agentsed to comb through social media posts year round. as taieb reports, the ubiquity of the twenty sixteen russianine interference story as a statedrr pretext for building outhine the censorship machine can t be overstated. its analogous to how september 11th inspired the expansion ofyt the security state through hundreds of meetings, phone calls and emails, twitter was getting a constant stream of censorship requests from multiple individuals at the fbom i ,the dhs, state government officials, even government contractors. contractor as taibbi concludes, quote, whats most people think of as the deep state is reallyrealy a tangled collabo creation of state agencies, private contractors, and sometimes a state funded ngos.e ngo the lines become so blurred as to be meaningless. in other words,irecti the washington swamp was constantly directing big tech to censor speech.
authorities and falling on deaf ears, and that s the end of it. but you wouldn t know that from all the coverage over the last day or two. sean: number one, did ukrainian officials offer to us evidence that, in fact, they were involved in election interference in 2016 to help hillary clinton s campaign? but i didn t see anybody in the media pursue the interference story, and i thought they cared about interference. but obviously only if it s russian interference and trump, because we know they don t care about the dirty russian dossier. that s right. keep in mind that just a few months ago, sean, we reported on your show and inside the hill that ukraine s embassy in washington confirmed, on the record, that back in 2016, the democratic national committee, trying to help hillary clinton get elected, asked the ukraine embassy to help interfere in the election by doing two things. dig up dirt on paul manafort and have you ukraine s president make a kerfuffle about manafort and trump
what they think is american wrongdoing to american authorities and falling on deaf ears and that s the end of it. he wouldn t know that from all the coverage over the last day or two. sean: number one, did ukrainian officials offer to us evidence that in fact they were involved in election interference in 2016 to help hillary clinton s campaign? but i didn t see anybody in the media pursue the interference story and i thought they cared about interference. but obviously only if it s russian interference anti-trump because we know they don t care about the dirty russian dossier. that s right. keep in mind that just a few months ago, sean, we reported on your show and inside the hill that ukraine s embassy in washington confirmed on the record that back in 2016 the democratic national committee trying to help hillary clinton get elected as the ukraine embassy to help interfere in the election by doing two things. dig up dirt on paul manafort and have you ukraine s president
what they think is american wrongdoing to american authorities and falling on deaf ears and that s the end of it. he wouldn t know that from all the coverage over the last day or two. sean: number one, did ukrainian officials offer to us evidence that in fact they were involved in election interference in 2016 to help hillary clinton s campaign? but i didn t see anybody in the media pursue the interference story and i thought they cared about interference. but obviously only if it s russian interference anti-trump because we know they don t care about the dirty russian dossier. that s right. keep in mind that just a few months ago, sean, we reported on your show and inside the hill that ukraine s embassy in washington confirmed on the record that back in 2016 the democratic national committee trying to help hillary clinton get elected as the ukraine embassy to help interfere in the election by doing two things. dig up dirt on paul manafort and have you ukraine s president
information. thank you so much. this morning, donald trump tweeted the interference story or collusion story. he thinks it s a big story. but the democrats wanted to do today because they didn t have anything new on that, yesterday last night you had the leak to the media about his apparent discussion that president obama had with president trump about meeting in the oval office. where he was warned about michael flynn. look at all the broadcast networks. they win at that game. the mainstream media covers it. what i took from the hearing today was that it was a little boring. there s no evidence of any trump collusion with russia. there s no impact that the