how the social media company rigid the covid debate with elon musk teasing there are more files to come. correspondent aishah hasnie joins us tonight. good evening, aishah. rich, good evening to you. in a relatively brief thread writer says both the trump and biden white house is, quote: directly pressed twitter to moderate covid content. you, however they saw fit and that the platform oftentimes complied. today s newly released twitter files focus on the pandemic. how the government tried to control the narrative. writer da david says the trump white house came looking for help from the tech companies to combat misinformation about runs on grocery stores. but there were runs on grocery stores. he also reveals twitter monitored the trump white house sharing an email exchange where twitter s former deputy general counsel jim baker asked why a tweet from then president trump telling people not to be afraid of covid was not violating their covid misinformation policy. twitte
i m happy. vice president harris should thank governor abbott because he is saving her the trip that she desperately does not want to make to the border to see the problem. he is bringing the border to her. he is saving her that trip. rich: we re back with our panel there discussing some of the migrants getting bused up north here, guys. i want to get this congressman richie tores tweet. in response to that he says governor abbott claims to be plea life christian yet shows no regard for the lives of children left shivering in the freezing cold alleged christmas eve dropping off migrants in 18-degree weather is so cruel that it ought to be criminal. mollie, what do you make of that. i m glad that he cares actually about the human rights crisis that is our completely open border that we have pretty much the entire country right now is 18 degrees so i m not sure about the particularity of his argument but we have turned over our border willfully to control by the cartels who engage
more of an issue around the country? it becomes an issue because first of all the biden administration hasn t put forth any plan to deal with the expected surge of migrants. even while it says the border is secure and all of that, we all that s not true we all know the surge is coming. even veteran democrat dick durbin says this is a security and humanitarian nightmare that is only going to get worse. now, i do think they got better press for sends to martha s vineyard in the summer because that s a very nice place. but, without some plan from the administration, and without dealing with the fact that house republican also now be able to hold hearings, issue subpoenas and so forth keep this in the news that it was brushed under the rug from much of the mainstream media during the mid terms, i think this is going to become an unavoidable issue and we need a plan. some kind of plan. you know, mollie, he walked about this a little bit that $1.7 trillion funding bill, both sides seem t
misleading label. he was shadow banned. you couldn t share or like anything he had to say for his opinion and it s like the hunter biden laptop all over again except with life or death consequences. rich: mollie, where do you even begin to draw the line if you are a government agency looking into all of this let alone several government law enforcement agencies? right. we know that there were multiple agencies that were using twitter and also reasonably surmise other big 10 companies suppress freedom of speech and freedom of press. right to get together and have debates. this is extremely nefarious that the government was involved. multiple bad actors here that the government was involved in any way trying to censors anybody is really is a problem. not each about what people was saying is true or not. what we learned in twitter files frequently people were censored for saying absolutely true things.
also have to to mollie s point science not being settled look at this as a project in motion. there is a timeline here, we have seen that the trump administration was very active in working with the social media companies to make sure the bad information wasn t getting out there and then when the biden administration came, in they were doing that as well. so this is a bipartisan reaction to a once in a lifetime pandemic that no one had any good answers to. and i think that you are seeing the fact that content moderation is difficult. i personally found this to be the most interesting batch of twitter files or whatever we re calling them but i wish that they had focused more on the doctor, as howie pointed out, the people who knew what they were talking about being censored vs. somebody like alex berenson already said he was controversial. not just controversial he was dead wrong about a lot of things that are really important. he had said for instance one in every 500 kids under 5 who