>> mr. watts, i'd like you to take my time and inform the committee with your expertise what the russians, for that matter, anybody else can do to us in this coming election. >> thank you, senator. i think i would start off with -- there has been no response from the u.s. government with regards to russian influence campaigns in social media. so therefore they have stayed on course with their operations. during nonelection years, they tend to focus on social issues, and what i would say is audience infiltration. so any organization, entity, social media group that they really want to be able to move or influence later, they begin infiltrating that by just sharing the same content back with that audience and trying to develop their own content within it. beyond just the united states and this presidential election, i think we should look at all elections worldwide. they realize that this playbook works very well. it's extremely cost effective. there has been almost no downside, at least at this poi

we welcome mr. watts and his expertise over many years of how bad actors like russia use the internet and social media to influence so many things, not just elections. and we even know that putin is reaching down deep into our government, not just at the top. you remember a few weeks ago, part of the federal communications commission's net neutrality proceeding, a half a million comments were traced to russian ip addresses. that's shocking. that's concerning. we should want to know why these comments were filed. what were they trying to do? and all of us should be very concerned about what's going to happen next. and in the end, the basic questions that we want to ask is what have we learned, what are we correcting, what's going to happen in the future, and how can we get ahead of it before it does? thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator nelson. and we do appreciate the great panel of witnesses we have in front of us today. i thank you all for being here. on my left and your right is ms. monica bi

and i will be asking mr. watts if you would outline what he sees is happening in this 2018 election. this should be a wake-up call to all of your companies. indeed, it should be a wake-up call to all americans. and this should be, regardless of party. this was an attack on the very foundation of american democracy. we welcome the expert that each of you bring to the table today. we welcome mr. watts and his expertise. over many years of how bad actors like russia used the internet and social media to influence so many things. not just elections. and we even know that vladimir putin is reaching down, deep into our government. not just at the top. remember a few weeks ago, part of the net neutrality proceeding, have a million comments were traced to russian ip addresses. that is shocking. that is concerning. we should want to know why these comments were filed. what were they trying to do? and all of us should be very concerned about what is going to happen next. in the end, the basic questions that we want to ask is

few days but for now i don't think it's going to much impact on legal or policy implications what mr watts thank you as always for your time that is what should what joining us live from washington d.c. thank you. and move on to other news now pro-government rallies are being held in iran for a second day they follow a five nights of anti-government protests a senior military commander has declared the end of the protest movement in which twenty two people were killed and the u.n. is accusing the u.s. stirring violence in the country. has more now from ted on. large pro-government rallies are being held in major metropolitan cities across iran today in an effort by pro-government and pro stablish and supporters to illustrate to anti-government protesters that this government this establishment does still enjoy political and public support by tens of thousands of people it's an effort by the government to bookend what has been a week of violent and deadly protests that turned into what the government is calling riots now just because these people are out in the street in support of the gove

our political editor, nick watt, has been scouting around looking at what mr robbins is up to.hat any bureaucrat could be in favour of radical change is a nonsense. the civil service may well have its own agenda. but ultimately, with a strong government, it should be the goverment's will that the civil service implements. i don't think that, watching him with three prime ministers, there'd ever be a moment that he would be in any way be patronising about the fact that he, you know, has more information at his fingertips. he's one of the tallest men in the british establishment, with one of the lowest profiles. yet he wields some of the greatest powers. he's never at the centre of attention. but he's always in the room, by the prime minister's side. olly robbins, theresa may's chief adviser on europe, is being dubbed ‘the real brexit secretary'. possibly eclipsing david davis. beyond the world of whitehall, most people have no idea who olly robbins is. but, day by day, he is shaping the nature of britain's departure from the european union. he has the prime minister's ear in dow

mr. vanwhelie, the demand is exceeding the forecast at this moment by half a mega watt. you may want to call your office when we finish here. it gives where the resources are, renewable gas and coal and nuclear. very, very useful. thank you for this. it's incredibly helpful. i want to put some visuals, i learn visually to what we've been talking about here today the red line is the marcellus shale cost in the region, in pennsylvania, going back to the beginning of december the blue is the cost to new england. it's a delivery problem and that's what we've been talking about today. the infrastructure, does anybody want to build a 2 or $3 billion pipeline to deal with this if it's not going to be necessary the rest of the year. that's where we get into tradeoffs and building the infrastructure. i want to indicate how they interrelate. the other piece, the relationship between what we saw, natural gas prices and electricity, an absolute almost entire straightforward correlation as you see and this goes back -- this goes back 15 years, hurricanes hit the gulf, and gas goes up

in the mail, mr williamson was confessing to an office romance and how it nearly destroyed his marriage. connected? 0ur political editor nick watt. what are you hearing? 0ur ambitious defence secretary, as you say, is in the news again. that story in the daily mail appears to have appeared after he was asking questions by the guardian about his private life. there is a feeling in whitehall that his account of what happened about 15 years ago is plausible. and it is believed it is truthful. but i have to say that eyebrows are being raised in whitehall and in the national security world about that article, that interview in the daily telegraph, which led to that headlined "russia is ready to kill us by the thousands". he said two things about russia, one is that they will target the gas and electricity interconnect connectors that link the uk to continental europe. and that they are photographing power stations, electricity stations. i'm hearing language like this from the national security world. the secretary of state for defence is playing fast and loose with the national security, to distract from his private life. downing str

watt—mac others say mr johnson's intervention is good news but there needs to be a focus on the biggerllies in come of it calling for more funding from —— for the nhs and social care is very welcome as far as i'm concerned, but where i think we need to look as much as the here and now but the and not just the nhs, the nhs, the whole picture of nhs, the nhs, the whole picture of nhs social care and prevention. as the huge challenges the nhs faces this winter continued, so too did a huge political questions about what to do about it. borisjohnson has kept that discussion centre stage, evenif kept that discussion centre stage, even if the prime minister would have preferred him to make his views known privately. our chief political correspondent, vicki young, is in westminster. boris was smiling when he went in, less so when he left. that could be because the prime minister and others ran the cabinet table pointed out that this kind of thing really should remain private. obviously, seizing on an issue which many voters ca re very seizing on an issue which many voters care very deeply abou

mr. ott, please. >> i'll make it short. the reality is again, for this past event 45,000 mega watts of the electricity which we deliver which is 40% or more we could not have severed the customers without the coal fire resources. are the prices reflecting the fact, no it is not we need to fix that. clearly we need it for now, the question is how does it transition? clearly, some coal plants don't know and don't spruce electricity, they should go. the ones running online everyday should be reflected in the price. we need those, some can go and some have to stay. >> thank you all. and thank you madam chairman to for being con sid separate kind. >> it's a new day. senator cantwell. >> thank you madam, chair. mr. walker, obviously you've heard some of the recommendations on resiliency, which one of those ideas in the report stand out to you as good things to implement? >> i think the position that ferk has take nn reestablishing it, in bringing the rtos and isos to evaluate the resiliency on their expected systems will provide an excellent baseline. and i had the opportunity to meet with him and go over the report and look add