we saw the result. we, i say the government basically, state and federal government made the wrong decision about covid and what should have happened is instead of the government telling twitter who can be published, we should have had the open discussion, challenging a lot of these government claims that turned out to be wrong. aishah: james, where do we go from here? obviously house republicans come in and have a heyday, but i m imaging it s still ongoing with other sites not owned by elon musk, where do we go from here? the social media sites get to decide how they operate. with the caveat if they want section 230 protection they can t be publishers, they have to be an open forum. but i hope that even democrats will see the republican oversight effort this coming year as a benefit to them
but the biden administration has flip-flopped whether or not they were involved. jen psaki admitted to routine engagement with twitter but karine jean-pierre putting distance between the white house and the tech giant. we are in regular touch with the social media platforms and those engagements typically happen through members of our senior staff but also members of our covid-19 team. we were not involved, i can say that, we were not involved. sometimes censorship efforts came from inside twitter. former deputy general counsel james baker seen in the company email asking a trump tweet telling people not to be afraid of covid had not been taken down. while telling people not to be afraid was not a violation of the misinformation policy. twitter s former chief of trust and safety replied to baker that optimism was not misinformation. rich. hillary, thank you.
dan was severely injured while at camp taji in iraq. it was while he was at walter reed that wounded warrior project walked into my room. they thanked dan for his service and then they assured him that i was not alone and i look back at that and i think, no one could have asked for a better advocate because not everybody got to do what we did. for example, go to a private hospital that was number two in the nation for traumatic brain injury, to transition home and be able to wait for a new home. when you have time to reflect, you realize all along the journey, all along the journey, they were there. (light music) the latest edition of the twitter files reveals how both the trump and biden administrations pressured executives at the social media
peter? president biden is not set to jet to st. croix for vacation until later on this evening. we re told the staff had been briefing him about the winter weather and he s keeping an eye on this meltdown with southwest airlines. the potus twitter account tweeted thousands of flights have been cancelled. our administration is making sure that they re held accountable. if you ve been affected, go to the usdot s dashboard. before the situation is resolved, which may be a few more days, members of congress are already promising oversight hearings about this, which means southwest is going to have to answer to the cabinet and to congress and soon. we re going to investigate this. i want to see these people come up with a plan. that s the secretary s job. comes up with nothing. just don t blame the weather. the transportation secretary
long-term. because we can t have the government dictating what can be said online. it s going to end up hurting all of us as it did in 2020. aishah: i would love to be a fly on the wall in side the fbi headquarters wondering what they are thinking as the dumps continue to come. james freeman, thanks so much for joining us in this very busy holiday week. appreciate it. thanks. aishah: nuts, right? we talked about it last night on special report when you hosted, and it s just unbelievable. this is one of the more brief dumps of twitter files but there was so much information i think for some conservatives are thinking told you so. we were saying this all along, we were being suppressed, shadow banned and then liberals are probably thinking ok, you know, this was a once in a lifetime pandemic. we were trying to figure it out. and you look at the internal arguments and that s really fascinating here, to see not even government agencies, not even executives in twitter had any idea o