Hold back, saying gleesons interpretations contradicts precedent and lacks a sound basis in the constitution. Sidney powell writing an even harsher critique of gleeson, accusing him of conducting a wrapup smear against flynn that demonstrates the difference between a d. Of prosecutions a department of prosecutions and a department of justice. Powell concluded in her argument that the only lawful action left for the court to take is to dismiss in its entirety the case against general flynn. And more breaking news from the department of justice, they are now recommending that lawmakers strip away all Legal Protections for big tech giants including twitter, facebook and google. Those protections fall under the section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency act, a law supported and defended by republicans and democrats a alike for decades. Under that law big tech the companies have found safe harbor from any lawsuits arising from usergenerated context or their decisions to censor what appears on their platforms. In other words, they have had the best of all worlds, big tech and social media. Finish the Justice Department now says its time for change, partly because, quote criminals and other wrongdoers are increasingly turning to Online Platforms to engage in a host of unlawful activities including child sexual ec ployation exploitation, selling illicit drugs, cyberstalking, Human Trafficking and terrorism. The president has been wanting to bring this suit for years. He campaigned in 2016 against big techs awesome, immense power. Last month President Trump signed an executive order directly addressing the partisan activism of social media platforms calling their censorship practices one of the greatest threats to free speech. And those practices practiced primarily against conservatives. It is a view shared by attorney general william barr, and heres what he had to say last week on this matter. I think there are, clearly, these entities are now engaged in censorship. And they originally held themselves out as open forum where people could, third parties could come and express their views. And they built up a tremendous network of eyeballs. Market power based on that presentation, and now they are acting much more like publishers, because theyre censoring particular viewpoints and putting their own content in there to diminish the impact of various peoples views. Lou how powerful is have those platforms become, big tech, how powerful has it become, only the federal government has sufficient power to be a countervailing influence against those platforms and those tech firms. Social media has a clearcut bias against conservatives. Conservatives have long chained about their complained about their blatant bias whether on the part of twitter, facebook, google. In an astonishing development yesterday, an activist group linked to the left wings labour party was partly responsible for google threatening to block ads of zero hedge and the federalist. Nbc reported, as it turns out erroneously, a story in which it claimed google had banned ads of the federalist over policy violations found in the comments section of stories about recent black lives matter protests. Nbc says those policy violations were compiled by the center for countering digital aid and shared with google. The federalist ads, however, have not been blacklisted, nor band by google. They have been warned of a possible suspension by google of those ads because of the policy violations they say in its comments section. Google effectively now in control of a substantial portion of the federalist content and its revenue. Thats only one example of big techs giant and evergrowing power. It is obvious that big tech and Silicon Valley intend to exert even more of that power over Americans First amendment right and not less. James baker, the former fbi general counsel involved in many ways and levels with the deep states efforts to overthrow the president , has now been hired by twitter to act as their deputy general counsel. This is the same man who helped craft a fisa warrant to spy on the trump campaign. Who will now be involved in defending twitters decisions to, quote, censor and factcheck the very same president. Facebooks Ceo Mark Zuckerberg says his social media plans to get four Million People to register to vote this year, zuckerberg also defended facebooks decision not to factcheck political ads saying the best way to hold politicians accountable is through voting. Big techs foray into politics is nothing new. Between 200518, the likes of microsoft, google and facebook, and amazon, spent a half billion dollars or more lobbying congress and sending money to candidates on both sides of the aisle. One senator says that should stop. Hes senator josh hawley. And today he has introduced a bill that would allow users to sue big tech. His bill would put companies on notice for the users legal fees and require them to pay 5,000 fine. Senator hawley, however, doesnt seem confident his bill will pass. I mean, i hope that, i hope well be able to debate it and vote on the floor of the senate. This is obviously something that the president , being censored by twitter, effectively, the federalist being deplatformed by google yesterday, this is of pressing importance. Lou well, his concerns and skepticism are well placed. And the pressing issue of constraining technology oligarchs and their trillions of dollars in market power and influence is one that at this point only the federal government, as i said, has the power to constrain. U. S. Trade representative Robert Lighthizer today on capitol hill, testifying before the house ways and Means Committee today. He dismissed any plans for the United States to decouple from communist china. I think that was a policy option years ago, i dont think its a reasonable policy option at this point. So, but i think that you will see supply chains come back as a result of u. S. Policy including the kinds of things that you all did in the tax bill but also with the regulatory space that the president has done as well as the tariffs that we put in place. Lou well, the trade representative using ambiguous language. If he was intending to assert whether the peoples republic of china is meeting its obligations under the phase one trade treaty, all he would say with any specificity is that they are, quote, on track to meet their obligations. Not that they are doing so currently. And in declaring that decoupling from china is not a policy option of the Trump Administration, that statement is clear in its implications; namely, that the United States is, as of right now, has no so lilings over what nations it will do business with, nor under what terms. Practice even worse, it can be interpreted as saying china will decide whether we do business with china irrespective of the number of americans they choose to infect with the deadly virus and without warning. It further means the United States has no so lilings, perhaps no stomach to hold accountable the communist chinese for the deaths of more than 100,000 americans when president xi chose not to warn the world of the deadly contagion it unleashed six months ago. In other words, it is not an overstatement to say the Trump Administration did not have a good day on capitol hill, nor did america. In an editorial today, the wall street journal joining the chorus of globalist elites in asking President Trump to increase the number of Foreign Workers in the United States, claiming those workers are what this economic recovery needs despite the fact we