people have been talking about this for years, about oxford and cambridge being too privileged and cambridge being too privileged and from this, it does not seem that that much has changed, are you confident or optimistic that anything will change? the percentage of state school educated people have been going up over the years. it is quite a decent amount, but one of the bigger shifts is that comprehensive schools have got so much better and in the past 15 years we have seen results rise quite a lot and that means you have got more pupils from within those state schools who can actually give the private school kids run for their money and that is making the biggest difference, the school reforms are what will drive the changes and have so far. there is a good news story here which is far more people from difficult backgrounds are going to university than ever before and the challenge is are they being spread fairly among all the universities? the challenges at the top end and it is almost uniquely british or english challenge because other university systems in other countries tend to be mu

he said they used both cambridge analytica and rnc data. here's what the head of digital at cambridge analytica said at a conference in germany about the relationship with the trump campaign. >> 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. >> reporter: despite what we just heard in the time line, the campaign released a statement yesterday distancing itself from cambridge analytica saying it relied on the rnc information. >> do we know what t connection? >> we know on the hill investigators will use the information to see if there was any kofrd nation, whether anyone from the trump campaign knew to -- or to figure out the mindset content, or whether there was a conspiracy theory. this goes beyond the campaign tactics of the data firm reaching out to wikileaks. so this will be part o

was this cambridge involved? zbl zbl zblae. >> yeah, they had a full team of data scientists down in san anton antonio, in trump's data headquarters. brad parscale was our host and spoke about the work they did and how their modeling was used to help decide where trump would travel based on where they thought the most gettable universal voters were. from what i understand from talking to people involved what the campaign, what you said is not accurate. i don't know if we've got our wires crossed when you talked to brad and other people have talked to brad. but i can tell you, my understanding, which is pretty knowledgeable understanding of the inner workings of the republican national committee, is they did run the data operation for the trump campaign. cambridge has been a debunked company. the cruz campaign fired them because they found out they were shar letons. they got involved with trump because the mercers and steve bannon. >> steve bannon was on the board? >> that's right. >> he was also the campaign ceo.

trump champaign and cambridge analytica. and democratic side, former campaign chairman john podesta and debby wasserman schultz denying paying the -- behind the dossier. joining me now. you said you didn't know about the payments, if podesta and wasserman schulz didn't know, who would have? millions of dollars given to law firm? >> to perform everyday legal work. perkins coupy firm would do fcc compliance, vetting of people on the campaign. >> asked to do opposition research? >> they were i guess. but i see millions of dollars spent on this. those are line items that capture all that it did. >> millions spent and firm is doing opposition research, somebody has to be saying where is this research? >> and i don't know who was doing this when fusion gps came in and said republican had been funding this work until now and we think you might be interested. not sure who was part of it -- somebody in the dnc. >> clearly. and i would shake their hand. perfectly fine this happened. someone taking ownership of trying our best to get t

oxford and cambridge are entrenching privilege. it's the sons ofjudges, of members of parliament, of newspaper editors, that make their way to oxford and cambridge. not the sons of plumbers and teachers and nurses. but oxford and cambridge say they are taking steps to widen access, both spending £5 million each year to reach more students and address inequalities. progress, they say, has already been made. i wouldn't necessarily say things are going wrong. we're actually making progress in some areas and if there is a poor student, so a student from a poor background, who applies to oxford and is getting three as or above they are more likely to get an offer from oxford than their more privileged peer group. cambridge university says poor results were the greatest barrier to disadvantaged students and its admissions were based on academic considerations alone. a lot of people i speak to are from, like, london, the south of england. i grew up on a council estate. i went to state schools — here i am. it's overwhelmingly white, tha

was this cambridge involved? >> they had a full team of data scientists down in san antonio in trump's data headquarters. brad parscale was our host and spoke about the work they did and how their modeling was used to help decide where trump would travel based on where they thought the most gettable universal voters were. from what i understand from talking to people involved what the campaign, what you said is not accurate. i don't know if we've got our wires crossed when you talked to brad, i can tell you my understanding, which is pretty knowledgeable understanding of the inner workings of the republican national committee, is they did run the data operation. cambridge has been a debunked company. they got involved with trump because the mercers and steve bannon. >> steve bannon was on the board? >> that's right. >> he was also the campaign ceo. >> which speaks volumes. >> he was actually inside trump campaign headquarters. the idea that they weren't involved -- >> let me finish. it speaks volumes that if bann

