relied on rnc data. there s a clear reason why they d want to distance themselves from cambridge. i think it was carefully worded so as not to dismiss cambridge. which michael is pretty interesting. it s a pattern for trump. they immediately are trying to distance themselves. even in some cases when it s false like these. he was with the campaign for a short period of time. he was a virtual tiolunteer campaign and b obviously, there s been a discussion of paul manafort who played a limited role for a limit td amount of time. just to state the obvious, paul manafort was the chairman of the campaign. michael flynn was the national security adviser at the white house. but this is a pattern.
it is a pattern. because of what i find most interesting about this new development with mr. nix, the head of cambridge, who sometimes in the summer reaches out to julian assange at wikileaks and says can you provide the missing hillary clinton e-mails, where did he get the idea that wikileaks might have these e-mails? well on august 6th, and we don t know exactly when this e-mail was sent from nix to assange, but on august 6th, rt runs a story playing it up. saying headlined, does wikileaks had v the e-mails that could put hillary clinton in jail. when you have examples of where rt russian state propaganda gets into the bloodstream and in some ways is manipulating the trump
every campaign stop driven by data that s pretty increde bable. so the data was driving where trump went to campaign. the rallies. now, the reason cambridge s deep role in the campaign matters is because the ceo reached tout julian assange to get as close to putin asking for help in obtaining hillary clinton s 30,000 e-mails. it also matters because of the statement from the trump campaign trying to down play their relationship despite the fact they paid the firm $6 million in fees. they re down play iing it becau they don t want to be linkeded to russia. we as a campaign made the choice to rely on the republican national committee. any claims are false. manu, obviously, we know now the lines between the trump campaign and this data company were deep and important. bannon was involved. jared kushner brought the firm in. you re learning that house vest
. tonight, newly found video throwing cold water on a trump campaign statement. they claimed in a formal statement it did not rely on a data company that reached out to julian assange. so let s start with this new video posted today by the guardian. in it, you ll see a senior executive from cambridge anal i analytica. here is just a taste. we started working with the trump campaign in about june of 2016. when it became obvious that a sophisticated data apparatus would be needed by ensuring that every campaign stop was driven by data and reflecting what was currently being seen in the field, he was able to use his travel time most effectively.
the rnc was providing the raw data. the information about who voters were. where they lived. what they like. all of that raw data. that data across the years. cambridge was working inside the trump campaign and analyzing that data. we can use it to figure out who they want to photovotvote for. i spoke to trump s digital director, they weren t relying on cambridge s data, they were relying on the rnc s, but they had 13 staffers who were using the rnc s data, yes, where should we send trump on the campaign trial? who might be an influential donor? the team at the time are denying the fact they were work wg the trump campaign and were influnable, but that statement very carefully word ed said we