steve scalise will be here on the push to impeach dhs secretary mayorkas and now explosive testimony on the border and the illegal drugs that are pouring over it every single day. failed at your jobs, entrusted with the highest level of power at twitter, when you were faced with the new york post story instead of allowing people to judge the information for themselves, you rushed to find a reason why the american people shouldn t see it. we are talking about hunter biden s half fake laptop story. i mean, this is an embarrassment. i think you guys got played by the fbi. john: republican house oversite committee on twitter on hold for a moment due to a power outage on capitol hill. not before sparks flew as lawmakers tried to get to the bottom of why the social media giant suppressed the hunter biden laptop story up to the run-up of the 2024 election. happy wednesday. sandra: we ll let you know as the lights get flipped back on, this is america reports. three form
biden laptop story up to the run-up of the 2024 election. happy wednesday. sandra: we ll let you know as the lights get flipped back on, this is america reports. three former twitter executives were subpoenaed by james comer and forced to testify under oath today after internal emails revealed their discussions and the ultimate decision to censor what they saw as negative information relating to the now president s son and biden s family business dealings. john: many critics say it interfered with the 2020 election. sandra: pete sessions is standing by with fresh reaction from the new testimony. john: first to david spunt, how long has this hearing, david, been in the works for? john, it s been in the works for a long time.
steve scalise will be here on the push to impeach dhs secretary mayorkas and now explosive testimony on the border and the illegal drugs that are pouring over it every single day. failed at your jobs, entrusted with the highest level of power at twitter, when you were faced with the new york post story instead of allowing people to judge the information for themselves, you rushed to find a reason why the american people shouldn t see it. we are talking about hunter biden s half fake laptop story. i mean, this is an embarrassment. i think you guys got played by the fbi. john: republican house oversite committee on twitter on hold for a moment due to a power outage on capitol hill. not before sparks flew as lawmakers tried to get to the bottom of why the social media giant suppressed the hunter
former head of trust and safety for twitter about censoring the hunter biden laptop story in the new york post. i ve been clear in my judgment at the time, twitter should not have taken action to block the new york post reporting. just 24 hours after doing so, the company acknowledged its error, it isn t obvious what the right response is to a suspected but not confirmed cyber attack by another government on a presidential election. i believe twitter erred in this case because we wanted to avoid repeating mistakes of 2016. john: even hunter biden s attorneys are now, congressman, acknowledging at least the data, if not the laptop itself, belonged to hunter biden, yet here we have twitter by itself censoring a legitimate story for political purposes. that might strike some people as being just plain wrong. what do you say? well, in fact it is, and the only reason we found all of this
hunter s business dealings overseas. new york post account was suspended for weeks leading up to the election. in hindsight, twitter should have restated the post account immediately. i ll be the first to admit we didn t always get it right. days after the article, dozens of well respected intelligence officials signed on to a letter and called the laptop story misinformation. we return not to focus on advancing this robust agenda progress, but instead to take up an authentically trivial pursuit based on the victimology of right wing politics in america. james comer says it was not misinformation or russian information, james baker, he had worked as the top attorney for the fbi, implicated in the 2016 election attempt to tie then