Gary Peters

We have to keep pushing for the rights of the Uighurs.

The U.S. will not tolerate any foreign interference in our democratic processes.

Chinese authorities had cracked down hard on WeChat users who demonstrate sympathy and support for the Tibetan cause.

Authorities had restricted internet service for weeks or months at a time during times deemed to be politically sensitive or times of unrest.

The Chinese government harassed or detained Tibetans as punishment for speaking to foreigners, attempting to provide information to persons abroad, or communicating information regarding protests.

When was the last time anybody here saw a dick pic on Facebook? Simple question.

If it is illegal in real life, it ought to be illegal online.

I think that is a ridiculous argument. The vast majority of people--I study organized crime.

We are not trying to be the thought police. We are trying to protect people from organized crime and terror activity.

If it is illicit the sites should be required to hand over data to law enforcement.

We would love to share some proposed language with you about how to reform 230 to protect better against organized crime and terror activity on platforms.

Mexico should do more. There's no question about that. They are doing -- they're doing quite a bit, but they've got to do more. Everybody has to do more. This is all hands on deck.

We need leadership from the White House that looks at this problem in a comprehensive way, and looks at dealing with it and all of those aspects.

Well, I know a lot of Senate Republicans are very concerned. The conversations that I have, they think this is misguided. I think we all agree the use of tariffs should be related to trade policy, not other types of issues like immigration.

I have recently read a report from--it's the Center for International Private Enterprise, which talks about how we need to protect democracies, particularly in Africa, from a flood of what they call 'corrosive capital' that corrodes these…

Well, I--my sense before your answers are--is that we--from what I just read, is that we don't really know what we need to do in order to counter the threats that you have just mentioned.

I think we all agree that we want to expedite any of the hearings that folks have.

But I am not sure how the fact that you give folks a choice between being separated from their children or being detained, and then asking them to waive the 20-day period where they children cannot stay in detention, how that is going to…

So do you support the proposal for a binary choice policy? What are your thoughts on it?

How long is too long for a child to be separated from their family?

But in many cases that did not happen, and it certainly appears that there was not any planning done on how to reunite families as we went through that.

But it was clear that families would be separated at that point.

So you will commit to this Committee that you are not going to use that type of language going forward?

I certainly am a strong believer that anyone holding positions of responsibility need to lead by example.

I believe this is three consecutive years in a row we have seen hate crimes increase in this country.