it is claimed that cyril smith abused boys at a hostel, cambridge house, which closed in the mid—60s.rivate home. when police began an investigation in 1970, smith asked for a meeting. a transcript records a police officer saying... you want to see what we know. and then smith started laughing at that. well, yes, fishing. i think that's fair comment. fishing because cyril smith was hoping to move from local politics to national. he told the police... in three weeks' time i've got to give a decision one way or another whether i'm going to fight the next parliamentary election as a liberal in rochdale. and if i'm going to be charged, i'm not going to accept, guilty or not guilty, it would be unfair to the party. he wasn't charged. but years later the press got wind, started asking questions. the inquiry has obtained these documents held by the security service mi5, which record that the director of public prosecutions press representative had untruthfully told bartlett, a journalist, that they had no record of this case. smith was re—elected in greater numbers than before and, farfrom d

this one, nole view, and cambridge house.ere abused, that staff new, that no one was brought to justice and that the scandal was covered up. the larger—than—life liberal mp cyril smith, who died several years ago, was a governor of nole view. do you want a man to represent you or a party robot? the claim was he used his position to get a ccess claim was he used his position to get access to children. the first allegations against him date back to 1961. police investigated but in 1970 prosecutors said the evidence was stale and his accuser is not reliable. by the early 1990s, experts reported growing concerns children were being abused at the nole view home. little action was taken. last month finally rochdale council apologised for failing children. today the public enquiry will begin taking fresh evidence. the reason that this matters is we cannot have a situation in this country were powerful people are able to abuse children and get away with it because other powerful people are protecting them. that cannot be allowed to h

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this one, knowl view, and cambridge house.ere abused, that staff new, that no one was brought to justice and that the scandal was covered up. the larger—than—life liberal mp cyril smith, who died several years ago, was a governor of knowl view. do you want a man to represent you or a party robot? the claim was he used his position to get access to children. the first allegations against him date back to 1961. police investigated but in 1970 prosecutors said the evidence was stale and his accuser is not reliable. by the early 1990s, experts reported growing concerns children were being abused at the knowl view home. little action was taken. last month finally rochdale council apologised for failing children. today the public enquiry will begin taking fresh evidence. the reason that this matters is we cannot have a situation in this country were powerful people are able to abuse children and get away with it because other powerful people are protecting them. that cannot be allowed to happen and that's why we have to investigate

it is claimed that cyril smith abused boys at a hostel, cambridge house, which closed in the mid—60s.vate home. when police began an investigation in 1970, smith asked for a meeting. a transcript records a police officer saying... you want to see what we know. and then smith started laughing at that. well, yes, fishing. i think that's fair comment. fishing because cyril smith was hoping to move from local politics to national. he told the police... in three weeks' time i've got to give a decision one way or another whether i'm going to fight the next parliamentary election as a liberal in rochdale. and if i'm going to be charged, i'm not going to accept, guilty or not guilty, it would be unfair to the party. he wasn't charged. but years later the press got wind, started asking questions. the inquiry has obtained these documents held by the security service m15, which record that the director of public prosecutions press representative had untruthfully told bartlett, a journalist, that they had no record of this case. smith was re—elected in greater numbers than before and, far from di

investigating allegations about him ata investigating allegations about him at a hostel for young men, cambridge houseem. a transcript of the meeting records a police officer saying... you want to see what we know. smith started laughing at that. fishing, i think that's fair comment. fishing because cyril smith was hoping to move from local politics to national. he told the police... in three weeks i've got to give a decision on whether i'm going to fight the next parliamentary election as a liberal in rochdale. and if i'm going to be charged, i'm not going to accept, guilty or not guilty it would be unfairto guilty or not guilty it would be unfair to the party. he wasn't charged. years later the press started to get wind of the investigation that had taken place and now the inquiry has found new evidence of a cover—up. and now the inquiry has found new evidence of a cover-up. this inquiry made a request to m15, the security service, to see if it had any information that was relevant to this investigation. it did. secret files from mis‘s archives suggest in 1979 prosecutors lied to journalists and den

this one, knowl view, and cambridge house.hat children were abused, that staff knew, that no one was brought to justice and that the scandal was covered up. the larger—than—life liberal mp cyril smith, who died several years ago, was a governor of knowl view. do you want a man to represent you or a party robot? the claim was he used his position to get access to children. the first allegations against him date back to 1961. police investigated but in 1970 prosecutors said the evidence was stale and his accuser is not reliable. by the early 1990s, experts reported growing concerns children were being abused at the knowl view home. little action was taken. last month finally rochdale council apologised for failing children. today the public enquiry will begin taking fresh evidence. the reason that this matters is we cannot have a situation in this country were powerful people are able to abuse children and get away with it because other powerful people are protecting them. that cannot be allowed to happen and that's why we have

