mr. warner wants him to say. it's sad, it's a pathetic situation.: it is sad, and burr has just thrown -- he's put his entire career in a ditch. it's amazing to me that he could just turn over the committee to the democrats and throw decency to the wind and go after a sitting president the way they have, and it just -- it's stunning to me how the people of north carolina could put up with such atrocious conduct. let's get to the fisa documents. >> sure. lou: the president apparently facing something of a contest within his own legal team, and emmet flood, who is in the white house counsel's office, apparently trying to stop the president from releasing those documents. at least those are the reports. your thoughts. >> look, the answer is extreme transparency, the president needs to get every single document he possibly can out. lawyers are built to minimize exposure, i get that, but in this case, the president is being harassed at a level no one has ever seen before in a presidency, and the more he gets out, the faster he gets it out, the more the a

mr. warner wants him to say. it's sad. it's a pathetic situation. >> lou: it is sad.s just thrown his -- i mean he has put his entire career in the ditch. it's just, he is, it's just amazing to me that he could just turn over the committee to the democrats, throw reason and decency to the wind and go after a sitting president the way they have. it's stunning to me how the people of north carolina can put up with such atrocious conduct. let's get to the fisa documents. >> sure. >> lou: the president apparently facing something of a contest within his own legal team. emmet flood who is in the white house counsel's office apparently trying to stop the president from releasing those documents. at least those are the reports. your thoughts? >> look, the answer is extreme transparency. the president needs to get every single document he possibly can out. lawyers are built to minimize exposure. i get that. but in this case, the president is being harassed at a level no one has ever seen before in a presidency. the more he gets out, the faster he gets it out, the more the ame

i want to add, mr warner said the commission's meeting is for the public, and the things that are on the agenda. i think that we have all heard various positions. we all care about increased fluid to fish and biodiversity preservation and the demands of the water customers. but any comments before we move forward? >> i have a comment. it may be appropriate for me to start, simply because i'm not prepared, nor am i qualified to drill down as far as someone like staff who occupies professional positions with this or someone like francesca who i learn from every time i talk to her. i can't say from 30,000 plus perspective that if we will arrive at the best possible outcome, we will do that without being influenced by political considerations or special interests or anything else. what i mean by that is the decision that we make here shouldn't be connected to anybody's next election. it should not be connected to our, you know, tax or the chamber of commerce where the bay area council or any of those things. full disclosure, i represent the construction industry. we would love nothing mo

mr. dave warner. >> my name is dave warner. thank you for investing significant time on this topic and the engagement today and the last meeting. i would say it is great news that the state water board has reached out to explore more what is going on. that is a wonderful step in the right direction that leads me to how can we reach out to each other? the comment is maybe it is time to ask both sides what would it take for you to be more comfortable incorporating the other side's view. i can't spea speak speak for the environmentalists if it were accepted as equal or better than the state water bedder plan, that -- board plan that would go a long ways for us. technical comment. when we talk about 100 million gals a day, those are based on demand higher than what we have seen this decade. they are based on fairly high numbers. third comment, in 2014, los angeles mayor declared the los angeles would reduce water imports 50%. he was re-elected by a landslide. the point i like was there was a photo opfor him showing a groundbreaking

warner: thank you mr. chairman and let me first of all echo your comments about our friend and colleague john mccain. i hope we all take his advice to continue to put country first. welcome to the witnesses. today is an important public discussion. i am pleased that both facebook and twitter have sent their company's top leadership to address some of the critical public policy challenges. i look forward to a constructive engagement. i am deeply disappointed that google, one of the most influential digital platforms in the world, chose not to send its own top corporate leadership to engage this committee. i know our members have a series of difficult questions about structural vulnerabilities on a number of google's platforms that we need answers for. from google search, which continues to have problems surfacing absurd conspiracies. to youtube, where russian backed disinformation agents promoted hundreds of divisive videos. to gmail, where state sponsored operatives attempted countless hacking attempts. go

warner put out today. this is what they said. "we can confirm that mr. at that timeten-produced documents to the committee and was interviewed by committee staff. due to concerns about certain statements made by mr. patten, the committee made a criminal referral to the department of justice. while the charge and resultant plea today do not appear to directly involve our referral, we appreciate their referral of -- review of this matter." so this is fuzzy in an interesting way. sam patten testifies to the senate intelligence committee. something about that causes them to refer him to the justice department for prosecution. he has now as of today been prosecuted. but it is not clear if the justice department prosecuted him for the thing that he was referred about. we don't know what upset the intelligence committee so much as what the justice department charged him with. it kind of seems like maybe it wasn't. we've been trying to figure out how they connect all day. the intelligence committee has been no commenting us all day ever since they issued that st

