Selling the message. Good afternoon. Maybe its a good thing the president ial debate for tonight was canceled by the commission. If this news had a broken at 4 00 p. M. When there was a debate in five hours it would have thrown up in the air. I had checked with steve scully myself, ive known him for a long time just to say it, wanted to check sure to make sure these reports that you are hacked were accurate. He says that is correct. He was not truthful to me either. What we are going to have tonight is to competing town halls instead of the single town hall debate with the commission of the president ial debate. Who knows what the future of the entire organization and the next debate is going to be. Donald trump will be in miami. He will be on nbc and joe biden will be in philadelphia. Both of these are at 8 00 p. M. Tonight which is interesting that theyll be competing with each other. Voters will get a chance to see them, obviously not sidebyside, but they wont be able to watch one or the other. President trump continuing earlier today to go after joe biden and hunter biden over the reports of emails that suggested hunter biden had arranged or was in the process of arranging some sort of meeting between the Ukrainian Energy executive and his father. President trump sank despite attempts by twitter and facebook to limit access or sensor, hes going to go ahead and keep saying what he is saying. Listen to what he said earlier today. A corrupt politician. Im going to say it more and more. Facebook and try to shut us down, but you know what . Everybody knows it. You dont have a kid who gets thrown out of the military, hasnt had a job, his father becomes the Vice President and now hes going into every country, walking away with millions of dollars President Trump has been campaigning to repeal the decency act which shields social Media Companies from any kind of legal action if they do engage and censorship. The president going to that well today. Listen here. Dont forget, big tech had something years ago, they got total protection. They dont get sued, they dont get anything. Well take away that section unless they shape up. Looks like something may be moving on that front as well. The Associated Press revealing the commissioner is making some moves to go down the road of doing something about section 230. Neil i know congress will hold the ceos born a important hearing on this. John, im curious to come of white house has always been skeptical and weary about the moderators chosen. Steve scully, this could feel that argument all the more. It really could and again, its a good thing that this debate was canceled because i cant imagine the storm of cow feces that would be swirling right now if this news would have broken five hours before the debate. This has been a year of incredible things and that wouldve been another one of those incredible things on top of it. The third debate coming up on the 22nd is being moderated by kristin welker. I know her well. She is a personal friend of mine. She is a top grade journalist. I would have to do, to be honest, i wonder if i done the right thing by accepting the invitation to be a moderator. I know she will do the job to the best of her ability. Neil another week away for that one. John roberts, thank you. We are not hearing much from either campaign on the news and what this says about moderators Going Forward or the process by which we select moderators for these debates. Jacqui heinrich with the biden campaign. Have they had any response among the biden folks or the Vice President himself to what happened . You know, i havent had a chance to ask that question yet. I certainly will and we will get that right to you as soon as we know. In the meantime joe biden tested negative for the coronavirus. He will appear in a couple of hours. In the meantime, let harris is sidelined from the campaign after to individual associated tested positive for the virus. The Campaign Said she has not been in contact with either of those people in the last two days so she does not need to quarantine, but she is canceling all in person events until october 19th. Just last night on msnbc she was praising the Safety Measures adopted by the campaign. Do you feel safe campaigning during covid . We have been very safe. I like to hug people and you dont hug people these days. You cant shake hands, but you can look people in the eye. You can listen. And you can be there. Harris said today she will be transparent about any test results she receives. She tested negative yesterday. She reminded folks to wear masks and follow social distancing. Joe biden today pushing back on misinformation after that bombshell article raise questions about Hunter Bidens dealings in ukraine and whether he used his father as political leverage. He said in a fundraiser he expects the opposition to throw everything at him but the kitchen sink including lies and extortion. He weighed in on the power of technology saying people sort through what is true and untrue and that takes time. Tonight joe biden will take questions in the town hall from a 21 of voters, we will see what kinds of questions he asked and if any pertain to this bombshell report. Neil to the point, has the former Vice President denied the allegations of the story . We saw the email exchange, the meetings with them. And the former Vice President. Have they denied all of that . He has flatly denied that any meeting took place. The campion says that the former Vice President s official schedule proves that, however they have not spoken to the validity of those emails. Of course the question we are all trying to sort out, figuring out the custody, whether they were compromised emails or if they are legitimate questions that still remain. Neil thank you very much. Jacqui heinrich. So much about the story we dont know. Heres what we do know, social media didnt waste any time trying to prevent. That doesnt mean that twitter, facebook had it on their sites, they made it clear it was not impossible for people to retweet or resend that to others. Who are they to decide what is worthy for people to follow. And then who are we in that process . Matthew whitaker. I think that is the bigger question, whatever you think of the details of this story, a social media giants and others took it upon themselves to say, we dont think this is wise for you to pass on. Thats a little big brotherrish there. The reason this has so much interest from a lot of folks is because not only of what happened and what this story contains, but really the best example we have seen today of the power of facebook and twitter to put their thumb on the scale. To change how much can be shared among users on their platforms. It shows the power of their monotony. This is going to get them some regulation attention from washington, d. C. Neil you know the story very well and you know about, i understand some of the confusion and skepticism around this, why you have this laptop come Hunter Bidens laptop, why he made it a point to make a couple of copies of these exchanges. Be that as it may, the social media that generally, happily allows all sorts of material, skeptical and otherwise to pass on strictly forbids this. And they made it next to impossible for anyone to communicate. Others getting it to colleagues or those they knew, but lets say facebook and twitter didnt help. Did they break any laws here doing this . Thats a good point. What facebook and twitter did was essentially, instead of answering speech with more speech or sort of entering a marketplace of ideas, they suppressed speech and show the worst of the power of their platforms. I just cant see, we had Clarence Thomas drop a footnote in a petition denial. Saying that he would be interested in taking the case. We now have Congress Calling people up for