you're not a tweeter. >> i'm not a tweeter.tt me if i have this wrong, that personifies your hair. basically, it's your hair tweeting is what it -- >> yeah, my hair has a twitter account. >> jimmy: your hair has a twitter account. >> yeah, it does. my hair tweets. >> jimmy: how does that happen? do you know? >> i have no idea. look at it, guys. look at it. i think it's tweeting right now. >> jimmy: what sorts of things does your hair tweet? >> i don't know because i don't tweet. i've never been able to read the tweets. i don't know -- like what would the hair's hash tag -- i don't know any of that but apparently my hair is really, really active. >> jimmy: your hair's really active. by the way i saw the episode last night. and your guys are killing people. i guess i'm not really ruining it because it aired already. >> yeah. you did, you watched our show? >> jimmy: uh-huh. >> nuh-uh. >> jimmy: well, i -- i know people get mad. but i know people get mad if you reveal it. but i don't know, it did happen last night. i don't want to

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usher, rascal flatts and ryan tweeter from one republic will join country star blake shelton to raise money for storm relief. you can watch that tomorrow night at 9:00/8:00 central right here on nbc. >>> now for a look at our business headlines, we turn to cnbc's bertha coombs. good morning. >> good morning. rupert murdoch is meeting with investors node. news corp. will discuss the future of the media giant. the remaining publishing business which includes "the wall street journal" and "new york post" will keep the news corp. name. >>> disney is not the happiest place on earth. australia is. a new report finds the land down under is the happiest place to live. it ranks jobs and education. the u.s. came in sixth. >>> wall street looks to regain its footing amid comments by fed chairman ben bernanke about the bank's comic stimulus programs. investors get information on housing and consumer confidence. back to you. >> thanks, bertha. >>> now to some other business headlines. oil prices have fallen below $94 a barrel ahead of those data reports bertha mentioned. general electric says it's

. >>> and the oracle of omaha is now a tweeter. warren buffett, third richest person in the world, has officially joined twitter. his first tweet on thursday said "warren is in the house." >>> plus, the sequester budget cuts. everybody is talking about them. but are they one of the reasons that we are seeing weak gdp numbers? this week i spoke to the republican house majority leader eric cantor about the sequester's impact on the american economy and washington's reaction. >> the sequester in terms of across the board cuts, i don't think anybody chooses that way to go with spending. but over and again, the house has tried to get the president to try to come along and join us with cuts that make sense. we all know we got a spending problem. we got to come together and try and address that so we can get this country back on to a growth track. >> how much of the sequester has taken effect and how much of an issue is this going to be later on in the year? >> if you look at it government worldwide, i think the estimates are the sequeste

>> i'm interested in your use of social media, whether it be tweeter or cloud sourcing or other techniques that you use to gather information quickly and from a wide variety of on scene participants. >> so the use of social media to get situational awareness? >> i know there was the topic of discussion in many of our planning meetings and i think even mr. rob dudgeon at one point mentioned that's how people know what's happening, communicating via their cell phones about what's happening. but i personally think that has a limited application, right? so when cell phone towers are not working any more and we i think had a blackout in san diego last year, last fall, cell phones weren't working. so social media i think can help and may work and you can get through populations that way, but i think it will be important to know that also has its limitations and at one point that goes. that's when you need to thank back-up communications and that's where the military can also be a force multiplier. >> from the department of emergency management perspective, we have a phenomenal social media team

now, you're not a tweeter. >> i don't twit, no. >> jimmy: but there is a twitter account, correct meyour hair. basically it's your hair tweeting, is what it -- >> yeah. my hair has a twitter account. it does. my hair tweets. >> jimmy: how does that happen? >> i have no idea. i think it's tweeting right now. >> jimmy: what sorts of things do your hair tweet? /'m told it tweets from the first person. >> jimmy: sur sure. >> i'm trying to figure out the hashtag thing. i always thought it was a pound tag. >> jimmy: it's a hashtag now. >> i was in ethiopia when that happened. apparently my hair is very, very active. >> jimmy: i saw the episode last night and you guys are killing people. i guess i'm not really ruining it because it aired already. >> jimmy: you watch watched our? >> jimmy: yes. >> uh-uh. >> jimmy: i know people get mad if you reveal it, but i don't know, it did happen last night. i don't want to say too much. but there were two kind of main people on the show that are no longer on the show anymore. >> right. >> jimmy: were you glad to see them go? >> i was really glad. super

