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I wish that your CEOs would be here. They need to answer for this. It can't be a business model. It's got to be a security issue.

What you're doing by allowing this fake stuff to come across, this misleading, this damaging information, is really threatening the security and the sovereignty of our nation.

This is not a Democrat or Republican issue. This is an American issue that we're concerned about, the security of our Nation.

According to an Oxford University study released in October, Russian trolls are now targeting American military personnel and veterans on Twitter and Facebook.

Are you or your CEOs concerned about the threat and damage your companies can do to the U.S. with your far-reaching power?

Do you have any doubts at all that Russia intervened, interfered, had a profound outcome, basically, on our outcome to our election?

The Kremlin spends $190 million a year on the distribution and dissemination of RT programming.

It's essentially information warfare directed against the United States.

A secret deterrent is not a deterrent. The world has to know what we can do.

I think it is a step in the right direction and I understand the panel agrees.

If you are not allowed to ever punch back, you are going to lose the fight.

Part of the answer has to be a deterrent strategy or doctrine that is well known across the world.

Well, I was just going to say you all come from the technical end of it and can really help us there and advocate for this because I see a lot needs to be done.

I could, if I wanted to do some kind of criminal act, I could walk up to it and make it happen.

And you say that can be retrofitted also on this?

I am on Intel and every meeting we have deals with cyber and some type of cyberattacks that we are getting regularly and how we can stave that off.

How are they supposed to address it when they know--the mayors talk--they know they are selling drugs in the Post Office parking lot.

They have no resources from the Federal Government for help on this.