it‘s claimed cyril smith abused boys at a hostel, cambridge house, which closed in the mid—‘60s.ed for a meeting. a transcript records a police officer saying... you want to see what we know? smith started laughing. well yes, fishing, i think that‘s fair comment. cyril smith was hoping to move from local politics to national. he told the police... or another whether i am going to fight the next parliamentary election as a liberal democrat. and if i‘m going to be charged, i‘m not going to accept. guilty or not guilty, it would be onto the party. he wasn‘t charged. but years later, the press got wind, started asking questions. the inquiry has obtained these documents held by the security service, mis, which record that the dpp‘s press representative had untruthfully told a journalist that they had no record of this case. smith was re—elected in greater numbers than before and far from diminishing him, the allegations appear to have had absolutely no effect whatsoever. also under investigation, a sexual abuse link to this school, where smith was a governor. at one point, a sex offen

children but in 1970 police were investigating allegations about him at a hostel for young men, cambridge houseant to see what we know. smith started laughing at that. well, yes, fishing, i think that's fair comment. fishing because cyril smith was hoping to move from local politics to national. he told the police... in three weeks i've got to give a decision on whether i'm going to fight the next parliamentary election as a liberal in rochdale. and if i'm going to be charged, i'm not going to accept. guilty or not guilty, it would be unfair to the party. he wasn't charged. years later the press started to get wind of the investigation that had taken place and now the inquiry has found new evidence of a cover—up. this inquiry made a request to m15, the security service, to see if it had any information that was relevant to this investigation. it did. secret files from mis‘s archives suggest in 1979 prosecutors lied tojournalists and denied smith had been investigated. smith was re—elected in greater numbers than before and far from diminishing him, the allegations appear to have had absolutely

children but in 1970 police were investigating allegations about him at a hostel for young men, cambridge houseth started laughing at that. fishing, i think that's fair comment. fishing because cyril smith was hoping to move from local politics to national. he told the police... in three weeks i've got to give a decision on whether i'm going to fight the next parliamentary election as a liberal in rochdale. and if i'm going to be charged, i'm not going to accept, guilty or not guilty, it would be unfair to the party. he wasn't charged. years later the press started to get wind of the investigation that had taken place and now the inquiry has found new evidence of a cover—up. this inquiry made a request to mi5, the security service, to see if it had any information that was relevant to this investigation. it did. secret files from mi5‘s archives suggest in 1979 prosecutors lied tojournalists and denied smith had been investigated. smith was re—elected in greater numbers than before and far from diminishing him, the allegations appear to have had absolutely no effect whatsoever. cyril smith will

profiles of the mercer-funded cambridge an lit ka as the beating heart of the trump campaign's data operation, including this bbc tour of where the operation had been housed. >> cambridge an lit ka was here. so it was just a line of computers. this is where their operation was and this is kind of the brain of the data. this was the data center. >> this is the data center, the center of the data center. >> exactly right. yes, it was. >> i'm joined by business insider political correspondent natasha bare trant who's been covering this and msnbc contributor and former fbi agent, author of "how to catch a russian spy." what's the significance of this? >> it's the first known instance that we've seen where the trump campaign directly reached out to wikileaks during the election. we saw that trump throughout the entire election was praising wikileaks, was telling russia to please find these 33,000 missing e-mails. and if true, which julian assange said that this was accurate that the ceo did reach out to him and wikileaks basically denied their overtures. that indicates that someone with a very important prominent role in the trump campaign, really the beating

we know at his home in cambridge, massachusetts, whenever he left the house photographers would kind of come out of their studios, can we take your picture, can we take your picture. and he, by all accounts, was a very nice man, so he would oblige. so there are lots of photographs that still exist of henry longfellow. so coming back to his hometown in his middle age and into his final years he would have certainly been a very recognizable figure. henry wadsworth longfellow died in 1882. his sister ann would be living in this house about another 15 years. i think that she probably imagined not too long after henry's death that this might be a place for the public to come and see. and when she made that decision in the years before she died, she literally said it's the right things to do. it would be right to leave it for the public to enjoy. >> the help of our spectrum cable partners, c-span is in portland, maine, featuring its local literary community. up next, we speak with elizabeth dewolf on her book, "shaking the faith." >> i learned about shaker history pretty much when i first