interestingly they left out other tid-bits about the tweeters including people in this group work as author slash writers. the group has a high concentration of members of the military. definitely morrell vent to mention the -- more relevant the fast-food joint. you know what i would like to focus on? this. see, it is getting worse. now there are more cats. now it is polygamy and inter species whatever. >> thank you whoever you are. moynihan -- >> that's not my name. you were shaken up by the cat scene. >> i smell a new porn. i would invest. >> that's andy's sunday. do you think it is a post decision to mention chick fillet and the membership was arbitrary? >> yes. i don't know why they did that. besides it is the shocking news that a story that is making the administration look bad is being touted by people on the other side. it is a shocking bit of news. the one tiny thing i will come to the defense on one thing. the people who run the twitter accounts at like newspapers and magazines tend to be the lowest person on the todum pole. it is a excuse and a nonstory. they say people car

twitter has a new tweeter. warren buffett. is officially now on twitter.want to show you his first tweet. here's what he said. warren is in the house. so mr. buffett is now tweeting. he has 1262 followers. i'm sure in the last couple of seconds though, that number has jumped much higher than that. and by the way, becky quick is going to be in the house tomorrow on "squawk box." warren's going to be talking with becky after the annual meeting there, so we're very excite excited there. i hope you tune in in the morning to hear from mr. buffett. coming up, it's been a rough year for gold bugs. precious metal has fallen 12% in 2013, but gaining some momentum today. has gold finally bottomed? a managing director with more than 30 years experience is going to make a bold call. and general motors, quarterly profit falling 14%, so are the roadblocks for gm a reason to get short? traders are going to debate that when we come back. ♪ ♪ [ female announcer ] you're the boss of your life. in charge of long weekends and longer retirements. ♪ ask your financial professio

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there is one particular tweeter i think it's janice she drives through here and whatever 237 just goes terrible. and this is pardon me highway 101 and 280 on the peninsula the traffic is moving along well. 6:20 let's go to steve. >>> thank you very much, sal. a lot of low clouds around. still rain. sacramento valley. 50s on the temps. cool this morning. low 50s and mid 50s. also a westerly breeze from sfo to oakland and out to travis. the delta breeze is in place. look at this big system in the northeast. twitter all sorts of pictures coming in. and also new jersey it looks like they are finally on the backside of this. look at the severe weather. when they see that, it's it will up. things are really active there. also in the middle country and back in denver. for us we have a little quieter pattern as that low ejects out of the area it's in the four corners right now. trust me, that will be another severe weather maker. well maybe a weather maker. it will be weather maker as it gains a little bit. temperatures come down just a smidge. >> thank you, steve. >>> 6:21 is the time. a new

important seismic shifts that were taking place in society that created the conditions that enabled the tweeters and social media to play the role that it did. >> host: so, given all of this, what do you see as the implication for leaders today, not just arab leaders but if you look across from heads of state to head to business, military is another example that you give in the book. if you sit at the top of a big institution today, what should we be thinking about doing? >> guest: have a vision. have a bigger scope and look. your competitor will come from places you can even imagine. if you are -- and you know there's a tension between being highly focused and specialized and good at what you do and requires a dogged attention. highly specific, highly concrete set of things that make a company or organization successful. it's very difficult to then start looking sideways or behind you or up or down to see where's it coming? where's the challenge to your position is coming from. so the first is to pay attention to the balance between how specialized and attentive you have to be to your core comp

talk about his initiative, let's sit on tweeter.t, really, jimmy fallon, another joke in the monologue? you guys need more material. and i go, you know what needs more material? your suits. >>> back to "hardball." this is the sideshow. first, joe biden spoke to a group of first responders in washington, d.c., last night, and thanked them for coming to his aid in several past emergencies in more ways than one. >> in 2004, that summer, i was down here doing a sunday program and lightning struck my home and destroyed a significant portion of it. and you got my wife out. in addition to my wife, you got my second best love out of the house, my '67 kor vcorvette. so thank you, all. and so i owe you. when i say i owe you, i mean i owe you. >> the vice president really does have strong feelings about his corvette. in a 2011 interview with "car and driver magazine" he said, "i still have my 1967 goodwood green corvette. the secret service won't let me drive it. i'm not allowed to drive anything. it's the one thing i hate about this job." >>>

