taibbi. there s also a sort of delicious irony irony to using twitter to basically defin strait twitter and then also to sort of drop this enormous feted stunk bomb in the middle of whae of what used to be private garden of mainstream journalists. i spoke earlier with glenn greenwald. welcome. great to be with you, howie. howard: let s start with matt tie yee by, because when cnn finally got around to doing a segment knocking down the twitter files, there was this lead-in. yeah. i mean, this is how hay think. hay believe that in order to be a legitimate journalist, you need to go and work for a handful of gigantic media option toes corporations that they deem legitimate. fox, of course, is a large media
and i think the sec and probably this was by design so they didn t have him testify before congress under oath but not urn oath in front of the media. and they gave him enough rope so that their case is stronger. so you can see but i would say before we judge the timing of all of this, you better have receipts, and we have to see how these charges are laid out. right now the sec is building a d looking like they re building an airtight case here, and you ve got to respect what they did to get there. howard: receipts? the guy that came in to clean it up says there were barely any records at all. when we come back, elon musk banning about a dozen reporters from twitter. been a huge media uproar. that s next. well the sun is shining and the grass is green i m way ahead of schedule with my trusty team there s heather on the hedges and kenny on the koi
howard: we now have the biggest smoking gun of all from the twitter files released by elon musk. one day after january 6th, ceo jack dorsey decreed that donald trump could not be banned without an additional strike against him. on january 8th, trump posted two tweets one thanking the 75 million great american patriots who voted for him, the other saying he would not be attending the inauguration. here s what top executives said: i don t see the incitement of fear. don t see the incitement angle here. and one top policy official said safety unit has assessed the tweet and determined there was no violation of our policies. it didn t matter. the liberal company simply ignored these top executives, declared those two tweets were an incitement to violence and permanently suspended the president. major media outlets have mostly ignored the postings by matt
on, what happens when i start to become less grounded, when i start to lose focus and lose concentration on a lot of important things. howard: just lost focus. he has the reverse midas touch. everyone he s come into contact with looks really, really bad. i m howard kurtz and this is the mediabuzz . howard: ahead, glenn greenwald on the media break freakout over elon musk suspending at least a dozen journalists from twitter. the doj used an indictment to have sam bankman-fried arrested the night before he was to every at a capitol hill hearing, undo you wantedly to prevent him from delivering his self-justifying spiel on television, and that brought clashing views from the pun consistents. pundits. republicans were relentlessly
howard: elon musk fueled a media firestorm by suspending the twitter accounts of a dozen journalists who cover him. twitter told some of the reporters they were permanently banned, then musk said it would be for a week. he reinstated most of them yesterday after 59% in a twitter poll said resore their accounts now. restore their accounts. that was actually the second poll. he banned college sophomore jack sweeney for posting realtime information about his realtime jet flights calling them, basically, assassination coordinates. but some but not all of the journalists linked to sweeney s account which got them booted. i ve mostly defended elon musk until now, but how does the free speech crew saider suspend a unbun crusader suspend a bunch of i think, first of all, free speech absolutism is not a position that min occupies other than the most anyone occupies