yeah. this is one of the things that raised eyebrows early on. why would they be changing the republican platform? we know that obviously manafort had deep ties in ukraine and had worked on a pro-putin presidential campaign with this individual had been his ukrainian business partner. what is unknown is this new information that he s talking about the ukrainian peace plan allegedly, that he s handing over the information. i think paul hit the nail on the head of why it s so significant. it s not that its secret polling data, it s if it s giving to the russia, a, was manafort freelancing or was there broader knowledge of the campaign and what did they use it for. if it was used for voter targeting through all the disinformation efforts which the russians used in ukraine during that campaign and seemed to have done we know did in this election, whether or not with trump campaign knowledge is the big question, that s a crucial piece of information. we now know past hands from the camp
wasn t voter targeting or targeting without some of that data potentially. so i think that it s an all connected story where the senate does have a role and they have a responsibility and obligation to the american public to ensure integrity in our elections. i agree with both of you which is going to be hard because you re saying contradictory things. i think they are connected stories and they are connected questions, but the senate judiciary the investigative committees are going to say, listen, we went out to determine whether russia interfered in the 2016 election. they did. we ve said that. it s unambiguous. the intelligence community is unambiguous in its view that russia colluded in the election. yes, all these figures are saying different things which is good because we have a federal investigation going by bob mueller and he s going to come to a conclusion of his own. we ve done what we wanted to do and determined russia had an influence. and if they bring in those othe
associated press, cnn s jeff zeleny, and politico s rachael bey. the president says it s time for the russian meddling investigation to shut down. the president himself tweets, it never should have started to begin with. those tweets with both john dowd s new statement and the new tweet from the president are laughable. and both twist the truth. the president s own treasury department cited the work of the special counsel this week in imposing new sanctions on russia. we also learned this past week the special counsel has obtained subpoenas for trump organization business records, bringing the investigation deep into the president s family business. and now new trouble for the president s 2016 campaign. facebook late friday announced it had suspended the data firm central to the trump voter targeting, saying it improperly obtained and used information about millions of american voters. the new york times has a fascinating and detailed report on how the cambridge analytica operation w
questions here. one is this. was there any coordination between the trump campaign and russians on this voter targeting, right? we know russians were doing it on facebook, on twitter. drew griffin reported 600,000 followers for just 50 twitter accounts. there was a great report, i don t know if you saw it, but jared kushner gave an interview and described in detail how he was trained how to use micro targeting on facebook. specifically for voter targeting. he was proud of this. he told forbes just weeks after trump had the nomination, that he built a 100 person day a the hub. with the express dwoel of targeting supporters. they got a warehouse in austin, texas and this is what they did. do you from what you know or what you believe, think at this point that there was any sharing of information between the trump campaign, anybody who would have known b about that targeting, and russian trolls or bots or russians who did targeting also on social media? well, as i ve said before, we
do you know when brad is going to come before the committee? yeah. we have an agreement with our republican colleagues not to get into who s going to testify and when because of the pressure that is others face when they talk about doing this. so, a blanket agreement makes more sense and makes the investigation far more effective. brad says he will be speaking before your committee. anyway, there has been reporting that the committee is looking into whether the digital operation, which he was part of helped guide russia s voter targeting and kind of their fake news efforts during the election. basically, they helped coordinate with them. do you think they did? i think that there was coordination. i think you are starting to see public evidence of that coordination, not just the meeting with trump jr., but others as well. you know, roger stone suggesting he had a relationship with