. >>> smoke poured from a house in north philadelphia at cambridge street. no injuries reported and no word on what sparked the fire. >>> we have a stunt show accident involving philadelphia police. jeanette reyes is live in center city with the brand new footage, plus how the officers are doing, jennette. >> reporter: good morning, matt, this caused quite a scare for hundreds of people in the crowd ready for a spectacular show as it is every year. this morning we have the exclusive stunning video of the crash that sent three highway patrol officers to the hospital. it's a daring routine the highway patrol drill team is all too familiar with, sunday afternoon during the annual hero thrill ride at 12th and market it went terribly wrong. the video shows the officers crashing into each other in front of spectators from around the world who were attending the chief of police conference. they were taken to the hospital and released. they were greeted by their brothers and sisters in blue. >> they do a fabulous job for us, we can't say enough about them, it's impo

private in nature and we know yesterday assange said he rebuffed the request from cambridge an lytica. the white house is not responding beyond referring to back to the trump campaign. michael glassner who is the expectative director put on a statement distancing themselves from this firm that reached out to wikileaks saying they relied on the republican national committee for voter data. what this really shows is someone working on behalf of the trump campaign reached out to wikileaks for political gain, wolf. >> they expect $6 million with this firm to get information and jared kushner, a senior adviser in the campaign, the president's son in law bragged about the use of this firm in that interview after the election, right? >> yeah, that's right. they did. we saw the president repeatedly refer to wikileaks on the campaign trail saying i hope you guys can help me find these 33,000 e-mails. what this raises are fresh questions about how involved the trump campaign was on this. >> why that statement did not reveal all of that information from the trump reelection. the president is about to make a majo

we know at his home in cambridge, massachusetts whenever he left the house to talk furs would come out of their studios, "can we take your picture?" by all accounts, he was a very nice man so he would oblige. there are lots of photographs that exist of henry longfellow. coming back in his middle-age and his final years, he would have been a very recognizable figure. henry wadsworth longfellow died in 1882. his sister anne would be living in this house another 15 years. she probably imagined not too long after henry's death that this might be a place for the public to come and see. when she made that decision in the years before she died, she literally said, "it is the right . thing to do" it would be right to leave it for the public to enjoy. >> our cities tour staff recently traveled to portland, maine to learn about its rich history. learn more about portland and other stops at c-span.org/citiestour. you are watching american history tv, every weekend, all weekend, on c-span3. >> we now return to our live coverage of the pamplin historical park's civil war symposium in petersburg, vi

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we know at his home in cambridge, massachusetts, whenever he left the house photographers would kindf come out of their studios, can we take your picture, can we take your picture and he, by all accounts, a very nice man so he would oblige. so there are lots of photographs that still exist of henry longfellow. so, coming back to his hometown in his middle age and into his final years, he would have certainly been a very recognizable figure. hen henry wadsworth longfellow died in 1892. his sister ann would live in this house another 15 years. i think that he probably imagined not too long after henry's death that this might be a place for the public to come and see and when she made the decision in the years before she died, she literally said, it's the right thing to do. it would be right to leave it for the public to enjoy. >> with the help of our spectrum cable partners, c-span is in portland, maine featuring the literary community. up next we speak with elizabeth dewolf on her book, "shaking the faith." >> i learned about the shaker history pretty much when i first moved to maine.

house. cnn has reached out to cambridge analytica for a response in the wake of the revelations about wikileaks, but despite our repeated attempts, we have not heard back. >> but in november just before the election, cambridge analytica's ceo alexander knicks did speak to cnn about his data operation and the newly reopened fbi investigation into, you guessed it, hillary clinton's e-mails. >> clearly there are unknown nns. you know, such as what's recently happened in the case of the democrat's candidate with the release of the -- or the reopening of the e-mail inquiry. we can't predict that. >> as far as the trump campaign, it released a statement distancing itself from the firm saying, quote, we as a campaign made the choice to rely on the voter data of the republican national committee to help elect president donald j. trump. any claims that voter data from any other source played a key role in the victory are false. >> pam, would this be of interest to investigators for collusion? >> sources i've spoken to say yes. they say that the idea that the data firm reached out to wikileaks alone does

