i don't think the fcc is ready for it, i don't think the fec is right for it. antitrust division is. i don't know where the regulation is right for it. i don't want congress to blunder in. what's your advice? >> we need to be careful and not do the wrong thing which is what

>> does fec law apply to facebook? >> certainly, fec law, yes. >> it prohibits foreign dollars influencing election. >> it prohibits foreign actors from using really any medium including facebook, to influence a u.s. election. >> fec law applies to facebook. >> yes, it does. >> it applies to twitter as well. >> yes, sir. >> the prevalence of social media use among military members who spend so much time outside the country deployed away from friends and family seems a likely target for foreign intelligence agency ises who want to collect details on u.s. force movements, deployments and other sensitive insight. do you monitor your platforms for indications that your users in the military are targeted in any way? >> yes, i would say that sort of security work really falls into the traditional cyber security work that we have long been focused on. we had a threat intelligence team for years now focused on tracking foreign actors. it's exactly that sort of threat that we believe has historically been an area of focus for o

i don't think the fcc is ready for it, i don't think the fec is right for it. antitrust division is. i don't know where the regulation is right for it. i don't want congress to blunder in. what's your advice? >> we need to be careful and not do the wrong thing which is what we frequently do when we regulate speech. >> well said. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >>> stay tuned. i'll be right back with hugh's views. i'm ginny and i quit smoking with chantix. it takes a lot of planning to be a smoker. it's like when am i gonna be able to sneak out of here and go have a cigarette? i just knew i had to quit, and chantix was the method that actually worked for me. along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. chantix reduced my urge to smoke. when you try to quit smoking, with or without chantix, you may have nicotine withdrawal symptoms. some people had changes in behavior or thinking, aggression, hostility, agitation, depressed mood, or suicidal thoughts or actions with chantix. serious side effects may include seizures, new

fec -- trish: facts are correct. >> fec and state laws if you will allow these types of transfers, what have you. i have done this before as state party chair. you have to look deeply into the fec rules. that is the first thing. he is right about one thing. harlan is right about one thing, it was dnc who needed these funds more than ever. and you need a strong dnc. you need a strong democratic nominee. now they did this deal before it was, before she became the nominee. but it was general expectations. you're right, she didn't control all of dnc. she controlled two or three apparatuses of dnc you have to pay the cost to be the boss. if i'm raising funds for you -- trish: you're in charge. she was effectively their banker. bailing out what could have been bankruptcy. >> exactly. >> you can put that cloud over it but the dnc benefited far more than hillary clinton. trish: what about the american voters? >> heshe would raise the money anyway. she would raise money anyway. trish: what about people who wanted bernie sanders, i don't know why, but we'll have inn conversation another time, wan

but what about the fec and what about getting them to get a little bit more reactive and a little bitore proactive and trying to be, you know, prevent some of this? >> richard painter, a lot of democrats doing a lot of soul searching wishing the obama administration had been more aggressive trying to combat this. we have examples in other countries, richard, same thing happ happening. an aggressive attempt to hack into e-mails of the french, the candidates running for the president in france. hackers came after them, but the french were prepared, headline in the "new york times." we had finland and estonia attacked by the same exact kind of campaign. but the difference is, that in those countries and in germany and other places, both of the political parties came together and were very public about saying, we don't care who wins this election. we don't want russia involved, and they were very proactive. so wasn't it incumbent on the republicans to be as alarmed as democrats about an attack on our country? >> well, of course. the russians have been doing this for 100 years. since the 1

to you know this is not a pr student although she has not filed intention to run documents with the fecst of morning show feuded with president an you can expect angry tweets directed at he's expected to release christmas pe. not very flattering president as grinch. it's called a very good. rump christmas. scarboro is inspiring rock star. he hosts a morning news show is on a news network. who is sleeping soundly and who is tossing and turning we'll it will you after the break running a small business is demanding. and that's why small business owners need more. like internet that's up to the challenge. the gig-speed network from comcast business gives you more. with speeds up to 20 times faster than the average. that means powering more devices, more video conferencing, and more downloads in seconds, not minutes. get fast internet and add phone and tv for only $24.90 more per month. comcast is building america's largest gig-speed network to give small businesses more. >> look these ales against roy moore are serious, no bought about that. it's not worse case scenario. it's moore that is