hearings on section 230 of the decency act. I think ultimately we may look back at this as the golden age of social media before washington, d. C. , heavily regulated them. Neil im just wondering, even with the risk of sending along information or even praising, as the social media giants job to decide that . Should we as users of the sites be well aware, read what you can and will and decide for yourse yourself . We have always trusted the American People to be discerning. The New York Post does not sub french publication, that doesnt have journalistic standards. What they put out seems to me wouldve been, they would have gone through their process to determine if it is fit to print. It is not just the major outlets like the times and the posts that have a monopoly on what is true. I think the whole case is really sad example of the power of social media and how ultimately they will deserve the regulation they get from congress and from the executive branch. Neil thank you. To that point, the hearings with all of these honchos including twitter, Mark Zuckerberg, and hearing from the president on this whole thing. Saying, i was right again, Steve Skelley admitted he was long about his twitter being hacked. He was suspended indefinitely. The Trump Campaign was not treated fairly by this commission. Today show good and stinks by being the first to know . Of course the president not part of that debate that was scheduled for tonight. Theyre holding separate town hall forums. This is calling into question how these debates are done in the first place. Who makes the decision . What is a decent moderator and who is not . They curtain now has been opened. A lot of people dont like what theyre seeing. Stay with us this week on the upper hands. Special guest flo challenges the hand models to show off the ease of comparing rates with progressives home quote explorer. International hand model jonjon gets personal. Your wayward pinky is grotesque. Then a high stakes pattycake Battle Royale ends in triumph. You have the upper hands its a race to the lowest rate, and so much more. Only on the upper hands. Neil does this seem right to you . Hearing what youve heard about it. Not at all. The coverup can often times draw more attention than the crime. By silencing core political speech on this important story, i think big tech has crossed a line. Neil that is the commissioner with me on fox business telling us that its probably a bad Business Strategy if nothing else to draw draw, more attention to it lets see controversial. Then you would this way and that is where we stand right now. They are questions on twitter and facebook, whether they made a big deal out of something because they didnt believe it or found it suspicious. We will talk about that New York Post article that goes into detail about email exchanges, allegedly involving hunter biden with a Top Executive over the Ukrainian Energy concern with whom he was trying to grant an audience with the then Vice President joe biden. More on the Details Behind this and how it is going way beyond the story to those who wouldnt pass along the story, ever. The story has grown beyond itself and the details, what really set off republicans as one twitter suspended the account for the New York Post, ted cruz says blocking the story amounts to a Campaign Contribution for biden. Big tech censorship has always been bad but they really crossed a line in the last 24 hours. Im not aware of their previously act during press outlets. Its not really any different than twitter blocking fox news from a story. Fox news may be right or wrong end of the New York Post may be right or wrong, but silencing the media is a direct violation of the principles end of the first amendment. Twitter says the story violates its policy because it gives email addresses that could have been hacked materials. Rudy giuliani claims he has a legal chain of custody for Hunter Bidens laptop that makes it the repair mans property. The New York Post says, email showing joe biden possibly met with ukrainian business associate of hunter biden. The former Vice President previously said he never met any of his sons business associates. The New York Post said there are emails detailing how they deal with a chinese businessman with ties to the military would be interesting for me and my family according to an emailed in your post has from hunter biden. Donald trump highlighting censorship at his campaign stop. Something mike lee also pointed to. Youve had news Media Outlets and social media platforms in the past who have been willing to run all sorts of stuff just based on somebodys suggestion that they might be true. I just want to see them applying the same standard here that theyve applied elsewhere and clearly were not having the same standards. Twitter says the suspensions of the accounts will be removed one of the tweets in question will be reviewed. Back to you. Neil thank you. What a confusing day for political back and forth. No doubt subject to separate town hall debates featuring the former Vice President and of the president of the united states. The president has weighed in on one big matter today, steve scully, out over misrepresenting a twitter that was no hacked. What do you think . I think its so reminiscent of anthony weiner. Its actually kind of sickening. And not a surprise. Anyone who saw the tweet that steve scully tried to send to anthony scaramucci, another shame to anthony. You knew he was trying to send a direct message. We dont think it sent and private. Apparently he is 100 and doesnt know how twitter works, therefore his account should be frozen. I cant stand when people do something dominate dont take responsibility for it. He can say, im a grandpa and i dont know what im doing. If hes like, i was hacked. Steve, if someone was going to hack your account, believe me they would post something pornographic or interesting. They would impose that. Neil he did admit that was not the case, he was not hacked, it does come back to this issue, how have moderators decided, we know campaigns have a list of people they can keep in mind or would like to see. The Commission Decides for itself between democrats and republicans. They have a biased view. I dont know where you stand on this, but its going to make us revisit how they go about choosing who moderates these things or who was involved. What do you think . I think that we should absolutely take a long look at how these debates are refereed. Frankly i dont trust the commission. I think the commission is they are working with the parties to ensure that there is are the only candidates that the nations fees. That is a great disservice and it limits the dialogue. These candidates dont have to be pressed if there are areas of agreement. The one thing the first debate showed us is that president ial debates can really go off the rails quite quickly and be somewhat entertaining, but also maybe we need a different format and a different way of putting these things together. Chris wallace didnt outstanding job. Steve scully, his reputation is sullied. They may think of a new adjective. It could be scullied. Neil you actually just said that. Thank you very much. We do know this was to be tonight and steve was going to be hosting this debate. Now its not happening. When we come back here, of course the judge got a break today. She was not part of these appearance is going on right now. They had senators listening to witnesses who spoke on her behalf and others who had questions. The timetable is on. They think they can get a Committee Vote going on october 22nd and the very next day a full senate vote on october 23rd. Long before the election. After this they traveled thousands of miles together, visiting troops overseas. 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