companies, and even international companies. and they have great cyber forensics and the ability to investigate and attribute attributi attribution, and they re also a resource for our defense. they would all rely on a company like this. for six months, this was taken as stated fact. crowdstrike, got it. let s move on to the next one. by the aspring of 17, this was the first time the president started to question crowdstrike. he tweeted something. an a.p. reporter said why did you bring up crowdstrike? he said i heard it s owned by a very rich ukrainian. this is not true. but how do we get to the seed of doubt here? what we saw in the first part is you take a fact and use a fact to propel the lie. this is essentially how you make that falsehood move to where you want it to be. the answer, the story that they want out there, is that ukraine meddled in the election. there s also other entities that want that story, too. places like russia where crowdstrike is one of the biggest defe