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That. >> okay. do you think they taught cambridge analytica how to do the tactics, as press reports are saying? >> senator, i don't know? >> do you think palenettere has ever scraped data from facebook? >> senator, i'm not aware of that. >> okay. do you think that during the 2016 campaign as cambridge analytica was providing support to the trump campaign under project alamo, were there any facebook people involved in that sharing of technique and information? >> senator, we provided support to the trump campaign similar to what we provide to any advertiser or campaign who asks for it. >> so th...
In the words of trump's digital director, "we own the future of the republican party." joining me now, co-author of that piece, "bloomberg businessweek's" josh green. to some extent, i think the story about the trump campaign is they're basically winging it and this was a window into the fact that they may be winging it in certain ways but there is also an actual organization there doing some of the stuff that campaigns typically do. >> yeah, i mean, that was a real takeaway to me. i think the reason they cooperated with this piece was that they were little miffed at the idea that their campai...
Ambitious data operation down in san antonio, they co-named it project alamo, and they basically showed off all the bells and whistles which while it may not resemble a traditional campaign, has turned into a real monster small-dollar fund-raising machine, which is allowing trump to build up this really valuable this, this audience of donors that conceivably can be transported over to trump tv network or some new social media play, if he doesn't win the election, or if he does win the election, he's got a big list of supporters backing him up. >> yeah, there's a number of bernie sanders, ex-sa...
>> wait, what happened at the alamo? >> stay tuned to find out. no spoilers. >> plus, for the clinton campaign, it could be the most damaging revelation to date from the wikileaks drip. new revelations on the clinton foundation and the family's personal wealth. we'll go inside what has been dubbed bill clinton incorporate.