Rep. Will Hurd William Ballard HurdHillicon Valley: Oracle confirms deal with TikTok to be 'trusted technology provider' | QAnon spreads across globe, shadowing COVID-19 | VA hit by data breach impacting 46,000 veterans House approves bill to secure internet-connected federal devices against cyber threats House Democrats' campaign arm reserves .6M in ads in competitive districts MORE (R-Texas) said Sunday that the U.S. is unprepared to combat altered videos after one was circulated that was slowed down to make House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Nancy PelosiHoyer: House should vote on COVID-19 aid — with or without a bipartisan deal Ruth Bader Ginsburg lies in repose at Supreme Court McCarthy threatens motion to oust Pelosi if she moves forward with impeachment MORE (D-Calif.) appear to be having difficulty speaking.

"This wasn't even a deepfake. You know we've been hearing a lot about deep fakes which is the use of artificial intelligence in order to create something new," Hurd said on CBS's "Face the Nation."

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"I think within months, we're going to be able to see this deepfake technology continue to grow. And we're going to see that more and that we're not prepared," he added.

“We have old laws to decide how you handle disinformation. You have leaders that don't understand how this technology can be used in the future. This goes back into this whole conversation around disinformation and how are we dealing with it. And it's not just the government alone. It's not just the social media companies. It's also the media, academia involved in trying to do this,” Hurd, a former CIA officer, explained.

.@HurdOnTheHill calls doctored videos of @SpeakerPelosi “concerning”: “This wasn't even a deep fake... In this case, at least we have the original to compare the two and recognize that it was doctored.” pic.twitter.com/wFeKXzzw5n — Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) May 26, 2019

A fake video of Pelosi that was edited to make her appear drunk was posted on Facebook on Thursday.

Trump tweeted a clip from Fox Business Network that compiled every time Pelosi stumbled over her words during a recent press conference.

Coupled with remarks by Trump, it appeared the president was trying to use the fake video to his advantage to build a narrative that the Speaker “had lost it,” in Trump’s words. But Trump denied knowing about the fake video.