analytica and they're denying any contact with cambridge analytica or that they used cambridge analytica's material. that seems like a strong tie to the company, if you didn't use their material why are you paying them $6 million? >> it's a legitimate question. i don't know the answer to it. i think that that's a question that the congressional committees need to find out. but here's what i'm also saying. is there's so many things like this on either side going in any direction about mueller, about uranium too, about the clinton foundation, about the trump connections, that i think the american people, patriotic american people, evan, are -- do have some fatigue about all these investigations and i think what they're worried about more is their mortgages, their jobs, their paycheck, their taxes. and i think that that's where their focus is. so the question is where did all these investigations lead to? i'm not certain that they're going lead to anywhere. i think both parties are putting too much faith in these investigations shifting the outcome of the next election. and i think the better

analytica and they're denying any contact with cambridge analytica or that they use cambridge analytica's material. that seems like a strong tie to the company, if you didn't use their material why are you paying them $6 million? >> it's a legitimate question. i don't know the answer to it. i think that that's a question that the congressional committees need to find out. but here's what i'm also saying. is there's so many things like this on either side going in any direction about mule, he about uranium too, about the clinton foundation, about the trump connections, that i think the american people, patriotic american people, evan, are -- do have some fatigue about all these investigations and i think what they're worried about more is their mortgage, their jbs, their paycheck, their taxes. and i think that that's where their focus is. so the question is where did all these investigations lead to? i'm not certain that they're going lead to anywhere. i think both parties are putting too much faith in these investigations shifting the outcome of the next election. and i think the better t

that puts a spotlight on cambridge analytica. they should probably explain the specifics of that time line so they knew what they were doing in making that overture and whether they knew they were offering to help a russia intelligence operations. so there's more reporting to do there. but even if the worst is true, it remains the fact they weren't working for the trump campaign at the time that overture happened so that still doesn't implicate the trump campaign in what might be russian collusion. if you're looking to implicate the russia collusion, you had to wait for rebecca. remember that first specific date when we learned the democratic documents weren't randomly taken by some thief, they were taken as part of a russian intelligence operation. when that news broke on june 14th, it was not a subtle thing. it was everywhere. this was that initial report, russian government hackers 3e7b penetrated dnc. that started a lit any of reporting about this. u.s. officials say little doubt russia behind dnc hack. spy agency hacked dnc.

a lot of their focus has been on cambridge analytica and some of the data. and if that was sort of the locus for any of the inclusion that might have happened. >> yeah. they both came on late, didn't spend that much time. had periphery roles with the campaign. so, jim, the white house understandably wants to keep the focus on the news about hillary clinton, the clinton campaign, paying for part of the dossier. watch this and then we'll discuss. >> well, i think it's very sad what they've done with this fake dossier. it was made up and i understand they paid a tremendous amount of money. and hillary clinton always denied it. the democrats always denied it. and now only because it's going to come out in a court case they said, yes, they did it. they admitted it. and they were embarrassed by it. but i think it's a disgrace. it's a very sad commentary on politics of this country. >> does it matter much who paid for what information, jim sciutto? >> well, the fact is from the beginning, for instance, when we fist reported that the intelligence chief briefed then

he was under contract with cambridge analytica. so they did a deal where they could get this particular individual and several others to work within the operation. sort of what they're differing on is the data. and that really is key. cambridge analytica had a database that i know the cruz campaign, your campaign, alice, worked and used, where they would go through the psychological profiles of voters. what the trump campaign says is they didn't use that. they didn't use any of the data. they used the rnc data, which they built up for four years, about the voter files and then they used the personnel to kind of utilize that where they would make -- >> they used -- >> -- they used graphics to go -- >> they used the rnc's database. there's no doubt about that. that was a bigger one. what cambridge did was, essentially, they supplied the brain power. >> exactly. >> they took that data and they ran it through algorithms and modeling script, and came up with everything form talking points to where trump should travel. >> paul, to you, w

a lot of their focus has been on cambridge an lit ka and some of the data. and if that was sort of the locus for any of the inclusion that might have happened. >> yeah. they both came on late, didn't spend that much time. had periphery roles with the campaign. so, jim, the white house understands but he wants to keep the focus on the news about hillary clinton, the clinton campaign, paying for part of the dossier. watch this and then we'll discuss. >> well, i think it's very sad what they've done with this fake dossier. it was made up and i understand they paid a tremendous amount of money. and hillary clinton always denied it. the democrats always denied it. and now only because it's going to come out in a court case they said, yes, they did it. they admitted it. and they're comparesed by it. but i think it's a disgrace. it's a very sad commentary on politics of this country. >> does it matter much who paid for what information, jim shoe dough? >> well, the fact is from the beginning, for instance, when we fist reported that the intelligence chief briefed t