some of our tweeters were chiming in and talking about what they see as civil liberties. how do you think about civil liberties? guest: in a time particularly post 9/11, you have to find the balance of protection of civil liberties and the protection of the homeland. and a lot of individuals that not a lot of individuals, but there are individuals that want to do harm to our country. a good thing is law enforcement officials have become very good at detecting -- the good thing is law enforcement officials have become very good at detecting, monitoring, supporting terrorist plots. it is incumbent on us as a free society to make that balance -- find that balance between the protection of individual liberties and the protection of the homeland. host: we see jim tweeting in and " civil liberties are assurances from government that you are free to engage in certain actions." you can join the conversation by ating us a call, democrats (202) 585-3880. replubic -- replub -- republicans at (202) 585-3881. give us some insight into what this act is and what your thoughts are. guest

when these were written they didn't have bloggers and tweeters.ists were people paid to do research and publish the research, usually cutting-edge research. it could be james, you, it could be me. but if mrs. doocy is doing research and nobody trained her but she is posting it and she has sources, can she protect those sources? they have not answered that. the courts have not answered that. in my opinion she is similarly situated as rosen and the rest of us. >>steve: when matt drudge started this thing called the drudge report. he is getting paid by whom? nobody. he's doing it presumably by -- he's a blogger, he's protected isn't he? >> the purpose of the first amendment is to protect the pursuit of truth and expression of opinion. it doesn't matter if you get paid to pursue the truth or doing it on your own. that's the argument i would make. >>steve: we were talking in the break about if the government officials who order investigations or raids as we were just talking about -- >> gibson guitar? >>steve: exactly. if those people were to be held l

tweeters your feedback, twitter.com/booktv. >> mr. moss, what happened in minneapolis in april 1999? >> i start the book with that meeting because it's so informative of the industry's attitude and strategies. 1999, the obesity epidemic was just beginning to emerge. and raised concern not only among consumer activists and nutritionists but among people inside the process food industry. they gather together a very rare meeting, ceos some of the top manufacturers in north america but got together at the old minneapolis headquarters, the old pillsbury headquarters in minneapolis, to talk about none other than this emerging crisis believes for the industry. and up in front of them got nine other than one of their own, his name was michael mudd. he was the vice president of craft. he was armed with 114 slides, and laid at the feet of the ceos and presidents of the largest food companies responsibilities for come not only the obesity crisis but decided the rising cases of diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease. even linked their food

here is this from one of our regular tweeters -- the answer is stop the government by creating more enemiesy their foreign-policy. "gain, the cover story of "time magazine focusing on homeland insecurity. we need to sacrifice privacy to be safer? dealing with security versus civil liberties. another story -- shaun waterman of "the washington times." the story is available online at washingtontimes.com. he is point out that raising the stakes with congressional republicans over last year's terrorist attack in benghazi, persons that familiar with the state department saying investigations -- investigators talks last year with cia personnel who were on the grounds during the attack and were briefed about cia activities at the secret base in the libyan city. the quality of the administration's internal review and its access to the key point of contention as republicans europe for a hearing next week on what happened in benghazi on september 11. that reporting from shaun waterman of the "washington times." michael vincent joining us from staten island, new york. good morning, sir. caller: good m

>> every tweet from your tweeter account. >> this is very chilling for the american people. >> i promisened. >> reporter: the white house attempted to contain the fallout. pressing the resignation of the irs chief. >> it's important to institute new leadership that can help restore confidence going forward. >> reporter: to rebutt a tax over-the-benghazi talking points, officials here released 100 pages over internal e-mails while the president called on congress to step up funding for embassy security. >> and better secure our posts around the world. >> reporter: turning to the wave of sexual assault cases hitting the military, the president made a show of meeting with pentagon brass to talk solutions. and to quiet press outrage over the seizure of reporter phone records in a leaks investigation, new support for a media shield law. >> we need to provide the protections to the media that this legislation would do. >> reporter: how effective were these efforts at damage control? the jury's still out. now, wolf, there was some positive news for the administration this week, after months of

and this lady here is the queen tweeter, kenzie schofield, you've been in this courtroom every single day, keeping people abreast of this. but more importantly, you're getting a lot of feedback. what is it about the case that had people so just enthralled? >> they can relate to this case. a lot of girls can relate to somebody not wanting them back. so i think that that began the chaos. but it is the sex, it is the religion, it is all of those things that people become engrossed in, it is almost like a soap opera. >> reporter: and kenzie, normally tweets about justin bieber and other things. and you're here. it doesn't make sense. >> it doesn't come together. i just was enthralled with travis. travis had so much potential. he was a guy on the rise, and this woman wanted him, wanted him to be hers and no one else's and it is like that lifetime movie, you get sucked into it and that's what got me involved. >> reporter: and jurors, as we have been saying, ashleigh, are on a lunch break here. when they were headed to the elevator according to casey wian, our correspondent up on the fifth f

