saying about why it s pulling this project? reporter: well, jake, i received a memo from a disney spokesperson today written by the disney chairman of parks experiences and products, josh demaro, not naming desantis. but i do want to read you part of that statement because they give this reason. given the considerable changes that have occurred since the announcement of this project including new leadership and changing business conditions, we have decided not to move forward with the construction of the campus. this was not an easy decision to make but i believe it is the right one. so there were already some of these 2,000 people who already started to move to florida. they said that they would work individually case by case for their options including the option of moving back here to southern california, where those employees will remain in burbank in the los angeles area. you used the word mousetrap. that is actually also the terminology used by the trump campaign on
we should have that debate. that s not a reason to not have a conversation about whether it s a great idea for beijing to beam this technology into the into america or among the american people. and i ll say beyond that i just want to be very clear about this, that i feel extremely strongly that we should be regulating the large american digital platforms, which we haven t done, and our poor kids in this country who have had to rely basically on their student councils to do these negotiations need somebody to stand up and negotiate with zuckerberg and the rest of these guys on our privacy rights, on our economic interests and on the civil liberties in this country. we haven t done that either. so i don t want to stop just because the aclu says this is a bad idea in a press release. i think we need to have this debate in our country. and i particularly think we need to do it for the national security issues that are at