before that he feels the vice president of cambridge analytica. while working for the firm, bannon had urged the trump campaign to fire them as far back as april, according to the new yorker. in september 2016 the trump campaign made its biggest payment to cambridge analytica, $5 million. that's according to fec filings. those payments eventually totaled nearly $6 million. the the payments listed by the fec as being for data management services. >> the firm has offices in london, new york and right here in washington, d.c. just three blocks away from the white 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

so around that time the two teamed up, the trump campaign and cambridge analytica. at the same time jared kushner took overall data operations for the campaign. that was in june. the following month the campaign makes its first payment to cambridge analytica in july. and it was one of many payments totaling nearly $6 million to cambridge analytica. around the same time of that, don, in july -- actually, two days before the payment, at the time candidate trump was on the trail talking about the russians, asking them to hack hillary clinton's 33,000 missing e-mails, as you may recall. and now we're learning that in that same time frame in july, according "the wall street journal," the head of the firm actually reached out to wikileaks founder julian assange asking him if he needed help with hillary clinton's e-mails. all of this within that time frame. now, the campaign has distanced itself from cambridge analytics, basically saying it didn't rely on it at all during the campaign. it relied on the rnc's data information. >> i want to bring in now cnn politics editor a

they don't mention cambridge analytica. they say we just relied on the rnc, et cetera, et cetera, and sort of dodging the key question here. how does this move the ball and to where? >> the trump campaign statement doesn't do anything to undermine the importance of the news i broke yesterday, which is that the ceo of a data analytics firm that the trump campaign paid nearly $6 million to over the course of the election reached out to julian assange and offered to help him district e-mails that this ceo may have believed were obtained by a hacker. that's a really important story. whether or not cambridge analytica was involved in the nitty gritty, in the weeds of how the trump campaign's data operation works is not relevant to this. another piece of this that is important to this is rebecca mercer, who received the e-mail, according to your reporting, is a very powerful figure in trump's orbit. rebecca mercer and steve bannon have been close for years and years, and bannon was viewed as the outside gatekeeper of mercer, and

plus cambridge university being issued with warnings of a potentially distressing material in classic literature a move that is seen as over the top by some. if you're reading literature you should expect to have some surprises i think the problem with the wealthy's days is that there's just so much focus on being offended by everything that people are just so scared of what they can actually say or do. all of us here at the international in moscow a very warm welcome to you we have your latest friday world headlines any attacks against russian media won't go on and so it. warns that if washington continues with its pressure campaign against channel and other outlets moscow will take similar measures. she just has to do what we are seeing right now and what is happening around our media isn't comparable and much less powerful than argue s. and u.k. counterparts i don't even know what to call it they're flipping everything upside down. we're going to mirror any action we take and we will take action fast as soon as we see any steps being taken to restrict our media outlets the witch hu

oxford and cambridge have too few students from the north of england.

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 homeland security. michael isakoff an

so around that time the two teamed up, the trump campaign and cambridge analytica. at the same time jared kushner took overall data operations for the campaign. that was in june. the following month the campaign makes its first payment to cambridge analytica in july. and it was one of many payments totaling nearly $6 million to cambridge analytica. around the same time of that, don, in july -- actually, two days before the payment, at the time candidate trump was on the trail talking about the russians, asking them to hack hillary clinton's 33,000 missing e-mails, as you may recall. and now we're learning that in that same time frame in july, according "the wall street journal," the head of the firm actually reached out to wikileaks founder julian as sang asking him if he needed help with hillary clinton's e-mails. all of this within that time frame. now, the campaign has distanced itself from cambridge analytics, basically saying it didn't rely on it at all during the campaign. it relied on the rnc's data information. >> i want to bring in now chris. welcome to the

cambridge university you know being issued with warnings of a potentially distressing material in classic literature a movie that is seen as excessive. if you're reading literature you should expect to have some surprises with the world these days is just so much focus on being offended by everything that people are just so scared of what they can actually say oh. very well welcome to you from all of us here at the national in moscow. headlights . the u.s. state department in its latest syria travel says the al nusra a terrorist group. uses chemical weapons in syria russia's defense ministry has reacted to the statement saying it's the first admission of its sort of to years of allegations that only the assad government carries out chemical attacks in syria tactics of isis. and other violent extremist groups include the use of suicide bombers kidnapping small and heavy. vised explosive devices and chemical weapons they have targeted major city senses in damascus aleppo how mama dollar homes it lip and dare is old provinces. and it's just more details on this here on the program. joining u

