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A neutralization company. to target voters, they are less likely and deceptive messages, or in some cases, completely fabricated story lines. but the second thing i think is more insidious and something most people arent discussing, it is of grave concern to me, that, it says there is a lot of indicia out there. its not just the campaign was using cambridges service, they rep politicked the data set as a part of the larger alamo. in particular the campaign manager was the digital director. we ta...

The trump campaign is down playing their relationship with cambridge, too. the critical thing is if you look at brad, who is the digital director bragging about the size of their data base, the size of trumps database is the same size of the cambridge database and they talked about the fact they used cambridge as models to use look alike audiences. to some extent on the regulation front, i treat this like a consumer product. it isnt just the fact cambridge did something wrong but all the derivat...

Service and with that, they are able to do a lot of targeting. i think that was their advantage with the trump campaign. the trump campaign is down playing their relationship with cambridge, too. the critical thing is if you look at brad, who is the digital director bragging about the size of their data base, the size of trumps database is the same size of the cambridge database and they talked about the fact they used cambridge as models to use look alike audiences. to some extent on the regula...

Facebook under mounting pressure to answer questions about how a data firm with ties to president trumps 2016 campaign collected private information from 50 million facebook users without their permission. it followed reports that came brynn analytica. they are suing in a british court to find out what the data firm knows about him and how they got that information. professor david carroll joins me now. it is fascinating. first of all, what have you found? what did you get? >> we got an incomple...

And so that means that all of a sudden i only need to engage 50,000, 70,000, 100,000 people to get a really big data set really quickly and it scaled really quickly. we were able to get upwards of 50 million plus facebook records in the span of a couple months. >> yeah. we have to talk about this. gloria segal is with me and paul la monica our cnn money correspondent is with me. first things first. when i was reading about the 50 million facebook users, you cant help but wonder does that include...

Experts suggest that is evidence that it is not a complete data set. they would need perhaps my personality data. >> so do you believe they have that information? >> i do believe it. because the ceo, alexander nicks, drbragged he has 4,000 t 5,000 data sets on every american. i have a dozen. >> facebook said for its part, and im reading here, look, this is -- the back of the data breach is false, they said. access was gained from users who can chose to sign up to use an app. everyone gave their ...

Uk who says obviously this data set was included. >> what more are we learning from this whistleblower? >> here is a part of what he said about the bigger picture here involving the trump campaign. >> thats what he wanted. we offered him a way to accomplish what he wanted to do. which w which was change the culture of america. >> talking about who worked with cambridge analytica. thats one of the connections between the data mining firm that tries to profile voters and then to the trump campaign...

A five year aid package for jordan president trump reversed decades of u.s. policy in december when he recognized as israels capital. and israels prime minister benjamin netanyahu has hit back at police a recommendation from those police that he faced corruption charges he described allegations that he accepted bribes as biased and extreme with holes like swiss cheese israels attorney general must now decide whether to press charges. some for business news with helen humphrey and we have to talk...

Theres a brotherhood when you serve these positions. you dont serve because you make a lot of money. you serve because you think theres a greater cause and people around you have your back. if you look at the elimination of personnel around the white house, communications director spokesman, white house chief of staff, attacks on the fbi, attacks on the department of justice, im sure people are sitting back and saying, man this is groundhog day every day. i cant -- at some point, even though its...

Jim comey and a few expressions of incredulity at the way the fbi was being talked about. >> trump right now, again, touring the sheffer factory. doesnt look like he was pressing the big red button there. neither here nor there. is there evidence, ben, or reason to believe that maybe rank and file felt differently? these were the leaders of groups, the heads of departments e-mailing their staff. could it be that just regular fbi agents with no one below them might have felt differently? >> look,...