Christopher bedford, senator James Lankford, dr. Alveda king on the breaking headlines today. Big tech gone bad. Headlines, do they have the power to change elections, even stop probes of politicians in any way . Were finding out more what power they do have. Republican senator mike lee taking it neck level. The left is mad that twitter and facebook dont have more power to censor those they disagree with. Conservatives like senator josh hawley claiming that the two plus google are coordinating to do just that. Plus we bring you jack dorsey on the ropes, forced to confess that yes, twitter did censor that bombshell New York Post story on Hunter Bidens laptop without any substantial justification. Plus weve got more on top gop senators now vowing to continue probing the bidens business dealings. We have a new development there. Also tonight, democrat politicians and officials, they have got a new message for americans this holiday season. It is lockdowns for thee, hawaii for me. Ordering the rest of us to lock down, stay at home wheel they get their tan on. Going on junkets to hawaii. Just latest in their do as they say not as i do state law. A big state governor trying to apologize over all of this. Well bring it to you. To the growing mutiny against speaker nancy pelosi, leaving already shaky democrat majority in the house on very thin ice. We have the update there. This story, backlash against the media. Cnns Brian Stelter downplaying riots in the nations capitol. How can we stop the violence if the media wont cover it . Im elizabeth macdonald. The evening edit starts right now. Elizabeth well go right at it. Welcome you to the show. Youre watching the fox business network. With me now former House Oversight chair, jason chaffetz. Ceos at twitter and facebook not conscriptioning in front of understand judiciary. Were digging into with senator cruz. Jack dorsey admitting the censoring the hunter biden story from the New York Post with no evidence. Your take own this . The heads of the Tech Companies were inconsistent. The bias is undoubtal. It was in the hearing when they have such huge donors within these companies all going to the democratic side. But look, they were given special access, a special way to communicate by congress. It is being abused. Congress needs to do something but as i think mike lee, senator mike lehigh lighted, this may very well end up being a federal trade commission issue because of the deceptive trade practices that these companies are engaged with. That will ultimately do more to change the trajectory of these companies than just about anything else. Elizabeth will bring lawsuits on that front, the platform issue versus editorial content issue, acting like editors with protection on 230. With the fcc route that could bust them up, right or wrong, is that right . Not only can bust them up. What theyre claiming the consumer gets. You trade your personal information, your access, they monetize that but they dont deliver what they say. They are actually manipulating what you see and how you see it. If you go to follow a particular person, say a mike lee or a ted cruz, you may not actually get to see that content. And so that is deceptive and on its face and i think the ftc will be the clearest, easiest, most difficult route for the Tech Companies to deal with because they have been deceiving people and they view it all and the guise well it is a algorithm. Elizabeth yeah. Were just a platform. Were just a town square when theyre acting like editors making political choices and decisions on what is seen. You know, weve got senator josh hawley saying theyre all talking to each other on facebooks task tool. Well dig into that later. Ostensibly they say were not in cahoots with each other but you know we keep seeing that facebook and twitter employees talking honestly saying, yeah, were talking to each other. We dont like what conservatives and the other size says. Your final word on this story. Well move on after this. It always seems to go against conservatives. Hey, sorry, we improperly censored that hunter biden story. They do that after the election. It never goes the other direction. It always goes against republicans and conservatives. That is infuriating. They say it after the fact. Now to the vote count. Oral arguments began on the Trump Campaign pennsylvania lawsuit. Were still not seeing evidence in court to overturn the biden victories and vote counts in pennsylvania, wisconsin, arizona, georgia. Biden is leading trump by more than 100,000 votes there. The issue the president is using words like corruption, fraud or rigged, those are really serious charges, if theyre true it undermines our democracy. If false they still undermine democracy. People say you cant throw around those words for political gain. So is, that is the issue. So wheres put up or shut up stuff . Where is the trump teams proof . Are we going to see it . When will we see the socalled bombshells the vote was rigged via Computer Systems and the like . What do you think . Well if youre going to actually have a court move in a direction or force a state