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Witness katy perry... aaaaaaw look at that dog! katy perry: with music videos and behind the scenes footage, xfinity lets you witness all things me. were back now with our world lead. it turns out that russian operatives also used going the products, including youtube and gmail to interfere in the 2016 election. sources telling cnn that kremlin-backed agents purchased ads on google as part of their campaign to sow chaos and racial division during the campaign. these advertisements, however, do...

North korea. for instance, chile, theyre selling wine to the north koreans. we shouldnt be buying chilean wine. what we should say to them, you cant sell anything to the u.s. if you want to sell something to north korea. that what trump should be tweeting about if hes going to tweet about anything. >> shepard: good to talk to you, gordon chang. thanks. >> thanks. >> shepard: its not just facebook. russian operatives bought advertisements through google to interfere with the 2016 election in the ...

>> for twitter and facebook and social media, where they get most of their money is advertisements, and its supposed to be simple for businesses to go and do. you can go online and purchase business advertisements easily. there should be vetting processes for advertisements, and looking for things they can do to reduce these types of targeted pieces of information or targeted on things that can happen. twitter is wildfire, and you can buy followers. i can look like i have 50,000 followers for 50...

Americans. to see how the russians tried to influence our elections. now this is something we dont need to get from the trump white house. this is something we dont need to get from muellers office. this is something that facebook can put out there and if mark zuckerberg is really on this pr campaign and taking out full page advertisements in the new york times he can probably help in his pr push and get some good will by just being transparent. throwing it all on the table and say these are all...

Testify now before the senate intelligence committee investigating moscows election interference. just looking at the states they chose, either somebody on the russian side or somebody here is giving them a good take on how to use their money. >> a good take on how to use their money and if you look at the content of the advertisements at least some of them you have seen out there already, its also somebody thats pretty aware of how to target, what bells to ring. it certainly looks like they had...

Russia, specifically targeted michigan and wisconsin. these were two key swing states that the president won by a very, very small margin and were crucial to his victory. joining us now to discuss, republican congressman chris stewart. he is a member of the house intelligence committee. congressman, thank you so much for being with us. this cnn exclusive report about the russian-linked facebook ads targeting michigan and wiig. you know, michigan, the president won by 10,000 votes. from what you ...

But we are seeing signs that things are returning to normal. right behind me right now in front of the mandalay bay, its the only part of the strip still closed. north of me everything is opened. last night people emerged from their hotel rooms. many had been on the lockdown during the incident. they emerged from the hotel rooms yesterday and started to resume a normal life. they visited shops and restaurants. the mood was much more somber. many of them told me, than just the day before. there w...

Something that they should do if they want to? >> short answer yes but, and so let me explain. on the one hand, one of our great strengths is our freedom of expression. in fact, i think its the foundation of all of our strengths, our ability to have a free exchange of ideas, our ability to dissent which is, i think, so incredibly patriotic. but at the same time, i think theres a responsibility that social media platforms have to comply with what are longstanding federal regulations when it comes...

On facebook and said things about the election, at what point am i committing a crime? >> wow, you are asking a very good question. that is very insightful. you have the freedom of speech and obviously if you are debating online im not suggesting that whenever you post a message online that youve made a contribution. but i think -- and i dont think that a federal prosecutor would charge somebody in that case. but if you had, for example, if you were spending a substantial amount of money on adve...

Almost impossible to determine who is the originator of the money, who is funding the advertisements. >> in 2011 facebook successfully argued that inserting disclaimers in the ads it runs would cause a quote, significant disruption to its business model. and until recently, facebook counter calls for regulation in congress with the argument that facebook is a tech company, not a media company. facebook now tells nbc news quote were open to reviewing any specific congressional proposals to regula...