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Go ahead, gene. sorry. >> i'm leaning toward the latter but we'll see. you know? we'll see. this is -- ron mentioned one thing, though, that i think we are all keeping our eye on and because obviously the step beyond michael flynn that could indeed be closer to the president is jared kushner. he was at the meeting at trump tower with donald trump jr. and paul manafort. and he was in charge of the data operation of the trump campaign. the russians -- sophisticated way targeted voters. how do they know how w.h.o. to target? so this is a question i think bob museumer will try to answer for us. >>...

It's -- this is very weird and never invent this character as you said and you always want to -- when i listen to him, i wonder is he playing some sort of ultra sophisticated four-dplengsal chess or is he an idiot? and i mean -- >> those are the choices. okay? that's it? all right. let me think. i have to think about it. all right. go ahead, gene. sorry. >> i'm leaning toward the latter but we'll see. you know? we'll see. this is -- ron mentioned one thing, though, that i think we are all keeping our eye on and because obviously the step beyond michael flynn that could indeed be closer to the ...

Intelligence community and by the fbi. we know that and presumably mueller is the coordinator of all that incoming information about jared kushner. all of these areas come together often on his portfolio as it were, which is so broad that it accident tends to politics, family money, all over the board. and that's why he is -- >> the other area, i think, that kushner is being inquired of is the cambridge analytica data separation. >> which he had talked about, the data operation. >> that's right. and how does that marry up with the social media russia troll campaign, because they seem to have s...

And this is not just about an emotional crisis between the sanders camp camp and the clint. furthermore and not just everyone controlling, she reflected on the fact that the dnc has been suffocated for the last eight years. we don't just lose 11,000 candidates for no reason. this is not just about the bernie's side or the clinton's side. this is about the people that they let down knowing this has been going on for a long time. >> here is interesting and when i heard it, i said is that really a big revelation? did we talk about this during the campaign and didn't everybody come to determinatio...

>> yes, i've been doing some reporting on this as well today, trying to figure out why and how they could claim that. and the answer is, it's a little bit complicated, but if you think about it, it does make sense. and that is what the trump campaign wanted to do was hire the talent from cambridge analytica. that there was one guy in particular that you probably worked with, he was the head of the data operation during the scott walker presidential campaign, which didn't last very long, and they really liked him, they wanted to hire him, he was under contract with cambridge analytica. so they ...