suspect political bias has cause you to be censored on line, we want to hear about it. but some are calling it a scam and a data tool and discuss. your name, phone number, email address, zip code, social media account handles, and citizenship status. comments for the new york times tweeting, it s just going to be used to assemble a voter file which trump will then pay facebook millions of dollars to target with ads about how biased facebook is. lawrence, i know you are a big libertarian. what you think about this? lawrence: i m sick about complaining about the social media companies. i am a libertarian i think it s laziness on the conservative side. go create your own platform. it s just that simple. this notion that we need to bring social media companies to capitol hill and question them on censorship, guess what? it was my company i would censor, too. it s my platform. i will hire who i want to hire,
yesterday, florida s governor said that the fbi has told him of two florida counties where russian hackers have tapped into their voter file. back with us is richard clarke, counter-terrorism expert. richard clarke, your reaction to both of those things. first that notation in the mueller report and then possibly its linkage to what we re learning in. well, they are linked. and the remarkable thing about that event yesterday was the governor of florida is saying he had been forced by the fbi to sign a secrecy oath before they would tell him anything. and they told him he couldn t tell the two the counties involved the citizens of those counties ortsds public what counties had been hacked. that s just ridiculous. the russians know what they did. there s no reason why the american people can t know. but the larger issue here, lawrence, is there are 4,000
developed software used by numerous u.s. counties to manage voter rolls. and installed malware on the company network. yesterday, florida s governor said that the fbi has told him of two florida counties where russian hackers have tapped into their voter file. back with us is richard clarke, counter-terrorism expert. richard clarke, your reaction to both of those things. first that notation in the mueller report and then possibly its linkage to what we re learning in. well, they are linked. and the remarkable thing about that event yesterday was the governor of florida is saying he had been forced by the fbi to sign a secrecy oath before they would tell him anything. and they told him he couldn t tell the two the counties involved the citizens of those counties ortsds public what counties had been hacked.
this, this was squarely in your wheel house. i want to posit a question, theory to me floated by someone on the political side of the question here, we don t know exactly what the document was that was allegedly handed from manafort to kilimnik, but if it was publicly available polling data, i can t imagine we d be having these conversations. is it possible it was something like a voter file? the only thing you get of value from a political party when you become the nominee is the voter file. and what is that is all of the personal data of all of your potential voters. it s sort of the you know, the magna carta of electoral politics. when you become the nominee, you get addresses and these days, i m old enough to remember when it was addresses and phone numbers and go knocking door to door. these days it s probably a lot more high tech. we don t know exactly what was
but if you look back to johner andson or 82 with ross perot, you see that they didn t split the vote either way. whether it be carter or in 92 with bush and clinton. and if you look back in 2016, it doesn t really seem to had he that the third-party candidates were taking disproportionate from one side or the other. but this is the world s leading democracy, why just a binary choice? why just coke or pepsi, why not mountain dew? and if you re worried about him, go beat his with his ideas. it seems to be a good way to boost your book sales. other than that, i actually agree that the two-party system might not be the best thing for democracy. but right now we have infrastructure built for two parties. the independence party doesn t have a way to contact its voters, it doesn t have a voter file, it doesn t have the kind