i would like to ask chair gansler -- gansler -- chair gansler -- chair gensler, should we not try to head and should we simply have -- >> i thank you for that question and look forward to working with you. i think our current rules, you are correct, they are civil, but the current rules are if you take a customer order and you trade ahead of that, that's out of bounds. that's not allowed. and i think that's the customer needs to come first, and in the market structure, that's what brokers are supposed to do. i look forward to working with you on your staff on any proposed legislation. i'm not had a chance to look at it. >> thank you. as the chair indicated, the process is unfair to the persons who are making the purchase in the markets, who would like to become a participant but they don't have the advantage of the market maker. do you agree that this is a circumstance that we have to take a look at? we don't want people to think that we build into the cost to build -- the cost of doing business, the cost of trading ahead. >> thank you. we are not a direct regulator of the markets as

. >> the media to cheer -- let me get to chair gansler, how do we know somebody -- answer this for me. as mr. cook just said, the sec said it is the one responsible. what do we do about this? >> i think you raise a good point. it's not about somebody's free speech rights on social media, but if somebody is trying to new file a market, defraud the market through social media and a rapidly changing technology, it could be computers and not humans, the sec is a complement we are going to vigorously leave in. we will have to update our resources to. >> my time is coming down. how are you going to stop this? do you feel that we can? we don't have any more of this gamestop. [beeping] >> i would expect you respond in writing to that question as a move on because i now want call on the gentleman of oklahoma mr. lucas who is now recognized for five minutes. >> thank you madame chairwoman. congratulations chairman gensler on work confirmation. i have confidence you will bring the same gusto and tenacity to her role as you did -- to your role as the chairman of the sec. i look forward to working