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United states. when the united states had seven million people, that was one thing. it has 330 million people now. it is an enormous challenge. we want to use it to get all the demographic data about where we are as a country and this is the only time we can have it. >> and you complicate it i think needlessly by making it a political football. like, thats a terrible thing because we need to have faith in the sensus. >> okay october that note, john, zer lynna, fhphilip, thank you r being with us...

Counterintelligence operations, these active measures, theyre smart. they can learn a lot about american and american politics through open source methods, through the internet, through books, through a lot of other things. if youre going to run an active measure campaign that has the kind of precision and effect that the russian social media effort did in the united states in places where donald trump won by a very slim margin, in places that we know like wisconsin, like michigan, like pennsylv...

American and american politics through open source methods, through the internet, through books, through a lot of other things. if youre going to run an active measure campaign that has the kind of precision and effect that the russian social media effort did in the united states in places where donald trump won by a very slim margin, in places that we know like wisconsin, like michigan, like pennsylvania, to run that social media operation requires a degree of expertise and sophistication and p...

Demographic data, but we have been getting anecdotal information about the fact that they are suffering. what are the things you want our viewer to know about what the contractors suffer in an extended government shut down in which they will not likely collect back pay? >> thats the whole point. many have been put into alternative work locations and some have been reassigned or asked to take leave or training. all of them have been denied the ability to do the work they were hired to do. we are ...

About the four weeks to the election. the reason you have that fancy graphic is because youre debuting this new election forecast for cnn. were going to be talking at least every tuesday about it. >> i look forward. >> you crunched the numbers just before the show. give us the forecast. >> i think the forecast in the house of representatives is that democrats are right now favored to take control of that body. the best estimate we have is theyll end up with 225 seats. thats seven more than they ...

Debuting this new election forecast for cnn. were going to be talking at least every tuesday about it. >> i look forward. >> you crunched the numbers just before the show. give us the forecast. >> i think the forecast in the house of representatives is that democrats are right now favored to take control of that body. the best estimate we have is theyll end up p 225 seats, thats seven more than they need to gain control. i should point out the margin of error is wide enough that we should not be...

Myself included. >> absolutely. gillian: when you talk about transparency now, if this is true and the russians were able to target americans based on particular demographic data, how did they have access to in? are the social media companies sharing this with the russians? are the russians hacking into some somebody whereby they can get it? are they purchasing that information from other private sector operators? give us a sense how that would work. >> so i think the russians -- lets just take ...

Agency bought about 3,000 ads that target specific groups of americans based on their profiles and their demographic data. this was during the 2016 election. does that ring true with you and what you know? >> absolutely. in fact, i think you made a great point before that there are some real divides amongst the american people. what the russians are tryinged to do is deliberately target specific audiences in order to exacerbate that divide. frankly, during the cold war what the soviets tried to ...

So whats interesting is we were looking at the data last night and from 2008 to 2016, we saw 105% increase in hispanic early voters. now, we dont know if they are all going to vote for hillary clinton, but if im going to las vegas with a dollar, im betting on the fact they voted for hillary clinton or by and large. in nevada alone, 30% of clark county, we dont have demographic data on who actually voted but we know hispanics make up 30% of that area. 57,000 people voted in one day alone on frida...

Theres this shy trump voter not telling you theyre going to vote but they would vote. we would see some evidence of that and were just not. a lot of the early voting, you cant know who these people are voting for but you can make good guesses based on their party and demographic data. its a positive sign. one of the things in terms of how the polls will fall, not only will you have the todd akin effect where theyre crashing so quickly theyre not picking it up, you also have a historic disparity ...