take these cuts off the table. remember i said it no, i m serious. remember what i said, i said so you re not going to cut it, huh? no, i said okay, we ve got a deal. i sure hope that s true. president joe biden hits the road following a strong state of the union address keeping republicans in the spotlight for proposed cuts to social security and medicare. plus speaker kevin mccarthy spent parts of biden s speech trying to calm down rowdy members of his own party. we ll show you what he had to say about their outbursts. and house republicans got to air their grievances against twitter. we ll have the big moments from yesterday s contentious oversight hearing. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, february 9th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. president joe biden is continuing his populous push following his state of the union address taking his message to the swing state of wisconsin yesterday. the president spoke t
the 2024 road show has begun. the lead starts right now. president biden leaving the beltway. taking the state of the union message to voters in some key battleground states. will he get cheers or jeers from the american people? then, more than 12,000 people now have been killed. the death toll from the earthquake in turkey and syria continuing to rise to staggering heights as hope fades of finding survivors left in the rubble. and a passenger s battery catching on fire mid flight, forcing a plane to make an emergency landing and sending four people to the hospital. what you need to know about flying with potentially dangerous electronic devices. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. the scene after the state of the union address looks like the campaign trail. president biden is in the crucial swing state of wisconsin, where he is talk ja jobs and the economy. echoing the themes of last night. kamala harris is in georgia, another key battleground state, that you mig
immigrants that specifically included the phrase go back to your country or go back to where you came from, correct? yes, that was specifically included. you brought this up to the vice president of trust and safety, correct? i did, yes. and she overrode your assessment, didn t she? yes, she did. and something interesting happened after she overrode your assessment. a day or two later twitter seemed to have changed their policies, didn t they? yes, it was removed from the content moderation guidance as an example. so twitter changed their own policy after the president violated it in order to potentially accommodate his tweet? yes. thank you. so much for bias against right-wings on twitter. of course trump s lies only intensified leading up to the january 6th insurrection. although he was banned from the platform after the attack they urged companies to take action
conversation, as you know. covid-19 doesn t care if you re republican or democrat. yeah? i agree. it s interesting. i wondered what you thought when your colleague congresswoman casio cortez, argued that twitter s biases go both ways. and she used a 2019 trump tweet when he told four congresswomen of color to go back where they came from. why don t they go back and fix the crime-infested places. and aoc asked how they hand led that in 2019. at the time, twitter s policy included a specific example, and it came to banned abuse against immigrants as the specifically included the phrase, go back to your country or go back to where you came from. correct? yes. that was included in the content moderation guidance as the example. you brought this up to the vice president of trust and safety, dell harvey, correct?
i did, yes. she overrode your assessment, didn t she? she did. and something interesting happened. a day or two, twitter seemed to changed their policies, didn t they? yes. that trope, go back to where you came from, was removed from the content moderation guidance as an example. twitter changed their own policy after the president violated it, in order to potentially accommodate his tweet? yes. so, what do you say to a constituent who watched the hearing and says, it s important that we re having this conversation. it s a good thing that we are. but it does seem like these are a bunch of folks at twitter and social media companies maybe in over their heads, making up rules as they go along. sometimes it benefits democrats and sometimes conservatives. what do you say? i think that s fair. it s important when there s a standard and we re talking about the first amendment, as a federal government, my point was today. we shouldn t be censoring people, if we don t like th