gillian: we re getting a look at the facebook files. jim jordan calls the documents a smoking gun and say they prove the biden white house censored americans when it came to covid. first, we go to ed lawrence that joins us from the white house. hi, ed. hi, gillian. in fact, the second batch posted this afternoon is more damaging than the first with accusations that the administration not only tried to get facebook to remove posts about covid vaccines, but also about the origins of covid. in one of the papers on twitter in an e-mail from meta s vice president or president of global affairs asking why they took down posts saying covid could have been manmade. the response in the e-mail, because of pressure from the administration.
administration was trying to convince people to use it, facebook would just delete, ebb rate, eradicate posts suggesting, even asking the questions about who about the origins of covid. whether they could be manmade. that was considered to be beyond the pale. now the thinking has changed. there s a strong possibility it s manmade. too late for the people trying to start a debate a couple years ago. gillian: take a look at this. this is one of the posts that the white house wanted removed. it s from jim jordan, part 1 of the files. it s a meme. it says ten years from now, you ll be watching tv and hear did you or a loved one take the covid vaccine? you may be entitled to x x x x amount of money. obviously the subject matter is not funny. look, no tech titan, whether it s mark zuckerberg or elon musk should have so much power to decide things should be erased. we remember the hunter biden lab
gillian: welcome back. president biden is in maine right now. the white house press team is focused on diverting attention away from hunter biden s legal woes. they re all in this afternoon over what is on bidenomics. bryan llenas joins us from auburn, maine where he s covering the president this afternoon. hi, bryan. hi, gillian. a bullish president biden spoke from this textile factory in auburn, maine. he boasted about how bidenomics has increased gdp stronger than expected, lowered unemployment and led to more manufacturing jobs. the president signed an executive order called invent it here, make it here, which incentivizes american products and making them in the u.s. the president made clear that he believes bidenomics is a strength for his campaign, not a liability. he took a shot at republicans. earlier this week, the
he does and agree with the founding fathers what they created. that being said, obviously this case continues to develop. i think this last round of charges supersedes this indictment was to try to punish donald trump. he had made an issue and people that support him made an issue that the prosecutor department have this battle plan document. that made the special prosecutor look bad. looks like jack smith said you want to play that game, call me out, highlight what i m doing wrong in this case, i will supersede your indictment. it seems a little vindictive and petty, but at the same time the reason for that, gillian, why i d say that, because these charges don t add anything other than a new defendant. they don t add anything to a potential sentence if ultimately president trump would get convicted of these charges. they do precept new ed. but we have to leave it there.
yeah, good to be with you, gillian. great reporting by griff. it s hard to say. obviously there are reporters that have relationships with the special counsel that are hearing that an indictment is imminent. at the same time, i have to point out that it seems every time some development in the hunter biden/joe biden situation happens, there s always some move by the special counsel. there was a teasing last week, this indictment being eminent this week and the additional charges you just described. so you think there s a conspiracy to emphasize things with former president trump when things heat up with hunter? i would not allege a conspiracy. that is a loaded term. what i would suggest is there s a very much the white house and the department of justice are trying to move the bidens off of the front page and keep