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
howard: right. he s got a lot of power, and he should use it in accordance with the free speech platform that he essentially ran on. musk voted for mostly democrats until now, but he did urge his followers to vote republican as a check on the democratic white house. all these pieces have been written saying, oh, no, no, no, he s a right-wing nut job. do you know that elon musk is one of the single largest donors to the aclu, an organization that even in its free speech and civil liberties day was heyday was more recognized as being on the left, but especially now it s this overtly democratic activist group. associated with the left wing of american politics. so what this shows that this term the, far-right extremists, is a term hat media uses that has no relationship to actual political ideology. hay use it for me all the time
identity theft. congressman scott perry said an italian defense contractor used a zapper for voting machines. congressman andy biggs. i like it, meadows replied. joining us now, griff jenkins, fox news correspondent and anchor and whether it s martial law or italian satellites, some of these texts are absolutely wild, and hay haven t exactly aged well. it s a real insight, howie. by the way, i m not sure it s more alarming that you have a member of congress suggesting the president declare martial law or that the congressman can t spell it. marjorie taylor green misspelled it as well. here is some 2300 messages from 34 gop members, and we get a real look at it. howard: as january 6th draws closer, you can kind of see them getting more and more anxious about it. one said i have anonymous source who says driver s licenses were breached and so forth.
would maybe be a suicide mission. on the other hand, i think we ve all been surprised that putin reserved some of his best troops. he sent in conscripts first and i continue to be amazed and i think the intel community does as well, that russia nautz brought the full force of cyber tools. the fact we re still getting images out of ukraine, that the internet s not been taken down. thank god but russia does have the capacity to do that and i m amazed hay haven t. i was talking to ann new berger, the top white house expert on that and asked the same question of secretary blinken yesterday. and i think everyone in the community is surprised. but the ukrainians have great cyber skills and as you guys know the u.s. has been trying to build up their resistance over these months. senator, you know the ukrainians so well.
trounced at the polls, republicans took back control of the u.s. senate and they gained the largest american majority in the house of representatives and they are in a worst position this year so does not look good for democrats. julie: you also have on the list the government shutdown. yes, republicans not only gained victory with tax cut act but also won battle with chuck schumer, republicans jumped out ahead and labeled it the schumer shutdown. republicans doing a good job in terms of messaging, something that hay haven t been good at in the past, that s helped him as well in the polls too. jillian: let s talk about the next topic here. hbo, this is an interesting one, hired former obama staffers to create specials ahead of midterm elections, when you heard this what was your reaction in. it s interesting, hollywood does seem to be doubling down on this liberal propaganda, they don t quite understand how the rest of america thinks and the fly-over states out there, the state tha