to do one thing or the other you have to have solid evidence. There is a reason why you do the election in the first week of november, it take as good month to six weeks for states to certify it. I dont blame the Trump Administration or donald trump personally at all for going and pushing and making sure that every valid, legal vote is counted. I think that is what we need. Not just for this election, we need it for the future elections as well. He should exhaust those efforts but they need real evidence. Elizabeth we got breaking news just now in las vegas. The Trump Campaign lawyer announced his belief that President Trump won nevada. The campaign along with state republicans will officially contest the race in a court filing in carson city. Since the election, Trump Campaign, other plaintiffs they lost 20 Court Actions challenging the vote count. Your reaction to the news coming out of nevada right now . Hey if they have something, they want to announce theyre going to challenge it in court, then have at it. Im sure i would hope that the court would look at it very quickly. That the state of nevada would be cooperative in their efforts in making sure that we have a good, clean, vote. But i havent seen what that evidence i was. I heard the allegation but we have to actually see what the evidence is. Elizabeth the second week of december is when states really start to finalize the electoral counts. That deadline is coming up. Move on to iran. President trump was reportedly talking to advisors about going after either with cyber strike or a missile strike irans main nuclear site in natanz. Reports he was talked out of that. Irans stockpile is 12 times stronger than it was under the iran deal. Report u. S. Troops coming out of iraq and afghanistan. Senator mitch mcconnell, congressman adam kinzinger, they dont like that. Reaction to these stories . Donald trump has been working on this nearly four years as the president. Im sure with his cabinet and senior advisors like Robert Obrien they will continue to do the right thing. Our waffled is much safer place under Donald Trumps leadership. Im proud of what he has done for this nation. I do hope he makes the proper adjustments and sets the world in the right direction because joe biden through his decades of service has gotten just about every single Foreign Policy issue wrong. That came from the former secretary of defense for barack obama. So you know, i got to tell you, it doesnt give me a lot of confidence if joe biden is going to do something. I like what donald trump has actually done. I hope he continues to do it. Elizabeth we hear you. Jason, thanks so much for joining us. We really appreciate it. Thank you. Elizabeth and wave got more on the grilling of big tech ceos by senator judiciary with texas republican senator ted cruz. He was there today going right at it. He is coming up later in the show. Well bring you an update on that spacex capsule that launched sunday night, the spaceship and the four astronauts aboard the ship successfully docked with the International Space station last night. They were greeted with hugs from the astronauts already on board the space station. Kate rubens and a pair of russians. That is a feel good story for you. Next up, were still going at this. Congressman Kelly Armstrong from house judiciary, were going to get his take on jack dorsey, forced to admit twitter did censor the bombshell New York Post story on Hunter Bidens laptop without any substantial justification. We have more on Top Republican senators vowing to continue probing the bidens business dealings. We have a Brand New Development on this front. Well bring you the news there next. The editorial decision at the New York Post to run the story was overridden by twitter and facebook in different fashions to prevent its dissemination. Now if that is not making an editorial decision i dont know what would did you know that geicos whole 15 minutes thing. That came from me. Really. My first idea was in one quarter of an hour, your savings will tower. Over you. Figuratively speaking. But thats not catchy, is it . Thats not going to swim about in your brain. So i thought, what about. 15 minutes. 15 percent. Serendipity. 15 minutes could save you 15 or more on Car Insurance. Lexus has been celebrating driveway moments. Heres to one more, the lexus december to remember sales event. Get 0 financing on all new 2020 and 2021 lexus models. 