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Collusion between the trump campaign and russia. democrats say that was just not complete. what we wont see for a little while is the actual report that is being declassified now and probably take several weeks. the senate intel committees own investigation continues, that is widely seen as the investigation having more credibility on capitol hill. this morning were looking at new reaction from inside facebook. ceo mark zuckerberg finally speaking apologizing for exposure of millions of facebook...

Of -- with all of their rule breaking. you know, the dnc -- >> rules matter. >> the dnc break-in was -- in the 1970s was delegitimatizing even though nobody had to prove that what they learned in that break-in had any effect on the 1972 election, right? so theyre cheating in this process in which they eked out a minority victory, i think delegitimatizes this president, whether or not any of these little escapades was the determining factor. >> the cause. >> and also i want to push back against t...

Breathing down its neck. you just mentioned fec and campaign finance law and we have a new breaking story tonight that i want to give you a chance to respond to that steve bannon oversaw cambridge analyticas collection of facebook data, according to the former employee, the whistleblower, who said that bannon, who sat on the board of that company was overseeing a lot of their actions. that he oversaw and sort of gave the green light to this big kind of data scraping that cambridge analytica did ...

>> kiley morse for channel 4 news which conducted that undercover investigation of cambridge analytica. lets start with that. essentially we can do a no fingerprints information campaign on social media. is it credible? is that the kind of thing that they did actually do? >> well, yes, i think there is evidence that they were able to use proxies. indeed they were quite detailed in some of their evidence to us or some of their comments to us about that, about how you can go in and use a charity, ...

Presidency, there needs to be a detrumpification process where we rebuild some of the norms, pass new laws an say as a society we are creating the structures to make sure this never happens again. >> we make sure the people at the end of tv ads say we approve this message. our laws need to catch up to the fact that isnt the only way we communicate. >> thats the simplest, most clear example of the way the rules havent kept up, right? this idea that you can have covert ads on facebook, people dont...

Thing to focus on trump. i think its trump plus instruments, tools that exist in the political culture as it is, right? so what we see here is that theres a way in which microtargeting, theres a way nsk psychographics can be used. ted cruzs campaign used or hired cambridge analytica. >> former obama people said we did a lot of data scraping off of facebook which they let us do which wasnt precisely analogous but a little envelope pushing. >> so what were seeing is perhaps the manufacture of cons...

House intelligence committee, of course theyre interested in the idea of any overlap, accidental or intended, between the kind of modus operrandi of the russianing and cambridge analytica. maybe this is how you disseminate information online but certainly it seems to be a blueprint at work that can be traced to both the russians and a data analytics group like cambridge analytica. >> the regulatory environment in the uk means that cambridge analytica has a lot of folks breathing down its neck. y...

Theyre like, yeah, this is what the guy does. and it just goes back to you cant assume because the guy won the election with 46% of the vote that, therefore, the american people have validated this approach. thats not the case. they didnt like him then. they dont really like him now. and what hes doing, hes going to try to do the same thing again, right? the whole concept behind it is they dont think they have a good enough argument to win. >> well, i want to trouble this a bit because i think i...

Trouble with uk regulators. >> i mean i cant speak to the direct line of control when it came to harvesting that facebook data, obviously, but, you know, steve bannon was -- part of the reason steve bannon was interested in cambridge analytica was because of the kinds of models they were testing. the only way to ensure that they were -- they might be effective and to ensure that they were able to test messages, which we know they were doing early on too, things like drain the swamp, the only way...

Is it credible? is that the kind of thing that they did actually do? >> well, yes, i think there is evidence that they were able to use proxies. indeed they were quite detailed in some of their evidence to us or some of their comments to us about that, about how you can go in and use a charity, for example, or use some other kind of unbranded entity and sure that thats the way you get this message out. so as a humble facebook user, you have no idea where that message might be coming from. i mean...