. >> fec applies to facebook?. >> yes. >> two twitter as well. >> yes, sir.. >> the prevalence of social media for military members to spend so much time outside of the country away from friends and family seems likely target of those foreign intelligence agencies to collect information on deployments or insight you monitor your platforms forhe indications that your users of military are targeted in any way?. >> senator, yes and i would say that that sort of securityt work falls under the traditional cybersecurity work we have long been phocis on you that the intelligence team for years focused on tracking foreign actors with exactly that threat that we believe historically has been an area of focus for our adversaries and on the defensive side. >> we have been focused on that type of threat for years your also focused on education on the other side to help law enforcement and military personnel understand how to use twitter its benefits and risks. >> we have been looking at cyberas united's over some a years but w

the support for some of the proposals we put on the table on rule tribal land that the previous fec adopted in 2015. this is the 2015 order that we simply ratified today. i think the only thing here, unfortunately, is the identity of the person who's leading the commission, not so much the validity of the idea itself. >> chairman, have you had any contact with the inspector general's office about sinclair? >> no. >> thank you. >> okay, have a great day. >> now we will tranc transition to the bureau press conference. >> as usual, we will go in order of items on the agenda and see if this question is on them. the first is the robo call, any other question, if cjb is here, please. >> the draft item that was released three weeks ago was just a report and order, but in the press release today they remi mentioned a further noticed a proposal making that included some questions that she had about what kind of effect you are having and what service providers are doing. could you elaborate, is that the total extent? >> the further noticed will have questions on two topics, one is how we can ensure t

the fec, and other bodies follow those same sort of procedural guidelines. with that, i think i'll leave it open to you for discussion, but staff is recommending that you act on and vote for the opinion herein so we can transmit that to the city attorney and district attorney at the earliest possible date. >> chair keane: commissioner kopp. >> i was just going to make a motion to adopt the recommendation so that it's on the floor. >> chair keane: is there a second? >> second. >> chair keane: discussion by the commission. we'll take public comment and -- no public comment. all those in favor of the motion to have this as our position and inform the gentleman of that, please signify by saying aye. >> aye. >> chair keane: any opposed? motion passes unanimously. we now go to agenda item 7 discussion and possible action on revised version of the 2017 san francisco anticorruption and accountability ordinance following the commission's actions as its october regular meeting. from is an attachment which has the language in it of what we did the last time. just sort

that russia had placed all these ads, not all of them would probably be defined as campaign ads by the fec -- >> but some were. >> some were. and they were definitely political ads and very divisive. and facebook didn't catch them, despite, as al franken said, you know, they were paid for in rubels, but they didn't notice it and now they trying to figure out how to come clean pb so i guess there is the latest effort in transparency, everybody will get to see what propaganda was spread to them. >> they seem to have built a machine. when you say, no one can see it. and one of the things that's been helpful, i read through your reporting and some others is how automated the whole system is. it's like buying something on amazon. like buying an ad is like buying something on amazon. you go through, there's no -- it's just a machine. you're going and filling out a web form. that facebook appears to be partly invisible to itself. is that a fair characterization? >> i think that's a very good way to describe it. wherever i bring these things to facebook, whether it's the jew hater or the ads, they

we find out through fund-raising fec reports there was a fund-raising tie between the latino victory fund and his campaign. i would argue this race has been run by a vial despicable way by the northam campaign. melissa: do you blame gist lesspy for the ad? do you think his actions precipitated that attack? >> i don't blame ed gillespie. this was run by the latino victory one, because they felt that gillespie had been running ads that link ms-13, salvadoran youth gang to immigration at all. taking a page out of the playbook that was used by cory stuart, trump's campaign manager in virginia and then ran against ed in the primary, this was a way to gin up and energize people, by spreading with the northam campaign calls fear-mongering. i think overall what you see here, i think, the reason "the washington post" endorsed ralph northam, not ed gillespie is a sense, you know what? this is getting out of hand? we can't go down the road and becoming a totally divided, racially antagonistic country. melissa: interesting perspective. we'll see what happens. it will be a nail-biter. thank you t

anyway, this evening nbc news reports that according to fec filings, the rnc has pulled out of a joint fund raising agreement. i'm joined by kyle whitmore, heidi presblaw, and john raybender. political strategist. what do we make, kyle, of this tape robocalls or recorded voice, it looks to me like they're trying to start real trouble in terms of the media there. what do you make of this? >> yeah, this seems to be dirty trix to discredit "the washington post" here in alabama. it's a robodialer that news station here in alabama, wkrg is reporting about right now. it claims to be from someone named bernie bernstein, swallow that one if you can. >> sure. >> who is calling from the "washington post" to pay $5,000 to $7,000 to women who have claims that they're not really going to investigate, but they are going to report. and then they give an e-mail address where you can send those claims into. of course it's a bogus e-mail address. it bounces back. marty barren from the "washington post" put out a statement saying this is fraudulent. this is not how they do business. media throughout alab

lot of americans feel as if it's time for the "the washington post" to go ahead and register with the fecbecause they are doing what the american people know they have been doing for some time now which is using their position of power and privilege to not report the facts but to use their time and efforts to try to push this liberal leftist agenda throughout society and people are getting fed up with it. and now ross, the reporter in question coming out saying this isn't a big deal for me to be speaking at this event. let's remember, the speaker list was kept a secret because she knew it was wrong for her to be at this event. using her status as a reporter to try to rally leftist activists at george soros funded event. and let's remember "the washington post" slogan is democracy dies in darkness. i think the only thing dying in darkness right now is their rearedship rate because they continue to allow their reporters to do actions like this. this is a big problem for "the washington post" and the mainstream media. >> trish: they did not know she was doing this. she did not tell her emplo

