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Wanted to help julian assange potentially distribute material that he could have obtained illegally. >> in response to betsys reporting for the daily beast the trump campaign issued the following statement. we as a campaign made the choice to rely on the voter data of the republican national committee to help elect donald j. trump. thats not true. i found sec filings that they paid cambridge $6 million in 2016 for their companies. its owned by robert and rebecca mercer. another sign, sabrina. >>...

Trump criticized her for deleting thousands of e-mails on her private server. the campaign responded by distancing itself from the firm, and it said we as a campaign made the choice to rely on the voter data of the republican national committee to help elect president donald j. trump. you can see here in the statement, the campaign avoiding the core issue that a firm it hired reached out to wikileaks during the campaign. wolf? >> pamela, thank you very much. our justice correspondent. lets get m...

Director of the trump campaign issued a statement write iing i part, we as a campaign made the choice to rely on the voter data of the republican national committee to help elect president trump. any claims that voter data from any other source played a key role in the victory are false. of course, one problem with the statement is it has nothing to do with the question in hand. its talking about voter data and ignore iing thes the clear connections. including nearly $6 million paid to the firm ...

Community as a propaganda arm of the russians. so this new revelation, wolf, establishes the closest known link between the trump campaign and wikileaks, and it happened while trump was on the campaign trail increasingly criticizing hillary clinton for deleting thousands of e-mails from her private server. we should mention the daily beast was first to report the e-mail outreach to wikileaks. just a short time ago, the trump campaign head sent out a statement seemingly off of use catersing the c...

Unbelievable. it tells you the inner heart. you got to read it. >> wikileaks, i love wikileaks. >> and julian assange himself has confirmed this e-mail exchange that it happened earlier today, he tweeted i can confirm an approach by cambridge prior to november last year and can confirm it was rejected by wikileaks. now, lets remember who were dealing with here. when you think about somebody reaching out to wikileaks and asking for help to get hillary clintons e-mails. lets not put it on a democr...

A big donor. >> this is rebecca bird, over here, a different rebecca. i want to read a portion of the trump campaign statement released. we as a campaign chose to rely on the voter data of the republican national committee to help elect president donald j. trump. they made a point of speaking of cambridge analyticalas role, and today no mention of cambridge so why are they now trying to distance themselves what they were earlier bragging about? >> clearly, wolf, because theres a controversy a...

Hes had suck u success with it, but it starts rubbing people the wrong way. i think were going to see flake is positioned himself if the mueller report ends up being devastating on donald trump, people like corker and flake could emerge as being leader of a new post trump party. if donald trump holds suit, hell just make a lot of money. flake and you know, be a consultant, but i think hes going to challenge trump in some way in the coming next two years. >> all right, thank you all very much. an...

He said he had contacted assange trying to get access to hks i mails to turn them into a searchable database for the campaign or for pro trump political action xes. now this is according to two sources who have seen this e-mail. the sources say no trump campaign officials were on the e-mail chain, but rebecca mercer, whos actually funds their family funds cambridge an lit kai was on that e-mail. not to mention the fact that cambridge was hired by the trump campaign about the same time that this ...

Try to work with wikileaks, which remember, ended up publishing e-mails hacked from the dnc and clinton campaign chair and u.s.ed hackers acquired those e-mails. they got that to wikileaks to eventually publish. so there are already questions. as you know, about trump friend roger stone and his ties to wikileaks because he made public comments during the campaign seeming to anticipate these document dumps from wikileaks i should say stone denied direct contact with assange, but again, this is ju...

Heres something general kelly said today about those condolence phone calls that we can all agree with. >> if elect to call a family like this, it is about the most difficult thing you could imagine. theres no perfect way to make that phone call. >> that was general kelly today at his best. theres no perfect way to make that phone call. but there is a way to fix what happened in that phone call but it involves something that donald trump has never done in his life. apologize. any decent human be...