The southern border once the title 42 asylum rule ends later this month that according to msnbc. republicans have been hesitant to spend additional funds insisting steps to secure the border must be taken first. the man seen striking a person in the head with a baseball bat in upper manhattan is now back on the street. kareem azhizi has posted $7,500 in bail less than a dale after his arrest. the victim suffered a laceration to his head as well as some bruising. he is said to be in stable condition. well, tonight we learn about what kinds of threats the u.s. is facing from foreign hackers. bret baier talks with the top executive at microsoft. thanks, trace, there is a growing focus on cybersecurity and foreign influence here in the u.s. as experts become increasingly concerned about russia s aggressive tactics in the war in ukraine and other countries elsewhere. joining us now is microsoft vice chair and president brad smith.
griff: that s great context. what i want to get to, what we know so far the big take away is that this did not seem to be a decision based just on the number of days there around january 6th. because, if you look at number 7, and we can bring it up for you now, he writes. this. twitter executives removed trump in part over what executive called the context surrounding actions by trump and supporters over the course of the election and, frankly, last four plus years in the end they looked at a broad picture but that approach can cut both ways. so, it s clear that there was political ideological decisions that were far earlier conceived than the events surrounding january 6th and the ultimateth suspension. trace: i m going to let you read in if i can very quickly, griff and bring in the panel. harold ford jr. and mollie hemingway and josh kraushaar hour and it s amazing because,
Consider adding warnings or some thing that you put on your product about what you are seeing? i think we re all working together to identify what is, in effect, a new generation and new types of threats. and we have got to figure out how best to address them. i will say from our perspective, at microsoft as a company, we don t believe that censorship is the answer. we do believe that providing more information is the answer. so that people can be the judge. bret: well, we are happy to be a part of that we appreciate your time. brad smith, microsoft vice chair and vice president, thank you. thank you. bret: trace, i will send it back to you. trace: thank you, bret. still ahead, the latest on the third release of behind the scenes information from inside twitter. also, the founder of the crypto currency exchange that has monumentally crashed maybe telling his side of the story very soon.
trace: welcome back. continuing our analysis of twitter dump 3. we are back now with the panel harold ford jr. and josh kraushaar, 16 is fascinating for me. it says quoting here, the latter group and they are speaking as something they are referring to as powerful cadre of execs like yoel roth and gadde. high court issuing content rulings on the fly often in minutes and based on guesses, gut calls even google searches even in cases involving the president. mollie? number 16 is very interesting because it shows a conversation yol roth is having he wants to get rid of donald trump because donald trump said that 15,000 ohio voters had gotten the wrong absentee ballot. yoel roth says he can t say this. we should suspend it. he does this google search and find out in fact it was true what donald trump had said
Deamplification, better worked is suppression. trace: whole thing is you see trend blacklisting, howie, the whole thing goes on. it was very intratwitter lingo they were using. always comes back to elon musk who is at the very center of the storm. you know the new twitter czar under relentless attack from the left and much of the media present him as a menace, ruining twitter turning it into assess pool not like it was a paradise before. they liked having all these rules and regulations which we can now see have been blatantly abused for shear part shanship, hailing them for giving equal playing field. musk didn t know that jim baker, former fbi general counsel who resigned after internal investigation had been quietly hired by the old twitter bosses and he foiled the search for documents by bari weiss and another reporter until musk fired him. trace: of course, last question is could this lead to some kind of government intervention, regulation of social media? well, there are