have more than 40 million americans right now unemployed, who have lost their jobs because of that china virus pandemic. The wall street journal used the tired canard that Foreign Workers are needed because americans just wont do jobs like picking produce or processing crab. The journal also used a 2004 study timely, isnt it . A 2004 to claim that limiting h1b visas actually reduces Employment Opportunities for american workers. That is hardly an established relationship or correlation and certainly not a cause. Steven camarota of the center for Immigration Studies once did a 2016 study by the researchers from the university of notre dame, ucberkeley, a study that found, quote winning additional h1b visas causes at most a moderate increase in firms overall employment and these h1bs, therefore, substantially crowd out firms employment of other workers. And that, quote, there is some evidence that additional h1bs lead to lower average Employee Earnings and higher firm profits. Ah, were getting to the heart of the thing, arent we . And according to the center for Immigration Studies, Foreign Workers who have received a nonUnited StatesCollege Degree have roughly the same literacy skills as our American High School graduates. So when people tell you we need their skills, you might think about this next element. In math americans with a College Degree are far more skills than immigrants with a foreign degree. All ignored, of course, by the advocates for more guest workers, h1b visas and so forth. On wall street today, stocks finished mixed. The dow down 170 points, the s p 11, the nasdaq gained 15. Volume on the big board dropping to 4. 6 billion shares today. Crude oil down 2 percent to 37th of 0 a barrel. And a reminder to listen to my reports three times a day coast to coast on the salem radio network. Up next, john bolton continues to carry out acts of betrayal against his former boss, saying house dems should have done more during their sham impeachment investigation. Jason chaffetz if has a few thoughts about the former National Security adviser and his betrayals. Jason chaffetz joins me when we come back. Please stay with us. In my line of work, i come face to face with a lot of behinds. So i know theres a big need for gasx maximum strength. It works fast. 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Bolton alleged President Trump tried to curry favor with turkish president erdogan and chinese president xi by intervening in several investigations. Its only in paragraph 20 of a 21page story that the times does report bolton doesnt know exactly what happened [laughter] at those times, in those episodes, nor was he sure they were even, well, offenses. But they still, he says, should have been investigated by house democrats. Thats the level you can expect from this little literary masterpiece of john boltons. Heres White House Press secretary kayleigh mcenany, her response today. What i would note is this book is fulled of classified full of classified information, which is inexcusable. Former National Security adviser john bolton should know all too well that its unacceptable to have highly classified information from the government of the United States in a book that will be published. Its unacceptable. Lou unacceptable, but its ongoing. Joining us now, former congressman, Jason Chaffetz, also fox business contributor. Jason, good to have you with us. Thanks, lou. Lou what do you make of john bolton and his encouragement of the sham impeachment to look into things he doesnt even know about . Im terribly disappointed in john bolton. He was supposed to be the career professional who could come in there as an adult and be the National Security adviser. But ive got to tell you, the antics and the ranting and raving that hes doing in trying to publish this book to line his own pockets at the expense of National Security, thats just not acceptable. And you know one thing i want them to go back is and look at, lou . Its amazing how john bolton leaves, and now we have the very competent Robert Obrien as the National Security adviser, and guess what . We dont have the same type of leaking that we did when john bolton was the National Security adviser. Remember all those calls that was going out the door, the information that was going out to these media sources . The New York Times now has more bolton information. Maybe were looking at the source of those, at least something they should look at in terms of the leaking. Lou its an excellent point. And bolton has a lot to answer for, and the list gets longer every day. He is an extraordinary, extraordinarily disappointing, petty and vindictive person. Its just, its sad to see what perhaps he always was, but certainly what he has become. Lets turn to the pompeo meeting. Why are we being kept in the dark about what the chinese and the secretary of state are meeting about . This is annoying as hell, as you might guess, to someone who works in media. Well, i dont know exactly what theyre going to be talking about, but i have a great deal of trust in secretary pompeo. There are a lot of highlevel talks that need to be happening. I gotta tell you, i dont like what was happening on capitol hill today. That did distush me. But i think we need disturb me. But i think we need to see what the result of these pompeo meetings are. I think dialogue is good in general, i want good, strong dialogue back and forth s and well see what comes of it. Lou well, lets take a look at what was happening, and part of it happening with the u. S. Trade representative, Robert Lighthizer, who has been the lead in these negotiations. He and secretary mnuchin with the chinese. He said that decoupling with the chinese is not a policy option for the Trump Administration. Your reaction to that statement. Well, thats not what the president campaigned on, thats not what he did for three and a half years. The president took the very reasonable stance and said whats fair with china is going to be fair with us. Its got to be fair, its got to be reciprocal. And if theyre not going to play fair, then, hey, were not going to allow you access to our markets. I think that is a reasonable approach and something that hes taken a pretty good hard line and stance on. To back off of that in some obscure hearing on capitol hill sends the wrong message to the chinese, to the u. S. Personnel and people like mr. Pompeo. I dont know if this is planned for by the president , but it seems like mark meadows, the chief of staff, needs to have a little discussion with mr. Lighthizer, what happened there on capitol hill. Lou well, it looks like if he lighthizer has had a record of saying exactly what he means. The extends what he said the United States is no longer a southern nation. Were incapable of making a sovereign nation. We will not be holding anyone accountable for the death of 100,000 americans, the infection of two million more. Were no longer a sovereign nation and might as well turn over a sword and surrender to the chinese. And i am not i hope you understand indulging in hyperbole here. This is absolutely devastating to the base, what was said by lighthizer on capitol hill today. Oh, it was. It was totally foreign to the policy and the position and part of the reason a lot of people voted for donald trump in the first place. So well see where it goes from here. I mean, i e was just reading stories today about some illicit cash, some forged 1 bills that were just flooding into our markets. Again, the source being the chinese. Well see if that plays out and if that is true, but the secr