of historic negative media coverage.he president will continue to fight back against these attacks by unveiling what he's called these most dishonest corrupt media awards of the year. it's important to show you just how abusively biased to the anti-trump media it really is and it starts with the media saying that donald trump would never win, never become the president, take a look. >> donald trump has been saying he would run for president as a republican which is surprising because i just assumed he was running as a joke. >> do it. do it. i will personally write you a campaign check now on behalf of this country which does not want you to be president but which badly wants you to run. >> this man has its own momentum, we better be ready. [laughter] >> which republican candidate has the best chance of winning the general election? >> of the declared ones, right now, donald trump. [laughter] >> mr. trump, to answer your call for political honesty, i just want to say, you're not going to be president. it's been fun. >> pr

it looks like he lost his media allies. capri: the media has been fair on this.emocrats, progressives are upset, and chuck schumer did not do a good job by tying daca to the spending bill. i think the coverage has been accurate. howie: schumer's overreach on the dreamers resulted in a rare media win for president trump. they went in saying he will be blamed for the shutdown because they colorado both houses. mollie: it's also true that initial losses aren't the same as ultimate losses. this is a long ballgame and there is a lot left to be seen. i didn't see a lot of coverage about how interesting the situation is on the left between the base and the leadership. howie: the latest negotiations on the shutdown, president trump offered to double the number of dreamers who would have a path to citizenship in exchange for funding the border wall and other immigration tightening measures. i haven't seen anyone in the media saying president trump is serious about the dreamers. >> it's a whirlwind when you want to keep track of this debate. you saw schumer come back sayin

is part of that but to pick out social media and say that the parts of media. innocence i think would be a mistake the question is do you mean like the social media gives them what they want to hear even more than the mainstream media although there's two kinds of people when it comes to. understanding the way either you want to understand the world and its complexity and then you read the washington post or the new york times over wall street journal which gives or listen to the b.b.c. which i think reflects the world in that complexity they all have political biases but not so dramatic that they shape their content or you want the world to conform to what you already think and then you then you use facebook or twitter or you watch fox and n.b.c. and everything you think is automatically confirmed the problem i think with digital media is it seems to be enabling that second category that second community but there are many other forces which are pushing. it's very disturbing because what you see is the disappearance of the middle the creation of these parties

media matters for america watches us mainstream media for their climate coverage the most telling finding is that aside from when world leaders are raising or dashing hopes most of the time this simply nothing to see. in june of this year there was a big burst of coverage when trump announced he was going to pull the us out of the paris climate agreement and in the year and a half in between there was almost no coverage whatsoever in the us media. during the presidential election campaign there was not a single segment about how the election would affect climate change that was a huge missed by the media don't trump said more than once that he intended to pull the us out of paris agreement but the media did not cover that the story of the wall from cork twenty one the hope and then there was this sudden evaporation of that whole first of all it's a tragedy because climate change is a real problem and it is causing enormous uncertainty and instability around the world in a fit. it created this bus suddenly everyone was talking with what is climate change what is happening why is it importa

are the media bonkers go ahead kevin. nothing new under the sun in many respects we've seen this before we can go back to any number of instances think about the clinton impeachment and how that became a national obsession over the o.j. simpson trial what we're seeing here i think is an application and intensification of a tendency that's been part of the media part of sort of the court of the d.n.a. of the corporate media for many years now ok steve but i do think it is different because they're trying to unseat this president without any due cause and you know you know i'm a lay person will talk to jean in a second she has more expertise in this here but when i see people going on and c.n.n. an embassy in d.c. saying the president of states is insane and should be reviewed reviewed removed from office that's going too far i don't think anybody said bill clinton was insane ok he had a problem with his ip or not his mental health go ahead steve. you know me this to me this is unprecedented it's a continuation of bush dera

of historic negative media coverage. president will continue to fight back against these attacks by unveiling what he's called these most dishonest corrupt media awards of the year. before i get to all of that, it's important to show you just how abusively biased to the anti-trump media it really is and it starts with the media saying that donald trump would never win, never become the president, take a look. >> donald trump has been saying he would run for president as ah republican which is surprising because i just assumed he wasou running as a joke. >> do it. do it. look at me. do it. i will personally write you a campaign check now on behalf of this country which does not want you to be president but whichh badly wants you to run. >> this man has its own momentum, we better be ready. you may be leading the republican ticket. [laughter] >> which republican candidate has the best chance of winning the general election? >> of the declared ones, right now, donald trump. [laughter] >> mr. trump, to answer your call for p