while in wales just 3% of students received an offer from oxford or cambridge. the universities both say they are trying to improve access. here's our education editor bra nwen jeffreys. centuries of scholarship, one of the top universities in the world, but how easy is it to get into 0xford from a comprehensive in inner—city manchester? even from a good school, it can feel like an impossible leap. i see quite a few people in my year who could have applied. i think it isa who could have applied. i think it is a confidence thing. most people don't feel it is for them. is a confidence thing. most people don't feel it is for themlj is a confidence thing. most people don't feel it is for them. i can understand why someone might think it is posh, but as long as you are unable student who wants to work hard, i unable student who wants to work hard, lam unable student who wants to work hard, i am sure you will fit right in. almost one in five kids here gets free school meals, that is two oi’ gets free school meals, that is two or three times higher than the wealthy

by everything that people are just so scared of what they can actually say or do cambridge university has told me that any warnings that they put out are the initiative of individual professes and that it's not a policy adopted by the english department as a whole by the way when the globe series is staged tied to some john three years ago several people fainted from the graphic violence including one of the theory reviewing the show that very same critics still gave the production an exceptional review art isn't always comfortable the most challenging art can be anything bots and now there are growing concerns not just in academic circles that modern students are being too morally called old if they can't handle the content in classic literature how are they going to cope with life in general where there is a growing backlash social media users have questioned whether students have become overly sensitive others warn that if people can no longer cope with fictional violence than they're likely to struggle with life after university. now the measure has also raised concerns among many

students at cambridge university are being warned over the place shakespeare in case of potential distress some of the words contain scenes of sex and violence. now takes a closer look at why the bar is now causing so much concern so many centuries later . ok me from their worse than killing last and tumble me into some loathsome pit whenever mans i may behold my body do this and be a charitable murderer so should i rolled my sweet sons of their fee no let them satisfy their lust on the man's a snippet from shakespeare is a first tragedy titus andronicus the play features graphic violence gang rape and fourteen murders and now certain english lecturers at cambridge university operating special warnings on their time tables when they're going to be covering potentially distressing topics like these they're going to have to have a lot of disclaimers with the works of shakespeare though some of his plays can be very gory they feature things like incest rape murder and suicide they also happen to have kept people talking about thorny issues like claws relations race relations and anti semitism

cambridge analytica is part of a piece of that. it's hard to deny how close they were to the trump campaign. once again, let's not forget bannon was their vice president so the pace is like nothing we've ever seen before. that's what these conspiracy cases look like. they get -- they're slow and get real fast. >> all right. thank you, all. i appreciate it. >>> when we come back, two leading gop senators blasting president trump with scathing criticism but since then, silence from the rest of the republican party. will anyone else speak out? >>> two republican senators blasted president trump with some blistering criticism this week, but has anything really changed in the gop? let's discuss now, max boot, senior fellow at the council on foreign relations and the author of "invisible armies." he joins us. cnn senior economics analyst, stephen moore, who was an adviser to the trump campaign. good evening, gentlemen, hey, max, i just want to read this to you here. remarkable attacks this week on sitting president. you've got a new op-e

while in wales just 3% of students received an offer from oxford or cambridge. the universities both say they are trying to improve access. here's our education editor bra nwen jeffreys. centuries of scholarship, one of the top universities in the world, but how easy is it to get into 0xford from a comprehensive in inner—city manchester? even from a good school, it can feel like an impossible leap. i see quite a few people in my year who could have applied. i think it is a confidence thing. most people don't feel it is for them. i can understand why someone might think it is posh, but as long as you are an able student who wants to work hard, i am sure you will fit right in. almost one in five kids here gets free school meals, that is two or three times higher than the wealthy south—east. i think it is a deep—rooted issue. a lot of it comes down to confidence and perception of what these universities are like. we try to ensure that students visit them, access the various summer programmes. the universities say they are trying hard, spending millions on the

josh, as a cambridge student, where we knew george the line? students have a lot going on in their lives. there has been a phenomenon on social media where people have been posting their experiences of sexual assault. some women are brave enough to come forward with the harvey weinstein investigations. why we talk about safe spaces is to make it easier for people to have these discussions are they feel like they don't have to be silent and keep everything inside out of fearful being dismissed or radical. it is up to us to draw the line where we think it is necessary. a question, and the points have been well made. the question is, sometimes if you draw a line too close to where you are, you just go to extremes, we basically push the line into an unreasonable place. kate, you are a comedian. tell us about your december take in to perform at goldsmiths college? —— disinvitation. i had performed there every year. it was routine to tour my solo show. the day before they said there might be a protest, so we are going to cancel. what are they goi

