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Country lies. it doesn t lie on some third-party group attacking steve bannon. it lies on what the voters want. they want disruption, change, something coming out of with washington and that s the uphill that the battle senator mcconnell h mcconnell he s too much part of washington and the bannon team tried to neutralize the money and alabama proved not to be an advantage. i m running if i m on mcconnell s team. you know a thing or two about a super pac. how do you think this plays out? i think it s amazing about this it s not about ideas. this is where brian is wrong. it s about character. if you look at what jeff flake said senator flake from arizona votes with the president 92% of the time. it s not actually about a policy change. they all agree they want to screw the middle class and destroy medicare. as tabts character. that s different. i think it s harder to fix. democrats had a civil war 50 years ago about civil rights and the civil rights democrats won, ....
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 ....
absolutely it s going to work. the rest of these folks are all going to find themselves under oath in my free advice as a lawyer they best not lie to the grand jury or they will go to prison. we will find out what happened and why the trump campaign, mr. trump jr. himself, jared kushner and the campaign chairman, were meeting on june 9th with people who they said were russian agents bringing them dirt on hillary clinton from the kremlin itself. why were they doing that? why was donald trump in the videotape that kate showed us on july 27th, russia please hack hillary, and cambridge analytica in touch i m cutting you off, paul. one thing that is important one person is a failed presidential candidate, the other one is the president right now. that is the difference in what we re discussing and why there is maybe a difference in significance and important distinction as we have the conversation. brian, i want to talk about something else. also happening right now, allies of mitch ....
They are. not at all. the meetings never took place where with the clinton campaigns we know that direct payments went into well went through a third-party vendor to hide the fusion payment and fusion has some kremlin clients. i think that s been widely reported. the intelligence community sort of has an eye op this organization. so i think you re looking at direct tie between the kremlin a direct tie? direct tie. direct tie. there you go. certainly closer than anything democrats have been saying about the trump campaign. our intelligence agencies, brian, as you know, have said that the kremlin, mr. putin, was trying to influence the election to favor mr. trump. what we don t know we know that. we know that to certainty according to our own national intelligence reports. what we don t know is whether the trump campaign actively participated in that crime. that is the subject of a special prosecutor. so, you know, you can spin all you want and say this about hillary, o ....
Political commentator and former deppty communications director for the donald trump campaign and paul begala former bill clinton white house adviser, of course. brian, welcome to the contributor skp team. thank you. doesn t mean i can be any nicer to you. just ask paul. it is what it is. what do you say to this? yeah. listen, two things happened yesterday, you had the disclosure of cambridge analytica reaching out to wikileaks and then saying we re not interested and you also have the disclosure of fusion gps that has now been further tied to the clinton campaign and dnc and actually fusion gps does have kremlin clients. if we re looking for collusion i think the dots got closer but not with the trump campaign but the clinton campaign. let s get to let s just go there. are please. are the paul, are these two things the same? the fusion gps and the dossier and what we re what we are ....