a billion dollars spent in this campaign cycle to elect the next president, why would a spattering of accounts and $150,000 investment of facebook ads make the big balance of difference? >> well, i i think the problem is we don't know that is all of the spending that took place on either twitter or facebook. it seems clear that neither of the social networking sites has a really handle on how much russian activity there was on their sites. twitter especially hasn't done much investigation except looking at accounts that facebo turned -- questions that turned over to them. and the criminal question is there any american citithat helped the russian operatives help ad or post on twitter or fash and t-- facebook and the s is it is a policy question and it is illegal for foreign