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And in particular, they're looking at the data operation of the trump campaign. now, there's no accusation here that anybody committed any wrongdoing, but one of the things that the fbi is interested in is perhaps anybody might have wittingly or unwittingly helped the russians target the data. now, last year jared kushner did an interview with "forbes" magazine in which he described helping build this data operation that was headquartered down in san antonio, texas. and he described that they were using a lot of technology to microtarget and figure out where they could find small groups of tru...

Campaign's data operation, which kushner has said helped microtarget certain voters in key states that helped win the white house. the fbi is interested in finding out whether russian spies somehow, either through witting or unwitting help, were able to piggyback on that operation to push negative information about hillary clinton through social media in certain parts of the country. now, investigators are also trying to look at his relationship with michael flynn. the president's fired national security adviser. kushner was in charge of the transition's foreign policy operation and he had his...

Let's turn to our other breaking news, jared kushner under fbi scrutiny in the russia investigation. i want to bring in cnn law enforcement analyst, james, a retired fbi superviserer agent, special agent. globe affairs analyst kimberly dozi dozier. justice correspondent evan per are rez is back with us. so, evan, bring us up to date on what's happening now with jared kushner. >> well, don, the importance of what we're learning today is that the fbi is essentially taking a look at all of the different tentacles of this investigation that lead all the way back to jared kushner and one of those i...

Operations of that campaign. now we learn they are looking at the data operations and the russians have had access in some way to the data operations, which would be very important if you were trying to target swing voters with misinformation as has been suggested. in terms of the contacts with russians, i think the focus could be not so much the contact with kislyak, but the contact with that russian banker and what was discussed from a bank that had been sanctioned by the obama administration at a very sensitive time. that it was an odd meeting. lindsey graham spoke to that. i think there wi...

Honestly. what's so interesting about his role is that he has been involved in every aspect of the campaign. and has an extremely broad portfolio within the white house. you're evan perez was reporting earlier tonight that beyond the two meetings you mentioned this also has something to do with the fact that he huss had oversight within the campaign of the data operation, which was run out of -- out of texas. so there -- there is a lot more things that we need to learn about this, whether or not you know these contacts he had beyond the meetings we know about were you know -- whether the campa...