where only u.s. citizen koss have provided that. when that happens, youre going to find the bridge to what could arguably be called treason. because that took a large-scale data group that had that information and either handed it off or allowed it to fall off a truck in front of russian intelligence servers and from there russians created product and launched them back to attack democracy. >> congr...