js and a couple of other tweeters compared what happened in bangladesh to the fertilizer plant explosiontexas. >> bill: 14. which was horrible. >> and there were a lot of problems there that were overlooked and regulations they'll look into that. france r said garrett strain is a fine example of young people making a difference. francis is a fan. >> bill: it is usas.org. who says students today aren't out there. ronald is calling from out in monterey california. what do you say? >> caller: well, hi, you know, i think what we need is a worldwide minimum wage. and they mention bangladesh, the wages workers -- the garment workers $37 a month. >> bill: can you imagine? >> caller: i'm suggesting something like $3 a day minimum wage because i spent a lot of time in thailand. thailand, the minimum wage is now about $6 or $7 a day. vietnam is a little lower. they want to make burma a little lower. $3 a day i think for any country that has any connection with an american company at all. any connection. obama could come out for this. africa and the dominican republic. they're making $1. >> bill: g

. >> living social, tweeter . >> as the internet has grown the value of the on- line information hast password system is not perfect. it is what we have to work with. >> probably the worst kind of password is something easy to get. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. >> a, b, c, d. for a common word. >> if you use the same password the problem is if one account is compromised hackers can gain access to others. >> someone was try to get into your cows have no way of guessing it is random characters and letters. that is the best thing to use. >> look into turning onto step verification. this sends a text yourself: a device try to access your account. password manager can streamline the process. it creates complicated passwords and store them to your clicking forgot my password less often. >> the software has made things easier and they have mobile version so you'll have your password close at hand. >> everything i mentioned go to the tech report dot tv. i am rich demuro that is your tech report. >> a missing hiker has been found dead at the bottom of a cliff in yosemite national park. >> rangers found a bo

another tweeter says all of the g.o.p. over four people sadly dying in benghazi and yet not a peep about the other 60 who died in embassies under w. >> bill: nor about the 3,000 who died under w on september 11th. i mean this idea that for mitt romney to say that president obama sympathizes with the enemy, what if a democrat had said that about george w. bush on september 11th? it is the same category. lamont calling from maryville indiana. hello, lamont, good morning. >> caller: hey, bill what you doing? my comment is if politics were sports, then the democrats play touch football and the republicans play all out football. >> bill: you got that right. >> caller: reason being is basically, they have a match and they stick it. bush had what, three plans that they were going to attack. obama didn't have anything. they did an attack on american soil and yet instead you're going to drag him over the wringer over three people. no one said anything about bush or anything else when 9-11 happened. all of the fumbling after that. h

on the drones, we asked the question if our tweeters were okay with the fact that we've killed four americanhey feel about -- >> bill: not to mention 4,696 others. >> there it is that. >> kpt says no, i have no problem with killing them. we should kill the enemy whoever they are. civilians killed from bombs dropped by a fighter jet or a drone. what's the difference between the two. >> bill: i think we might as well just shut down all of our courts too. what's the purpose of having trials if we can just kill them and -- think of all of the money we would save if we got rid of all of the judges, all of the courthouse. >> richard says if this was a republican president, you would be wanting impeachment. admiral porky that's his name says i'm totally okay with this. once an american joins a terror organization, they become fair game. and an enemy of the united states. and one quick comment -- how about -- >> bill: how about the three americans who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time? oops. >> on the leaks, one more quick comment from sherrie who says leaks are legal. the d.o.j. i

. >> as we head to a break, we have a bit of trivia this morning courtesy of a tweeter. can you guess which major econ policy was a -- policymaker was a local spelling bee champion? win the dillon county championship? >> that should give it away. i'm on expert on softball. and tea parties. i'll have more awkward conversations than i'm equipped for, because i'm raising two girls on my own. i'll worry about the economy more than a few times before they're grown. but it's for them, so i've found a way. who matters most to you says the most about you. at massmutual we're owned by our policyowners, and they matter most to us. ready to plan for your future? we'll help you get there. >>> as we twoent break, we asked you, could you guess which major ee conpolicymaker was a spelling bee champion. this young man, ben bernanke. there's the picture from it. i can't say i'm surprised. top speller. mark that. in other headlines this morning, defense secretary chuck hagel says cyber threats pose a quiet, siddus danger to the united states and other nations. calling for rules of the roa