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And we should do something about it. Elizabeth you wonder if youre going to get around to yanking their legal liability shield from third party lawsuits, beg your pardon, lawsuits from Third Party Content. Jason chaffetz talked about ftc lawsuits. We dont know where that is headed. It was a striking admission, right . This is a story not going away with the hunter biden story. Senators ron johnson, Chuck Grassley, plan to investigate business dealings overseas. What do you think will happen next there . Well they have. I mean that i think the most telling part of the New York Post story and twitter, you and i talked about this before. Nobody actually denied any of it. Hey, we made a quick determination it was hacking, hacking is a thing. Like there is evidence that it occurs. You dont just pull an article 30 seconds out unless youre trying to do it for in this case political reasons. I mean it is obvious that they were trying to keep a story off of their platform that was harmful to candidate biden. Im glad senator johnson and graham are going to continue the investigation. Elizabeth i hear what youre saying. We have senator ron johnson, homeland security, senator grassleys senate finance, both putting out a report, those committees, saying they found potential criminal activity and it involved business dealings with kazakhstan, russia and china. We have the New York Times reporting that the cefc Energy Conglomerate that hunter biden did work with, there was connections with other family members, that cefc was working as a middleman to basically facilitate oil deals and energy deals with iran. And also was alleged to be dealing arms in conflict zones. That is the chinese conglomerate that hunter biden was connected to. So you see that. Now you see the daily caller reporting that hunter biden still owns 10 of chinesebased private equity firm, bhr, bhr equity fund. It houses offbalance sheet llc companies. Congressman, senator johnson says there will be more coming out, more financial transactions. It probably has to do with the shell companies, right . Absolutely. I think you know, Foreign Agent registration act was not used all together that much before the mueller investigation. But now it is out there. It has been used it was obviously used for political reasons against the president during that entire episode and may come to regret that decision because this seems like a much more worthy endeavor for what the Foreign Agent registration act is. Again, this is all worthy of more investigation. There is a paper trail that continues to get bigger. We need to continue to follow it and know what was going on. Elizabeth we got some breaking news. Senator Chuck Grassley has been diagnosed with covid19. We do wish him well. Wanted to give the viewer that information. We also wanted to move on to this, here is the question, should the Inspector General of the justice department, michael horowitz, should he investigate the fbis handling of the hunter biden laptop and whether or not the fbi failed to act in a teamly manner to investigate potentially criminal material on it . We dont know what is going on with the laptop. We heard it is connected to a Money Laundering probe. This feels like a repeat of the fbi handling of the Anthony Weiner laptop in 2016. What do you think, should the i. G. Step in here . I dont know necessarily it would be the i. G. We dealt with inspector horowitz. I think he does a fair job. I dont think he would connect the last dot as quickly i would like him to connect it but absolutely there is lot of Different Things that gone on with this thing. They had the laptop in their possession for a tremendous amount of time. Obviously the information on there was volatile and doesnt seem they did a whole lot with it. Elizabeth getting back to senator ron johnson telling the hill magazine, when they came out with their Senate Report on biden business dealings overseas, involving a lot of shell companies, millions of dollars coming out of china, russia, kazakhstan, ukraine going towards the bidens, he says that broke the logjam when they came out with that report. Tony bobulinski, Hunter BidensBusiness Partner step forward. Then you have the story about the hunter biden laptop come forward too. There is more shoes to drop. What do you think, congressman . Prior to that politico was writing about in in 2013. The Obama Administration was concerned. This is dud not just pop up. It has been going on a long time. If they used the vim and vigor the way they investigated trump a lot more would have dropped earlier. They need to investigate it fully. Elizabeth congressman, good to see you come back soon. Thanks. Elizabeth next up north ted ser cruz is with us. We will give us his view on the hearing today. Is anything going to be done about this . He is next. Your policies are applied in a partisan and selective manner. You claim it was hacked materials yet you didnt block the distribution of the New York Times story that alleged to talk about President Trumps tax returns even though a federal statute makes it a crime to distribute someones tax returns without their consent . You didnt block any of that [ engines revving ] its amazing to see them in the wild like th shhh. [ engine revs ] for those who were born to ride, theres progressive. [ engine revs ] children laughing music swells dog barking music fades exhales experience the power of sanctuary at the lincoln wish list sales event. Sign and drive off in a new lincoln with zero down, zero due at signing, and a complimentary first months payment. Hey, our workers comp insurance is expiring. Should i just renew it . Yeah, sure. Hey there, Small Business owner. 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