facing that mathematical reality, kevin mccarthy can step aside and let somebody else do the job, acknowledging in the process that he s not the only person in congress capable of being speaker, or he can try and win over the people who oppose him, as you traditionally do in elections. you ve got reservations about kevin mccarthy? you don t want to be ruled by a man who wears the arabian flag lapel pin? no problem. we get it. they re using threats and fear to force people to support the candidate. anyone who opposes kevin mccarthy, one his surrogates explained today, is, quote, an enemy, a, quote, terrorist. that s their mechanical. in a moment we ll tell you how that message has worked out. first tonight in the summer of 2016, the government transparency organization wikileaks released thousands of emails from the servers of the democratic national committee. those documents showed conclusively that hillary clinton partisans had worked to rig the democratic primary against h
facing that mathematical reality, kevin mccarthy can step aside and let somebody else do the job, acknowledging in the process that he s not the only person in congress capable of being speaker, or he can try and win over the people who oppose him, as you traditionally do in elections. you ve got reservations about kevin mccarthy? you don t want to be ruled by a man who wears the arabian flag lapel pin? no problem. we get it. they re using threats and fear to force people to support the candidate. anyone who opposes kevin mccarthy, one his surrogates explained today, is, quote, an enemy, a, quote, terrorist. that s their mechanical. in a moment we ll tell you how that message has worked out. first tonight in the summer of 2016, the government transparency organization wikileaks released thousands of emails from the servers of the democratic national committee. those documents showed conclusively that hillary clinton partisans had worked to rig the democratic primary against h
weekly or monthly industry meetings with the dhs and the fbi. those included a number of companies, including facebook, in some cases wikipedia, pinterest, a whole series of companies included in these communications. how deep the penetration goes in those other companies i can t say, but i do know they had close communications. in twitter s case, the number of requests that came in was really overwhelming. your previous guest michael shellenberger talked about how they were paid $3 million by the fbi. they were underpaid. they were doing so much work for the government in terms of reviewing these documents that they should have been commented a lot more for their work. tucker: how can it be a free society or democracy if law enforcement and intel agencies are determining what we can say? well, people are hiding behind the fig leaf of, well, they didn t formally ask, they didn t demand that you do it.
certainly we ve seen they have weekly or monthly industry meetings with the dhs and the fbi. those included a number of companies, including facebook, in some cases wikipedia, pinterest, a whole series of companies included in these communications. how deep the penetration goes in those other companies i can t say, but i do know they had close communications. in twitter s case, the number of requests that came in was really overwhelming. your previous guest michael shellenberger talked about how they were paid $3 million by the fbi. they were underpaid. they were doing so much work for the government in terms of reviewing these documents that they should have been commented a lot more for their work. tucker: how can it be a free society or democracy if law enforcement and intel agencies are determining what we can say? well, people are hiding behind the fig leaf of, well, they didn t formally ask, they