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Organization and a russian bank. jose pagliery is here with me now. its a complicated tale but an important one. what are we learning? >> whats happening here is this russian bank, alfa bank, was repeatedly looking at the contact information for the trump organization server in the united states. its like looking up a phone number. but it did that 2,800 times last summer. >> that sounds like a lot to a layman. >> it does, but put it in context, the computer scientists found this was 80% of the l...

Its looking up contact information. so while there isnt necessarily a phone call, usually it indicates something that might be an intention to communicate. thats what we heard from several computer scientists. one particular group of computer scientists who looked at this obtained these leaked internet records. records they were never, ever supposed to make public. and they were puzzled as to why a russian bank was doing this. was it trying to send an e-mail to the trump organization? they found...

Comment. alisyn? >> pamela, when you say the relationship was odd, what was so peculiar about those communications? >> reporter: whats odd about the communication is this russian bank repeatedly looked up the unique internet address of a particular computer server in the u.s. used by the trump organization. in fact, last summer during the presidential campaign, the russian bank looked up the address to this trump corporate server some 2800 times. more lookups than from any other source. the only...

Leaked internet records, records they were never supposed to make public, they were puzzled as to why a russian bank was trying to do it so often. was it trying to send e. maim to the trump organization? these scientists couldnt tell. last summer during the presidential campaign, the russian bank looked up the address to this trump corporate server some 2800 times. thats more look ups than the trump server received from any other source. the only other entity doing that many look ups for the tru...

She and her family have given a lot of money to the legislature and she basically runs the state when it comes to education. they do what she wants. in the year 2000, she and her husband sponsored a referendum to change the state constitution to permit public noun go to religious schools and the voters turned it down 69% to 31%. then dick devos ran for governor in 2006 and he lost and so they decided better to work from the inside. and what they have been able to do is to create like the wild we...

Been a laboratory because theres a lot of devos money there, he she has a high degree of influence, particularly in detroit. your assessment of her record there. >> you have to understand betsy devos. the family is worth over $5 billion according to "forbes" so they have a lot of money to spend. she and her family have given a lot of money to the legislature and she basically runs the state when it comes to education. they do what she wants. in the year 2000, she and her husband sponsored a refe...

Called on devos to release her tax returns. >> shepard: every indication is that betsy devos has growing republican support. >> yeah. people like jeb bush, senator orrin hatcher. 20 gop governors have endorsed her, incding rick snyder from michigan. he said she and her husband, dick devos, wants children no matter their race, income or zip code to have access to great schools and great teachers that prepare them for success in the work force. betsy devos has made no bones about saying she believ...

What should democrats do to message against it? >> i think they should message against the privatization, the stuff that we call the commons, the stuff that is for all of us. right now the president-elect is putting together a cabinet that basically contains four different kinds of people. people who are really inexperienced, billionaires, people with czy ideas and billionaires who have crazy ideas and are inexperienced and betsy devos is right at the top. >> not only that, her family has roots ...

Putting this through in a lame duck, and using a parliamentary technique in order to prevent a referendum. this just makes people angry. it makes them outraged. and i believe this is an absolutely outrageous action by the governor, and there will be a price to be paid. >> cindy, what about the outside groups that have poured money into the state to try to make this a right-to-work state? how much of an influence have they had in this? >> you know, i dont think theyre going to have the influence ...

And theyre not going to be successful in beating back workers. were going to show that its actually energizing our base. and people are saying that theyre angry about it. >> what was the name you put out? what was his name? dick what? >> dick devos. >> thats the amway guy. >> yep, thats right. >> and governor snyder seems to have -- seems to pay more attention to him than he does the citizens of the state. and thats very unfortunate. >> moving forward here, the only option you have here is 2014....