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i did not know is called the internet research agency. i wanted to know more about that.they were dealing with disinformation, not misinformation. >> in 2016, we have all talked about the russian hacking, right, the russian involvement. one thing is russians did well, they hacked into the dnc, and then they release the emails to cause much chaos is popular. >> they confirmed that is the russians. >> yes, confirmed. >> i was a victim of, is it the russians? in the book i was like, oh it's, the russians. i believe you. >> that is the consensus of the intelligence community. both under obama and trump. you can really say that out loud in the trump years. >> he's going. >> the other thing they did, they created a, they had a strategy to flood social media with false accounts to push disinformation. one of the ways in which they would do that, they would create false accounts pretending to be black activists. who would then post things about why they weren't supporting hillary enten. or pushing people not to vote. and these end of it and to these funded by the russians would r

and we know that from the mueller report and from the indictments charged against the internet research agencyeak havoc in our elections through similar types of activities. false personas on the internet. amplifying different messages about hillary clinton, et cetera. so this is just kind of a repeat of that but is something that i think putin knew would play right into trump's hands. and it was just part of this sort of dance that they had throughout trump's tenure. i mean, famously trump cited, you know, with putin over his own intelligence community when it came to russian election interference and did that on an international stage, and leaving our national security officials and intelligence community really just aghast. and so i think this is all part and parcel of that relationship. >> yeah. i mean, you know, the hunt for the secret phone call was probably always misguided and the media's point, david, and if you look at the ashli babbitt martyrdom and glorification, she died in the january 6th insurrection, first person i ever heard say her name in a live television interview was puti

with millions and -- election, with millions and millions of dollars spent on his so-called internet research agency to engage in cyber surveillance, cyber espionage, cyber spabbage of our election -- sabotage of our election. on the other side we have a violent insurrection, incited by the president of the united states, where 150 of oiler officers -- of our officers were wounded and injured ending up with broken arms, legs, jaws, and necks, concussion, contusions, a traumatic brain injury, those are two very different things. one is an exercise of people's first amendment right to speak. the other is a violent effort to overthrow the electoral process and the constitutional order of the united states. i now happily yield two minutes to the very distinguished gentleman from california, mr. garamendi. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for two minutes. mr. garamendi: thank you, madam speaker. mr. chairman, thank you for allowing me the time. on january 6 america witnessed the first and most serious attempt since the civil war to stop our democracy. it was an insurre

i didn't know it was called the internet research agency. but they were dealing in disinformation, not misinformation. >> correct. in 2016, we have all talked about the russian hacking. the one thing the russians did was they hacked into the dmc and clinton campaign emails and then released those emails to cause as much chaos as possible. >> that was confirmed it was the russians? >> yes. >> i was a victim of like, was it the russians? but i believe you. [laughter] >> it was the consensus of the intelligence community, both under obama and trump. although you could not really say that out loud in the trump years. and so, the other thing they did is they created -- they had a strategy to flood social media with false accounts to push disinformation. one of the ways they would do that is they would create false accounts pretending to be black activists who would then post things about why they were not supporting hillary clinton, or pushing people not to vote. and then these entities funded by the russians would run facebook ads promoting that

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internet and gps. technologies that had a lot of tools beyond the military. that is the idea behind this new agency. they're really driving biomedical research, to drive new technology, whether it's testing or treatment. to deal with cancer, he also spoke about this executive order also dealing with research and he said something also that was interesting which is that a lot of people, most people can relate or most people have been touched or know someone whose life has been touched by cancer but this is not something political. cancer doesn't care if you're republican or a democrat. everyone can come together to fight this and he compared it to the moonshot saying you have to harness the resources of u.s. scientists and doctors and technology to be able to do this. >> elizabeth, in general since 1991, cancer deaths are down 31% according to the american cancer society. a lot of that is because of prostate cancer deaths down 50%, breast cancer deaths down 40% but a lot of that, i have to say, is because of screening, early screening and preventive measure, not necessarily curing the cancers itself. how feasible, how realistic is it to cut c