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Campaign. >> reporter: came bribridge anaa was born out of steve bannons vision for america. he had already advertised on breitbart news. but in 2016 he was looking for yet another tool in his arsenal, and he found it by creating cambridge analytica. former cambridge analytica employee christopher wylie said from the first meeting with bannon, it was clear the goal. not to push his campaign or fund it, but to change america. >> he was going to use as aggressive techniques as he can get away with...

Vision for america. he had produced propaganda inspired films. but in 2014, he was looking for another tool in his arsenal. christopher wylie said from his first meeting with bannon, it was clear the goal. to fundamentally change america. >> he sees this as warfare. he is going to use as aggressive techniques that he is going to get away with. this is steve bannon and robert mercer using a foreign military contractor to use some of the same techniques that the military used to fight isis on the ...

Techniques as he can get away with. >> reporter: do you realize what youre saying? youre talking about warfare on the american citizenry. >> this is steve bannon and robert mercy using a foreign military contractor to use some of the same techniques that the militaries use to fight isis on the american electorate. thats what they wanted, and thats what they got. >> reporter: cambridge analytica is a subsidiary of the british sel group. for 25 years, the military contractor has worked with 60 cou...

Propaganda inspired films, had run the conservative breitbart news. but in 2014, he was looking for yet another tool in his arsenal. and he found it by creating cambridge analytica. >> this was steve bannons baby. >> reporter: this former employee says from his first meeting with bannon, it was clear the goal. not to push a single campaign or candidate, but to fundamentally change america. >> he sees this as warfare, so he is going to use as aggressive techniques as he can get away with. >> you ...

And they worked during the 2014 cycles. keep in mind, this is a subsidiary of a london based military contractor. much of the work the company did was done in london and many workers who were sent to work in the u.s. elections were uk and canadian citizen. >> thanks very much for following this. coming up, new developments in the police shooting case that has led to days of protest in sacramento. new autopsy shows how many times gun fire from police hit 22-year-old stephon clark and where. ed to...

Breitbart news. in 2014, he was looking for yet another tool in his arsenal and he found it by creating cambridge analytica. >> this was steve bannons baby. >> reporter: the former cambridge analytica said from his first meeting with bannon, it was clear, the goal. not to push a single campaign or candidate but to fundamentally change americans. >> he sees this as warfare. he will use as aggressive techniques as he can get away with. >> do you realize what youre saying? youre talking about warfa...

Says was happening at cambridge analytica. watch this. >> joining me is a former research director who blew the whistle on the firm. thank you so much for joining us. are you doing okay? >> thanks for having me. its been a long day. but im okay. >> you describe what you billed as psycho logical warfare. a psychological warfare weapon. something you say steve bannon wanted. the ability to play with the psychology of an entire country. how did that work? talk to us about that. >> yeah. so steve ca...

So steve came to sel because he believes in something called the breitbart doctrine, which is that in order to change politics, you first have to change culture because politics is downstream from culture. and in order to fight a culture war, you need an arsenal of information weapons. and who better to go to than a company like sel, which is a military contractor based in the uk, to help set up those information weapons. and so what we worked on at scl and later at cambridge analytica, was data...

Half dollars private equity deal from a foreign government, no disclosure. >> sean: we will bring you back once a week and dig into each one of the scandals one by one. this is a big headline for our audience. it includes mitch mcconnell. >> right. youve got mitch mcconnell, his wife. very closely tied commercially to the chinese government. chinese states building a corporation, largest military contractor in china. close commercial ties there. and mcconnell, senator mcconnell and elaine got a ...

>> sean: we will bring you back once a week and dig into each one of these scandals onene by one. this is a big headline for our audience. it includes mitch mcconnell. >> right. youve got mitch mcconnell, his wife, elaine chao. very closely tied commercially to the chinese government. chinese states building a corporation, largest military contractor in china. youve got close commercial there. and mcconnell,llnn senator mcconnell and elainebe chao got a gift from her father for between five and ...