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with the intel community to also include otherwise classified information with respect to malware, bot nets give it to the private sector to proactively defend themselves before they are, in fact, attacked. >> second do you believe the current law imposes any unnecessary constraints on the private sector's ability to deploy active defense? >> i would say that i would be happy to work with your staff. it is rather complicated. there are some limitations with respect to liability and other questions with respect to insurance. and we do need to continue to work with the private sector to understand if there are any barriers that would prevent them from taking measures to protect themselves and the american people. >> turning to the department's counter terrorism efforts, a march 2017 report by the inspector general of dhs, the intelligence community and doj identified a series of concerns that the report authors concluded have made the dhs intelligence enterprise less effective and valuable to the intelligence community than it could be. could you provide an update of the ig report's specific

every one of you said you did not like the fcc decision on net neutrality that came out a month ago. during that we heard bots distorted the whole public comment period. how is that going to be stopped the next time we have a public comment period on a rule that's written by an agency? anybody want to answer that? and i'm out of town, so make it quick. >> i'll tell you what, we will not occupy the time of the committee. give me an answer to that in writing when you go back to your folks this is a really important issue. i want to say this is a really important issue. from a terrorist standpoint from all of the questions asked before. but our democracy is at risk we have to figure out how to get this done and right and quickly or we may not strt a democracy to have you guys up to hear you out. >> thank you senator tester. snow shower young. >> thank you, mr. chairman for holding this hearing on terrorism and social media. youtube went from having 40% of its posts take downs last june being identified by algorithms, ai and machine learning to 98% today. twitter went from roughly 33% detection of terrorist accou

net capital position is at this point. it is not something that they an ounce on a daily basis. haiever, for example, botn suspended. this announcement came out today. we are not sure if that is considered the major announcement that trading shares were held on. it is the same for a couple of other units. their shared -- trading has been suspended as investors try to figure out what this company is going to announce next in terms of capital raising, and in terms of its capital position. yvonne: a similar story with them. they have been shedding some of their assets, hotels in london, sydney, australia as well. repayment toit of do in march, but also in may and november as well. is this a significant development in terms of relieving some of the pressures and concerns from investors at this point? the transactions that we are seeing coming are a bit more direct. these are sales of major real estate projects that they had purchased not that long ago. these were luxury hotel and residential projects in london and in australia. we are told they are selling the one off in australia. in some of these cases, fo

net going to lose advertising revenue, there is no way to serve your code it. sugarcoat it. this is a pr issue. mark zuckerberg after the election said it was absolutely ridiculous russian botsght into anything on facebook and a couple months later he had to say actually i was wrong, maybe 120 million people may have seen ads placed there by an algorithm originated from a russian company so he is also part of this larger defense play silicon valley is having to run where more psychologists are releasing reports that our collective diction, that is what most psychologists use in social media, not really good for us and you and i as parents could argue the ship sailed long ago before our kids we have a different reaction. charles: not sure that changes it getting more from our friends than publications. one of the things that drives it is someone posted a new shirt or shoes, stand in front of a private jet and act like they are going to get on it and lose their mind, how will this help long-term? there was a 50 state listening tour that came into the year saying they were going to fix the company but how does this actually help the shareholders ultimately? >> it is a bet on a