wylie: it was the company that was set up by dr. cogan. sen. whitehouse: you said it became a company to serve as cambridge analytica. -- service cambridge analytica. mr. wylie: it became a company so that it can sign a contract with cambridge analytica. or rather, technically scl. sen. whitehouse: is it fair to describe the entities that i have just described as a coordinated network? mr. wylie: yes. sen. whitehouse: what was the role of robert mercer in funding the network? mr. wylie: he was the primary funder who put in tens of millions of u.s. dollars in two -- into cambridge analytica, which then distributed that money to that network. sen. whitehouse: did that cambridge analytica network have a reoccurring contract with black cube? mr. wylie: when i was there we did not have a contract with them. sen. whitehouse: have you since become aware of the connection between scl group and black cube and working together on projects? mr. wylie: i have become aware of relationships that the company had with former members of israeli security. sen. w

it informed me that dr. cogan didn't have permission to use the application he was using for commercial purposes and only cac democratic purposes. that was actually new information to me. i did not know that ahead of time. then it requested that i -- if i still had the data to delete it. and then sign a certification of that -- that i no longer had the data. senator harris: did it require to you sign that under -- provision of a notearry or just sign it and send it back? mr. wylie: it did not require a notearry or any sort of legal -- notary or any sort of legal procedure. i signed the certification and sent it back. they accepted it. >> senator harris, just as a housekeeping, we will have a vote called around noon. that means we need to be there within about 25 minutes. i think we'll be able to get the first round. we have senators durbin, hirono, and booker, i'm happy to stick around to the vote. if we can agree to three-minute rounds. senator durbin: initially, senator harris, i thought your presentation on the

>> the company that was set up by dr. cogan. >> you said it became a company to serve as cambridge analytica. >> it became a company so that it can sign a contract with cambridge analytica. is it fair to describe the entities that i have just described as a coordinated network? >> yes. >> what was the role of robert mercer in funding the network? >> he was the primary funder who put in tens of millions of u.s. dollars in two cambridge analytica, which then distributed that money to that network. >> did that cambridge analytica network have a reoccurring contract with black cube? >> when i was there we did not have a contract with them. >> heavy since become aware of s yellnection between group and black cube and working together on projects? ofi have become aware relationships that the company had with former members of israeli security. >> how about asi data science? subcontractors a to cambridge analytica and there was a revolving cast of data scientists there. >> yes. >> they are a frequent contractor? when i was there, thei

it informed me that dr. coganactually did not have permission to use the program he was using for commercial purposes, only academic purposes. that was new information to me, i did not know that at the time. he requested that if i still have the data to delete it and then sign a certification that i no longer have the data. sen. harris: did it require you to sign it under supervision of a notary? or just sign and send it back? mr. wylie: it did not require a notary or any third of legal signed theso i certification and send it back and they accepted it. >> senator harris, just as housekeeping, we will have a vote called around noon. senate time. we know that means we have to be there within 25 minutes. i think we will be able to get the first round. we have senators durbin, rona, and booker, and i am happy to stick around until the end of the vote if we can agree to three minute rounds. senator durbin. sen. durbin: thanks, mr. chairman, and thanks to the witnesses. senator harris, i thought your presentation on th