media. college republicans have their booth on the plaza, and it has never been attacked. that faculty members are sometimes dismissive of students with conservative views. i think that is unfortunate and that is something we need to have a conversation about. : you guys know more about this than i do. helpful, thet conflation of party affiliation or voting behavior with intellectual range? assume thatto people who are affiliated with the same political party or vote for the same presidential candidate share common ogicalectual and pedag approaches to the material they teach? ichael: i don't think it is fair. response, it is not about the litmus test. it is not about what their views are when you hire them, but what they teach. people who identify as being on the left in the classroom teach courses that involve certain thinkers and religious traditions. i try to be careful about that, it is not just checking someone's voting record, but adding to the focusing on issues that are identifiable

university and author of drones media discourse . the public imagination i love that title and in west palm beach we cross to dr jean aloud and she is a psychology expert and host of america trends with dr gina ok crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate it kevin let me go to you first here is the media suffering from trumped arrangement syndrome because i did go through the things that we've had to deal with i mean i actually made up a list here you know from pussycat marches to the comi stuff to the steel dossier and its contents we have the motor investigation we have a shady lawyer don don jr being just as shady one might say then we have these long distance experts determining the mental health of the president of the united states and we can go and there's a lot more to the media goes bonkers so are the media bonkers go ahead kevin. nothing new under the sun in many respects we've seen this before we can go back to any number of instances think about the clinton impeachment and h

the influence of online media is growing but mass media remains the primary source of information for most news consumers and in that realm skepticism still has a place however as the consequences of climate change creasing leah thinks the anglosphere the pushback against skeptics is growing louder. and although the carbon industry continues to pump money into not being and media messaging evidence for. their point of skepticism is running on borrowed time. finally sometimes political cartoonists can do just as good a job explaining a news story as conventional journalists can even when those stories are complicated such as facebook's recent announcement that it's revamping its news feed by feeding you last news the american cartoonist mark fiore dissects facebook's explanation for the changes which does not even mention the site's issues with fake news and hate speech but suggests that by deemphasizing posts from news outlets facebook will be bringing people together because who needs news when you can have chipper social interactions instead well c.n.n. here at the listening post. h

ask yourself, have you heard the mainstream media, the destroy trump media, anybody on the left, anyiberal everbo mention any of these things? have you heard them talk about how the president's accomplishment and all these accomplishments haveme positively impacted the country? probably not. they want and have wanted from the beginning the president to fail. now, this is exactly why the media, the pundits, the political elites are predicting a huge, massive democratic landslide in november of this year in the midterms. but, before they get too giddy, too excited, let's keep this in mind. these are the so-called same experts, political experts who all said president trumpmp never stood a chance. so, maybe they should put a little bit of the pump on the brakes here and not get so giddy. as a matter of fact, it may turn out to be just out opposite. the president, by the way, has created what i am calling a blueprint for victory in 2018. i hope the republicans in washington are paying attention. now they did get their act together in december. i do give them credit. but they need to do m

or mainstream media offering this or is this something that's also seen. from conservative media are they also giving a round up for people to see the other side and no i feel free to jump in here if you are the answer to that because i know you're governing. up i think that. i don't want to speak for anyone but myself but the impression that i get from dealing with people in the conservative media world i think there are belief is that they understand where the liberal left wing commentators are coming from a lot better than the other way around. and i think there's some truth to that i think there is a tendency on the on the left to sort of look it can sort of arguments as being not really arguments at all as being based in one or a bad mystic motives and unconscious. prejudices rather than actual beliefs or arguments. but i do think that that's a problem on both sides and i think it's extremely common on the right for people to simply dismiss. anyone coming from the left out of here and it's frankly a bigger problem among people who consume conservative

absolutely and now because of social media positions has reliable with the media to get a message out. five six seven years ago now they can talk directly to their people die social media sit by discrediting the mainstream media they say you don't do that don't listen to that information just come straight to me you can't trust them and so this is possibly the only social media in societies but he says that it is because any concessions put out it's information they don't like investment they don't like but it's a dangerous it's a worrying poll i agree let me just say something about visual media though because and this is important and claire made this point to her earlier you know there's a general expression seeing is believing and what that does is it makes a video or a photograph much more likely to be able to deceive someone because we sort of psychologically think if we're looking at an image or even a an image in motion then somehow it must be true and this actually vastly predates tromped is an infant imprimis. a photograph of abraham lincoln and which he looks very president

