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Interference in our election. what do you know about patten's role at cambridge analytica, with the parent firm of cambridge analytica. that's something we know from your reporting but we didn't see anything about it explicitly in the charging documents today. >> right. there are two things are really interesting about his work for scl group which is the parent group of cambridge and cambridge itself. in 2014, he started working in oregon for the parent company scl and he was fooking on microtargeting which we know was a big part of the trump campaign's data operation in 2016. so he was workin...

Has trusted for a long time. >> now, gloria, i know you speak to people close to the president and people who advise him, do any of them express concern even amongst that group? >> yes, they do. and you know, they say to me quite often that he is reverting back to be the way he ran the trump organization for decades which is what he is comfortable with. while he was the chief, there were a lot of vice presidents and hardly anybody in between because donald trump trusts his own instincts. he believes he has figured out how to run the white house. he didn't like the way general kelly isolates hi...

>> reporter: cambridge analytica is a british subsidiary for scl group. helping battle crime, drugs, terrorists by chaeking the opinions of foreign populations. >> sales pitch was we go into foreign countries and we use our tools, our profiling to manipulate public opinion. that is what bannon wanted to do in the united states. >> so he created american arm cambridge list cambridge analytica. wylie says using psycho graphic data gathered from a facebook app, cambridge analytica targeted specific groups of people trying to influence them and push them to the right. >> it wouldn't always look li...

The reagan years, every president has had a strong chief of staff. the president cannot do it by himself and cannot have eight or nine people reporting to him. it becomes complicated. this talk of not going with a chief of staff is really misguided. and it is not good for them and much less for the country. >> gloria, thrown into this mix now, this smaller group of advisers, you now have john bolton, very strong personality as national security advisers, cnn that distribution struck me because that is not how i see many people see john bolton. >> he is an opinionater not an

Profiling, in psychological profiling, and that, you know, the risk that was created was that, in notifying this company, you know, it showed them, a, whats a pet s assets were ther where to go to get them. >> and a state linked oil company generally doesn't have a national need for that kind of data and social media marketing to sell oil. i wonder, do you think that's something that knicks would -- that would have bothered knicks or he wouldn't care? >> i think that it's something that he might not have even thought about, which is all the more concerning, given that the parent company of cam...