after repeated attempts to opportunitier to come in and collect it failed to do so. i sitting on criminality. i didn t know how much. didn t take me long that this is something that needed to get to law enforcement, specifically the fbi. so you turned it over to the fbi. then what happened? did they continue to talk to you and bring you in and explain to you what you had? no. they took the laptop and the paperwork and they backup drive on december 9, 2019. i got a phone call neighbor two weeks later just seeing if anybody had come in and collected. nobody had. that was the last i heard from the fbi. martha: all right. so now when you look at the back and forth between twitter and their discussions about what they should do with this because they were concerned that it was hacked material, did you ever think that someone had planted this laptop on you or that it was part of some sort of disinformation campaign,
good to have you with us today, senator. everybody sort of poured through these tweets which came in quick succession friday night that laid out everything that they saw in terms of what the discussion was at twitter about burying this story and under their hacked materials policy, mr. mac isaac s story is fairly straightforward there and seems like the fbi checked him out on it, senator. what do you think? i think if we re only looking at whether a private entity can do this, that doesn t the first amendment doesn t apply. if we re looking at things where the fbi is coming in and using twitter as some sort of surrogate for censoring, then we have a real problem. martha: this is a quote from the wall street journal s editorial today, senator. i want to put it up for everybody to take a look at. it says the partisan forray by
days as twitter scrambled to bury the hunter biden story way back in the weeks of before the 2020 election. the documents were released through independent journalists. here s just a couple of the key tweets here that reveal the concerns from the biden team that were backhandeled. we ve handled it. what that means, we re still digging into. this one which shows the laptop story had been removed for violation of the company s hacked materials policy. but hacking was the excuse according to one employee who was in the mix during all of this. he says that others wrote that they were struggling to understand the policy basis for squashing this story on twitter. senator rand paul weighs in in moment. first, we re joined by john paul
intelligence ranks and also people like elon musk now in charge of twitter will have the integrity to protect the first amendment and to make sure that they re not using their power to influence people based on how seriously people take what they have to say as the wall street journal pointed out. martha: i thought he wanted one more thing in there. good to see you, sir. for more on the fbi s alleged coercion in censoring the new york post reporting with andy mccarthy who calls it systematic suppression of the biden family corruption scandal. he also says don t look for a smoking gun. that s the way this works. he s up later this hour. and new information from the moscow, idaho police at the present time on the brutal murders of four university students as one of the victims parents turns to a private investigator now for answers. former idaho attorney general
wednesday, he met with tim cook from apple, who had been threatening, even though elon musk now says he wasn t threatening, but he was threatening, as was the white house, that twitter would basically be wiped out by being removed from the google and apple app stores. and so elon musk met in person with tim cook that a stroll around the pond of apple headquarters and came out of that saying, well, apple is not going to do that. never was going to do that. well, obviously, some sort of accommodation you would think was made between the two of them. and perhaps elon musk has given a sort of a tailored or redacted version of all the material behind the scenes, because i know from the lawyers who are involved in the deposition last week of fbi agent elvis chan that there s much more to the story with the social media companies and that top twitter people like your what the former head of