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>> reporter: good morning, alyson. a number of ads that appeared during the election season were targeting michigan and wisconsin. these are two states critical to donald trump. the ads were intended to promote anti-muslim messages, suggesting muslims were a threat to the american way of life. now, it has been unclear until now exactly which regions of the country were targeted by these russia-linked facebook ads. they appeared in areas not heavily contested in the election. some were aimed at swaying public opinion in the most heavily protected battle grounds. sources have seen these facebook...

Number of ads were placed in states that were key to president trump's victory. what have you learned? >> that's right, anderson. a number of ads were targeting michigan and wisconsin, these two states critical to donald trump's victory last november. four sources of this knowledge tell my colleagues that the ads were intended to promote divisive messages including anti-muslim messages even suggesting muslims were a threat to the american way of life. it's been unclear until now which regions of the country were targeted by these ads. some clearly were geared at swaying public opinion in the m...

September. they have the rest of the time to go help these hurricane victims. david, i know you said it's time to stop antagonizing. both side are antagonizing each other. >> absolutely. the problem is gerrymandering. we only have 72 battle grounds in congress. 40 something districts whether it's either r or d district. we need more battleground districts. that will bring more moderates into congress and create more solutions and more deals to be made. apes ains heather your perspective. >> to feed off of david's point we need compromise. we all know how to compromise. we compromise with our s...

Precisely your original point. give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. jim, you know, you brought up illegal immigration but this whole proposal is about the goal of cutting legal immigration by 50%. do you think it goes anywhere or does it just fire up the base? >> reporter: well, you heard stephen miller say in his comments here, well, this is very popular in certain battle grounds states and so on, and so they do feel, and keep in mind, when you go back, i covered this campaign, brooke, you covered it as well, we were out there on the campaign trail in p...

Rest of the republicans. and his relationship with his voters may not be transferrable. we're going to find out stuff pretty soon relating to other congressional races and elections in new jersey and virginia for governor, et cetera. the strategy is straightforward. get their voters and keep them on amphetamines, highly charged. i'm not sure where the battle grounds for congress are, the battlegrounds for the statehouses. that's going to be an electoral strategy for success up and down the republican ticket. i think, it's not just a strategy, there's a set of policy decisions that are slowly b...