and of course, that s illegal. just like you can t yell fire in a crowded theater, you can t get people, you can t incite people, you can t get people involved in your conspiracy. we ll keep it there for now. see you soon. i m sure. thank you. have a great saturday. you too. now, to the war in ukraine. and an overnight attack on one of russia s biggest oil tankers in the black sea. a source telling cnn that a sea drone carrying almost 1,000 pounds of explosives hit the ship. video shows the moments leading up to the attack. russia says the ship was not carrying oil but a ukrainian source claims it was full. cnn s nick paton walsh looks at the escalating situation in the black sea. we re now beginning to perhaps see a new ukrainian tactic, the black sea itself shipping lanes, now repeatedly under attack, by ukrainian drones, and ukraine being fairly
xcel spreadsheets full of joke tweets from low follower accounts in maryland, kentucky and ohio? why does the fitf, the foreign influence task force spend so much time reviewing domestic speech. that is the key question there. you re right, carley that is absolutely the key question to the whole thing. why were these accounts that were you know sharing jokes essentially and memes had very few followers, why were these coming on the fbi s radar? why was this foreign influence task force spending their time moderating speech by american people? supreme court around haw is very clear. the speech is fairly broad. you can t yell fire in a crowded theater. but other than that there is very broad ability for americans to speak their minds. in this case the fbi, seemed to want to clamp down on that. now we re seeing it wasn t just the fbi. it was all of these other agencies as well. carley: that s right. this new dumb of twitter files
i don t see that sticking. onso all these enumerous investigations around the president and then you have senator lindsey graham saying that there is a double standard for president trump. law enforcement high school a double standard when it comes to president. and then he said this. if there is a prosecution of president trump for mishandling executive information, there will be riots in the streets. and he of course said that he doesn t advocate for violence. but what do you make about the lil and politics colliding here? and it is certainly a collision. because politically he can say what he wants. there is free speech. but you can t yell fire in a crowded theater. right? you can t have a threat like that. and we know that the situation is so volatile, the whole xun is up in arms about this, and so
ultimate conflict all the time, and so, you know, ari, you re a legal scholar far more than i am. the whole idea is like you can t yell fire in a crowded theater. that s all these people do all day. they yell fire in a crowded theater the size of the united states of america and do it almost without compunction. will alex jones stop? he s not a human being. this is a guy that goes into a barbecue restaurant in texas and starts scream at people so this is a dangerous, sick man to begin with. do i think it s possible, yes? do i think it s important, yes. we talk to people who sell advertising to these people s podcasts and their shows. big corporate family company. is this the kind of stuff you want to sell your people to? there s a reap why over on fox news in primetime no reputable company wants to advertise on that. it s gold, bomb shelters and the pillow guy, right, that s it. those are the only people they got because no otherwise
the story tellers, not believers. if you work in oil and gas in louisiana and your neighborhood loyalty defends on defending this industry. i don t blame you for wanting to poke holes in it. if you re a fox news anchor or on the take from some special interest spreading a message that it s not so bad, or that it s not happening at all, then you deserve the full wrath of society on that because you re blocking the entrance to a burning theater. this is serious. blocking the entrance to a burning theater. you talk about the first amendment fight over you can t yell fire in a crowded theater. scientists have been yelling fire in this theater for 50 years. they don t actually, they don t yell fire because they don t want to be alarmists. that s the worst thing you want to be as an academic. now it s to the point where folks, wake up. how bad this gets depends on what we do today. at least we can acknowledge this is happening. the conversation has gone. now it s more those who are