affect the financial system more broadly consistent with the banks statutory responsibilities, the fecs publishing a checklist of the steps that would promote financial stability in the u.k. in the event of a no deal outcome. this checklist has four important elements, first and surely that the u.k. legal and regulatory framework for financial services is in place at the point of leaving the eu. the government plans to achieve this through the eu withdrawal will and related secondary legislation. second, recognizing that it will be difficult ahead of march 2019 for all financial institutions to have completed all the necessary steps to avoid disruption in some financial services. timely agreement on an apple mentation is necessary to significantly reduce such risk which could materially disrupt the provision of financial services in europe and the u.k. third, preserving a continuity of existing cross-border insurance and your vid is necessary. mastic legislation will be required to -- domestic legislation will be required and correspondings legislation will be necessary. otherwise 6 mi

according to third quarter 2016 fec filing. you hosted a trump dinner meeting 2016 at the capitol hill club; smart. >> that's correct, i believe. >> your senate campaign committee paid for that meeting; is that right? >> >> june 30th meeting, correct? >> that is has been reported. >> and at that meeting carter page told you that he was going to moscow in a few days; is that right? >> yes. >> okay. >> thank you. thank you. >> he said it was a brief meeting. as he was walking out the door i don't recall that conversation but i'm not able to dispute it. >> understood. we claiming my time. i have limited time available. >> that is not-did not establish some sort of improper contact. >> i think you understand. >> he is not russian either, you know. >> you understand, sir, i get to ask the questions and you provide the answers in that capacity. you are no longer in the united states senate. you voted in 1999 to remove bill clinton on charges of perjury; is that correct? >> that is correct. there were other charges. i voted for impeac

a political party can give to its candidates, can share with its candidates and looks to us former fec for the wall street, looks to us as though that the men ram do you mean of information between clinton campaign and dnc essentially gave clinton campaign complete control over what the party did, everything that it bought, research, hiring, firing, that's against the law. steve: okay, if it's against the law, is it a criminal offense, could somebody possibly go to jail for something like this? >> well, it could be because men passed congress included provision that says if there's knowing and willful activity that violate it is campaign finance laws and if the amount involves $25,000 or more, then that's a criminal offense. this involved half a billion dollars. steve: holy cow. i'm reading your research. the party, the dnc, you can contribute up to $334,000 a year versus 2700 for individuals. that's a big number. >> it's a big number. well, the party committees have a lot of things that they do. steve: yeah. >> for all of the candidates up and down the line across the country. they ar

so the rnc maybe should have been more proactive, you're right, but what about the fec and what about getting them to get a little bit more reactive and a little bit more proactive in trying to prevent some of this. >> richard, i think there are a lot of democrats doing soul searching and wishing that the obama administration had been more aggressive, but we have examples in other countries of the same thing happening, the same ad, hacking against e-mails. there was an aggressive attempt to hack into the e-mails of the french candidates. hackers came after them you about but the french were prepared. we had fin land and estonia also attacked. but the difference is that in those countries and germany and other places, both of the political parties came together and were very public about saying we don't care who wins, we don't want russia involved. and they were very proactive. and so wasn't it incumbent on the republicans to be as alarmed as democrats about an attack on our country? >> well, of course. russians have been do this for 100 years and they supported far left wing communist

instead we are providing relief from fec -- fcc rules. i think my colleagues for their comments on this item and for joining me in this bipartisan endeavor. make no mistake this is not the end of her efforts. we will need to do more and we well. but we are building a strong foundations for fighting those illegal robo calls for today and in the days to come. for the consumer and governmental affairs bureau. the planning analysis and the office of communications business opportunities. with that we will proceed to a vote on the item. .. .. the wireless telecommunications bureau and the office of engineering and technology. it is entitled special band about 24 gigahertz for mobile data services and donald rockdale chief of the bureau will give the introduction. >> thank you, madam secretary. mr. stockdale, whenever you're ready the floor charts. >> good afternoon mr. chairman and commissioners. it is my pleasure introduced the spectrum frontiers item which continues our effort to make high-frequency bands available for broadband and other us

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so i think both the fec should investigate and i think the department of justice should investigate ande things i think is important to note here is that all of these people who call for all these restrictions, they have -- apparently have no attention of abiding by them. steve: one other telltale sign is the fact as we talk about the clinton takeover, apparently they moved the dnc bank account from washington, d.c. apparently to the same bank as hillary clinton was using for her campaign. very cozy. ainsley: what's ironic about this is chuck schumer is the one who supported this amendment that you can't misuse campaign. they are the ones who say there are limits how much can you give a campaign. how much a campaign can spend. and they are the ones, according to cletus, they are the ones ms. using the funds. steve: more on that later. the white house responding this morning to new sexual misconduct allegations against judge roy moore, the republican senate candidate down in alabama. todd: griff jenkins joins us live from washington, d.c. with that very latest. griff, good morning. >> go