. >>> plus how safe is our cyber world women rob joyce, white house cybersecurity coordinator, will join us from cambridge with an exclusive interview >>> there's a dot-com boom brewing. we'll tell you why it could be a good sign for this market this time around. >>> we start with the rally that just won't quit. stocks hit record highs again today. the economically sensitive groups leading the charge, materials, industrials, airlines, autos, all breaking out in the last month. are they signaling an economic boom could be just around the corner guy? >> clearly the hope of an economic boom could be around the corner the market is forward looking in that capacity. you look at gdp, and then inventory is up significantly. it's a good thing if people buy the inventories. it's a bad thing if they set on shelves. i won't play economist here. a lot of these stocks continue to remain cheap. we've talked about the airlines for quite some time. delta talked about the impact of all these storms on their business what did delta do in the aftermath? stocks traded higher if they can actually get pricing back, then it bec

. >>> house investigators now scrutinizing the gop data firm that worked the trump campaign and is linked to robert mercer. the data team cambridgerning over documents to investigators right now, according to a report breaking now in the daily beast. the focus on the firm is proving, quote, fruitful. >> joining me now, a member of that house intelligence committee. a busy time for you. so thanks for making time. what does it mean? these reports that they're looking at, cambridge analytica. >> good evening. what i can say is that the cornerstone crime here that we're looking at is a data breach. and a dissemination of hacked data. we know the russians were responsible. we want to know if any trump campaign officials worked with them. i can't comment individual witnesses. i can just say that we hope to report to the american people whether trump team members worked in partnership or coordination with the russians as they hacked data, and then disseminated hacked e-mails or targeted voters through facebook ads, twitter, google to influence them. >> i keep hearing you use the word targeted, which generally requires some level of know

cambridge analytica, milquetoast as best. >> thank you. >> you covered the white house. >> you look at this report. the direct request to work assange, his denial, his rejection of the request, confirming that it happened. and late tonight, the trump campaign not denying it either. connect the dots. >> it is really a shocking development. what you have is an american who is obviously at an important role within the trump campaign offering to commit a crime. essentially what he's saying is, i hope, or i believe you have these hacked e-mails. i would love to distribute those for you. i'm not telling your viewers anything new by saying hacking into a server in the united states is a crime. here you have someone saying, i want to work with you on that. if an agreement was reached. we don't know that. he made an offer to assange who is of dubious veracity. someone i wouldn't necessarily believe but he claims he rejected that offer. at the very least you have someone offering to commit a crime. and that's pretty serious when it is the president of the united states campaign. >> and the investigation we k

you're learning that house vest garretts are very focused on this and russia as well. >> no question about it. they're asking cambridge to provide them more documents. one senior democrat on the committee pointed out that candidate trump said a lot of nice things about wikileaks. >> president could not say enough good things about wikileaks and the campaign. you u had this atimted contact from cambridge, wikileaks was used by the the russians, it's not clear whether that was witting or unwitting, but wic wikileaks was used. needless to say, cambridge is a crew we're going to need to talk to to understand how robust that communication was. >> i also talked to congressman king of new york. the republican. he said certainly, the committee should continue to look into this matter, but the same time, he and other republicans on this committee say that so far, they have not come across any evidence of collusion. they're saying wrap up this investigation rather soon by the end of the year. democrats are saying we don't need to -- to learn about any other contact connections, erin. >> now, former assistant secretary for homel

house who are doing it. and also it's laughable because the amount of actual influence on facebook that cambridge analytic i had funded by mercer who've also funded trump is. like four out paces any of these small face forget but i've got like three minutes left i want to move on real quick to israel because you've done such great work on israel in the past you've been to gaza and one of the prominent talking points of the israeli government is this idea that has a blog will do anything to wipe out the jews they hate all jews is that when you're found i mean if you just look at the situation now the syrian civil war is over isis is being defeated and the syrian government is moving back into control of its own territory it is an ally of iran and it has worked hand in glove with hezbollah lebanese political and mill and militia group to reestablish control from these jihadist groups has will have basically saved lebanon from being overrun by al-qaeda and isis and so israel's very disturbed about that because hezbollah and iran are the and syria are the only groups left countries left putting up resistance to

