Social media. Hello, well come everyone, sandra smith in new york. We have made it to wednesday, rich. Rich we have indeed, im rich in for john roberts. According to documents, white house officials asked facebook if it could provide special access to tools that would target users hesitant to take vaccines and spreading misinformation. Sandra also show Biden Administration officials berated facebook employees for not sharing enough data and alluded to the site being more difficult to deal with than other social media platforms. Rich Hillary Vaughn is live on capitol hill. Hillary, did the white house try to have more control on covid content on facebook than it originally claimed. Thats the big take away from the documents that we obtained. Really publicly the white house was claiming they were just trying to help facebook combat misinformation on their platform. Behind closed doors, it is clear that white house officials were trying to have much more influence on the platform and get
interview as a contender. todd: the governor will become the latest candidate to throw his hat in the ring on heels of south carolina senator tim scott. ashley: lucas tomlinson has everything you need to know ahead of tonight. good morning. lucas: good morning. this move has been months in the making, now official, florida governor ron desantis will declare he s a 2024 presidential candidate tonight on twitter. here is elon musk with a preview. we will be interviewing ron desantis and he has quite an announcement to make. and will be for first time something like this is happening on social media and with realtime questions and answers, not scripted. lucas: florida first lady has a video on twitter showing the governor in front of a large american flag backstage with loud applause heard in the distance. they call it fate, in the face of darkness, you see brighter future, faith our best days lay ahead of us. is it worth the fight? do i have the courage? is it worth
sabotaged that operation, put those agents in danger potentially. that operation was set to begin and the feds pub politicly announced it. why would they do that? border states are now taking matters into their own hands. texas governor greg abbott deploying a tactical border force of more than 500 troops. abbott getting right to the point saying texas is responding to the chaos caused by biden ending title 42. he sent 1500 men and women from the military to the border to do paperwork. i deployed elite trained soldiers to defend texas. he posted this video showing barbed wire installed across gaps in the border wall where a massive group of illegals tried to cross just a few days ago. what did he tweet? wired shut. this hour yesterday we broke the news on the monster-size surge happening even before title 42 expires. more than 26,000 people, nearly 7,500 of them gotaways, which means they are making their way in and we have no idea who at least 7500 people were thereabouts. t
our current situation is the outcome of congress leaving a broken, outdated immigration system in place for over two decades. the white house has two years to plan for the end of title 42. we we all knew the deadline. but the white house produced no plan, missed the deadline and bum with bled into another crisis telephone bumbled into another crisis. paul: let s bring in wall street journal ist columnists journal column itselfs dan dan henninger kim strassel and jace isen riley. jason riley. this has really come to a head. how serious just from a practical point of view is surge? oh, i think it s very serious, paul. the democrats have pretended for years that the only people who care about this issue are fox news viewers. they ve demonized these border governors when they re republicans for complaining, for being hard-hearted, and i think all of that is changing right now. they re discovering the border for the first time, and i think it s going to cause them all k
in the faulkner focus. well, many people are saying there is no way this could actually be a coincidence. lawmakers say it is an example of all-out intimidation by the federal government. republican congressman jim jordan is the chairman on the subcommittee of government weaponization. we still do not have the answers from the i.r.s. about that unlikely coincidence. it appears to be the latest example of the weaponization of the federal government against the american people. harris: matt taibbi testified to that committee on the government s censoring information on twitter. the white house with a game of dodge ball yesterday. i was wondering if you could respond to this taibbi visit by the i.r.s. and say whether it is part of a campaign to harass or intimidate related to the journalism. i have refer you to the i.r.s. harris: i.r.s. has not responded to a fox business request with an explanation. we ll have house oversight chairman comer questions as he comes up