The energy committee. Wednesday before the Senate Banking committee and we will over both of those hearings live over on cspan 3. Cufollow it online at cspan. Org on the free cspan radio app. That will about do it for this mornings [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] eventcer several live coming up today. A President Trump announces the National Association of manufacturers. The 6 trillion tax cut plan. That is at 11 30. Ryan zinke he talks about ryan zinke talks 11 30 eastern on cspan 2, a span online on cspanorg and on the radio app ppp at 12 30 eastern, senator jack reed, ranking democrat on the Ranking Services committee on President Trump, north korea, and russia. The nuclear deal with iran and the state of readiness of the u. S. Military. We are joined by kyle cheney, congressional reporter with politico in the aftermath of testimony yesterday from twitter executives on capitol hill. What was the purpose of the closeddoor hearings with both the intelligence committees and the senate and the house . Why were they there . Guest this is in the first face time lawmakers got with the tech company regarding talks with facebook and twitter as well to get a sense of can you do some forensic analysis here of how much farm how much intervention there was through social Media Advertising and fake accounts and bots and things like that and fake news on newsfeeds and so on. Had a closeddoor session and i think they will try to do. Lic session of youre anonymity users as opposed to facebook users where we have to put up but a name and an email address. Guest part of the value of twitters people can sign up anonymously or under pseudonyms. Twitter in particular is in a really tricky spot and lawmakers i think came away dissatisfied that they kind of got boilerplate numbers about the potential number of fake accounts and didnt really feel like twitter was taking it as seriously as they wanted. Part of that was part of the challenge identifying the origin of the fake accounts and whether they are legitimate free speech exercise or a part of higher powers trying to intervene. Host talk ground with members of the senate and Senate Intelligence committee, have you heard members concern express concerns coming close to First Amendment rights in terms of addressing these issues with twitter and facebook . Guest i think that underlies everything and all these Tech Companies are concerned about privacy and they dont want to squelch a legitimate exercise of free speech. I think lawmakers are sensitive to that, but you are hearing frustration why cant you tell him us the origin tell us the origin of these accounts and give us macro level data about how many bots are there and do they seem to be operating in a professional operation maybe in intelligence and intelligence agency. I dont think they got those answers yesterday. Host and the story you are covering at politico. Com, grassley amid russian probe questions. Why was rosenstein on capitol hill yesterday . Guest we dont know 100 why he was there, but he sat with Chuck Grassley for an hour and Chuck Grassley and the committee are trying to him more involved in the russia investigation. They oversee the fbi and they are trying to get agents to firing. About comeys so far doj hasnt permitted that so there is a conflict there and they are trying to figure out how to cooperate better going forward. Host kyle cheney, congressional reporter with politico. You can read him on politico. Com and on twitter kylecheney. Announcer former chair and ceo smithifax, richard testifies before congressional committees about the data breach. He will testify before the house energy and Commerce Committee on tuesday and wednesday he goes before the senate inking committee. Live coverage starts both days at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan 3, cspan. Org, or on the radio app. A series of interviews from the Washington Ideas Forum yesterday starting with senator mark warner then former cia director david trias, treasury secretary treasurypetraeus, secretary steven mnuchin, and a roundtable of journalists. Good morning. Good morning. Great to week to be with