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Intentions of breaking any laws. questions about came bridge analyticas ties to the trump campaign. steve bannon helped secure early financing and cambridge analytica has even touted its research in helping trump win the presidency. heres the founder, the same person who discusses entrapping the rival candidate, speaking at a conference. >> but we were able to use data to identify that there was very large quantities of persuadable voters there that could be influenced to vote for the trump camp...

Today. reporters posing as foreigners with political ambitions are meeting with cambridge analytica, the political data firm with ties to the trump campaign, is making a sales pitch to potential clients. >> if you are collecting data on people and youre profiling them, that gives you more insight that you can use to know how to segment the population. to give them messaging about issues that they care about. and we use that in america. >> reporter: cambridge analytica is the company behind that ...

Lies, who serves one individual as opposed to the constitution of the country, it just truthfully makes me a little bit furious. >> phil, whats your reaction to that. >> im struggling to contain myself. what youre seeing is a conversation just captured it brilliantly about whats going on on the legal side. thats not why i bristle as a former intelligence officer and member of the executive branch of government. i go back to campaign when a former serving general in the u.s. military got in front...

Strategy of coming at trump harder painting him as an embodiment of new york values, as painting him as a buddy of hillary clintons supporters. lets see what happens here tomorrow night. i bet you theres fireworks. >> that new york values line, hallie, there was some reporting that perhaps ted cruz was using push polls and trying to test out lines in iowa to see what he could use to go after trump. what do you know about that? >> reporter: it is not clear whos behind the so-called push polls. th...

Daa democrat to bring a lawsuit forward given that this type of accusation was placed against president obama against donald trump about not being born in hawaii? >> i think we are all entitled to try to get rulings from the court about what our constitution means in practice. i do think, however, it will be very difficult unless that democrat happens to be the rival candidate in the presidential election. at this point, theres probably a good case for standing. but i do want to note, too, that ...

What would happen? would you expect litigation? would you expect some kind of challenge. how long would it take? >> theres already a challenge. i know theres a case thats been filed in broward county, florida. theyve challenging his natural-born citizenship credentials. i dont think that case will survive because the person filing it on a pro se basis, filing it in his own right is eseasontially arguing that as a voter, he has a right to vote for only constitutionally qualified candidates. usual...

Though, a rival candidate, were to actually file a lawsuit, i think theres a good chance that a court would take that case to the merits. >> because an opposing candidate seems to be obviously in a position to have standing in a case like this. >> absolutely. because standing under the federal constitution requires an injury, it requires someone to have that injury traceable to a defendants conduct, and it requires that a court order could redress it. so i think this is an important question. i ...

All right. lets get to the race for the white house. s senator ted cruz is brushing off questions about whether he is eligible to be president of the united states. no surprise that the questions are coming are from the rival candidate donald trump. he was a leader of the o-called birther campaign against president obama. and now, trump is warning the republicans to think twice about voting for senator cruz, because he says the fact that cruz was not born in the united states, and born in canada...

For free on your tablets and smartphones with cnn go. be sure to check that out if youre not able to watch it on tv. i know what youre thinking. what exactly are the rules as the five main contenders share a stage for the first time? each candidate will get one minute to answer a question from aur panel, 30 seconds to follow up or respond if a rival candidate mentions his or her name. lights, not buzzers will signal candidates that their time is running out and they may have to give extra time...

It may be a slim window, but iraq had national elections. they are in the process of forming a new government, and theres a period of horse trading coming up in baghdad. can the iraqis come together? can the major factions come together and essentially form a new government that does not involve president malaki at the head of it? can other shiite politicians coalesce around a rival candidate who will be more inclusive, who will seek to bring the sunni arabs in and get them to turn against these...