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now william shakespeare's works have been stamped with a trigger warning by lecturers at cambridge university to avoid potentially causing students to stress they are being alerted about which texts contain scenes of sexual assault or violence or poly boyko asked why the bonds writings are raising so much concern over four centuries after they were composed. okee me from their worse than killing last and tumble me into some loathsome pits whenever man's i may behold my body do this and be a charitable murderer so should i rolled my sweet sons of their fee no let them satisfy their lust the that's a snippet from shakespeare is a first tragedy titus andronicus the play features graphic violence gang rape and fourteen murders and now certain industry at cambridge university operating special warnings on that timetables when they're going to be covering potentially distress. top picks like these are going to have to have a lot of disclaimers with the works of shakespeare though some of his plays can be very gory they feature things like incest rape murder and suicide they also happen to have kept

explain what staff at the cambridge news think happened. we have known about this for quite a long time, since the 19705 when it was revealed that one of our reporters may have taken an anonymous call saying something big wa5 an anonymous call saying something big was going to happen and that we rang the american embassy in london we would be told more. we have never established whether the call was made or which reporter may have made it but one document released today i5 it but one document released today is in relation to that and says the fbi and the cia worked a work that i call may have been made to the cambridge news about half an hour before the assassination of the president. we don't know whether this call was made that the document we have seen today includes reference to a senior reporter, a person not named, and also the fact that the reporter wa5 person not named, and also the fact that the reporter was not a security ri5k, that the reporter was not a security risk, which seems to indicate there may be some substance to this.

and students at cambridge university are being issued with warnings i will potentially distressing material in classic literature i believe some are calling excessive. if you're reading literature you should expect to have some surprises i think the problem with the world these days is that there's just so much focus on being offended by everything that people are just so scared of what they can actually say or do. this is r.t. international coming to you live from moscow and cape partridge thank you for joining us. the u.s. state department says terrorists are using chemical weapons in syria it comes in the latest travel alert for the country and refers to the group now known as tati a sham russia's defense ministry says it's the first admission of its source after years of allegations that only the assad government carries out chemical attacks in syria. tactics of isis hyatt's to here and other violent extremist groups include the use of suicide bombers kidnapping small and heavy arms improvised explosive devices and chemical weapons they have targeted major city senses in damascus aleppo

also students of cambridge university are being issued with warnings of a potentially distressing material in classic literature a move that some have called ridiculous if you're reading literature you should expect some surprises i think the problem with the world these days is that there's just so much focus on being offended by everything that people are just so scared of what they can actually say or do. very good evening to you my name is neil harvey appreciate you joining us here on r.t. international. as talk r.t. if you'll indulge me artie's become the target of a full scale which and some are saying by a european think tank this is been funded by a u.s. embassy and other leading members of the western establishment the group calling itself european values issued a report on our channels programs it listed thousands of people who have appeared as guess what's wrong with being a guest you may ask to see the church has the details it's a bit of a surprise for you the party bashing continues now and this particular report the issues that artie's guests are having really a dig at thems

and streams of cambridge university being issued warnings over a potentially distressing material in classic literature a move some are calling ridiculous. if you're reading literature you should expect some surprises i think the problem with the world these days is that there's just so much focus on being offended by everything that people are just so scared of what they can actually say or do. very good evening to you my name is this. let's start by talking about r t which has become the target of a full scale which some would say by european think tank it's funded by the us embassy and other leading members of the western establishment the group calling itself european values is issued a report on this channel's programs and it lists thousands of people who have appeared as guests what's wrong with that you might think. can you explain. it's a bit of a surprise for you the r.t. bashing continues now in this particular report the issues that artie's guests are having really a dig at themselves this is a report by think tank based in the czech republic called european values reporte

