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Joining me now is ken delaney for nbc news and jill wine-banks, special prosecutor and contributor. jill, your reaction? >> well, i'm reminded of something that i learned that i thought was fascinating from a university of chicago professor who pointed out that the micro targeting we are now seeing through facebook is something similar to the use of radio versus television in the nixon/kennedy debates. people who saw him on television saw the debate on television thought that kennedy won. people who heard it on radio thought nixon won. we assumed it was because of the sweating nixon on televis...

Raises as many questions as answers. joining me now is ken delaney for nbc news and jill wine-wangs, special prosecutor and contributor. jill, your reaction? >> well, i'm reminded of something that i learned that i thought was fascinating from a university of chicago professor who pointed out that the micro targeting we are now seeing through facebook is something similar to the use of radio versus television in the nixon/kennedy debates. people who saw him on television saw the debate on television thought that kennedy won. people who heard it on radio thought nixon won. we assumed it was bec...

At odds that facebook was anti-trump and while it does echo a line that he used announced that he would speak about staff it provided to the trump campaign, by facebook, google an twitter, it would certainly be odd if facebook was part of screening its own full-time employees for their partisan loyalty before quote embedding them with the trump campaign as the campaign claimed coming amidst the russia inquiry raises as many questions as answers. joining me now is ken delaney for nbc news and jill wine-wangs, special prosecutor and contributor. jill, your reaction? >> well, i'm reminded of some...

Serves on the senate judiciary committee that serves on one of the committees in the probe. >> good morning. >> do you think that the russians are politically strategic and savvy enough to know that they should have targeted some of their ads to michigan and wisconsin, or from your investigation, do you believe somehow the campaign helped them figure that out? >> it is very important report by cnn reflects the severity and scope of russian meddling distortion and manipulation of public opinion that certainly used the most sophisticated methods of micro targeting, aiming at audiences that would...

Sophistication as it relates to american politics worth drilling down on. is it possible that the russians obtained that information by watching informative shows like "new day". sure, that is possible. >> but not who to send them to. >> this is the targeting of -- this is micro targeting using social media, which is something that is not even that old in terms of campaigns in this country, much less a foreign power using it to target voters. very sophisticated in terms of political tools and expertise. where did they get it? >> guys, we're out of time. thank you for the information on this, i...