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Searching on the dark web for russians who may have had clinton's 33,000 missing e-mails. to be clear, the idea that the data firm reached out to wikileaks alone, does not meet a crime at face value and we should note there have been no accusations of wrongdoing. anderson. >> joining our panel tonight is also josh green. josh, we talked yesterday, you actually wrote an article where you were basically embedded, i think with 12 days to go in the campaign, in the data operation of the trump campaign. and you saw that -- cambridge analytica people there. >> yeah. and i talked to some campaign off...

>> steve bannon became ceo of the trump campaign. before that he was vice president of cambridge analytica. while working for firm had urged trump campaign to hire them as far back as april. in september 2016, trump campaign made biggest payment, $5 million, eventually totaled nearly $6 million, payments for data management services. the firm has offices in london, new york and right in washington, d.c., three blocks away from the white house. cnn has reached out to cam bridge analytica for a response in the wake of the revelations about wikileaks. but despite our repeated attempts, we have no...

The talent from cambridge analytica. 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 did a deal where they could get this particular individual and several others to work within the operation. sort of what they're differing on is the data. and that really is key. cambridge analytica had a database that i know the cruz campaign, your campaign, alice, worked and ...

Reaching out to wikileaks. so this will be part of a puzzle with other pieces, such as roger stone telling the hill he had an intermediary who connected him with julian assange, and according to the p wall street journal, there was a reach out to the dark web. to be clear, the idea that the data firm reached out to wikileaks alone, does not meet a crime at face value and we should note there have been no criminal accusations. >> josh green joins the panel. you wrote an article where you were embedded, with 12 days to go in the data operation of the trump campaign. and you saw that -- cambridge...

There was some specific reason. and i'm speculating here because i don't know, pertaining to partly liaison sensitivities or some interaction with some trade craft that perhaps is still viable. so i really don't have a good answer for that. i'm speculating. >> why do you think after all these years people are so fascinated by this? >> well, i think there's always been an aura of conspiracy about it. there's always been the speculation that lee harvey oswald didn't act alone, that hassling erred over many, many years. i was around when kennedy was assassinated. i was an officer in the air force...