government and beyond that they receive financial and other logistical help from the national endowment for democracy and other u.s. agencies that help them training activists working with journalists to get at their side presented more favorably they work on things like how do you get traction how do you get things to go viral how do you then use that to generate support for your cause and support was generated with the thought that you know stuff and i had a founder of one of ukraine's new media outlets you know. it was just throw much good t.v. knew very well how to make something go viral. it was his notorious facebook post on november 21st 2013 that brought the 1st crowds to my down yes in the post office to support your pitch it's simple to put the political world with this. if you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed if you read the newspaper you are misinformed. to deliver your message efficiently enough in the modern world with so many different technologies and means of communications you must embrace them all as the disturbing events of your own my don started on november 21st 20133

a new organization called the national endowment for democracy which was created in 1903 and it would do pretty much what the agency used to do it would go into one of these countries and it would support various political groups train activists deal with journalists business groups and try to advance u.s. foreign policy interests sometimes against the interests of the host government the target government and beyond that they receive financial and other logistical help from the national endowment for democracy and other u.s. agencies that help them training activists working with journalists to get their side presented more favorably they work on things like how do you get traction how do you get things to go viral how do you then use that to generate support for your cause and support was generated was the. founder of one of ukraine's new media outlets. these t.v. knew very well how to make something go viral. it was his notorious facebook post on november 21st 2013 that brought the 1st crowds to my dog. gets in the south of the quit your bitching it's illegal to put the list. if yo

every other country's elections on earth the us actually has an agency the so-called national endowment for democracy that's medals and other people's elections says it has a democratic component a republican component so each of the political parties can be in on the loot but it's. the right. remember when when time magazine heralded the election of boris yeltsin by saying no we it will act our man are we got our man in as the president of russia and the issue of time magazine talked about what the us had done to bring about the election of yeltsin the corrupt and poor drunken guy so it's this is what the u.s. does that meddle everywhere they seek to be the world government and they can't stand russia they can't stand china can't stand iran anybody who says we're not going to go along we're not going to take orders so i would look to see the u.s. become a country of peace. or what kind of chance that is i don't know but they can at least not have a war with russia there are many professor a steven cohen and other russian experts are fearing this there could actually be a war with russia the way the

testifying before congress yesterday, christopher walker, he's the vice president for the national endowment for democracy china is flat out using hollywood to spread its influence and its propaganda. walker saying this, quote, the chinese government has trained its attention on hollywood where its presence shapes the industry in ways both visible and unseen. this leads he said to content either edited to fit the chinese market or proactively shape to exclude anything the chinese government might consider sensitive in the first place. chinese co productions also more likely he said to feature positive depictions of china. joining us tonight to figure all of this out is morgan wright, former senior advisor in the state's antiterrorism program, national committee cybersecurity expert, great american, great to have you with us. >> thanks, lou. lou: let's start with this story that's just now coming in. a day after president trump signed an executive order that banned huawei from operating in the united states and protecting our technology, we're told that the commerce department is giving huawei a reprieve f