This is about national security. This is about corporate responsibility, and this is about the deliberative and multifaceted manipulation of the American people by agents of a hostile foreign power.

Candidly, your companies know more about Americans in many ways than the United States government does.

I'll say it again: agents of a hostile foreign power reached into the United States, using our own social media platforms, and conducted an information operation intended to divide our society along issues like race, immigration and Second…

Russian operatives are attempting to infiltrate and manipulate American social media to hijack the national conversation and to make Americans angry; to set us against ourselves, and, at their most basic, to undermine our democracy.

We have a President who remains unwilling to acknowledge the threat that Russia poses to our democracy.

I have more than a little bit of frustration that many of us on this Committee have been raising this issue since the beginning of this year.

There is no exception to the disclosure as it relates to foreign money used to influence U.S. elections.

Will you commit to continue to work with this Committee to provide additional information and additional documents as needed?

I find your answer very, very disappointing.

I find very interesting, there have been some people who have said, 'Well, people should be able spot these fake accounts.'

We announced last week a series of ad transparency steps, drawing on the ideas in the Honest Ads Act that Senator Warner talked about earlier.

Yes, we are looking and have looked at every possible indication of Russian activity in the 2016 election, and the investigation continues.

So now we're seeing the Russian activities roughly at 150 million-plus Americans, without knowing how many times they were re-shared.

Let me just close with this.

If we could put up the chart here, this is another example of how people are kind of lured in.

I partnered with Senators Klobuchar and McCain on what I believe is the most light-touch legislative approach.

I look forward to supporting your nomination and ensuring its consideration without delay.

I can assure you that this committee will faithfully follow its charter and conduct vigorous and real-time oversight over the intelligence community, its operations and its activities.