president pence to get this done for former president trump. as we look ahead to january 6th until that day and some of those phone calls, what were members of congress that we talked about a lot in the show. what were they doing and were they encouraging president trump to step forward, hey, stand down to the rioters who were attacking the capitol. what were they saying to the president because there were a lot of speculations of the conten of the phone call. a lot of efforts were being made at the time. members of congress like leader mcconnell were not talking to president trump. when you see the lack of power among the republican leadership to do anything to constrain this president and this reporting, this whole story peril, a
fits into the landscape of social media in this day and age. yeah. it s the opposite of what you just heard there. it s the opposite of community and good things, basically. it s become a platform for hate. people who have been banished from twitter. the alex jones types end up there because it s a place that doesn t ban anything. in fact, the shooter for days before went on a wild conspiracy theory, anti semitic, that the migrant caravan was invading the u.s. with jewish money. he didn t want it to continue, so he went and did something about it. that s allowed on gab. that s a thing that s very much even the posts that he reposted up until gab was shut down over this weekend, were still up and live after the shooting. this is a thing it s tconten that s per sishs and disgusting. it s run by people who want it that way.
right, they went to such lengths to scrape this together at the last minute that they didn t even actually take her picture for this magazine cover or even talk to her for this magazine cover. quote, miss mcdougal has not participated in a photography shoot or interview with men s journal staff, according to american media employees and a person familiar with the matter. the editor planned to use old pictures and to recycle archived conten for a piece about her fitness routine. so that s the first new thing. putting together this magazine cover, scratching it together. all of a sudden to make it look like that 150,000 deal with karen mcdougal to cover up the president s alleged affair, trying the make it look like wasn t that at all. they were really after her for her mastery of the cable pulley. or whatever.
against one political party or the other. we don t want to go down that road. that requires facebook stepping up to do something itself. paul: paying for content, alicia? well, i think it s going to try to resist that because it doesn t want to be held responsible for the content. and that would obviously also crimp its profits. look right now, they ve enjoyed legal protection under section 230 of the law which protects it from liability for user generated consistent ten conten. i think there s a concern if it had to pay for content, maybe section 230 could be reinterpreted, in order to hold it li bell. libel. they don t want to serate curate the content. paul: cable companies pay for cable content. could they pay newspapers for content as rupert murdoch has
against one political party or the other. we don t want to go down that road. that requires facebook stepping up to do something itself. paul: paying for content, alicia? well, i think it s going to try to resist that because it doesn t want to be held responsible for the content. and that would obviously also crimp its profits. look right now, they ve enjoyed legal protection under section 230 of the law which protects it from liability for user generated consistent ten conten. i think there s a concern if it had to pay for content, maybe section 230 could be reinterpreted, in order to hold it li bell. libel. they don t want to serate curate the content. paul: cable companies pay for cable content. could they pay newspapers for content as rupert murdoch has