house intelligence committee investigators. >> that is correct. >> tell us about cambridge analytica.w reporting on that. >> that's right. sources tell my colleague dana bash, this data firm working for the trump campaign, actually reached out to julian assange, the founder of wikileaks during the campaign. asking him about the 33,000 e-mails that hillary clinton had deleted. he sent this e-mail to others telling him he had reached out to assange. on twitter today, sauassange acknowledged this. saying it was true and he rejected that request. this is the closest connection that we can make between the trump campaign and wikileaks. as you know, wikileaks released the dnc-hacked e-mails, john podesta's e-mails, but it's unclear if anyone ever got ahold of those 33,000 missing e-mails. >> and people in the u.s. intelligence community, although assange denies it, say that assange and wikileaks have worked with the russian government. >> they believe they're a propaganda arm of the russian government. >> all right. pamela brown, thanks so much. >>> we have lots more to talk about including

closely the data firm, cambridge analytica, worked with the trump campaign and what that will mean for the russia investigation. cnn contributor john dean is here, a former nixon white house counsel. also cnn national security analyst, juliette kayyem. and nada backos. hello to all of you. thank you for coming on. mr. dean, you first, trump campaign claimi ining it didn'ty on cambridge analytica that reached out to julian assange to get access to clinton's e-mails. a video tonight posted by "the guardian" is contradicting that. here's a senior executive from the company talking about how they helped trump win. >> 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. >> so cambridge analytica was even driving where trump campaign, that directly contradicts the trump campaign's statement. how problematic is that, do you think? >> i think it's very problematic that the trump campaign did not reach out and have a very close c

steve bannon once on the board of cambridge and according to news, divested stake in the company to join the trump white houseier this month, house intelligence committee is looking into the firm as part of its investigation into russia's metaling. >>> it's been more than two months since the president signed russia sanction bill into law. yet to be implemented. asked about the delay, the white house deflected and referred questions to the state department. asked corker if he would make calls to figure out why the administration missed the october 1 deadline to impose those penalties. senator will talk about that and feud with the president later on morning joe . >>> fell to new low. just 38% approve. down 4 points since september. trump's disapproval rating hit a new high of 57%. also seen a dip in approval numbers among core supporters and eight point drop since september with white evangelical voters and whites without a college degree. down to 66 approval. and six point drops among another three groups, conservatives, men and white voters falling below majority with men and whites. down to 46 and 45% each

can't get away from is when trump white house or campaign starts denying all knowledge of the people and entities involved. flynn who? carter? what's that? cambridge? carter who? what's that? and as things keep happening, it's harder to dismiss all as coincidences, can't all be random people who walked in off the street the campaign never noticed or one-offs all disconnected from one another. maybe the continuing revelations are why the congressional investigations into the russian attack and questions of whether or not the trump campaign is involved in it, maybe that's why the investigations this month seem to be going off the rails. yesterday, we really did see republicans walk out of their own committee interviews with the digital operations chief of the trump campaign and the personal lawyer to instead announce they would be launching new investigations into hillary clinton. we have seen multiple reports from "the new york times" and other publications, however well the various congressional investigations into the russia issue might have been doing in the past, now starting to fall apart. today "mother jones" was first to report that one of t

interesting because here you have a company, cambridge analytica, which was steve bannon, who was a senior adviser to donald trump, on the campaign and also in the white house, sits on the board of that company, and of course, essentially was run by the mercers, who are huge donors to the donald trump campaign. sort of huge donors behind a lot of what's considered the alt-right, the nationalist movement within the republican party and the conservative movement. so, matt, as you're speaking about this, i just want everybody at home, look at your screen. matt, explain what you're talking about. i mean, this is a graphic explaining what you're talking about here. >> right. i think that, you know, anybody who is a news junky by now probably knows who the mercers are. if anybody out there is watching and tay don't know who they are, they should. robert mercer was a big hedge fund guy. you know, billionaires, basically. his daughter rebekah, is now very actively involved. they fund milo yiannopoulos, for example. and steve bannon, breitbart, a lot of steve bannon's projects, this is very interrelated. it's very incestuous. and so even if the trump campaign, which

standard from the white house and kellyanne conway on a range of issues when it has to do with the russian investigation. what you heard there is alisyn pressing her about cambridge analytica, these people that worked for the trump campaign and reaching out to kelly weeks, and what you heard from kellyanne conway, that doesn't matter. but anything that clinton did with the research, oh, that matters a lot. when donald trump jr. is having a meeting with people from russia, that's not a problem, that's opposition research. really interesting double standard. >> i think what she's trying to do is kind of flip the way you just described it by saying you guys are so focussed on russia when it comes to us, but if you care that much let's focus on now what we know the democrats were involved with, which is paying for the dossier in the first place. this is not an easy topic. she is probably, as you have learned over the interviews that you have done with her, both of you, masterful at turning it around. i think at the end of the day, though, she did make clear if you can kind of read through some of the spin that she clearly -- well, here's my read. she was uncomfortabl

