bret: but, first, breaking tonight. house republicans are taking a microscope to the hunter biden scandal. the oversight committee grilling former twitter executives today about their censorship of the story in the new york post which many in the g.o.p. contended could have directly affected the 2020 election. the most pointed questions though aimed at the u.s. government influence into the censorship decisions. correspondent david spunt reports tonight from the justice department. good evening, david. bret, good evening to you. a fiery hearing lasting the majority of the day. democrats argue there is nothing there but republicans believe something more sinister wer and. and this was the chance for republicans to make the case to the public. we don t know where the fbi ends and twitter begins. emotions running high. we are talking about hunter biden s half fake laptop story. i mean, this is embarrassment. front and center this new york post cover from october
down $1.50 from their peak. food inflation is coming down, not fast enough, but coming down. inflation has fallen every month for the last six months while take-home pay is going up. dana: the president getting knocked for all of those claims. biden also got a real-time fact-check over this attack. so slow my republican friends want to take the economy hos hostage. republicans want medicare and social security to sunset. i m not saying it s a majority. let me give you anybody who doubts it, contact my office. i am politely not naming them but it s being proposed by some of them. look. folks. the idea is that we re not going going to be moved into being thrown to default on a debt if we don t respond. dana: biden drawing some laughs for the wrong reason when talking about getting tough with oil companies. i said we are going to need oil for at least another decade. and beyond that. we are going to need it. dana: despite getting called out on the falsehoods, some de
moment the democrats and republicans also stood up. president biden tried to get away with a side remark for now no one wants to cut social security and medicare. we cannot balance our budget. i m not saying we should but we should be clear, we cannot balance the budget or reduce our debt without mean meaningfully reforming. if we don t want to do that than we might as well get prepared for trillion dollar deficits going forward. greg: it s your money, social security. harold: republicans for a long time and wanted to do it. my only point is you had the entire chamber last night stand up and say we won t touch it. you know who started that my lifetime? greg: mc hammer. harold: second. trump. mc hammer and trump. judge jeanine: s whole speech was about making sure we spread more money, more programs on child care, nursing homes, everything was more money, more money. dana: no pro-growth economic policy. jesse: you are forgetting
of people that said yes, he cares about the issues i care about. the other pools, what do you ask is the number one issue and you list them. inflation, the economy, crime and the border. it comes up and so i do think that s why feeling there was this disconnect last night. you could be at the white house and say you got through that, got some applause, trapped the republicans and we feel great and you still haven t moved the ball in any of the issues people are saying that they really care about through the fentanyl issue is such a bipartisan one. what a moment you could have had to talk about a story. there were a couple of people there in the guest box last night, including laura didier. she was there on behalf of our congressmen. she lost her son who was 17 years old. she said she didn t know what fentanyl was when her son died. she is googling it. what does it mean? they have come a long way to get him talking about in the state of the union. there is nothing concrete i felt
down $1.50 from their peak. food inflation is coming down, not fast enough, but coming down. inflation has fallen every month for the last six months while take-home pay is going up. dana: the president getting knocked for all of those claims. biden also got a real-time fact-check over this attack. so slow my republican friends want to take the economy hos hostage. republicans want medicare and social security to sunset. i m not saying it s a majority. let me give you anybody who doubts it, contact my office. i am politely not naming them but it s being proposed by some of them. look. folks. the idea is that we re not going going to be moved into being thrown to default on a debt if we don t respond. dana: biden drawing some laughs for the wrong reason when