Transcripts For CSPAN Kyle Cheney On Russian Election Interference 20170929

Dissatisfied with what they heard. The potential number of fake accounts, they did not think about they did not think that twitter was taking it seriously. And the challenge, identifying the origins of these fake accounts and whether they are actually a freespeech exerciser a foreign power. Issue,n the freespeech talking on background with members of the committees, have you heard members express concerns about coming close to firstamendment issues, in terms of addressing these issues with twitter and facebook . Kyle yes, i think that underlies everything. These companies are concerned about privacy, and they dont want to squelch legitimate exercise of free speech. I think lawmakers are sensitive to that but you are hearing more frustration about, why cant you tell us about the origins of some of these accounts . Can you give us macrolevel data about how many bots were there, and operating in what seemed like to be a professional operation . I dont think they got those answers yesterday. Story,nd a related and russiaosenstein, questions. Rod rosenstein, why was he on capitol hill . Good question. We dont know when hundred percent why he was there. He did sit with Chuck Grassley of the Judiciary Committee for one hour. Grassleys trying to get more involved in the investigation. They oversee the fbi. They want to get agents to testify about james comeys firing. So far, the doj hasnt permitted that, so that has been a conflict point and we are thinking they are trying to resolve that and figure out how to cooperate little better, kyle forward area post cheney, congressional reporter with, politico. Thanks, for being here. Facebook is trying to figure out how to handle hate speech on its website. Productanys head of policy and counterterrorism talked about those efforts with Homeland Security director tom bossert. They also talked about facebooks decision to turn 3000 ads over to congress, that are linked to russian operatives. [crowd noise] welcome back. We have folks coming in from lunch, over the next few minutes , so we wont make any news until a few minutes in