that puts a spotlight on cambridge analytica. we know exactly what they thought they were doing in making that overture. and whether they knew they were offering to help a russian intelligence operation. so there's definitely more reporting to do there. that's an important interesting thing. even if it turned pout the worst is true about cambridge analytica, they were not working for the trump campaign at the time the overture happen. that still doesn't the implicate the trump campaign in that part of what might be russian collusion. if you're looking form, you had to wait for rebecca ballhaus's scoop that came out tonight. there goes my pencil. remember that date again. that specific date when we learned the democratic documents that were stolen weren't randomly taking by some they'll. they were taken as part of a russian intelligence operation. that news first broke june 14th last year. when that happened, it was not subtle. it was everywhere. this was the initial report. russian government hackers penetrated dnc. that started

the trump campaign responded to the report distancing them service from cambridge analytics stating we as a campaign made the choice to rely on the voter data of the republican national committee to help elect president donald trump. any claims that data from any other source played a key role in the victory are false. >> here's the thing we know that cambridge analytics was a key player in terms of data for the trump campaign, isn't that true? >> that is, in fact, correct and based on some records that we've pulled, some election records, we found that these filing, the ftc filings, that just after trump won the nomination, his campaign started a series of payments to cambridge analytic totalling $5.9 million. so, it's clear that there was more of a relationship there than what was kahn vaed in that statement. now also jared kushner, who headed up one of the data operations, also told forbes magazine in an exclusive interview just after the election in november, that after the president won the nomination, they kept both data operations going, simultaneously, and a lot shared between

william shakespeare's literature has been stamped with a trigger warning by lecturers at cambridge university for fears of a fed. people are just hurting their feelings reports. ok to me from their worse than killing last and tumble me into some loathsome pit whenever man's i may behold my body do this and be a charitable murderer so should i rolled my sweet sons of their fee no let them satisfy their lost on the that's a snippet from shakespeare is a first tragedy titus andronicus the play features graphic violence gang rape and fourteen murders and now certain english lecturers at cambridge university are putting special warnings on their time tables when they're going to be covering potentially distressing topics like these they're going to have to have a lot of disclaimers with the works of shakespeare though some of his plays can be very gory they feature things like incest rape murder and suicide they also happen to have kept people talking about thorny issues like close relations race relations and anti semitism for centuries i want to know what the people visiting the famous shakespea

that puts a spotlight on cambridge analytica. we know exactly what they thought they were doing in making that overture. and whether they knew they were offering to help a russian intelligence operation. so there's definitely more reporting to do there. that's an important interesting thing. even if it turned pout the worst is true about cambridge analytica, they were not working for the trump campaign at the time the overture happen. that still doesn't the implicate the trump campaign in that part of what might be russian collusion. if you're looking form, you had to wait for rebecca ballhaus's scoop that came out tonight. there goes my pencil. remember that date again. that specific date when we learned the democratic documents that were stolen weren't randomly taking by some they'll. they were taken as part of a russian intelligence operation. that news first broke june 14th last year. when that happened, it was not subtle. it was everywhere. this was the initial report. russian government hackers penetrated dnc. that started

the law firm, cambridge analytic, whatever, and the question is who compiled it? wikileaks, a non-nation state hostile intelligence service, and with the evidence that i have seen, and i read about it in the media and i don't know if there's a smoking gun here. and the issue is the involvement of an adversary nation state, meaning russia. the community assessment we put out last january 6th stood on its own. it did not include evidence from anything from the dossier. some of what was in the dossier, not all by any stretch, and some of that was corroborated in our ica, which we had very high confidence in. >> was it the dossier that then caused the intel community to go and do digging or did you have concerns in the intel community before the dossier, and the dossier was saw purse hrus. were they connected? >> not really. the assessment was based on a body of evidence from many sources. cyber, human intelligence, in which we had very high confidence of the magnitude and aggressive nature of the russian interference. our only concern about the time at the dossier wa

it says cambridge didn't play a key role. you don't need to be a lawyer to know that role and key role are not the same thing. >> they were paying this firm. however you want to qualify it. they were paying this firm millions of dollars and that's what is important. and alexander nicks is close to the mercers who were the big funders behind bannon and trump. it seems like every time we hear about one of these, roger stone and julian assange, there's always another one that comes out. and regardless of what we find out from the actual meetings, that information was weaponized. it wasn't the 30,000 e-mails but it was wikileaks. i remember it distinctly because i was in a tv newsroom ready to go on and talk about "access hollywood." it was hours later that the first e-mails were dumped and they are laid out. the president can't have it both ways. he can't talk about it 137 times and then at the end claim that it had no effect. so the we're going to talk about the definition of collusion and the different meetings. not the 30,000

