Good morning, this hearing is called to order. The title of this hearing is congressional oversight in the face of executive branch and media suppression, and in particular case study of the crossfire hurricane, corrupt investigation. Ill add that. The hearing is actually quite a bit broader than that. But well certainly focus on that. I became chairman of this committee in january of 2015 and will complete my sixyear term at the end of this month. We can all be proud of the more than 100 piece of legislation we worked on together as a committee that became law. The other than more than 200 bills we passed out of committee, although not signed into law, can still serve as the basis for future legislation. Our committee and subcommittees also have broad oversight jurisdiction, and responsibilities that we have not ignored. We investigated and exposed problems within the Va Health Care system, human trafficking, National Security leaks, and systemic violations of the hatch act within the
York claims over 150 Us Democratic system. Oh mr old boy you know. You got to do whats good for the people the American People trust is a direct threat to our democracy trump hes trying to time hes to find what hes fighting for because to be some kind of this country. Hello you watching Us International this soft say the 7th of november made its final days since the u. S. Election and it looks like we might finally have a result a number of media are projecting that joe biden has been elected the 46 president of america having secured 219 addict World College votes just a reminder to say. Up until the new ted fanfic tree the form of the piece when in his home state of pennsylvania has pushed him across not threshold donald trump meanwhile stands at 240. 1 joining me on the line now is our teams caleb maupin he is stateside in new york one of those details coming out from pennsylvania a pretty big moment we have to come to hire a saying joe you did are you going to be the next president
Hes fighting for because to be some kind of front this country. How low you are watching our teams national the sauce save the 7th. Its now fool day since the u. S. Election and it looks like we might find me have a result a number of media are projecting the joe biden has been elected the fool to president of america having secured 273 Electoral College votes just to remind 270 are needed for victory the former v. P. When in his home state of pennsylvania has pushed him across that threshold donald trump meanwhile stands at 214 well lets cross live now to. Wolf and whos in new york ok to everyone wanted to know the results from pennsylvania some more details are coming out in huge moment for joe biden thought tom lucky it seems. Indeed joe biden seems to be declaring himself the winner of the president ial election i however if you look on social media just shortly before hand we got dom trump proclaiming on twitter that he won by a lot but at this point the media seems to be echoing
Amendment rights until there is no freedom at all. They will put the Great Republic on the trashy but history if they have their way if our government does not act and act immediately. Facebook and twitter this week censoring the New York Post bombshell reports linking joe biden to his son Hunter Bidens corrupt business dealings in ukraine and china. Facebook censored the stories, twitter censored the stories, facebook saying they needed to be fact checked and twitter called the stories potentially harmful. Whatever in the world that means. Within minutes, both social media platforms had put in and to the free flow of information in this country, the free flow of information that underpins our very democracy, they blocked millions of their users including myself to simply slow down the distribution of the New York Post exposes of the bidens. Twitter said their decision to censor the New York Post links fell under what they call the hack material policy, it is a policy to twitter ceo ja
This hearing will come to order, senator cantwell is going to join us in person but she joins us remotely at the beginning of the hearing, we have convened this morning to continue work of this committee to ensure the internet remains a free and open space and they are sufficiently uptodate, it is a Great American success story, thanks in large part to the regulatory and legal structure our government put in place, we cannot take that success for granted, the openness and freedom of the internet are under attack, soon we will hear from the ceos of three of the most prominent internet platforms, facebook, google and twitter, with this is include mr. Jack dorsey of twitter, of alphabet inc. And mr. Marx a burger facebook. On october 1 this committee voted on a bipartisan and unanimous basis to approve the issuance of subpoenas after discussions among representatives of the companies witnesses agreed to attend it voluntarily and remotely the stronger agreement on both sides of the aisle t