if you're a media outlet. part of. what makes this mode and this era we're living through so unique this is really an attack on itself is a lot of misunderstanding a distortion even of what free speech is supposed to be about the context it's hugely important to have a right to publish if you have a duty to be offensive will provoke if there would otherwise people do setting the stage for a serious debate. up front at this time on al-jazeera. when we managed the financial system between one nine hundred forty five one thousand nine hundred seventy one there was not a single financial crisis anywhere in the world and then in one thousand seven hundred the bank has lobbied and they said no no no we don't need controls you know the market will discipline us banks love to make loans to sufferance why because behind the sovereign a millions of taxpayers we can see reaction to the liberalization of five just as we saw in the one nine hundred twenty s. and it's going to be updating it already is ugly in many parts of the worl

media community.manuel macron does it and think, it is a double standard. we cannot excuse some mistakes are not those of others. and if there are mistakes that were today that are pointed out in a constructive debate by the likes of the new york times, but russia's they can point out mistakes in the new york times, that is the most constructive approach. joe? the united states under donald trump and the russian government under vladimir putin have taken on political leadership to some extent to combat what they call fake news, which i think is emblematic of the risk of having the government involved in policing this. the russian ministry has a step that they put on pieces of news that they considerfake. donald they put on pieces of news that they consider fake. donald trump they put on pieces of news that they considerfake. donald trump has his fa ke considerfake. donald trump has his fake news words. these are not people that the broader community should be looking to to tell us what is accurate tha

just building on the smaocial media point, it strikes me that all social media outrage isn't created equal and there is lefty social media outrage that doesn't necessarily translate to the kinds of campaigns that we've seen against faculty and graduate students and other students at universities across the united states. and i think that we can't have this conversation without thinking about other media factors. so -- i'm thinking in general the presence and amplifying power of right-wing media when it comes to these campaigns. it's just something that hasn't been part of the conversation that much, but i think it's an important part because social media, i mean, i could post something on twitter today and most people would ignore it, but if somebody from breitbart picked it up, it might go very differently for me. >> yes. >> some last thoughts before we meet our deadline to finish? michael? >> well, i -- as carol said, there are lots of questions that get conflated around the issue of free speech, and i think part of the reason they get conflated around free speech on campuss is we

is media, newspaper is a media.ecessary valid and and something that we need as control.or decentralization decentralization, explode this year and next year and following year and so is the platform for social media and i think it is a good thing that we have that and news all started when a lot entities , for profit money.ey got to make so they were actually creatingm. so they were actually creating news factors and creating actual fake news. i know a few people were actually caught doing it, i know a party in brazil a decentralization, explode this some nd next year and following peop people -- news agencies creating news, which is abhorrent and profit and people pay news agencies to create news sometimes because they are for profit entity, like journalism. back to the first part of your comment, do you think newspapers are better erve federal they got rid of editorials, if they got rid of the opinion of the newspaper on page?ditorial caller: if they got rid of the opinion page? i think it would be a disaster. no

media certainly facebook's. gone out of fashion then people are on facebook all people parents and grandparents young people wouldn't be caught dead on facebook now the question is maybe they'll go from facebook to instagram or snap chat but at some point i think this generation of so-called digital natives is just going to get bored of all of these things so i think and i've been saying this for years that the real reaction to social media and technology is going to come from the digital natives the people who have grown up with this stuff and are just bored and disgusted when they just going to go back to the basics are they going to hear about something like artificial intelligence and connect their brains to a computer. i think what you're going to see is an interesting new book out called the revenge of analog you seen in the way in which this young generation is embrace vinyl records you see in the way in which they now buy most skin pads you see in the way that they're starting to write letters again you'

even mirelle the social media influencer. who created the reviews it has more than one point eight million subscribers in london serena bergmann she's a journalist who writes about media advertising and office commentary on social media influences and in new york we have brittany had a c. author of the forthcoming book influence building your personal brand in the age of social media welcome to the stream everyone i want to start my laptop with a tweet from someone who really showcases that this is a global conversation this is alexander out lusaka zambia he says in my area there is a retired doctor who is now a social media. he's always talking about how to stay healthy he believes the natural medicine and he's also always encouraging people to please to use natural methods so we dug around a little and found his account this is dr way as the pm son could do it on facebook you can see it there i will persist until i succeed that's just one of the pictures he's got up on that account ethan this is one person's idea of a good

