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Rnc's voter data saying, quote, we kept both data operations going simultaneously and a lot shared between them. and bay that we could scale to a pretty good operation. >> they had a team of cambridge data scientists embedded in the trump headquarters who were doing very sophisticated models wok that helped to in which where the campaign was going to send donald trump. >> in august 2016 steve bannon became ceo of the trump campaign. before that he feels the vice president of cambridge analytica. while working for the firm, bannon had urged the trump campaign to fire them as far back as april, ...

Cambridge analytica which reached out to julian assange of wikileaks seeking hillary clinton's e-mails. what are we learning about the timeline of the events between cambridge analytica and the trump campaign? >> well, the timeline sheds light on the relationship between the campaign and the data firm. it appeared to have started in june of 2016. that is around the time that the mercer family, who founded cambridge analytica in part became trump supporters. so around that time the two teamed up, the trump campaign and cambridge analytica. at the same time jared kushner took overall data operat...

The head of the firm reached out to wikileaks founder julian assange asking if he needed help with clinton-related e-mails. a request that julian assange said on twitter that he rejected. the firm was, in part, founded by wealthy republican donors, the mercer family, who began supporting trump in june 2016, around the same they started working together, the firm and the campaign. that's also when jared kushner took the reigns of all data operations for the campaigns. he told "forbes" magazine, the campaign used both cambridge analytica and rnc data. additionally, the campaign paid the firm nea...

E-mails and wikileaks began releasing hacked e-mails from the dnc. >> we have more material related to the hillary clinton campaign. >> cambridge analytica founded by wealthy republican donors in 2014. began backing trump after gop primaries in june of 2015. that month jared kushner took over all data operations for the trump campaign. kushner said once his father-in-law won the nomination used cambridge analytica and rnc's data. kept both operations going simultaneously and lot shared between them. by that we could scale to pretty good operation. >> they had a team of cambridge data scientist...

Through december. in addition jared kushner who headed up one of the data operations said to forbes' magazine back in november just after the president won the election we kept both data operations going simultaneously and a lot shared between them. and by doing that we could scale to a pretty good operation. so it appears there he is giving credit to cambridge analytica with their success. >> stay right there. i want to bring in betsy woodruff. betsy, as we said, you broke the story this morning. if all of this is true, this would be the closest connection between the trump's campaign and jul...