cambridge analytica reached out and asked for information on e-mails but said he had rejected those claims, rejected the overture, did not agree to turn over any of the e-mails to them. claimed he did not want to work with them in his tweet. >> but -- and also the trump campaign is, i don't know, seemingly trying to distance themselves from this company at this point, but not so much. >> but not so much. they have certainly in a statement said that they relied on the rnc data for their campaign and have distanced themselves, but we went through some of fec records, election records, and found that the trump campaign paid cambridge analytica a substantial amount of money, some $5.9 million, in november, for some of their work. so while they may be trying to distance themselves, there are these payments to the group. >> all right. let's see where this goes. great to see you. thank you so much. joining me brian, cnn