. >> sure nunow the peter tweeter. you know that whole story.e announced he is running for mayor of new york city but he is having some problems. a lot of democrats are distancing hapless from him. they say he doesn't represent the party. what are they talking about? every day the white house gets caught with their pants down. he couldn't be more representative of the party. >> will not be the last joke we hear about the anthony wiener campaign. he deserves a second chance. i am not saying i am endorsing him. i am saying i think he is going to do pretty well. he was an effective member of congress. people remember the good part and not that one embarrassing incident mark sanford is back. >> if mark can ford can come barks anthony weiner can come back. >> president obama and a very important speech yesterday on our policy on national security. we will get into that in the great depth and take your calls. but first >> this is the full court press. >> other headlines making news on this friday, the hero of cleveland is set for life when it comes to

>> i have one more thing from a tweeter. north korea atlantas, china intervenes, and the u.s.e against it. >> you just blew my mind. >> this is payoff. >> cold bacon doesn't count. korea threatens, china intervenes. >> i shouldn't have done that right before. >> no. >> coming up next, we will continue our disruptor series with the founder and ceo of flipboard. >>> welcome back to "squawk box", everyone. futures indicated higher. dow futures up 32 points above fair value. s&p up by more than 4.5. by the way, this is coming after a big drop of 5% for the nikkei and japan overnight. you might have thought that would create a little more chaos. not the case. we are well on our way of being in the green when it opens. >>> flipboard recently launched its 2.0 version. joining us is the co-founder and ceo of flipboard. i use flipboard regularly. do you use it, anybody here? >> you're a flipboard guy. >> i have not tried it. >> you might after this. >> good to see you, mike. thanks for joining us. >> good morning. great to be here, guys. >> for those, like joe, who doesn't know about f

. >> a tweeter, a twitterer, tom short, we have a young richard dreyfus on the set. >> i get that.eah, that's good. >> i need a beard. >> you would be more of the richard dreyfus. what's -- you get 30 a week. i want to hear what your next might be. >> my next book? it's crazy. some of the pitches -- first of all, any big story you hear, i will get a pitch from somebody. anything from a charlie sheen type pitch. i get everything. some of the pitches are like, you know, i can beat taps. which is probably not true. i don't want anything that's too dangerous. i was getting a pitch one time the girlfriend of a very big cartel owner. i said i'm not going to get involved in that. i was getting pitches -- all sorts of things. i remember, yeah, i don't know. i will get in trouble for talking about them. >> how about charlie sheen? >> i get calls saying would you be interested in working on the charlie sheen story? my wife wasn't going to let me hang out with charlie for a year. so that went downhill. brett favre texted his -- the the girl's people that were talking to me. >> did anthony wei

in the midnight tweeter anonsed husband humble intentions of earning america's trust. you see mr. higher office an we are called upon to redeem our fellow -- i only moved to new york a year and a half ago. i can't flow if my neighbors will get on the weiner wagon. there's another famous maxim, the politicians are like sausages. that's now to know how they are made. look away, new yorkers, look away. >> our biggest brain. clearly we don't read these things before you -- >> you get to live in connectic connecticut. >> we had the conversation earlier with a new york times writer who has been following politics. do we think new yorkers are -- there are examples whether you look at charlie wrangle and you look at eljoit fit zer. >> the entire state legislature? >> but is forgiveness in ga thom city has farfetched as i might be in other places. >> i can't talk for the rest of new york city but vi lived in anthony weiner's district and i can toll you that when he was in office everyone in d.c. had one view of them and everyone in new york had another view. the people in his district knew

his reporting, he became one of the top tweeters in the world, you know? mubarak had brought down the internet with the help of u.s. corporation, he couldn't have done it alone. and even when the internet was brought down, he was tweeting out to the world what was happening, he was being cited on all the networks and then being interviewed on all the networks. and, you know, the thugs then brought down the satellites. and -- but democracy now was bringing out these remarkable 20-minute video reports as sharif and our videographer would travel through tahrir interviewing people, viewing what really, i mean, sharif's reporting was remarkable. you met, for example, the great egyptian writer who wrote "map of love" in tahrir. you met the 79-year-old at the time, former presidential candidate, psychiatrist. she had been imprisoned under sadat, she'd been exiled under mubarak, holding salams for young people when they were despondent saying how will we take on mubarak, she would say we will win, we will win. you meet the young high school student who was putting

