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
pandemic loans, and that was the all forgiven under the biden administration in 2021 at the same time they donated around about a million dollars to democratic federal candidates. pete: it s amazing. how washington works. will: thank you, miranda. great reporting morning. we appreciate you sharing with us on fox & friends. rachel: that s why they call her the great miranda devine. pete: we should have her back tomorrow when the second dump will: i agree. rachel: that would be fantastic. all right, we bin with some headlines and a fox news alert. a 7-year-old girl who was missing for several days in texas has been found, sadly, dead according to official ls. athena strand disappeared wednesday after leaving her home polling an argument with her stepmother, authorities finding her body after following a tip leading them to a delivery driver who later confessed to the abduction. investigators say they believe that the suspect killed her after the kidnapping. the top designer of a
will: competition. pete: revolutionary sounds a little over the top, but you add that all together will: we ve got a ball here, we ve got our soccer field under us pete: we ve been testing different goals and stances. will: first one to 3 wins sub soccer. go. 1! pete: did you score? will: yeah, i did. pete: rachel, who do you think s going to win? if i don t win, i m gonna hurt him. will: 2 the-0. pete: no way. rachel, you want to come and play goalie for me or somethingsome something? will: 2-1. pete: i don t like i m going to get in there on my defense. when i pressure him with my d no, that was not in. he s off his game. rachel: the winner though, pete? pete: it s an ankle breaker, i ll tell you that.
with the russians. yes. i mean, we don t know if he is compromised, but certainly it s logical to ask that question because his family took in millions of dollars from our greatest adversary, china, not to mention russia and ukraine and romania and kazahkstan, various other countries. but china s the one that matters. and i really think that the since the president has obviously not been completely truthful about his knowledge and involvement in his son hunter and his brother jim s overseas business dealings when he was vice president, those questions are on more urgent to be answered will: right. and that s why i think elon musk has done the country a real service here. and let s hope that in his part two that he actually does reveal more details about the fbi and also about jim baker. there was one tantalizing e-mail that was released last night
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