you are on with katie bo williams of the hill. caller: what discussion is there on the hill of using social media platforms to dictate to the representatives of the united states citizens desires? i have been trying to get this conversation to go for four years along with using debit cards to track immigration and make that a secure system. can you elaborate on that? guest: if you are talking about wikileaks as a social media platform, i am not 100% sure that is an accurate way of describing them. they are an operation that is run largely by a single guy, julian assange will say he has hundreds of employees or volunteers that are helping him disseminate these documents that they are publishing but if you talk to former employees, and largely sounds like it is a one-man shop. they do have a huge social media following with pretty active supporters who spend a lot of time defending the integrity of the organization. host: let's talk politically about what these wikileaks revelations are having, the political impact, marco rubio, who

in 45 minutes, katie bo williams of the hill and wikileaks and its effect on the presidential campaign and former base player ath nirvana, now chair of nonprofit that advocates for election reforms. ♪ host: it is saturday, october 22, 2016. today, cyber attacks shut down a host of popular internet sites yesterday, raising concerns over u.s. cyber security. sites including twitter, spotify, netflix, and the new york times websites reported sporadic problems after a wave of disruptions targeted a company that provides the critical infrastructure for internet access in the united states. wikileaks claims the attacks of thate by supporters website in retaliation for

host: texas, republican line, you are on with katie bo williams.aller: i am a little confused. -- they says seem the russians are trying to influence our elections by publishing these e-mails but by looking at what is in them, their principal offenses the democrats are looking to steal the election. guest: there is a lot of concern from a lot of republicans that the content of these e-mails are not getting enough attention. seeing a couple of different things happen. part of what is going on is, even though the content of these e-mails are being reported on, the republican candidate himself has not grabbed a hold of the individual allegations in these e-mails and raised them to the level of a campaign issue. there is some question about what interference in the election means. when the u.s. intelligence community said that the dnc hack is an attempt to interfere in the u.s. election, they do not offer more details. they left that open to interpretation and that does not mean that helping donald trump. it may just mean sowing uncertainty and discord