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Breathing down its neck. you just mentioned fec and campaign finance law and we have a new breaking story tonight that i want to give you a chance to respond to that steve bannon oversaw cambridge analytica's collection of facebook data, according to the former employee, the whistleblower, who said that bannon, who sat on the board of that company was overseeing a lot of their actions. that he oversaw and sort of gave the green light to this big kind of data scraping that cambridge analytica did that has them in trouble with uk regulators. >> i mean i can't speak to the direct line of control ...

Thing to focus on trump. i think it's trump plus instruments, tools that exist in the political culture as it is, right? so what we see here is that there's a way in which microtargeting, there's a way nsk psychographics can be used. ted cruz's campaign used or hired cambridge analytica. >> former obama people said we did a lot of data scraping off of facebook which they let us do which wasn't precisely analogous but a little envelope pushing. >> so what we're seeing is perhaps the manufacture of consent 5.0. and then you add a bad actor, donald trump. not to say that the others aren't bad act...

House intelligence committee, of course they're interested in the idea of any overlap, accidental or intended, between the kind of modus operrandi of the russianing and cambridge analytica. maybe this is how you disseminate information online but certainly it seems to be a blueprint at work that can be traced to both the russians and a data analytics group like cambridge analytica. >> the regulatory environment in the uk means that cambridge analytica has a lot of folks breathing down its neck. you just mentioned fec and campaign finance law and we have a new breaking story tonight that i want...

They're like, yeah, this is what the guy does. and it just goes back to you can't assume because the guy won the election with 46% of the vote that, therefore, the american people have validated this approach. that's not the case. they didn't like him then. they don't really like him now. and what he's doing, he's going to try to do the same thing again, right? the whole concept behind it is they don't think they have a good enough argument to win. >> well, i want to trouble this a bit because i think it's one thing to focus on trump. i think it's trump plus instruments, tools that exist in th...

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