republican proposal that could bring cuts to social security and medicare, calling out lawmakers by name who have supported those cuts. i mean, he negotiated, basically, with republicans on the house floor. it was quite a sight to see. they conceded. i mean, his position it s a strong one. meanwhile, house republicans yesterday were focused on hunter biden, big tech. that s what america really wants. and the fbi. we ll show you the big moments from a grievance-fueled house oversight committee hearing. plus, new york congressman george santos doubles down on his criticism of senator mitt romney following romney s confrontation of the embattled new york lawmaker at the state of the union. mitt romney, of course, saying what everyone should be saying on the republican side. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, february 9th. good to have you all with us. with us in washington, white house editor for politico, sam stein. washington bureau
they came? my team made the recommendation that, for the first time, we find donald trump in violation of twitter s policies. twitter s policy included a specific example when it came to banned abuse against immigrants. they specifically included the phrase go back to your country or go back to where you came from, correct? that was in the guidance as an example. you brought this up to the vice president of safety, correct? i did, yes. she overrode your assessment, didn t she? yes. something interesting happened after that. a day or two later, twitter seemed to have changed their pol policies, didn t you? yes, go back from where you came from was removed from the guidance as an example. twitter changed their own policy after the president violated it in order to potentially accommodate his tweet? yes. thank you. so much for bias against right wing on twitter.
what was the tweet about? would you like me to give the direct quote? yeah. please excuse my language. this is a direct quote, but chrissy teigen referred to donald trump as a [ bleep ]. okay. free speech. and what happened after ms. teigen posted her tweet? what did the white house do? what did the trump white house do? from my understanding, the white house reached out to ask that this tweet be removed. yeah. another moment yesterday, that same employee revealed that her bosses changed twitter s internal rules. mika and i know something about this. yeah. a lot about this. to accommodate trump s hateful rhetoric against immigrants. i d like to show you a tweet posted by former president trump about my colleagues and i on july 14th, 2019. it says, in part, quote, why don t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which
it s just good job. it is shocking, isn t it? it is actually the opposite of what the republicans said was happening. again, mika and i saw it, dealing with twitter. wait a second, so it is legal for a guy to accuse somebody else of murder 12 times, but it violates all of these policies. they go, yeah, well, we re looking into that. in this case, on this racist trope that fascists use, go back to where you came from, they actually stopped letting that be a banned phrase because they wanted to change the rules for donald trump. in fact, willie, this entire hearing reminds me of that scene in the classic movie the other guys. where will ferrell oh, god. stay with me because this is it always comes back to will