just building on social media point, you know, strikes me that all social media isn't created equal. and there is social media outrage that doesn't translate to the kinds of campaigns that we have seen against faculty and graduate students and other students at universities across the united states. and i think that we can't have this conversation without thinking about other media factors. so i'm thinking in general the presence amplifying power of right wing media whether n it c to the campaigns. and it hasn't been part of the conversation but it's an important part. because social media i can post something on twitter today and most people would ignore t but if somebody from breitbart picked it up it might go differently for me. >> some last thoughts before we meet our deadline to finish. michael? >> well, as carol said, there are lots of questions that get conflated around the issue of free speech. and i think part of the reason on campuses is we expect our campuses to be places of experiment ages and inquiry. and especially when people who are well beyond their college years and

if the media is not touching any of it. why? because the media is infatuated.hey cannot control themselves anymore, and it's all about hating president trump. it's kind of like a sickness. doesn't have a cure, apparently never will. they can't see anything else. that is their singular focus. even, by the way, they would prefer kissing the rings and backsides of dictators. the media is betraying you, the american people. you would think the press, you would think they would have some sort of ethical compass, something that would move them towards truth. but they are now so corrupted, morally bankrupt, they hate any and everybody that doesn't do it their way. the media tonight, they are hyperventilating again, foaming at the mouth. at the back and forth between president trump, former white house advisor steve bannon. president trump responding to comments, bannon apparently made it is assumed to book by michael wolff. here's the thing, the media loves, loves steve bannon for the moment. they love one republicans are conservatives are fighting and create a circul

the media won't cover it. we will.omi lahren, jessica tarlov, next. >> sean: more breaking news tonight. we are following multiple breaking stories including a bombshell report from "the hill" review revealing that the fbi is opening a new investigation into the clinton foundation and their "the daily beast" reporting that the department of justice has taken a fresh look at hillary clinton's private email scandal. and according to the airport, officials are interested in finding out how much classified information was in fact sent over clinton's server, who put that information into an unclassified environment, and how. they are also reporting that they want to know which investigators knew about these matters and when did they know it and in light of today's report, former senior advisor to clinton, wrote on twitter, "this is definitely a political persecution." really? care with reaction, fox news contributor's tomi lahren and jessica tarlov. happy new year to both of you. >> happy new year. >> sean: okay. here it is

to claim that mainstream media has met its make. the headlines on r.t. international kind of a host of western allies of the nineteen fifties korean war to discuss the current crisis on the peninsula but with the absence of russia china and north korea itself the proposed solutions do appear rather limited. the pressure campaign will continue to intensify of that pressure just good to include cutting off diplomatic ties with north korea and the specter of russian meddling returns a number of influential us democrats claim the kremlin is behind whistleblower chelsea manning's decision to run for the senate. and what goes up must come down cryptocurrency who suffered double digit losses in the past twenty four hours and.

and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle if you trust the mainstream media well then you're in the minority sadly a great deal of media today is not designed to inform but rather confirms political biases this approach of the news is not only polarizing but it's also lowering journalistic standards is this why readers and viewers seek their news elsewhere. across talking the news i'm joined by my guest charles or tile in new york he is a private investor and a writer as well as host of the podcast show sunday with charles and in williamsburg we cross to andrew he is president of the institute for liberty as well as the host of the andrew langar show on a.o.l. in baltimore all right gentlemen crossed out rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it charles let me go to you first i mean one of the reasons why i wanted to do this program is the scandal around brian ross over at a.b.c. and of course that was a horrific mistake and. the perception is there that that wasn't very good journalism and it's true because he was

what would the media be doing tonight? >> how about going back to the beginning where donna brazil is giving the question to hilary before the debate. can you imagine if that happen to my father. he would have been disqualified at that moment. there'd be nothing left left alone the fake dossiers and here's a reality of what happened. you had a better candidate who was far more competent and worked much harder despite having one-seventh the amount of money who blew the other person out of the water. they need an excuse. they needed a way to justify their loss. if you look at the democratic party right now, they have no message, no leadership >> sean: nothing. and no vision to help the forgotten men and women of this country. you know the best thing your dad, he gives a speeches or town halls, the people in the back, fake news and everybody turns and they're screaming at people in the media and say you suck. >> think of having an approval rating close to the media's approval rating, single digits. wouldn't you want to change

