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>> chad sweet, if you were at the homeland security department now, given this stuff is all over the internet, clearly any crackpot out there can read this kind of thing and try and emulate, try and copycat. it creates a whole new world of amateur terrorist activity. what do you do about that? >> well, you defeat a network with a network. we should flip the use of the internet to our advantage, which is we need to empower citizens and our first responders who are in the front line to be able to do the reverse, which is -- there's a tremendous opportunity to crowd source, which means use this i...

That to their credit, whatever you think of their politics, the activists have learned how to endorse and get ahold of. >> it's not a grassroots movement, it was astroturf. does this indicate that again you have all these rich millionaire figures at the top arguing, book deals and buying out and being quiet. does it really belie the fact that this is not a grassroots movement or do you think that's inevitable with any group that's been funded by deep pocketed people? >> no, that's the problem, they have struggled to create a meaningful grassroots system within all the energy they have built. t...

You think of their politics, the activists have learned how to endorse and get ahold of. >> it's not a grassroots movement, it was astroturf. does this indicate that again you have all these rich millionaire figures at the top arguing, book deals and buying out and being quiet. does it really belie the fact that this is not a grassroots movement or do you think that's inevitable with any group that's been funded by deep pocketed people? >> no, that's the problem, they have struggled to create a meaningful grassroots system within all the energy they have built. there are other groups and examp...

Movement, it was astroturf. does this indicate that again you have all these rich millionaire figures at the top arguing, book deals and buying out and being quiet. does it really belie the fact that this is not a grassroots movement or do you think that's inevitable with any group that's been funded by deep pocketed people? >> no, that's the problem, they have struggled to create a meaningful grassroots system within all the energy they have built. there are other groups and examples, unions and move-on, have systems whereby they still crowd source. i think viewers of the ed show know how uni...

Want government to implement policies that are informed by scientific knowledge, but i feel like part of the problem that when science becomes politicized, then both sides use it and manipulate it at times to promote an agenda that can completely subvert science. >> well, guys, coming back to the debate tonight, i put the question out to twitter, what would you -- what would you change about debates? what would you add to them? how would you modify them? overwhelmingly the response that i got was realtime fact checking. i sta rted to think about how could that actually work? the problem is as ...