Great to have you with us. President trump being cautioned by democrats and republicans to layoff Robert Mueller, the special counsel. That is after the second straight day of the president mentioning the special counsels name twice. During a defensive and accusation filled weekend of tweets from the white house, these are the messages just today from the president. Denying collusion with the russians and attacking james comey and Andrew Mccabe, calling them liars saying mueller team has zero republicans even though Robert Mueller himself is a republican. The weekend tweet storm and mention of Robert Mueller by name have some dedeucing that the president is ready to shut mueller down. Two republicans in the senate say that would be a disaster. Well, as i said before, if he tried to do that, that would be the beginning of the end of this presidency because were rule of law nation. Talking to my colleagues all along, it was once it goes after mueller, then well take action. I think that
Weekend. There it is laid out right before you. Now two more sources tell cnn President Trump is adding a new lawyer to his team, one who has pushed a Conspiracy Theory that the president is being framed by a group of fbi and Justice Department officials. So after President Trump tweeted that there are zero republicans on muellers team, which is not true by the way mueller himself is a republican is the president now laying the groundwork to fire the special counsel, Robert Mueller . A move the most senior republican in the senate, orrin hatch, would be, his words, the stupidest thing trump could do. Plus were learning a lot more tonight about how a facebook quiz you may have taken revealed more personal information about you and your friends than you could ever have guessed and how that information was turned into whats being called a psychological warfare weapon. Tonight were going to dig into exactly what happened to data from 50 million unsuspecting people. Maybe you were one of th
uk to help set up those information weapons. and so what we worked on at scl and later at cambridge analytica is data harvesting programs where we pull data from users of apps and all the friend networks and run that data through algorithms that can profile the psychological attributes so we would know what information we need to feed to online platforms o to exploitmental vulnerabilities that are algorithms showed they had. this goes beyond just sort of programming advertisement toward a certain group. because you told us you can tell something about people based on things like whether they like game of thrones or country music. what can you tell? yeah. so, you know, i think it s easiest to think about when you go on a date, for example. the questions that you ask on a date, right? you ask what music do you like? what kind of movies do you
so steve came to sel because he believes in something called the breitbart doctrine, which is that in order to change politics, you first have to change culture because politics is downstream from culture. and in order to fight a culture war, you need an arsenal of information weapons. and who better to go to than a company like sel, which is a military contractor based in the uk, to help set up those information weapons. and so what we worked on at scl and later at cambridge analytica, was data harvesting programs where we would pull data from users of apps and all of their friend networks and run that data through algorithms that could profile their personali personality traits so we would know exactly what kind of information we would need to seed onto online platforms to
personality of every american voter and you could predict their behavior that way and message them. they needed data to do that. they went out and got this facebook data. they paid an outside researcher to set up an app. it was really simple. you would take a personality questionnaire and log on the app and it would scrape all of your personal information and that of all of your friends and would you get a payment code and get paid for taking the questionnaire. 270,000 people took the questionnaire and downloaded the app. that totalled more than 50 million user profiles being scraped. so their friend networks were scraped. so why? why would cambridge analytica go there. what was the root of this mission? it needed the data to create this technique or analytical tool to predict voter behavior. whether that worked is another huge debate. but cambridge analytica says it