the but i also think it's really important to bear in mind that this is not a tactic that the russians are using uniquely in america. they've been using this tactic across europe, in ukraine. they've used it in many of the states that border them, the balance particular countries. and in fact it's right out of the soviet playbook. they've just adopted it to new technologies that allow it to be an even more powerful tool. >> you have been critic of facebook and said they were slow to react to their russian problem. what should they be doing now? >> well, twitter didn't do very well today in their hearings, intel hearings. you know, i think they need to move faster. i mean, what's really interesting is how optimistic they were that this social media wouldn't be weaponized which is what i've talked about for months this idea of weaponization of social media. and i think they've been very slow and sort of thinking that this is -- it was sort of a slow roll to realizing what's going on and now treer every they're trying to dpig out of it and