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Joining me now is ken delaney for nbc news and jill wine-banks, special prosecutor and contributor. jill, your reaction? >> well, im reminded of something that i learned that i thought was fascinating from a university of chicago professor who pointed out that the micro targeting we are now seeing through facebook is something similar to the use of radio versus television in the nixon/kennedy debates. people who saw him on television saw the debate on television thought that kennedy won. people ...

Raises as many questions as answers. joining me now is ken delaney for nbc news and jill wine-wangs, special prosecutor and contributor. jill, your reaction? >> well, im reminded of something that i learned that i thought was fascinating from a university of chicago professor who pointed out that the micro targeting we are now seeing through facebook is something similar to the use of radio versus television in the nixon/kennedy debates. people who saw him on television saw the debate on televis...

At odds that facebook was anti-trump and while it does echo a line that he used announced that he would speak about staff it provided to the trump campaign, by facebook, google an twitter, it would certainly be odd if facebook was part of screening its own full-time employees for their partisan loyalty before quote embedding them with the trump campaign as the campaign claimed coming amidst the russia inquiry raises as many questions as answers. joining me now is ken delaney for nbc news and jil...

Serves on the senate judiciary committee that serves on one of the committees in the probe. >> good morning. >> do you think that the russians are politically strategic and savvy enough to know that they should have targeted some of their ads to michigan and wisconsin, or from your investigation, do you believe somehow the campaign helped them figure that out? >> it is very important report by cnn reflects the severity and scope of russian meddling distortion and manipulation of public opinion t...

Sophistication as it relates to american politics worth drilling down on. is it possible that the russians obtained that information by watching informative shows like "new day". sure, that is possible. >> but not who to send them to. >> this is the targeting of -- this is micro targeting using social media, which is something that is not even that old in terms of campaigns in this country, much less a foreign power using it to target voters. very sophisticated in terms of political tools and ex...

Questions here. one is this. was there any coordination between the trump campaign and russians on this voter targeting, right? we know russians were doing it on facebook, on twitter. drew griffin reported 600,000 followers for just 50 twitter accounts. there was a great report, i dont know if you saw it, but jared kushner gave an interview and described in detail how he was trained how to use micro targeting on facebook. specifically for voter targeting. he was proud of this. he told forbes jus...

Act yeah one of the people all say its nothing really new that weve had it is long as weve had social media but i have to say whats happening in this election campaign is new and different because there have been activities in the past by certain vague groupings trying to gain influence but in all the years ive been working on this topic ive never seen anything like this using. fake news is not the only way we can be influenced another relatively new method of campaigning is micro-targeting the ...

Hacking. so all the fuel comes back to the russian hand of hacking. in terms of the micro targeting and the companies that think they can do the psycho graphic stuff. i equate it to digital snake oil. i worked with them in counter terrorism space, and they could never really deliver on those things. >> if a polt ster gets one of these elections right he can dine out on it for three years, and then the next year he blows it and hes nobodys expert. trump looks like the genius, it looks like he got...

Every motive not to put down that meeting with the russians. it really enhances his motive, not an element of the crime, but certainly enhances an element of the crime that is tmateriality and why his lie was material. at the same time, it was the same time that jartt kushner took over the entire part of the campaign that had to do with the data management and micro targeting. it is another allegation that comes up with respect to a experience between the campaign and the russian government. >> ...

All of this information to wikileaks. at a minimum, there could be a conspiracy to commit hacking here under the computer fraud and abuse act, title 18, u.s. code. theres conspiracy. theres also the question of the collusion between the campaign and russia with that micro targeting, whether or not they actually used russia as a means to get to clinton voters to suppress the vote. that could be a crime in itself, using campaign funds from a foreigner to fund what was, in effect, an effort to supp...