. >> one of the biggest conservative tweeters in -- i read his -- i follow. >> i should have known youe that point. i should have known that. made that connection. >> well, i'm hoping you've got some of the blood coursing through your veins. >> little bit. >> fantastic. >> you're handsome and engaging according to this piece i'm reading on you. and young. >> young. >> a lot of gray hair. you worry about these deals you do. >> you've got to worry about it. >> james will be with us for the rest of the hour. >>> we'll talk about headlines when we return. [ male announcer ] at optionsxpress, our clients really appreciate our powerful, easy-to-use platform. no, thank you. we know you're always looking for the best fill price. and walk limit automatically tries to find it for you. just set your start and end price. and let it do its thing. wow, more fan mail. my uncle wanted to say thanks for idea hub. he loves how he can click on it and get specific actionable trade ideas with their probabilities throughout the day. [ male announcer ] open an account and get a $150 amazon.com gift card. cal

i have found myself having to from differente politica tweeters, things pertaining to new york city andso forth. if you say, i just want to follow people who have a background in new york city politics and so forth, you can look at that list as you wish. >> my name is patrick. i am a senior editor. this is my first time here. >> this is my fourth time here. at >> you are spending every year at the conference for world affairs. -- we'restion is talking talking about how twitter supports freedom in general. when we are looking to china as a place that is particularly and i wondered if you guys could comment on whether china has been sustainable or it has not been a success? expertshina journalism at the table? >> i know a small bit about the golden shield as it is called. the tent that the chinese government has erected over the country. it seems a lot of the time it is pretty effective. the internet is so easy. when it becomes difficult to ask -- to access things on the internet, we make it easy to get there. there is a vibrant hacker community in china. i think the average person who is

hopefully president clinton has become quite the avid tweeter.s. >>> and the pope is speaking out against the mafia. he urged them to change their ways and stop exploiting people in rackets and prostitution. the priest was killed in 1983 because he was trying to keep youths from being recruited by the mob. as we remember those who gave their lives for us on this memorial day weekend. a token from home to those on the battlefield. a simple bracelet with saints for troops is the big idea of battle saint founder cynthia le may. also with me billy white who is leading a fallen heroes fund. good to see both of you. >> good to see you, craig. >> we generally only do the big idea on saturday, but this was an idea that we really thought worthy of sharing with our viewers at home, especially on this memorial day weekend. cynthia, walk us through, first of all, what we're looking at here and how this all came to be. >> well, it all started, craig, with a family reunion where we had seven members of my immediate family there who were actively serving, my so

host: two folks, the caller and tweeter, who said this exempt status should be done away with.ot worth having. guest: that's an interesting question. should groups have the right to participate -- not get into the tax arena or be libel for taxes, who are practicing free speech. the courts have usually always held on the side of these groups. and those lately they have allowed some of the business groups to even get engaged because it's part of the right under the first amendment free speech. and that's something that people feel should be protected. i think it would be very hard to close them down. it would be hard to tax them, too. i guess you could pass a law that might be held unconstitutional. it's a tax on free speech. host: digging into that on twitter wanted to know what constitutes a social welfare program? in this definition. guest: that one you got me. i'm not an attorney. we have to go back -- host: do you think they should be separate from political groups? guest: again, that's something you can decide by law. and then does that group have the right to free speech,

a printed copy of every page of your website, every tweeted from your tweeter account. every personal resume from all your board members. copies of every flier you ever made and every flier any guest speaker ever handed out. explain your relationship with through the vote a copy of every single e-mail ever sent by your this is a list that is overly burdensome. led to a deep has discouragement on these parties and it has limited their ability to educate the public. can i find out as a member of congress, the groups in my district that have applied for and either been denied or their application continues to be in suspension? >> with some help, you could. granting 6103 authorities. the application process, until it is done, is 6103 information. if it is denied, there are redacted versions going out. it is approved, then everything becomes public. within the constraints of 6103, which can be granted the ability to see, that can happen. >> i yield back. >> time has expired. >> yes, i think there will be restrictions on me sharing that. >> miss black is recognized for five m

a printed copy of every page of your website, every tweeted from your tweeter account. every personal resume from all your board members. copies of every >> it has limited your ability to educate the public. can i find out as a member of congress, the groups in my district that have applied for and has been denied or there plication continues to be in uspension? >> the application until it's done is 5301 information. if it is approved then everything becomes public. they can grant you the ability to see that can happen. >> i yield back. >> time has expired. >> yes, i think there will be restrictions on me sharing that. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to go back to what he said a few minutes ago. if as i listen to this testimony and having read the report and multiple sources of information that are now coming out, guy to the tell you that the trust -- the trust for the i.r.s. to begin with was already shaky by the american people. i know whenever someone gets any piece of information from the i.r.s. it doesn't feel good and they are not confident either before this h