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China has unveiled new foreign ownership rules for certain telecommunications services, a move to generate investment and confidence as it strives to meet broad economic goals.

And the hacks that are on it. now, russia carried forward on these attempts trying to have some kind of impact on public opinion and the election. so you know that, and hopefully congress will get to have a briefing this week. can you believe we still have not been able to see a report and have the briefing and our intel committees come before us and give us the information. >> you just had a hearing and the intel community says that any time you want to know, give them clearance and theyll tell...

Opportunity to look into this hacking, to also go back and look at the opm hacking that they said was carried out by china. the 2015 hacking. wolf, the other component of this we have to remember that 2014 was deemed the year of the breach because of the number of breaches and hackings that transpired that year. the data security legislation that you and i have talked about many times, we need to look at privacy provisions in a privacy toolbox that is made available to individuals and, of course...

Situation and address it. now, i found it unfortunate that the president would choose when we have an issue like this, where we could be focusing on something where everybody agrees there needs to be an investigation, and that the committees with oversight need to follow through with producing a thorough report and there need to be briefings when we go back in january for all members of congress on this. i would add to that also we do need to pass data security legislation. we need cyber securit...

With breach notification, with the data security, with requirements and standards for businesses. on the cyber end with information share. and notifications. and those are things that we ought to do. stephanie, i have had data security legislation with one of my colleagues, a democrat colleague, for a couple of years now. these are -- its time that we move forward on some of these issues. the virtual marketplace, the virtual space, the cybe cyber activity, the need for cyber security, and the ad...

Committee and staunch donald trump supporter. thanks for joining us. >> good to be with you. thank you wolf. >> first of the breaking news, youre on the technology sub committee what do you know about the major internet outage taking place? could it be the work of a foreign entity? >> wolf, you dont know who is behind this. you do not know if its foreign or domestic. what i do know is over the years we have try the to pass data security legislation, theres been bipartisan agreement in the house....