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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...

An a group that operates on the dark web. >> th >> translator: this person said he worked for a group called black death group. there is a roort from 2015 that notes the existence of this group in the deep web, the hidden web. >> so we're learning more about the suspect and more about the dark web. cnn is following this story from rome. barbie, what do we know about from investigators? >> investigators are focused on one thing. that's to find out whether or not the polish person is really affiliated with wlblack death, which supposedly operates a trafficking ring on the dark web. he was just b...

Rings, it makes the use of those front businesses illegal. we hope that using consumer protection will add more tools to the tool box for law enforcement. traditional criminal tools are great, jake, often they are difficult for law enforcement to use. what we are doing is targeting the deceptive and commercial aspect of trafficking and making it illegal in our states. >> such as advertising or hotels, give us an example of how it may work hypothetically. >> sure, for example, a lot of times people use businesses like nail salon or massage parlor. they run as a business but trafficking rings be...

If the white house does have the evidence that they claim they have, they need to make it clear to the american people and move forward with it quickly. if they don't, they will start to lose people who will say, hey, you made a major claim. you did not back it up. you have to do this soon otherwise you start to lose people in this country and their support for you. that's how politics work. >> that's a good place for us to take a break. thank you both for being here. we do appreciate the feisty debate. flight attendants are now coming together to fight human trafficking. up next, how a grou...