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Breitbart news. in 2014, he was looking for yet another tool in his arsenal and he found it by creating cambridge analytica. >> this was steve bannon's baby. >> reporter: the former cambridge analytica said from his first meeting with bannon, it was clear, the goal. not to push a single campaign or candidate but to fundamentally change americans. >> he sees this as warfare. he will use as aggressive techniques as he can get away with. >> do you realize what you're saying? you're talking about warfare on the american citizens. >> this is steve bannon and robert mercer using a former military co...

Says was happening at cambridge analytica. watch this. >> joining me is a former research director who blew the whistle on the firm. thank you so much for joining us. are you doing okay? >> thanks for having me. it's been a long day. but i'm okay. >> you describe what you billed as psycho logical warfare. a psychological warfare weapon. something you say steve bannon wanted. the ability to play with the psychology of an entire country. how did that work? talk to us about that. >> yeah. so steve came to scl because he believes in something called the breitbart doctrine. in order to change polit...

So steve came to sel because he believes in something called the breitbart doctrine, which is that in order to change politics, you first have to change culture because politics is downstream from culture. and in order to fight a culture war, you need an arsenal of information weapons. and who better to go to than a company like sel, which is a military contractor based in the uk, to help set up those information weapons. and so what we worked on at scl and later at cambridge analytica, was data harvesting programs where we would pull data from users of apps and all of their friend networks an...

Half dollars private equity deal from a foreign government, no disclosure. >> sean: we will bring you back once a week and dig into each one of the scandals one by one. this is a big headline for our audience. it includes mitch mcconnell. >> right. you've got mitch mcconnell, his wife. very closely tied commercially to the chinese government. chinese states building a corporation, largest military contractor in china. close commercial ties there. and mcconnell, senator mcconnell and elaine got a gift from her father for between five and $25 million. it is a result of that chinese government m ...

>> sean: we will bring you back once a week and dig into each one of these scandals onene by one. this is a big headline for our audience. it includes mitch mcconnell. >> right. you've got mitch mcconnell, his wife, elaine chao. very closely tied commercially to the chinese government. chinese states building a corporation, largest military contractor in china. you've got close commercial there. and mcconnell,llnn senator mcconnell and elainebe chao got a gift from her father for between five and $25 million. it is a result of that chinese government money. >> sean: we will bring you back on o...