use social media. i think it has -- there are times when words on social media have the effect of the action, of the first question suggested. and what that invocations are legally and ethically. i don't think we completely understand that. we do include social media, and introduction to social media and using it in orientations. i'm not going to suggest it necessarily is the best training or that we have figured out how to do it, but we recognize its importance. it's interesting to think about who should do it. it certainly shouldn't be something like me who doesn't actually -- isn't a native to that environment at all. but i -- i wonder again, how i think to disagreement with michael earlier, how we describe this problem and the terms we use to describe it and what we are trying to do every -- trying to do. and i still think we haven't figure that out. >> think a lot of us have warned our students that anything they say on social media may come back to haunt them. certainly, some of us have said that

but russian media including r.t. and the sputnik news agency have already been imap crohn's firing line both were denied accreditation during his presidential campaign last year and were later labeled by him as propaganda outlet it's the ship of the russia today sputnik have been influential outlets which have several times broken mistruths about me and my campaign that's why they have not been invited in my headquarters all media including russian had access to my campaign russia today and sputnik have not behaved as media outlets and journalists but as organs of influence and false propaganda on it well the r.t. family did have a christmas present for the french speaking world with the launch of our new this channel r.t. france and immediately ruffled a few high profile feathers to several french public figures published an open letter in fact calling for r.t. france's license to be revoked they said r.t. has repeatedly faced numerous allegations from the u.s. and several european countries political commentator i

he describes the media as the fake news media.im of fake news, you do not really totally understand it. you seem to suggest that donald trump's strategy right now isn't working for him and it is a mistake? i suggested inside and outside of the white house that the president does not need to declare war on the media. i was only there 11 days but one of the first things i did was turned the camera is back on the lights on in the press room. the way the system is setup, we have a fourth estate known as the american media, the first moment of the united states, the freedom of speech, to hand check people in power. the president is media savvy. you should take a step back from that, and say, i can have an adversarial relationship with the media without war declaration. what i am worried about is good news for the president, he had roughly the same approval rating is barack obama at the end of the year. you can dispute the polling but, let me finish, i will make the point even better than you would make it. this is what i worry about. b

the nixon white house who said they hated nixon but they've never seen anything like this what the media is doing now is more dangerous than anything they have done because they're telling the world you know they're so worried about donald trump's tweets they're telling the world every single day and of course it's not true that our president is mentally incapacitated unable to perform his duties and that we're very very weak at this point and that we have a lot of enemies out there so they think they're playing this little game to get rid of the president and throwing journalism aside but they're actually doing severe harm to our country and i would say to journalism itself and we'll talk about that a little bit later gina let me go to uni west palm beach i mean you're you're a professional mental mental health i mean how do you react to seeing journalists on the on the cable stations talking about the mental health level of the president of the united states must be quite shocking for you because you are an expert what's interesting because i don't think that they would diagnose the pr

the media missed the message. the media foreign policy experts who were satisfied with the status quoaf our policy in north korea the last two decades decide a tape that's undeniably true is outrageous. howie: usually every statement is vetted and scrutinized and sanitized. is he being cite sides for taking a street fighter approach? mo: when you are dealing with someone as volatile and narcissistic at the north korean dictator, i don't know that -- i think the tone is important. and i think that setting a foreign -- the trump doctrine is size matters and i don't think that will be productive in trying to turn things around with the north koreans or if it will provoke them even more. howie: there has been a whole series of tough tweets. there has been a lot of media criticism or my button is bigger than your button. does size matter? shannon: you have so many foreign policy experts, people who study north korea and understand the issues here who are raising big alarm bells. and i'm certainly not a north korea or f

but then it was way too much for the media, the liberal media to handle since they prefer the policieslet's see bowing and kissing rings and appeasement. here's a quote from the "new york times" describing reagan's speech, quote: in the long run, however, the greater danger lies in mr. reagan's vision of the super power relationship as good versus evil and as near proclamation of holy war against evil elm pair. turns out the so-called paper of record, just like the rest of the liberal media was completely wrong. if media followed the advice the soviet union might still be standing. next george w. bush he labeled rightly so iran, iraq, and north korea the the axis of evil. you may remember. this north korea is a arming weapons of mass destruction while starving its citizens. iran aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror while an unelected few repress the iranian people's hope for freedom. iraq continues to flaunt its hostility toward america and to support terror. the iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax and nerve gas and nuclear weapons for over a decade. states lik

we will cover the out-of-control media and the bias.e do it regularly on the program for this is insane. this is a new level. dr. ronnie jackson briefed the media on the results of the president's extensive medical exams. what did he find? a president in excellent health. dr. jackson is saying of the president did so while onl a cognitive test that he has normal, perfect, neurological functions. no early onset alzheimer's orly dementia. of course, this does not fit the media and their preconceived fake news narrative that president trump is crazy, suffering from dementia, early onset, and is mentally unfit to serve, which means in their twisted minds, he needs to be thrown out of office. for 49 long minutes, the media breathlessly, hysterically asking the president's doctor about his mental fitness. they couldn't believe the answers they were getting. he asked for the cognitive test. it is one of the best tests out there and he passed it perfectly, 30 out of 30. thist is something they have bn obsessing over. you will enjoy this. watch.

