was on alert. jesse: yeah. but the fbi wanted more. they started asking twitter to give update that on the users. they wanted people s locations in real time. it was at this point twitter pushed back saying they couldn t share it outside the normal legal channels without a warrant but the fbi just kept hammering forward anyway. even twitter censorship chief felt a little uncomfortable about the whole thing. he was telling other executives he was frankly perplexed by the fbi s request. didn t matter twilter was swarming with feds. they had 80 fbi agents in and out of their offices, plus, 15 former fbi agents working for them like their top lawyer, james baker, a former fbi lawyer who had his hands all over the russian collusion hoax and tried to white wash any of these documents for coming out. he got caught and got canned but basically, the fbi owned
from jim baker who was at that point twitter s deputy general counsel, top lawyer in effect. he had come to twitter from the fbi where he had been the fbi s general counsel. so i think the fbi was trying to pre-censor a story because, as we know from if james comey on, they were doing their best to damage and destroy the trump administration. will: really quickly, and i m glad that you highlight, miranda, what we all mow to be true, this story is about potential corruption. there s an effort on the left to try to make this a story about decency, meaning it was about nude pics of hunter biden. this was never about that, and it wasn t about hacked materials, it was about corruption. on that note, and i want to save a minute to get to one other thing you re reporting, you focus several times on the fbi in this conversation. what am i to make though of the entire intelligence apparatus? it was not just the fbi
checkers which, ironically, are opinion clerks. if they don t like an opinion, they ll call something missing con text. what they do is it then reduces the reach of your page and shuts you down. and if you get a strike, you can be entirely demonetized and kicked off the platform. they never do that to liberals. this war on free speech is real, guys. this is not a joke. and the fact that leftists can t seem to get their heads out of their rumps and understand that a conservative government with malicious intent can turn this on them is really disturbing. you ve got to remember, i put my money where my mouth is. i ve been an investor in a lot of these platforms, and our thing over at rumble is, hey, come on over. we love liberals because the best counter to free speech you don t like is other free speech. i mean, didn t we used to all agree on this? will: thought so, yeah. one more thing about that elon story. the most disturbing part of that twitter thread and great job by matt taib
rachel: all right, we have a fox news alert. elon musk exposes twitter piles showing censorship of hunter biden s laptop and the tech giant s political bias. he writes: twitter acting by itself to suppress free speech is not a first amendment violation, but acting under orders from the government to suppress free speech with no judicial review i is. our guest, dan bongino, is here to react. i m not even going to ask you a question. i think that s enough of a tee-up for dan bongino. yeah, listen, here s the deal, okay? the government cannot deputize private actors to do what the government is forbidden from doing constitutionally. you and i talk about this tonight on my show with regards to the second amendment. they re trying to deputize banks to get a gun list. but on free speech you can t say to twitter, listen, you need to do this on our behalf and communicate with government
rachel: i m friends with dan, he didn t ask me to come. will: you guys don t like soccer. pete: let s not get into that right now. will: let s get into it, you want to do it? a fox news alert pete: we re seeing confirmation that democrat officials played a major role in those the efforts. rachel: alexandria of joins us live in washington with the details. reporter: good morning. this thread that was posted showcases how initial skepticism by social media companies over the hunter biden laptop story specifically rolled over into overt partisanship. the writer turned the information into a lengthy twitter thread posted last night, i taibbi wrote just weeks before president biden was elected into office, requests from connected actors to delete betweens had become routine. one executive wrote to another, more to review from the biden