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In september it was announced that the national park service was awarding nearly $100,000 to the university of california at berkeley to fund a research project on the black panther party for self-defense. the 1960s black militant group that remains synonymous with revolution against hostile authority. when conservatives comfortable ignorant of the panthers history learned of the project they fumed at a group that had espoused on self-defense against police should be honored with tax funded anyt...

The outside to really see whats going on. who doesnt have any affiliations with the democratic party or republican party. >> brian: some of this investigation was going on in 2015 when a guy name robert mueller was running things. they got $5.6 million from the clinton camp. the dnc pledged $3.6 million. opposition research is not new. you have to do it to be successful, chuck. is this over the line? >> i just heard about this on the way over here. i will tell you for those of you who dont run c...

Going on. who doesnt have any affiliations with the democratic party or republican party. >> brian: some of this investigation was going on in 2015 when a guy name robert mueller was running things. they got $5.6 million from the clinton camp. the dnc pledged $3.6 million. opposition research is not new. you have to do it to be successful, chuck. is this over theav line? >> i just heard about this on the way over here. t i will tell you for those of yot who dont run campaigns, its very common to...

Around what was there. and therefore it did not get an enormous amount of coverage, an enormous amount of attention. >> what kind of documents was it? it was all internal to the democratic party. was it donor lists? >> donor lists, research, books, which is a comp litigation of clips of vulnerabilities of yourself and your opponents. i believe a donald trump research book. >> so democratic oppo research on donald trump. >> right, but remember at that time donald trump wasnt paying for self-resea...

>> what kind of documents was it? it was all internal to the democratic party. was it donor lists? >> donor lists, research, books, a compilation of clips of vulnerabilities of yourself and your opponent, a donald trump research book. >> so democratic oppo research on donald trump. >> right, but remember at that time donald trump wasnt paying for self-research so the fact that that research book was in there was quite interesting to us and we believed very -- from the first dump that this was in...

It? it was all internal to the democratic party. was it donor lists? >> donor lists, research, books, a compilation of clips of vulnerabilities of yourself and your opponent, a donald trump research book. >> so democratic oppo research on donald trump. >> right, but remember at that time donald trump wasnt paying for self-research so the fact that that research book was in there was quite interesting to us and we believed very -- from the first dump that this was intended to help donald trump an...

>> and the guccifer 2 leaks ended up on d.c. leaks web site which is something that didnt exist prior to the campaign. nobody ever heard of. >> it correct. and that dump was a massive amount of data, of documents that was not user friendly and was very hard to get your arms around what was there there was it didnt get an enormous amount of attention. >> what kind of documents was it? it was all internal to the democratic party. was it donor lists? >> donor lists, research, books, a compilation o...

Around. it didnt get an enormous amount of attention. >> what kind of documents was it? it was all internal to the democratic party. was it donor lists? >> donor lists, research, books, which is a compilation of clips of vulnerabilities of yourself and your opponent, a donald trump research book. >> so democratic oppo research on donald trump. >> right, but remember at that time donald trump wasnt paying for self-research so the fact that that research book was in there was quite interesting to ...

Dropped out of school. single mother. now there is a question mark every everything else he said. andrea: he wrote this book, but he wrote this in the book. so every other page is going to be in question. harris: i have never done what you and julie do, i have always been on the other side as a journalist. obviously you guys would be tasked for a candidate why didnt his people find this out? julie: self-research is something campaigns dont do. super easy. get an opposition research to do researc...

It doesnt win us a lot of popularity contests, but its crucial. >> so you give them valuable information and then you argue because you say look, this may come up about you, too, and you need to be prepared. >> yeah and if you dont do the self-research and a good example of that is probably herman cain, then youre going to find yourself in a lot of trouble when your guy is attacking you so we scrutinize our candidate with the same vigor we do their opponent and try to be objective about that. >>...