bret: but, first, breaking tonight. house republicans are taking a microscope to the hunter biden scandal. the oversight committee grilling former twitter executives today about their censorship of the story in the new york post which many in the g.o.p. contended could have directly affected the 2020 election. the most pointed questions though aimed at the u.s. government influence into the censorship decisions. correspondent david spunt reports tonight from the justice department. good evening, david. bret, good evening to you. a fiery hearing lasting the majority of the day. democrats argue there is nothing there but republicans believe something more sinister wer and. and this was the chance for republicans to make the case to the public. we don t know where the fbi ends and twitter begins. emotions running high. we are talking about hunter biden s half fake laptop story. i mean, this is embarrassment. front and center this new york post cover from october
censor and suppress a new york post story that happened right before the election. it has been authenticated by every outlet on planet earth. dana: james comer says this is just the beginning of holding the white house accountable. go back to the two years of the biden administration. 0 cabinet secretaries or undersecretaries in front of the house oversight committee. not a single one. that s unacceptable. what business is hunter biden in? influence peddling and i have a problem with that. dana: david spunt is at the justice department as things kick off this morning. safe to say some folks at d.o.j. and the f.b.i. across the street will be paying attention to what happens in these hearings. the reason that these three former twitter executives are appearing in the first place is because of the old-fashioned subpoena. who will appear today will be gaty, the former chief legal officer and deputy general counsel james baker and yoel roll f. it will look into suppressi
search and trend back lists. twitter employees made censorship decisions on the fly not following the company s own policy publicly stated policies. it worked hand in hand with the f.b.i. to monitor the protected speech of americans, receiving millions of tax dollars to do so. twitter under the leadership of our witnesses today was a private company. the federal government used to accomplish what it constitutionally cannot. limit the free exercise of speech. we now know all this thanks to elon musk and the independent journalists contributed to the twitter files. that brings us to the specific topic of today s hearing. twitter s censorship of a news article that shed light in joe biden involvement in his family s suspicious business deals. the f.b.i. advised twitter executives to question the validity of any hunter biden story. we also know that one of the
bret: but, first, breaking tonight. house republicans are taking a microscope to the hunter biden scandal. the oversight committee grilling former twitter executives today about their censorship of the story in the new york post which many in the g.o.p. contended could have directly affected the 2020 election. the most pointed questions though aimed at the u.s. government influence into the censorship decisions. correspondent david spunt reports tonight from the justice department. good evening, david. bret, good evening to you. a fiery hearing lasting the majority of the day. democrats argue there is nothing there but republicans believe something more sinister wer and. and this was the chance for republicans to make the case to the public. we don t know where the fbi ends and twitter begins. emotions running high. we are talking about hunter biden s half fake laptop story.
became more and more hellbent on kicking trump off the platform, quote,cae on lessn 90 minutes after twitter employees had determined that oyeetrump s tweets were not in violation of twitter policy. while twitter s head of legal policy and trust asked whether it could in fact codedincite incitement to further violence. and once the ban went into effect, internal messages show thats at the company, they were ecstatic and could not contain their own giddycitee excitement. now, of course, alnt l of thatt we v confirms what we ve been telling yobeenu over and over again, that twitter staffers, they made censorship decisions not based on actual rules or policy based politics based on ideology. it s beyond just bias. it s an all out effort to worksn as an arm of the democratic party, as admitted by elon musk and to work in, of course,up concert with corrupt actors in federal law enforcement, including, sadly, our fbi. now, elon musk is teasing even