phang show this morning. with all of our live tv grand lands, i ll see you tomorrow morning at 7 am eastern. velshi starts right now. good morning to you, particularly early morning here in arizona, it is saturday october the 29th. i m ali velshi in phoenix, arizona for another edition of velshi across america. only ten days left in this midterm election, cycle this worst first nation since donald trump began spreading the big lie, following his lost of joe biden in 2020. that lie, of a stolen election that wasn t stolen, fueled the violent insurrection at the capitol on january 6th. it is still spinning off new lives today, creating an atmosphere in which the future of democracy itself remains in doubt. the threat of violence, and intimidation hangs in the air. particularly here in maricopa county arizona. on the day that the mob swarmed the cat bottle, roz on january six, some carried rough vince assaulted wang forsman s officers, many of them were explicitly looking fo
being used in the world today. and elon musk said that there would be this moderation cancel council formation. it has not been formed. you talked about the reinstatements of ye and trump and marjorie taylor greene. he s his justification. he said, a large coalition of social activist groups agreed to not kill twitter if i agreed to this condition. they broke the deal. your thoughts? he broke any deal that was made and i wasn t apart of that deal. so i don t know what he s talking about. sure. no one made a deal with elon musk to pause, if you will, activities while he set up this content moderation. if he were acting in good faith, he would have set this content moderation panel up before taking the step to, you know, in other words unleash and reopen the gates to hell. let me ask you one more because you say that the national urban league is considering a menu of options on
banned attacks will not be allowed back and tell a content moderation panel is formed. joining me now is susan, she is the ceo of pan america, she is the author of dare to speak, defending free speech for all. she has a new opinion piece in the los angeles times titled, how elon musk s plans for twitter could threaten free speech. suzanne, good morning to you, thank you for being with us. hi, good morning. suzanne, elon musk s whole point it is tickled for twitter, at least his whole stated point has been about free speech, has been about how social media and corporate america stifle free speech. he wants to bring free speech to twitter, he calls it a digital town square. you are saying that in fact, the opposite might be achieved, why? free speech is not the tower of babel, it is not an environment where everyone just sounds off at will and no one is listening to each other and it is a cacophony. free speech is a