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Rncs voter data saying, quote, we kept both data operations going simultaneously and a lot shared between them. and bay that we could scale to a pretty good operation. >> they had a team of cambridge data scientists embedded in the trump headquarters who were doing very sophisticated models wok that helped to in which where the campaign was going to send donald trump. >> in august 2016 steve bannon became ceo of the trump campaign. before that he feels the vice president of cambridge analytica. ...

Cambridge analytica which reached out to julian assange of wikileaks seeking hillary clintons e-mails. what are we learning about the timeline of the events between cambridge analytica and the trump campaign? >> well, the timeline sheds light on the relationship between the campaign and the data firm. it appeared to have started in june of 2016. that is around the time that the mercer family, who founded cambridge analytica in part became trump supporters. so around that time the two teamed up, ...

The head of the firm reached out to wikileaks founder julian assange asking if he needed help with clinton-related e-mails. a request that julian assange said on twitter that he rejected. the firm was, in part, founded by wealthy republican donors, the mercer family, who began supporting trump in june 2016, around the same they started working together, the firm and the campaign. thats also when jared kushner took the reigns of all data operations for the campaigns. he told "forbes" magazine, th...

E-mails and wikileaks began releasing hacked e-mails from the dnc. >> we have more material related to the hillary clinton campaign. >> cambridge analytica founded by wealthy republican donors in 2014. began backing trump after gop primaries in june of 2015. that month jared kushner took over all data operations for the trump campaign. kushner said once his father-in-law won the nomination used cambridge analytica and rncs data. kept both operations going simultaneously and lot shared between th...

Through december. in addition jared kushner who headed up one of the data operations said to forbes magazine back in november just after the president won the election we kept both data operations going simultaneously and a lot shared between them. and by doing that we could scale to a pretty good operation. so it appears there he is giving credit to cambridge analytica with their success. >> stay right there. i want to bring in betsy woodruff. betsy, as we said, you broke the story this morning...

That contention? >> thats right. after trump won the nomination his campaign started series of payments to cambridge in july all the way through mid december, totallying just about $6 million. this is according to f.e. krechlt filings. jared kushner, the presidents son-in-law who headed up one of his data operations and is now senior adviser said to "forbes" back in november just after the president won, he said we kept both data operations going simultaneously and a lot shared between them. by ...

Figuring out how to build a bridge between the trump campaign and the rnc so we can analyze the resources they are available. we found they had a pretty good ground force that we could leverage. we used some of our best practices and some of their best practices. we kept both data operations going simultaneously and a lot shared in between them. and by doing that, we could scale to a pretty good operation. so, bob, how do you reconcile the two? >> i think its difficult to reconcile them, don. i ...

Our main source for data analytics. any claims that voter data from any other source played a key role in the victory ro are false. there are a few problems, but here is a big one right here. jared kushner who led the data operation told foshs magazine just one week ago after the election we spent a lot of time figuring out how to build a bridge between the trump campaign and the rnc so that we could analyze the resources they had available. we used some of our best practices and some of their b...

>> the trump campaign responded tonight by saying they just took the data the rnc paid for and gave them. heres what they said. once president trump secured the nomination in 2016, one of the most important decisions we made was to partner with the republican national committee on data analytics. we were proud to have worked with the rnc and its data experts and relied on them for our main source for data analytics. any claims that voter data from any other source played a key role in the victor...

Statement. now also jared kushner, who headed up one of the data operations, also told forbes magazine in an exclusive interview just after the election in november, that after the president won the nomination, they kept both data operations going, simultaneously, and a lot shared between them and by doing that, we could scale to a pretty good operation. kushner said. >> fascinating details. again, on what people close to the trump campaign, working for the trump campaign, wanted to do, tried to...