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Ensure the content -- >> bottom line, those ads are cheap even though they cant keep the bill boards on the stands there in capitol hill. kara swisher joins you now, technology and business website, recode. thank you for joining us. >> no problem. >> these are -- they are not necessarily going after a certain political candidate but they are trying to do something pretty insidious. >> yeah, absolutely. you saw the range of things, one was looks like a black lives matter kind of thing and other i...

But in terms of people like mitch mcconnell and jeff flake, in terms of weaponizing the so-called republican base for the 2018 races, i think what steve bannon and people of his ilk are counting on is that mitch mcconnell is becoming a name synonymous with people like john boehner and even barack obama in terms of what people in the republican and conservative base finds an ath ma. well see. >> thank you very much for being here. appreciate you both. coming up, the president finally addresses ...

Guys to be pro trump and anti-mcconnell. thats how the establishment is defined by somebody who was in the white house until recently. >> have you been able to find substantive differences in terms of policy. jeff flake and cornyn may not like the style of donald trump but do you see differences between him and them on policy? >> between those guys and people like donald trump and steve bannon, there certainly are substantive differences on hot button issues such as immigration. people like trum...

The definition of collusion and the different meetings. not the 30,000 e-mails but the weaponizing. >> and how will they look at these contakts and how does intent play in? if you say i want to work someone and they say no, how does that help you? >> this is incredibly helpful to prosecutors. as bunch, they tend to believe where theres smoke, theres fire. there are russian contacts in every direction you turn. now they ran the data operation for trump. and he is receiving out to assange, showing...

A belief its not a debate in facts but weaponizing information true or false. >> thats absolutely true. thats where we seem to be headed now where you see people on both sides of the aisle and people -- its impossible to look at facebook now without seeing, you know, looking at the source of where is this coming from. that sort of thing. because that seems what were getting right now. but it also -- i dont think you can -- you have -- i think the buck has to stop with the white house. because i ...

Of trump versus corker i am firmly in trumps fight. i think its put him in this position where he wouldnt be able to win if he ran again, which is why hes not running. >> to hear donald trump sort of weaponizing, galvanize his supporters against the chair of the senate foreign relations committee. >> yeah, it was really amazing to me because i think fundamentally what senator corker -- with all respect, matt, hes a serious republican leader, the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee...

They werent putting out different messages. they were using an anti-nfl, anti-take a knee stance even when they were using the take a knee hash tag. so all they were doing right there was harnessing our campaign and the information that was going out about the opposition to the anthem and weaponizing that for their own purposes. not to create chaos, but to actually push one side of that argument, which was the pro-trump side. >> naveed, i know youve worked in tech as well along with the work tha...

Different messages. they were using an anti-nfl, anti-take a knee stance even when they were using the take a knee hash tag. so all they were doing right there was harnessing our campaign and the information that was going out about the opposition to the anthem and weaponizing that for their own purposes. not to create chaos, but to actually push one side of that argument, which was the pro-trump side. >> naveed, i know youve worked in tech as well along with the work that youve done at the fbi....

They used government proprietary software to monitor my keystrokes, planted classified documents in my computer, watched much of what i was doing. infiltrated files. listened in on my audio. we have dates and times as well as government owned ip addresses found my computer. >> sean: jay sekulow. this is not the country that i know with fourth ammendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure. that sounds to me like the weaponizing of the tools of intelligence to attack people they d...

So i think there is a better than 50-50 chance that theyve accomplished those steps. >> ned price, briefly as we continue to follow the emergencies in mexico city, and we have yet to talk about the hurricane in puerto rico. in iran, the signals coming from rex tillerson last night, the president not happy about the political ramifications that iran is still doing, the support for assad, the training and weaponizing of terrorists and military units in yemen and syria and iraq, that he wants this ...