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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 has lingered over many, many years. i was around when kennedy was assassinated. i was an officer in the air force when that happened. and those doubts have sprung eternal. >> let's turn now. i want to talk to you about currently what's happening with the administration and this new information about cambridge analytica was the data operation hired by the trump campaign. we now know that the ceo of ca...

Blocks away from the white house. cnn has reached out to cambridge analytica for a response in the wake of the revelations about wikileaks, but despite our repeated attempts, we have not heard back. >> but in november just before the election, cambridge analytica's ceo alexander knicks did speak to cnn about his data operation and the newly reopened fbi investigation into, you guessed it, hillary clinton's e-mails. >> clearly there are unknown nns. you know, such as what's recently happened in the case of the democrat's candidate with the release of the -- or the reopening of the e-mail inquir...

Beating heart of the trump campaign's data operation, including this bbc tour of where the operation had been housed. >> cambridge an lit ka was here. so it was just a line of computers. this is where their operation was and this is kind of the brain of the data. this was the data center. >> this is the data center, the center of the data center. >> exactly right. yes, it was. >> i'm joined by business insider political correspondent natasha bare trant who's been covering this and msnbc contributor and former fbi agent, author of "how to catch a russian spy." what's the significance of this? >...

If this is true, it means that the trump campaign's data firm was trying to help the russians disseminate anti-clinton documents stolen by agents of a foreign government. the trump campaign is trying to play down its connection to cambridge, claiming in a statement that it relied only on data from the rnc. quote, any claims that voter data from any other source played a key role in the victory are false. according to the campaign's own fec filings, the trump campaign paid cambridge an lit ka $5.9 million. and there were dozens of profiles of the mercer-funded cambridge an lit ka as the beating...

They were certainly interested in those. >> it sounds like raiders of the lost ark. look, the data operation i think is a principle focus for investigators. because i think one of the questions everyone is wondering now that we have more information, probably not all the information we're going to have about the extent of russian use of social media to target vote issers in the u.s. is whether somebody sitting at a basement in moscow, 400 pounds on a bed, as donald trump said, knew where to target in michigan or what county to target in wisconsin. so that whole area is at the center of what a ...