michael shellen berger found this, and it s t essentially celebrating that the the fbi had paid $3.4 million for, quote-unquote, processing requests. so, in other words, all those requests that were coming through to twitter and we see all the e-mail traffic talking about what a burden it was for the company to process all of these requests, that s what the money was for. service for hem to look at all these requests it was for them to look at these requests harp coming from all these different agencies. maria: unbelievable. and some of the requests were just incredible. i want you to tell the us about those requests because at some point some of the lawmakers like dianne feinstein or adam schiff would just say shut these people s accounts down, period. the fbi would say these are the accounts that we hi are well, you tell me what they said. but what are the other requests that the fbi was making? what did they want to know from twitter? yes. as i was reading these tens of
millions of dollars to the social media company. the taxpayer funds were allegedly used to reimburse twitter for what was called processing requests from the fbi. lucas tomlinson has details tonight. fbi officials confirm the agency paid twitter nearly $3.5 million. money critics say was used to help suppress information, including the new york post hunter biden laptop story. author michael shellenberger first reported the payment as part of the so-called twitter files revealing a close working relationship between the fbi and the social media giant. the fbi tells fox news it was part of routine reimbursements for twitter complying with standard legal requests. i m happy to report we have collected $3,415,323 since october 2019 reports an associate of jim baker in early 2021. baker, twitter s former deputy general counsel and before that the top fbi lawyer was fired by elon musk for his
what they need to help settle in the community, but also to let them know they are welcome here. we found that many of the families are quite cold when they come here, because they are leaving 40 degree heat and they are coming to what we think is quite warm and we are going around in t shirts and they are thinking it is very chilly. dinesh is here with his wife and children. there are new shoes. a football. small things that can never replace their home. stability. their family still at risk back in afghanistan because of the work he once did to help us. an interpreter with the british, so many have watched the news wishing they knew a way to help. kay is a university lecturer. i spent last night processing requests for phone credit for a number of refugees to top up
is the implementation. homeland security secretary john kelly says it will be phased in as opposed to immediately put in place. airports are staffed around the country prepared to help those caught up in the ban. christine and dave. thank you. also on immigration, the trump administration will stop processing requests for h-1b worker visas. it could disrupt business in the u.s. companies could pay $1200 to get worker visas approved in 15 days. the normal wait time is 3 to 6 months. demand is three times the normal demand. it is suspended to clear the backlog of applications. buses say that may hurt them. the tech industry uses they m t help close the skills gap.