warner barry. i'm the attorney for mr and mr -- and mr and mrs. wing. can you hear me ok? >> president hillis: make sure you speak into the mic. >> very briefly, mr hammond made a nonlegal objection, sort of as a public comment, but the hardens have failed to notice in their title, is that they have -- of the absolute obligation to allow this expansion. it is part of their title. they have no standing to object. these windows must be closed off if the expansion is allowed. that is our point. their title documents are clear, there is a recorded use limitation, it has been in the property line forever. the wings are entitled to this expansion, at least as far as a space. by the way, the wings have lived there a long time. they did not move back from hawaii. they have a second home in hawaii. mr wang has lived in the property in that area since 1970 they lived in this house a long time. he has had two or three surgeries on his knees, and he may need to be in a wheelchair at some point. it is possible. it is in our documents. and the idea of expanding the bathroom to allow tha

warner. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate you holding this hearing. i'm not sure where to begin when it comes to's talking about this administration approach on trade -- to this administration's approach on trade. the president states trade wars are good and we have no factual basis on that. i think you wind up in circumstances where we are right now. i would be the first to agree that china does not play by the fair international rules. we have seen that in my old industry in technology where the price of admission for an american country in china is to give up intellectual property. we have seen intellectual property theft. we have seen it on the use of their students who attend our universities to deal intellectual property. and, we have seen it where the chinese firms don't operate on market-based principles. they have enormous erect state subsidies. i would argue that the norm -- enormous direct state subsidies. i think it was a growing recognition of other real threat that china poses in the last couple of years. there was an opportunity to buil

mr. tippets, following up on senator warner's question, you think you said 10 percent of the procedures werecash payments? is that right? >> that is correct. >> that doesn't mean that those people had no insurance, is that correct? >> it might've been cheaper for them to pay cash then to pay the deductible for the insurance they have, am i correct about that? >> that is correct. what we are seeing especially with high copayment hsa didn't want to burn through your deductible co-pays for one hernia example that will cost $3000 bundled. where it might cost 15 or $20,000 in a hospital. >> any gas on the percent of people that pay cash at your center also have insurance? that they do not use? >> i think will be very low. i do not have the exact statistics but the individuals paying cash usually do not have insurance but they have the means to do so or that have high deductible plans. >> a memo to this question. generally speaking, 55 or 60 percent of american -- most of americans are insured. more than 90 percent. >> correct. >> 55 or 60 percent of those that have insurance have employer insuran

mr. enright. we've gotten the bill i have with senator warner and sadly senator mccain is no longer with us, but he was the lead republican on the bill and it says for online political ad to be disclosure. facebook and twitter support the bill and google has so far it declined and you are the biggest seller of online ads and expected to bring in roughly in 2018. can you talk about where you are on the bill and what needs to be done? >> to be clear, my area is privacy. we appreciate your leadership. we do support the goals of your bills and look forward to working with your staff to move it forward. >> i do think this has something to do with privacy. they've come from russia and other places have interfered with people's privacy. people that didn't consent to have been used, they falsified the ads are obviously false and they brought people to rally and adult sorts of things that were false. i think you should think of it is not just a thing over at the fec a political issue to the fundamental misuse of the internet. >> i agree with you and recognize is relevant to the privacy conversation. it also

mr. dorsey, the same question. >> we believe people should have complete control of their data i think, again, senator warner brought up an interesting point earlier, which is i don't believe there's a real understanding of the exchange being made in terms of people performing activities on these services and services like twitter and how they can actually see that as an exchange an exchange of value and those are things i would love to think about more how to make it for clear and the inventives conversation. >> thank you thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator reed i thank all the members for their questions and our panelists for their answers. i'm going to turn to the vice chairman for any last comments he might have. >> i want to thank you both. thank you for the spirit you brought to this -- some of the suggestions. your responses to some of the suggestions. i wish our members were were still here because i think they performed extraordinarily well i take away from this three or four quick points. one, very much appreciate, mr. dorsey, your acknowledgment that we ought to move towards and i guess ms. san

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mr. chairman, thank you. i want to thank you and senator warner about your kind comments about john mccain and what is not oftened, john mccain wrote some of the really important rules of the road for the internet when he was chairman of the commerce committee, and it was always bipartisan. very much appreciate both of you mentioning our wonderful friend, john mccain. and miss sandberg, mr. dorsey, welcome, i enjoyed visiting to you. let me go right to the question foremost on my mind, and that is consumer privacy as a national security issue. technology companies like yours hold vast amounts of very private information about millions of americans. the prospect of that data being shared with shady businesses, hackers, and foreign governments is a massive privacy and national security concern. russians keep looking for more sophisticated ways of attacking our democracy. personal data reveals not just your personal and political leanings, what you buy, even who you date. my view is personal data is now the weapon of choice for political influence campaigns. and we must not make it easier for our adversaries to se

