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Going on in social media more evidence that there's a lot of very ingenious thinkers going on out there. they are trying to push whatever buttons they can to try to affect our elections. and we need to do more to stop that. whether we can stop it all together at the fec, it may be a little ambitious. >> let me push you on that. you've been a leader. but facebook is often thought of by people positively. it doesn't need a bank or an oil coil. we looked at it in 2011. facebook was saying, you guys, the fec, should except it from rules on advertisers. and they argued they are more like small camp...

To rein, if he is able to gain control of the white house staff quickly, are the president's distractions over or will the ongoing russia investigation keep the president's policy agenda that you just mentioned offtrack? >> the russia investigation is something that obviously captures a significant amount of the president's attention. we can see it in the early-morning hours, usually, when he's watching the cable morning shows. if that topic is coming up. we know it's something he's going to tweet about. look, republicans in congress have a very lengthy list of things they're trying to accompl...

Can do, and that's not necessarily unusual. and then his campaign, we learned today, has now clocked in a couple hundred thousand-dollar bill just in responding to campaign items. as a political item how much does it matter they're having to spend this kind of money? >> so far what we've seen with christie's fund-raising efforts in the rga is that he's had no trouble bringing in money. so right now he's $300,000 in the hole. but theoretically he could make that up unless things get worse. >> and do you think that he's able to -- if this is the continued sort of slow burn, which is people going...