it's always kind of grudging a little bit. by the way, my interest in this as the media columnist is not just the investigation on the hill or just the muller investigation. it's the public investigation. this was scam ads that were injected into our millionaire system. you had americans interacting with russian agents through the platform if they were posing under these false accounts, that's a huge deal. any time we see shadowing political ads on tv, we as political journalism would be all over it and this is a much bigger deal and we know very little. >> one of the ways we're supposed to be protected from that is that there are legal prohibitions to influence the outcome of u.s. elections. that's clear in terms of -- this is one of the things you've been writing about. clear in terms of for example spending foreign money to buy tv ads. is it clear those ads apply to online targeting information?