looking at the possible connections, between the data mining operation that jared was not only in charge of, with the campaign, the data that worked so well in terms of the bots and other online attacks against hillary clinton, and whether they were in any way using the wikileaks e-mails with any connection between the russians, wikileaks, those cutouts, and the campaign itself. do you have any evidence so far that there is that connection? you know i m not going to answer that question. as a member of the committee, i can t tell you whether what evidence we do or don t have. i can tell you that is an area of inquiry, an area of how important an area of inquiry is there in terms of this social media aspect. i think it is important. we now learned the republican or the trump campaign use of social media particularly in the last
use of social need media in the month of the campaign was extremely effective. who was doing the immaterial plemting, how did it wor implementing, how did it affect everything? this is one of the most significant allegations in this entire matter. the idea, it used to be a campaign would identify voters and get them out to vote. this was a situation where they identified the other side s voters and tried to suppress that vote and it appears to have been done through the russian government through all of the social media statements on facebook and twitter to make hillary clinton voters feel as though they should not vote for her. one of the most serious agen allegations. also that that report just
the obama campaign use so effectively against romney in 2012. using the candidate s words. we ve seen them do that over and over. it works with women voters, we see it in the polls and works with men disturbed by this kind of language when it comes to talking about women. david, you have a high-profile piece out there, reporting on the surrogates that hillary clinton surrogates versus the donald trump surrogates. a map showing where everyone is today. the vice president of the united states, the president, first lady. he/s she has terrific surrogates. he doesn t have a lot. she s going to hit eight different states today with all the surrogates out there. while donald trump and mike pence are going to hit two. they re in pennsylvania together. then he will go to wisconsin later tonight. so i just think that shows the breadth, the gap that hillary clinton has around the country, to be able to move people around the country. she can touch more voters each
when the washington post published that access hollywood tape. that night the campaign realized that that would not be enough, that they were going to need to do more to stem the political fallout from that tape. to even after they released that terse combative attacking short written statement, they thereafter decided that donald trump would have to make another statement. it was an apology, it was released on facebook, shortly after midnight on friday night. it came more than eight hours after the initial reporting, after the initial publication of that tape on the washington post website. so that was what we saw from the trump campaign, responding to allegations, that they at mitted to and apologized for ultimately on friday. now it s a few days later, we have got these new allegations in the palm beach post and the new york times, what strategy will the donald trump campaign use in light of the latest reporting. again, they are denying the allegations, but we have alley
fallout from that tape. to even after they released that terse combative attacking short written statement, they thereafter decided that donald trump would have to make another statement. it was an apology, it was released on facebook, shortly after midnight on friday night. it came more than eight hours after the initial reporting, after the initial publication of that tape on the washington post website. so that was what we saw from the trump campaign, responding to allegations, that they at mitted to and apologized for ultimately on friday. now it s a few days later, we have got these new allegations in the palm beach post and the new york times, what strategy will the donald trump campaign use in light of the latest reporting. again, they are denying the allegations, but we have alley who s embedded with the trump campaign. how is the trump campaign reacting to this latest round of