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And that's the case in two different directions. one, we don't have the same authorities within our intelligence community to do the kinds of things that the russians did against us. it's actually written into statute that a covert action cannot influence a u.s. person. and so when you're dealing in the age of twitter and social media and you put out, in the u.s. intelligence community puts out a covert influence operation, if that blows back and if that influences an american citizen, that violates the law. but second of all, it's also very difficult to measure how these things play on the am...

Difficult problem to deal with within constitutional parameters. >> it absolutely is. and that's the case in two different directions. one, we don't have the same authorities within our intelligence community to do the kinds of things that the russians did dpeagainst us. it's actually written into statute that a covert action cannot influence a u.s. person. and so when you're dealing in the age of twitter and social media and you put out, in the u.s. intelligence community puts out a covert influence operation, if that blows back and if that influences an american citizen, that violates the la...