mr. dorsey, the floor is yours. >> thank you, chairman burr. vice chairman warner, and the committee for the opportunity to speak on behalf of twitter, to the american people. i look forward to our conversation about the work we're doing to help protect the integrity of u.s. elections and elections around the world i'm someone of very few words and typically pretty shy and i realize how important it is to speak up now if it's okay with all of you, i would like to read you something i personally wrote as i considered these issues, and also going to tweet this out now. first, i want to step back and share our view of twitter's role in the world we believe many people use twitter as a digital public square they gatther from all around th world and share what they see. in any public space you'll find inspired ideas and you'll find lies and deception people who want to unify and people who want to hurt others and divide what symbolizes a physical and digital public space is greater accessibility and velocity we're extremely proud of increasing the accessibility and velo

mr. ohr, a current justice department official. i think this is an attempt to stifle the investigation. >> i think there's two parts. if you are like mike warner democrat, you look at this and say, this is the president using these institutions that we held to be kind of a part from the president and independent as a way to help him, his case and make the case. if you are the president and you want to know more, you are saying, okay, i want to know if it means more information for the public, which should mean a good thing. >> "the new york times" reported, former trump lawyer john dowd. mr. dowd took mr. trump at his word that he did nothing wrong and never conducted a full investigation to determine the president's legal exposure. during it, interviewed ten senior administrative officials without learning what they planned to say or debriefing their lawyer afterward, a step that could have given the president's lawyer a view into what mr. mueller learned. that seems problematic, matt? no? >> the president's team made a few mistakes. find out if he committed a crime or not. he is not the most honest person, it's safe to say. debrief them afte

mr. dorsey, the same question. >> we do believe people should have complete control over their data. again senator warner brought up an interesting point earlier which is i don't believe there is a real understanding of the exchange being made in terms of people performing activities on these services and services like twitter and how they can actually see that as an exchange, an exchange of value and those are the things, i would love to think a lot more about. how do we make that more clear. i think that goes back to the incentives conversation. >> thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator reed. i thank all the members for their questions and our panelists for their answers. will turn to the vice chairman for any last comments he might have. >> i want to thank you both. i want to thank you for the spirit you brought to this, some of the suggestions, your responses to to some of the suggestions. i wish our members were still here because i think they all performed extraordinarily well. i take away from this, three or four quick points. one, very much appreciate mr. dorsey, your acknowled

mr. enright, we've gotten support for that bill. it was a bill with senator warner and sadly senator mccain is no longer with us but he was the lead republican on the bill. and you know what it does? it says that for online plid pl -- political ads there have to be disclosure and facebook and twitter both indicated they support the bill and google has so far declined and you are the biggest seller of online ads and expected to bring in roughly $40 billion in digital ad dollars into 2018. so could you talk about where you are on the bill and what you think needs to be done? >> certainly. senator, to be clear my area is privacy so the issue of political ads is not squarely within my domain. that said, we appreciate your leadership on this issue. we do support the goals of your bill and we look forward to working with your staff to move it forward. >> okay. and do you think this has something to do with privacy because a lot of these political ads have -- that have come from russia and other places have interfered with people's privacy. >> certainly agree. >> photos of

mr. dorsey this afternoon? >> well, tyler, especially given the range of hearings going on over at the senate, i thought this one was the more encouraging one and more thoughtful one i think you had senator warnerator burr who put a lot of thought into this issue, have serious ideas and they're trying to figure out what the right thing to do is what i found most encouraging, i'll say, not just good news, but i think they are all focused on the fact that this is a complex and long run problem and the question of interference in our political process through online platforms is going to continue there is not a silver bullet that will solve this problem it is like the hardest cybersecurity problems that we have today we have gotten used to the fact that banks are vulnerable to cybersecurity, and what we're learning here in the social media environment is that this is a new kind of cybersecurity attack at the information level. these are not -- the russians are not breaking into the back end of twitter or facebook, they're coming in through the front end and the challenge is to detect them i think everyone is focused on the right set of problems and i found it sobering that i don't think anyone is

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mr. chairman, if i could, i just want to reinforce senator warren with the importance of the senator warner's admonition and question how important the documents are to be turned over in a timely manner. thank you. >> we appreciate that, senator. and we're dropping off another production today. we have a staff who have been working to get the requests out quickly. >> chairman, thank you very much. first we'll direct this question to in and all. can you identify changes in russian behavior that have occurred since the summit between president trump and president putin in helsinki? this is before the summit? >> i don't have anything to add. >> senator, i would ask that any kind of question like that be addressed in a closed session. >> the senator from montana said getting answers in a closed session is no easier than getting answers in an open session. your unwillingness to answer the session, one of the things coming from this hearing is a set of recommendations on what congress may do and consider legislatively for additional sanctions. i have not reached a conclusion that any additional san