as you accurately said, maria, this whole thing was the suppression of the truth and the amplification of lies to mislead the voting public. and to that point, that s election interference. and, you know, private companies like i keep hearing that, well, twitter s a private company, they can do what they want. that s not the case, maria. anyone, even private companies, can t engage in conduct which is fraudulent in nature, intended to interfere with the free exercise of voting rights. and private company ceos can t go to congress and lie under. and very clearly what jack dorsey said and the twitter files reveal, he were censoring they were censoring. he stated unequivocally that they were not. maria: yeah. so he needs to be brought in. the last thing, maria, is section 230 protection for companies like twitter, they have civil liability protection
going to have the senate investigating this. you know, it s not for me to call for somebody s resignation, but i m suggesting that these leaders in congress, after they dig into this and not going to take them long to get to the real facts, that they will start calling for the resignation of the secretary of energy. calling people on the carpet, if you will. maria: yeah. this is totally an unacceptable activity out of the department of energy. maria: secretary, one thing that could constitute as pretty much the only policy that we know of in terms of energy is biden s depleting the strategic national reserve. we are now down to levels not seen since 1984. what is the threat here given the fact that this is supposed to be for emergency use, emergency stockpiles and he s selling it as a way to get gasoline prices down? yeah. he s using it as his personal piggybank, so to speak, to try to drive down the cost to
this whole thing was the suppression of the truth and the amplification of lies to mislead the voting public and to that point, that s election interference, and you know private companies like i keep hearing that well twitter is a private company they can do what they want. that s not the case maria. anyone even private companies can t encage in chuct is frawngt in nature intended to interfere with the free exercise of voting rightings and private company ceos can t go to congress and lie under oath and very clearly, what jack dorsey said in the twitter files reveal they were censoring. and he stated unequivocally they were not, so he needs to be brought. last thing maria is, section 230 protection for companies like twitter, they have civil liability protection because they re supposed to be a
congressman, i want to get your take on the road ahead. what do you want to see to insure that america s freedom and liberty stay in place? i ve said i m open to hearings in congress on this. look, there are two competing values. on the one hand, we don t want censorship, we don t want to have people censored or boxed out, shadow boxed and removed from twitter because of their viewpoint. on the other hand, we do want respect. i mean, we don t want accounts that are filled with anti-semitism or just spewing racism or hate on these accounts. and i think congress should have a honest, thoughtful conversation about how we uphold both of those values. maria: so hearings would be good, talking about how this took place to insure it doesn t happen again. do you believe this can get better? can we take the politicization out of federal agencies as well as the media? i do, maria, because i think if we want my hope of coming