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Intentions of breaking any laws. questions about came bridge analytica's ties to the trump campaign. steve bannon helped secure early financing and cambridge analytica has even touted its research in helping trump win the presidency. here's the founder, the same person who discusses entrapping the rival candidate, speaking at a conference. >> but we were able to use data to identify that there was very large quantities of persuadable voters there that could be influenced to vote for the trump campaign. >> reporter: now, with press reports surfacing, facebook is banning the company, saying, "pr...

Today. reporters posing as foreigners with political ambitions are meeting with cambridge analytica, the political data firm with ties to the trump campaign, is making a sales pitch to potential clients. >> if you are collecting data on people and you're profiling them, that gives you more insight that you can use to know how to segment the population. to give them messaging about issues that they care about. and we use that in america. >> reporter: cambridge analytica is the company behind that growing scandal involving facebook and how the profiles of 50 million of the social media company's...

Lies, who serves one individual as opposed to the constitution of the country, it just truthfully makes me a little bit furious. >> phil, what's your reaction to that. >> i'm struggling to contain myself. what you're seeing is a conversation just captured it brilliantly about what's going on on the legal side. that's not why i bristle as a former intelligence officer and member of the executive branch of government. i go back to campaign when a former serving general in the u.s. military got in front of an audience and said that a political opponent should be locked up. that's what third world...

Strategy of coming at trump harder painting him as an embodiment of new york values, as painting him as a buddy of hillary clinton's supporters. let's see what happens here tomorrow night. i bet you there's fireworks. >> that new york values line, hallie, there was some reporting that perhaps ted cruz was using push polls and trying to test out lines in iowa to see what he could use to go after trump. what do you know about that? >> reporter: it is not clear who's behind the so-called push polls. they're questions, phrased as negatives to sort of test messaging or potential lines of attack aga...

Daa democrat to bring a lawsuit forward given that this type of accusation was placed against president obama against donald trump about not being born in hawaii? >> i think we are all entitled to try to get rulings from the court about what our constitution means in practice. i do think, however, it will be very difficult unless that democrat happens to be the rival candidate in the presidential election. at this point, there's probably a good case for standing. but i do want to note, too, that up until that point, there's an issue of whether this is a mature enough issue to go forward and th...