guy benson, townhall.com, a host of the guy benson show, katie pavlich, whit what do u make of the twitter veils that came out and the reaction over the last couple of days. i agree completely with the wall street journal, been a lot made about the twitter files being about exposing democrats and their control over the public conversation on that platform before elon musk was able to purchase it and reveal what was going on during the 29th election and, as he said, he is going to put more information out about what happened after that. the biggest issue here is, the federal government using a private entity, a private company, not to do something that they are not allowed to do legally or constitutionally. they are using a private institution to censor speech that they disagree with, that they claim was disinformation or misinformation, based on fact. a real serious problem for the future of the country when you
as you might expect, the biden administration is not viewing the twitter revelations with the same interest as republicans and others. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich has reaction from the white house live from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening to you, bret. the white house previously said they have been keeping a close eye on twitter with respect to misinformation under elon musk s new ownership but after musk showed how the company used its hacked materials clause to suppress that bombshell report about the president s some ahead of the 2020 election, the white house is shrugging it off. it won t do anything to help a single american improve their lives. we see it as an interesting, you know, coincidence and, you know, it s a distraction. officials dismissive today after elon musk released internal communications showing the democratic party pushed executives to silence certain voices on twitter ahead of the election.
ceo is promising we haven t heard the whole story yet. there will be smoking gun. the question is what happened after the election. twitter ceo elon musk teasing there is more to come after his release of internal emails relating to the social media giant s actions prior to the 2020 election. musk allowing independent journalist matt taibbi and bari weiss access to the internal documents. house republican leader kevin mccarthy praised musk for putting out the truth and says it s time for oversight of big tech now we need to look at facebook and google. these are become arms of the democratic party. taibbi laid out round one of what he learned in a lengthy tweet thread on friday. he wrote that posts and users were routinely removed at the request of both political parties. noting democrats held more clout on that front due to political leanings of staff. matt posted like political contributions of twitter being
out there, it is definitely putting focus on the supreme court on a hot button social topic. bret: the same-sex marriage bill, as i mentioned, making its way to the white house after passing in the senate. in the georgia runoff, katie, heading in, the polls show incumbent senate raphael warnock with a lead, perhaps within the margin of error, depending on what you re looking at, has it about 3-something points, a little bit more, 4 points. your take as runoffs are different than any kind of different election. they are, georgia has had a lot of that, brian kemp, real it be elected governor, it sailed through election against stacey abrams, campaigning for that, lindsey graham, a republican on the senate, explaining how important it is for republicans to enact that seat based on 5050/50 split in the senate with
bret: mike, thank you. a political storm is underway with conservatives accusing social media giant twitter censorship in the lead up the to 2020 election. new ceo promising we haven t heard the whole story yet. former president trump is blaming the media for mischaracterizing the post he made after that twitter story broke. he posted, quote: the fake news is actually trying to convince the american people that i said i wanted to terminate the constitution this is simply more disinformation and lies. this is what he said a massive fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles. even those found in the constitution. talking there about fraud he alleges in the 2020 election. senate majority leader chuck schumer says the former president is, quote: out of control and a danger to our democracy. ohio republican congressman mike turner condemned the remarks saying they should be a factor as the g.o.p. determines its 2024 nominee.