the polarization has been there because of the media and in large part because of the media, it drives this opposition. we have always had differences in american politics. with the 24-hour media you are getting it in your face at all times. howie: was the comment by the president overplayed. bill: i was with an uber driver yesterday, he said the president is right about nigeria. this is the way men talk especially in private meetings. for the charge to come out. the point this uber driver was making, because of the mismanagement of government, the police aren't there to protect you, you can't have the argument that you should save people in america and a refugee status and say if you don't they will go back to some god-forsaken place then deny's a god forsaken place. howie: is he not winning over new converts? bill: i don't know. it does seem he's rising up a little bit in the polls and getting some independent. independents. if it's the economy, stupid, things will get better. howie: coming up. stormy daniels on the cover of "in touch" magazine claims she once hooked up with donald t

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hello and welcome to crossfire where all things considered i'm peter lavelle are the mainstream media intentionally gaslighting the public against president donald trump the reverse appears to be equally true trump does with style gaslight the media what kind of body politic is this creating has the us become a collection of hysterical drama queens. cross-linking gaslighting i'm joined by my guest reverend jesse lee peterson in los angeles he is a counselor activist media commentator as well as on ther of the antidote healing america from the poison of hate blame and victimhood also in los angeles we have ron paul cohen he is a comedian and a frequent guest on the jimmy door show and the young turks as well as host of his own streaming program get your news on with wrong and in new york we cross to political pundit and journalist contributing to the huffington post all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate ron let me go to you i mean who is gaslighting whom here and is that a country that is just turned into a bunch o

only against the fake news media or press fake fake. for the last year i have been reporting from the white house on the president who says he's at war with the media who craves positive coverage and yet who calls us fake nice. i think that's the most dishonest discussed thing to speckle thing the president has ever said. afternoon mistrust accusations heated exchanges doing white house briefings relations with the media are tense came here to say that it's an honest mistake when you are purposely putting out information that you know to be false. but not everyone is concerned unexpired for works for the daily caller a conservative website he says he doesn't take trump's attacks on the media seriously. he's an insecure guy you know he's the supermodel why this be so unhappy so the fake news flash that's just he's just angry at a show i don't he's not like there's a want to people i think will unfairly compare on to an autocrat but he wants the room press freedoms or the president is calling up reporters on the phone. the president's cam

any organization, entity, social media gup th media group they want to be able to move or influence, they begin sharing the same content back with that audience and trying to develop their own content within it. beyond just united states and this presidential election, i think we should look at all elections worldwide. they realize this playbook works very well. it is extremely cost effective. there has been almost no down side, at least to this point, of doing it. you have seen it in europe. anywhere they can break up a union, the european union or nato, they will continue to seed in those populations. i would tell you to look at cat lo catalonia or scotland where they see an opportunity to create divisions within a democracy. lieutenant general mcmaster pointed to mexico as another example of where they have seen some sort of audience infiltration. the key trigger i look for is hacking. when they launch widespread hacking against a target, they are making a strategic decision to go after an objective. that's one thing i would tell everyone to look for. if you want to know where the

sponsored by social media companies. several models from counterterrorism cyber security could be adopted by silicon valley in this regard. i've made other recommendations in the past which i can address during the q&a. but in conclusion, some social media companies have done more to protect the integrity of their platforms. others have a lot more work to do to protect against bad actors. ultimately the american consumer will decide whether the benefits of using these services outweigh the risks. many are walking away because they can't trust the information being used or tolerate the vitriolic user experience. social media companies should more aggressively to thwart terrorists and their exploiters, not only because it's best for users and society but because it's good for business as well. thank you for having me. >> thank you, mr. watts. i recognize senator nelson for introduction. >> we have a new member of the committee. >> we do, indeed. >> senator john tester of montana. senator tester has been wanting to get on t