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Good evening to all of you. welcome to the program. mr. chuto, to you first. we are learning tonight that cambridge analytica, a firm that was central to the data operation of the trump campaign reached out to wikileaks early in the campaign seeking access to hillary clinton's private e-mails. how significant is this and what do we know right now? >> well, at a minimum an attempt at collaboration like this raises questions about the willingness of people associated with the trump campaign. their willingness to work with wikileaks for political gain. a reminder that cambridge analytica was hire...

Was that the data operation of the campaign was just trump and his twitter feed. no, in fact, they had three different sources of polling. and not only that, they had a team of kram bridge data scientists embedded in san diego who were doing very sew fists indicate handle work. in the weeks right before the election when stomach started winging wisconsin -- he was there because the cambridge models told him that's where you can pick up voters. >> so in that statement today we only relied on rnc and any other suggestion, that's false. >> they showed off their waers. it would spit out the likeli...

Analytica vastly overstated work did it for the trump campaign during the election cycle. that raises some questions. why was the trump campaign paying millions of dollars to a data firm when wasn't a key player in its own data operation? according to the statements from folks inside the campaign. so the efforts to distance themselves from cambridge analytica, milquetoast as best. >> thank you. >> you covered the white house. >> you look at this report. the direct request to work assange, his denial, his rejection of the request, confirming that it happened. and late tonight, the trump campaig...

Things are headed now. >> i think they are headed exactly where we would expect them to head. i think it would be a lot more important with the mueller investigation. data is the king here. today they had the person in charge of the data operation for donald trump in before the house committee. we also have that clip that you played before with respect to facebook and whether or not facebook basically, the ads they have for the russians were coordinated with the ads the trump campaign was running. the good news is that we'll be able to take all of that data from facebook, from twitter, determi...

Investigations of their background? this guy should have had his clearance pulled and lawyers verified he called not a back channel but a way to get information from russia generals in syria. clearance pulled. and donald trump is allowing him to serve at his pleasure. >> yet it didn't happen. go to another person now pulled from the russian probe. we don't talk enough, robert mercer. and extensive financial ties throughout the trump administration. now it hears according to a daily beast report wednesday the russia probe is looking into a company calmed cambridge analytica. a psych graphic dat...