washington where things stand with our chad pergram. hi, chad. neil, good afternoon. the house freedom caucus just took a formal position in the debt ceiling debate. it endorses the bill passed by the house in april. the caucus says there should be no further discussion until the senate passes the legislation. the house bill, we passed it. that is the mechanism right now sitting there that there s 11 democrats in the senate and the democratic president of the united states that stand between that bill and it becoming law. it was thought that house speaker kevin mccarthy would lose a good chunk of republicans who could not accept anything less than the house passed bill. the question is can mccarthy get just enough gop members on board and can democrats provide the rest. speaker mccarthy has limited capacity to really negotiate. he s handcuffed and in leg irons from that 15 votes that it took to get them elected. if he is able to negotiate something, once he tries to
exception in the rules of congress. we have the whistleblower testimony, the whistleblower does not wish that to be made. john: fireworks on capitol hill, barbs at the house weaponization subcommittee hearing. fbi under a microscope after several whistleblowers accuse the agency of unfair treatment. sandra: employees had security clearances revoked against the politicized rot. republicans accuse the bureau of a partisan agenda. we ll take it up with katie pavlich and ben coming up. john: first, the supreme court granting a huge win for big tech and a pair of liability cases as the fight to protect free speech continues on capitol hill. i m john roberts in washington, great to have you here today. sandra: great to be here again, john. good to be with you. this is america reports. nation s highest court has now determined that twitter was not responsible when third party content was posted on its platform by the terror group isis. john: and side stepping on a case
calls institutional rot and conservative bias as well. the f.b.i. recently revoked two of the witnesses security clearances. the bureau refact clearances. democrats expected to pounce. last hour we heard this in a moment. dana: all this after the durham report found the f.b.i. was biased against president trump. jordan says it s part of a larger problem. politics is driving the agenda in far too many federal agencies. read the durham report from a couple of days ago where they outline where you had the f.b.i. and the justice department start an investigation with no predicate. if you are a parent attending a school board meeting, a pro-lifeer praying at a clinic or a catholic simply going to mass you are a target of the government. target of the f.b.i. if you re one of these folks willing to come forward and talk about what s going on out there, you get attacked. they will try to crush you. bill: that was a preview. we heard it an hour ago. david spunt at the justice
hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in washington, d.c. with a gap between the reality of our post-january 6th politics and the republican party s alternate reality with its paranoid delusions about the deep state and the glorification of the capitol insurrection has never been wider. today s hearing on capitol hill by the so-called weaponization committee led by ohio republican jim jordan, involved, according to the republicans on that committee, fbi whistleblowers talking about supposed abuses at the bureau. that delusion was undercut by the reality before the hearing began. the washington post reported two fbi agents set to appear before a house subcommittee thursday had their security clearances revoked this morning over security concerns. that is according to a letter sent by the fbi to the house judiciary committee on wednesday and obtained by the washington post. those two witnesses are steven friend and marcus allen, and according to the new york times, quote, mr. all
expose the truth about things they re doing that are wrong. the fbi collusion with big tech. to shut down differing viewpoints is the end of any analytical or investigative body. this hearing is a vehicle to legitimize the events of january 6th. the level of corruption, weaponization, politicization that has occurred at the highest levels of the doj and the fbi. this hearing is evidence as if we needed any more that maga republicans are a threat to the rule of law in america. as if you re one of the good employees in our government that come forward to talk about the targeting, you then become a target. martha: two different takes there. so nicole parker is a former fbi special agent. she said she left the bureau because she couldn t be part of what she saw is sadly a politically weaponized arm of the united states government. first, let s go to justice david spunt who lays out for us what they were talking about in there today. hi, david. quite a hearing. two