scott plan. so they are really just taking something that they road tested in the last midterm cycle to actually great effect considering how well they did considering the political headwinds. and they are trying it out on the cusp of a potential 2024 run. you are talking about that. a heavy influence, emphasis on pocketbook issues. it really steams indicate that the white house is at the moment trying to really zero in on the things that they know they need to shore up, and that s the sense of the american people, that the president is addressing their real economic uncertainty and pain when they go to the grocery store, when they go to the pharmacy and trying to pay for goods on a paycheck that isn t going as far as it used to. michael, didn t republicans play into the president s hands with the heckling last night, particularly with the line about sun setting social security and medicare?
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reporter: that something democrats pointed to as a sign of hypocrisy. while democrats slammed the premise of wednesday s hearing it s just an abuse of public resources and time. i can assure you this committee will succeed in holding the bidens accountable. so much of the evidence of wrongdoing from this family is located in that hard drive that you all led the american people to believe was russian disinformation. reporter: now we ve heard a lot about republicans including comer meeting privately with twitter ceo elon musk. lauren boebert, the congresswoman, suggested that twitter s staff had given her more information about steps to suppress her personal account in 2021. but that was effectively it. just ahead, lebron james breaks a decades-old record to
deny any government wrongdoing. cnn political correspondent sara murray has details. each witness will get reporter: for house republicans, a high-profile kickoff into the investigation into the president biden s son and twitter. the hunter biden laptop story was published on wednesday. twitter did not acknowledge the mistake for at least 24 hours. reporter: republicans on the house oversight committee making the still unproven case that twitter suppressed the story ahead of the 2020 election at the behest of the federal government. america witnessed a coordinated campaign by social media companies, mainstream news and the intelligence communities to suppress and delegitimize the existence of hunter biden s laptop and its contents. reporter: but a trio of former twitter officials testifying including james baker, pushed back on that narrative. i am aware of no unlawful collusion or direction from any government agency or political campaign on how twitter should ve handl
they unwittingly did him a favor. i don t think the teleprompter is the president s friend. i think he speaks too quickly. i think he scrambles his words and is often ineffective. here last night when he was handed the opportunity to respond in real time and he accepted it, he showed deftness important for an 80-year-old president and candidate for re-election where there are concerns about his age. the ability to think on his feet and respond in kind i think is the memorable part of the entire evening. and the question that lingers, wolf, is whether this will change the way that he campaigns for re-election. you remember, and we were in the midst of covid in the 2020 cycle, he was, you know, limited in wilmington, spoke to the media in short spurts. will he now get out on the trail and be more willing to i can hear them saying it, let biden be biden. good point. does this line of attack from the president sort of undermine