is he trying to balance it out and coming off as a right winger but he is really not. steve: he also said this regarding why he bought twitter. he said i m not going to spend just $44 billion to reinstate a satire blog, babylon be. i did it because i was worried about the future of civilization, rates are plummeting. the thought police are gaining power and even having an opinion is enough to be shunned. we are trending in a bad direction. regarding the twitter files bari weiss said for the past few days, conservative media and social media thought this was the biggest story in the world. we talked a lot about it nobody else was. the legacy press and those americans who rely on it barely seems to know it exists. we are living in a culture suffering from a lack of open transparency public debate for people to have the courage to speak their minds. they have to know at least what is happening. ainsley: i think it s refreshing for her. she went through it too at new york times and e
his life should be valued just as high as a celebrity basketball player and so should whelan the marine wrongfully detained in russia. brian: do you know what pieces we have to trade for him if we are going to go down that road again. to my knowledge, we don t have two merchants of death in u.s. custody. that s what is really shame about the viktor bout swap we lost all leverage when we gave up bout for griner. this should have been a deal we got whelan fogle and griner. one for one trade given we traded the merchant of death somebody who had blood of americans on their hand. led to chaos and violence all over the globe. we gave him up one o. one trade. that is patently offensive. we should have got all three of our wrongfully detained americans back from the russian physicals we were going to give up viktor bout the merchant of
on behind the scenes at twitter, thanks to bari weiss. pulling back the curtain. brian: right. also, i have never seen him say anything negative about china elon musk. so that s interesting. steve: maybe it s subtle. that s what she is suggesting. brian: new polls show overwhelming majority of americans believe the doj should investigate the president s son. how quickly we could learn more about hunter biden s business dealings. steve: plus, is the clock ticking for tiktok? the latest calls for a ban on the chinese-owned app. you are watching fox & friends live from new york city. we have got a big friday show. look who showed up. brian: and anything can happen. entresto is the #1 heart failure brand prescribed by cardiologists. it was proven superior at helping people stay alive and out of the hospital. don t take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don t take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren,
brian: wbna star brittney griner will celebrate the christmas in the united states after high stakes prisoner swap with russia. while griner is safe several americans were left behind brings questions to the forefront. mark fogle an american teacher also caught with medical marijuana. like griner the u.s. has never classified him as wrongfully detained. why not? our next guest wrote an op-ed asking if fogle was simply not woke enough for the president to step. in congressman guy rashida tlaib then stuller joins us now. not many people are talking about fobleg what happened with him he had a very small amount of medical marijuana, which is legal in the state of pennsylvania. we re talking a few ounces of this. and he was detained he was convicted of drug smuggling and drug trafficking. i have made the argument that he
seat away from retaking control of the cal vert won in the 41st district by 3 percentage points and michelling michelle re-elected to the house seat, with the house nearly back in the hands of republicans, it could determine the next speaker of the house. texas congressman chip roy believes now is the time for the party to inspire americans with a fresh agenda. it is time for something different, to come in and continue status quo is not acceptable. we need a change and to earn people s respect and that starts with debate about the leadership of this party, leadership of this country and we need to make sure we represent the people. brooke: if republican take control of the house, congressman andy biggs is expected to challenge kevin