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Consider. >> with cambridge analytica, the one piece of good news is even though they are a bad and evil company, they are an incompetent one. what they did never worked for anybody. >> because were hearing about it. >> and all they were paying for was hookers. >> except that russian data scientists harvested all our information and gave it to cambridge analytica. >> were wrapping it. tony romm, julie rogowski and evan siegfried. >> more on the crisis in syria after saturdays suspected chemical ...

Villain. like i said even if it was effective, the fact that it would have been taken from facebook, i think is outlandish on its face and now they are saying that it wasnt anyway. >> martha: both the company and trump campaign say none of this facebook data was used in anything that they did. now, the cruz campaign also hired cambridge analytica at one point. did you find their information useful? >> they were a data science staffing firm for us. very good data scientists. people on my team in ...

Analytica, the firm reportedly paid by the trump campaign to use their data to target voters. is this data still out there? joining us now, matthew rosenberg, cnn national security analyst, national security correspondent for the new york times matthew part of the team that broke the story over the weekend. there is a lot in this story, matthew. so help us -- help us understand it. cambridge analytica harvested private information from more than 50 million users. explain to us who is cambridge a...

Clash? >> i think you are. i think youre going to have a splinter net really. you already see china going in a different direction than not only the u.s. but europe in terms of how they are thinking about the internet and regulating the internet. very tight ties between the state and tech firms there and unlimited ability to collect data. i spoke to several western data scientists that were envious of how easy it is to collect data. in china, as they were worried about the authoritarian impact o...

>> rana, do you sense as a result of all of this, youre going to have a chinese-american clash? >> i think you are. i think youre going to have a splinter net really. you already see china going in a different direction than not only the u.s. but europe in terms of how they are thinking about the internet and regulating the internet. very tight ties between the state and tech firms there and unlimited ability to collect data. i spoke to several western data scientists that were envious of how ea...

These three states they believed could swing in favor of trump. in a press release cambridge analytic openly explained its strategy. when in the final weeks of the race the firms data scientists recalculated voter turnout and recalibrated their models to show how donald trump could win the g.o.p. candidate revisited states like michigan and wisconsin. but there is one question that the english firm did not address how did they reach these targeted voters they did it without their knowledge using...

Firm identified many such voters in three states wisconsin michigan and pennsylvania these three states they believed could swing in favor of trump. in a press release cambridge analytic her openly explained its strategy. when in the final weeks of the race the firms data scientists recalculated voter turnout and recalibrated their models to show how donald trump could win the g.o.p. candidate revisited states like michigan and wisconsin. but there is one question that the english firm did not a...

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. ...

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...

Analytica with the success. i should mention brad pascal did tell 60 "minutes" that they didnt play a huge role. >> appreciate it. i want to bring in the panel. josh, i want to start with you. you actually sort of embedded with the campaign in the final days and wrote an article about their data operation. was this cambridge involved? zbl zbl zblae. >> yeah, they had a full team of data scientists down in san anton antonio, in trumps data headquarters. brad parscale was our host and spoke about ...