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Russians, asking them to hack hillary clinton's 33,000 missing e-mails, as you may recall. and now we're learning that in that same time frame in july, according "the wall street journal," the head of the firm actually reached out to wikileaks founder julian assange asking him if he needed help with hillary clinton's e-mails. all of this within that time frame. now, the campaign has distanced itself from cambridge analytics, basically saying it didn't rely on it at all during the campaign. it relied on the rnc's data information. >> i want to bring in now cnn politics editor at large chris cil...

>> we started working with the trump campaign in about june of 2016. when it became obvious that a sophisticated data apparatus would be needed by ensuring that every campaign stop was driven by data and reflecting what was currently being seen in the field he was able to use his travel time most effectively. >> reporter: despite what we just heard in the time line, the campaign released a statement yesterday distancing itself from cambridge analytica saying it relied on the rnc information. >> do we know what t connection? >> we know on the hill investigators will use the information to see i...

New questions tonight about just how closely the data firm, cambridge analytica, worked with the trump campaign and what that will mean for the russia investigation. cnn contributor john dean is here, a former nixon white house counsel. also cnn national security analyst, juliette kayyem. and nada bakos. hello to all of you. thank you for coming on. mr. dean, you first, trump campaign claiming it didn't rely on the data company cambridge analytica that we now know reached out to julian assange to get access to clinton's e-mails. a video tonight posted by "the guardian" is contradicting that. h...

. tonight, newly found video throwing cold water on a trump campaign statement. they claimed in a formal statement it did not rely on a data company that reached out to julian assange. so let's start with this new video posted today by the guardian. in it, you'll see a senior executive from cambridge anal i analytica. here is just a taste. >> we started working with the trump campaign in about june of 2016. when it became obvious that a sophisticated data apparatus would be needed by ensuring that every campaign stop was driven by data and reflecting what was currently being seen in the fiel...

Wanted to help julian assange potentially distribute material that he could have obtained illegally. >> in response to betsy's reporting for the daily beast the trump campaign issued the following statement. we as a campaign made the choice to rely on the voter data of the republican national committee to help elect donald j. trump. that's not true. i found sec filings that they paid cambridge $6 million in 2016 for their companies. it's owned by robert and rebecca mercer. another sign, sabrina. >> yes. it's important to know that cambridge analytica was involved with the brexit campaign. the ...