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Democratic primary. i think its too early to judge now who can be that one and only person who is standing on the debate stage taking on trump. i agree, i think joe biden would do great and be very formidable. i also think kamala harris and other candidates who are running for the presidency, we need to see how the do on the debate stage. theyre going to have their moments. we have 12 debates, two nights. the first two at least. its going to be a lot of air time for these folks to really prove t...

Analytical and their parent company. part of that was the ties to the russian government and other unexplained russian interests and ties between cambridge analytica and its parent company. a whistle blower was the main engine behind that scandal that ultimately shut down cambridge analytica this year. one of the things he raised alarms about, for some reason, testing u.s. audiences on russia and vladimir putin. >> some of the message testing which they did, even in 2014, well before the 2016 pr...

Company. a whistle blower named christopher wiley was the main engine behind that scandal that ultimately shut down cambridge analytica this year. one of the things he raised alarms about, for some reason, testing u.s. audiences on messaging related to russia and vladimir putin. >> some of the message testing which they did, even in 2014, well before the 2016 presidential election, involved testing opinions on vladimir putin. testing opinions on russian expansionism in eastern europe. putin was ...

Engine behind that scandal that ultimately shut down cambridge analytica this year. one of the things he raised alarms about, for some reason, testing u.s. audiences on russia and vladimir putin. >> some of the message testing which they did, even in 2014, well before the 2016 presidential election, involved testing opinions on vladimir putin. testing opinions on russian expansi expansionism in eastern europe. vladimir putin is the only one that was tested. >> as far as you know. >> when i was t...

>> absolutely. we talked about message testing. this is a big one. you have a lot of democrats looking at this, looking forward 2020, whether these statewide messages are going to work. this is obviously a lot bigger than a congressional district in queens. >> and to that point, can you sell the bernie sanders message, the ocasio-cortez message in the heartland? abdul sayed says yes. >> i think the democratic party has gotten complacent about how we win elections and more importantly about who w...

Theyre spending a ton. also interesting that the attacks on immigration, unemployment is low, the republican tax cut they say is a success, but theyre trying to drive out base turnout by putting immigration front and center. >> because it wasnt working. if you look at the early ads, it was about the economy. apparently it wasnt resonating with people. theyre also message testing. theyre looking at the rest of the map and seeing if this immigration play will work because they just kind of using h...

Well have open borders and higher taxes. >> ill work with president trump and congressional democrats if folks will sit down and be serious and commit to rebuilding this country. >> to your point about message testing, it will be interesting in a heavily republican district if you cant make nancy pelosi the boogie woman. will we keep seeing that through november? do the republicans have anything else? >> weve seen this over and over again. republicans have been pretty successful with this nancy ...

Fraud. so hes trotting that out. you tell me, he starts with a conclusion and hopes that evidence at some point presents itself. >> he almost always starts with coop collusion and hopes evidence will eventually present itself because this is what it will be. this is where it gets difficult, he often -- yes, he is often confused. he often doesnt know the facts as hes talking. he just talks. but he also is a lot more cognizant than sometimes his own staff likes to give him credit for. and so somet...

However, lets test your credibility. i want to give you the opportunity to stand by what you submit. the criticism is this was 2014. you were there. you werent there during any process of the campaign. how could you know what was done or not done that was right or wrong? fair criticism? >> well, let me just make it clear. i havent claimed to know definitively what happened in the 2016 cycle. i didnt work on the trump campaign and i havent made any of those claims. what i have provided is the evi...

Profiling, revealing the fact that have a massed this large data set on on americans and made it known to a company that had has formal information sharing agreements with the fsb. when you look at some of the message testing. >> youre talking about when bannon was testing out in terms on of softening up core support for their opponents. >> it is where you look at different issues you may want to run on on in the campaign and you test the response and you figure out who is interested in it and w...