the daily best first to report that the head of a data analytic company -- cambridge analytica ceo was seeking the tens of thousand es of e-mails hillary clinton deleted from her private server while secretary of state. >> two sources they they wanted to turn them into -- there is no evidence wikileaks ever had clinton's missing e-mails even after they released thousands of e-mails stolen by russian hackers from key clinton aides. for more on this let's turn to pamela brown in washington. >> reporter: good morning. sources tell cnn the head of cambridge analytica reached out to wikileaks founder julian assange during the campaign asking about hillary clinton's missing e-mails. he says that did happen and rejected the request. the head of the form sent an e-mail to several people relaying that he had e-mailed assange but sources say no one from the actual trump wayne cam was on that. wikileaks was releasing these e-mails last year. not hillary clinton's e-mails we don't know if a third party obtained them. but wikileakss with directed connected to russia by the intelligence community. t

>> well, the e-mail comes from a man named alexander nix, who was the chief executive of cambridge. he sent it to several people including top donald trump donor, rebecca mer smercer. he said he had contacted assange trying to get access to hk's i mails to turn them into a searchable database for the campaign or for pro trump political action xes. now this is according to two sources who have seen this e-mail. the sources say no trump campaign officials were on the e-mail chain, but rebecca mercer, who's actually funds their family funds cambridge an lit kai was on that e-mail. not to mention the fact that cambridge was hired by the trump campaign about the same time that this e-mail b about assange was sent. >> which of course raises a whole lot of very important questions. dana, this could be a very, very significant piece of information in the russia investigation into possible collusion. could you put this in context? why it is so important? >> you're right. here's why. it raises more questions about what efforts were being made by people with connections to the trump campaign o

so it's, you know, it's an optics problem for cambridge analytica, not necessarily an optics problem for the trump campaign. the clinton campaign they hired and tried to hide the hiring of fusion gps. >> well wait, couldn't folks say the same, that the trump campaign is trying to distance themselves from cambridge analytica, the same thing, like our hands aren't on this but 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 kno

studied english at cambridge. so you are very well qualified! what authors warn your curriculum ? are very well qualified! what authors warn your curriculum? hardy, dickens and shakespeare!” authors warn your curriculum? hardy, dickens and shakespeare! i remember choosing my own authors for a lot of the work that i did. but they'd tends to be white men, i do remember, rather embarrassingly. well, interesting, good to talk to both of you. that's it from the papers for tonight. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers, and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. for the moment, thank you to both of you, and we will see you again soon. good night. it's a cloudy evening out there, a spot or two of rain in one or two spots, and the next few days it will stay miles, it got up to 20 degrees today in the south, heathrow registered 20 degrees, one to other places as well. this mild and is coming from the azores all the way to the uk and coming in

in moscow william shakespeare's literature has been stamped with a trigger warning by lecturers at cambridge university to avoid potentially causing students distress they have been warned about which texts contain scenes of sex and violence on the boy asks why the work is raising so much concern over four centuries later. ok to me from their worse than killing last and tumble me into some loathsome pit whenever man's i may behold my body do this and be a charitable murderer so should i rode my sweet sons of their fee no let them satisfy their lost the that's a snippet from shakespeare is a first tragedy titus andronicus the play features graphic violence gang rape and fourteen murders and now certain english lecturers at cambridge university are putting special warnings on their time tables when they're going to be covering potentially distressing topics like these they're going to have to have a lot of disclaimers with the works of shakespeare though some of his plays can be very gory they feature things like incest rape murder and suicide they also happen to have kept people talking about

they made a point of speaking of cambridge analyticala's role, and today no mention of cambridge so why are they now trying to distance themselves what they were earlier bragging about? >> clearly, wolf, because there's a controversy and a link between cambridge and wikileaks. that's as close to collusion you can get if this all turns out to be true. of course the campaign is trying now to erase cambridge analytica from their history, and the trump campaign paid them almost $6 million for their work from july of 2016 through the election, and if that's not a major part of this campaign, i don't know what is. after the election, they were indeed bragging about their role in the campaign, the forbes interview with jared kushner, and joshua green embedded with the trump campaign prior to election day, a few weeks before election day, and we are looking at what cambridge was doing for them? >> they make no mention of the statement just released. the president weighed in on the other news, we are now learning the hillary clinton campaign and the democratic national committee helped fund the

