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Election. >> i would say two things. this was a highly sophisticated influence operation. i believe it did affect people's votes. >> you think it cost you votes? >> i think it cost me votes. >> the fact those e-mails were -- >> and that they were weaponized. in the book i write about how if you go look at google searches, particularly in some of the battleground states during october and you listen to trump's speeches where he mentioned wikileaks 160 times, they clearly knew that stories that were making stuff up trying to use the e-mails were permeating facebook and other sites. the worst of ...

Permeating facebook and other sites. the worst of them was this pizza gate story where whole cloth made up, they took the word pizza out of one of podesta's e-mails saying we were running a trafficking ring out of a pizza place. millions of people were exposed to that. the horrible hit job, total lies about the clinton foundation, people were affected by that because we could see that the wikileaks searches and a lot of places that were historically swing counties were really rising. i think the influence did affect individual voters. what we don't know yet and we're only beginning to get evid...

Facts yet. what i believe we now know, they paid for facebook ads. and those were disseminated broadly. we know that they had access to targeting and data information from somewhere, maybe internally, maybe help externally. we know that they had russians pretending to be americans who were online and in person trying to foment negative stories about me. and positive ones about trump. we know there was a huge amount of content being produced in places like macedonia. we know that wikileaks which is basically a front now for putin was more than willing to publish stolen e-mails from the dnc and ...