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Starting from as early as 2014, drain the swamp, deep state, you know, things about race realism and populism. these are all things trump then ran on. this is what his campaign was based around. so, you could argue that this structure and the infrastructure was already there and bannon had already put this all in place. and all he needed to find was a candidate who would be willing to go along with it. >> one of the things it highlights the extent to which steve bannon was the guy with a message shopping for a candidate. this goes back further than 2014. he was roaming around the political lan...

Been a presumption that essentially bannon uniquely among people who were at the uppermost levels of donald trump's presidency and his campaign, that bannon was somehow clean on the question of russia. does this, the cambridge analytica story, start to put steve bannon right in the middle of the data -- the data story and then eventually the russia story? >> it places bannon at the very beginning of the entire story. i mean, it's almost as if bannon and the mercers and alexander knicks got together to create a model for exactly the kind of campaign they wanted to run, not only in the midterms ...

Deep state. bannon became the central character in the analytica saga, we are hearing from another. last hour facebook ceo mark zuckerberg posted his comments since the data scandal broke. before he laid out what they are actually doing about it zuckerberg says, quote, we have a responsibility to protect your data, and if we can't then we don't deserve to serve you. i've been working to understand exactly what happened and how to make sure this doesn't happen again. the good news is that the most important actions to prevent this from happening again today, we have already taken years ago. but...

Bannon, at least most americans, before he was named the chief executive of the trump campaign, before he was hired then subsequently fired as white house chief strategist, the former breitbart editor oversaw a data gathering for a firm cambridge analytica. this week you may have heard the company is accused of secretly obtaining names of 50 million facebook users. we find from the whistleblower interesting. bannon oversaw cambridge analytica data collection. if you paid attention to the 2016 campaign or trump presidency, this paragraph might make some sense. quote, the 2014 effort was part of...

And cons of who you're actually bringing into your country. if they come from a place whereby they are more prone to terrorism, there should be more scrutiny on those people. if they come from a place they've committed a crime in their country, there should be more scrutiny on those people. i'm of the belief, look across europe as a result of this, the large-scale immigration that's happening in europe at the moment is leading to higher crime rates amongst migrants because they're unable to get jobs. >> that's a fair point. i don't know you're being responsive to the question, whether it's goo...