cambridge analytica. of peeping are waking up hearing this. a lot of this can get really wonky. >> you're absolutely right. certainly, many of these revelations are designed to get to the bottom of what happened in the 2016 election. it can feel very politicized and a lot of it is getting polite sized by various sides. but the core of this is the u.s. intelligence community has determined that russia actively tried to meddle in our election last year. that's where this investigation always comes back to is trying to figure out what they did, how they did it, and whether it could happen again. if it does, how we protect ourselves from having our election influenced by a foreign power. so sometimes we do lose site of that sort of overarching theme a little bit about all the drip, drip, drip of very interesting developments and at some point voters will be able to draw conclusions. it can be overwhelming at times, but certainly the fact that a foreign power engaged in these activities should be something the american public pays attention to. >>

oxford and cambridge have too few students from the north of england. we'll hear about one way of solving the problem. and trevor noah gives us an outside perspective on the us. someone can get more offended that you're calling them a racist than at the fact that they are a racist. and that's become like a new thing that i've stumbled across. "how dare you call me a racist?" "well, how dare you be racist?" hello. so how is brexit going? looking at the outcome of the summit in brussels, and the fact that they're still not talking about the long—term brexit stuff, which is mostly trade, you could argue it is going off the rails. the eu is still holding out for more money, suggesting britain faces a ghastly choice between paying up and having a bad deal, or having no deal at all. but put on the happy glasses, you can look at it the other way — that there was a nuance shift in tone in brussels, a more constructive one. and at last, the other 27 have said they'll start preparing for talks on trade. good news or bad news? we're still too far from the end

david lammy the labour mp has been trying to get the figures out cambridge was a bit more willing to respond in terms of polishing the figures, oxford was very reluctant. and they did at the last moment when they heard the guardian were going to publish this story. it is partly about racism and also economic background, oxford and cambridge and oxford in particular haven't succeeded as they promised in broadening the base of the applicants. successful applicants. and this is not representative of modern britain. well, it's not. young black people make up 3% of the population but only 1.5% of all offers from those universities were two black students with good a—levels. this comes on the back of the racial disparity audit that theresa may carried out which is adjusted young black male pupils we re adjusted young black male pupils were three times as likely to be excluded from school. a lot of work needs to be done. other figures show fewer black students are applying for these jobs because they look at oxford and cambridge and think that is not for them. finally. this is the new pri

oxford cambridge educated monarchy bootlicking toadies like rachel maddow and monica richter and we need to do something about it before it's too late. i don't not know it's my school as a host of all teens cause report thank you very much. shakespeare's plays are not coming with a warning label more on that story just over a minute. in case you're new to the game this is how it works not the economy is built around. perforations from washington to washington the media the media. voters elected to run this country business equals. boom bust it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or something wanted. to be right. this is what. people are. interested. they said. welcome back this week the pentagon confirmed victory for coalition led kurdish troops fighting islamic state in the syrian city of raka the defense department hailed the operation as a significant breakthrough we're having great success against what was once known as th

cambridge university are being warned over the plays of shakespeare in case of potential distress some of the works contain scenes of sexual assault and violence on t.v. now takes a closer look at why the bard is now suddenly causing concern. ok to me from their worse than killing last and tumble me into some loathsome pit whenever my hands i may behold my body do this and be a charitable murderer so should i rode my sweet sons of their fee no let them satisfy their lust on the man's a snippet from shakespeare is a first tragedy titus andronicus the play features graphic violence gang rape and fourteen murders and now certain english lecturers at cambridge university are putting special warnings on that timetables when they're going to be covering potentially distressing topics like these they're going to have to have a lot of disclaimers with the works of shakespeare though some of his plays can be very gory they feature things like incest rape murder and suicide they also happen to have kept people talking about thorny issues like claws relations race relations and anti semitism for

students at cambridge university are being warned over the plays of shakespeare in case of potential distress some of the worst contained sexual scenes and violence. takes a closer look at why the body is now causing concern so many centuries later. ok to me from their worse than killing last and tumble me into some loathsome pit whenever my hands i may behold my body do this and be a charitable murderer so should i rode my sweet sons of their fee no let them satisfy their lost on the that's a snippet from shakespeare is a first tragedy titus andronicus the play features graphic violence gang rape and fourteen murders and now certain english lecturers at cambridge university are putting special warnings on their time tables when they're going to be covering potentially distressing topics like these they're going to have to have a lot of disclaimers with the works of shakespeare though some of his plays can be very gory they feature things like incest rape murder and suicide they also happen to have kept people talking about thorny issues like close relations race relations and anti s