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An effort to sway their choice of president, a lot more investigating to do. >> what we do know is that a hostile power interfered with our election. furthermore, what we see is they were really targeting hillary clinton because they wanted to both harm and possibly deride her from getting the selection. 22 million tweets were found to be linked to russian bots or wikileaks and those tweets have false information and it was higher in swing states. as americans its incumbent upon us to ensure tha...

30-year-old aaron mackey in germany, they ordered her to come home. she is now charged with child endangerment and making a firearm available to a minor. relatives are now taking care of those children. >> jon: some new information on a series of rock slides at yosemite national park over the last two days. a chunk of the rock formation broke free. >> i know you are a hiker, the rock face looks like one giant slab of granite. its more like an onion. geologists say the layers are essentially peel...

67% of americans use facebook, 88% of millennials use it to consume their news. its important the information they are receiving. how important do you think this is and what do you think the influence was if any on the election? >> i think it was morally and ethically wrong of russia to try to influence our elections. but what russia did anyone else can do, anyone with access to a twitter or facebook account can create any kind of false act. ultimately its up to the individual to make their choi...

Information. >> heather: that study you were talking about was specifically voters in 11 swing states, found that they got more fake news, more hyperpartisan information via twitter than reliable news, especially in the days leading up to the election itself. in terms of swaying voters and specific swing states, what do you say about that? >> i absolutely think thats problematic and i 100% agree that this is not a partisan issue. we know who wants to stoke the flames of division in the united st...

Have the checks and balances, people dont have to provide personal information to open up an account as we know, facebook, they get all kinds of information about you, different sites you go to end all that kind of thing. how do you protect personal information? >> i think thats where we have the delicate dance we have to do. we want to preserve the right for free speech, we want to preserve the right for people to be able to say and tweet what they want but we also want to ensure that these ind...