questions about cambridge analytic kaw's role in russia's efforts to undermine the clinton campaign, but another key development, the one receiving the least attention. that the trump white house l belately far past the deadline and only after facing scrutiny from bob corker and john mccain. joining me now, a business insider, and author of "the future is history." and also from the russia pro-democracy movement and head of the global magnitsky justice campaign. great panel. thank you for being here. slat m sl sha lad m have la have a l have -- vladamir, you first. >> a long tradition of u.s. policy towards russia that the administration, executive branch have reticent about sanctions fif you recall the magnitsky act how it came out five years ago, very much opposed tried to stop it and block it, but such a thing as separation of powers in this country and a strong and independent congress made the magnitsky act happen and pressure from congress on the administration to implement new sanctions in place. a milestone certainly a lot of people in moscow are looking forward to, the opposite are looking forward to, i should say, the deadline in january and february of the publicati

is how much can the white house and people surrounding donald trump, especially in government now, not just campaign history, try to cordon this off. we saw that with cambridge last week because there was dodgy dealings with wikileaks. the question being these conspiracy, who knew what when. or the famous question, what did the president know and when did he know it. i will point out gates accused of false statements about all this. again that goes to intent and whether not only did you do something and you thought it was right but no, you did it, maybe you knew it was wrong, and so you started telling other people false information to try to cover it up. all of this going, again, it's not about colugs at this juncture, collusion at this juncture. collusion is not a crime, conspiracy is. the putin ally that figure into all this. while it is not on the level of conspiring to tip an election and we're not there, the backdrop of that, this is not unrelated in the sense that there are a lot of russian dealings. mentioned at the top of your show, mr. gates was the person manafort used to send to moscow. it is legal to go to moscow. but there's now a lot of illega

team trump, in fact, steve bannon was once on the board of cambridge analytics and divested his interest in the company to join the trump white house you see that might point, actually strike you in some way? >> this is what's fascinating. i am not normally in the business of the trump campaign puts out a press release and i defend. what's interesting is in the republican data and polling worlds, this idea that the trump campaign and the company had less of a close relationship than meets the eye rings true. one of the complaints that you will hear in republican data and polling circles is that came bridge analytica has always oversold their role about we have fascinating techniques and we practice the dark arts. and a lot of it was overblown. now that the trump campaign is coming out and saying that officially because the company has gotten themselves in a little of a mess with the wikileaks folks, in a way i actually find the trump campaign's press release credible. it aligns with what other folks have been chattering about in these circles for months? . >> i'll give you the other side of the story from what i heard from people i

houses, my home state of texas. it's just awful. it's awful there. and the disenfranchisement that's happening. it's more than that and, you know, all of the work that cambridge analytics did that they're talking about in the trump administration, all of the work of the russians and the election blah, blah, blah, which is not blah, blah, blah, it's like a real issue, but a lot of that was actually psychology knowing how to depress people. it wasn't how do i get my voters out. it was how do i get you from going? how do i divide you from the folks that are telling you that they actually want to fight for you? how do i diminish the confidence? and both simone and careen have mentioned that white women have been voting republican for some time. >> not just have. they have literally been keeping the republican party afloat. >> i think that let's white men off when you say it that way because white men vote for republicans in a much higher number than white women, but that doesn't mean that white women don't bear responsibility. i just can't stand letting the men off of that. but -- we do actually -- we have taken out seriously. that is traditionally our base. we h

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cambridge analytica reached out to wikileaks founder julian assange with an offer to help them colate clinton e-mails. another key development this week is the one receiving the least attention, that the trump white housely took its first steps toward new russia sanctions this week, far past the deadline and only after facing public scrutiny from top senate republicans bob corker and john mccain. thank you all for being here. this question of sanctions that were supposed to be implemented on october 1st belatedly, according to reuters, just on thursday the trump administration began its first steps ap implementing them. this comes after we learned that rex tillerson, the secretary of state, actually closed the office that's actually charged with implementing those sanctions. what does all of that say to you? >> in fact, it has been a pretty long tradition of u.s. policy towards russia that the executive branch has always been very reticent about the sanctions. five years ago the u.s. administration in place at the time was very much opposed to it and tried to stop it and block it. you have such a thing as separation of powers in this country and have a strong and independent congress. now we see again