Facebook employee circulated an email for facebook ceo mark zuckerberg and coo cheryl sandberg writing we are facing continued pressure from external stakeholders including the biden white house to remove posts. other documents jordan posted appear to show at least one facebook executive expressed concerns that removing posts would be attack on free expression. in some cases jordan says facebook changed its content moderation policies because of the political pressure. it s pretty sad that you have to threaten a subpoena for documents to get the information that we have requested in a professional manner and suddenly right before a vote on contempt suddenly documents are produced. and for its part, facebook says that it s been cooperating all along, that it s produced more than 53,000 pages of documents to the committee. you know, you mentioned that jim
White house to remove posts. other documents jordan posted appeared to show that facebook even changed its content moderation policies because of the political pressure. it s pretty sad that you have to threaten a subpoena for documents to get the information that we ve requested in a professional manner. right before a vote on contempt suddenly documents are produced. today to our colleague edward lawrence at the white house, the biden administration is defending itself. we have promoted responsible actions to protect public health, safety and security. we have consistently made clear that we believe social media companies have a responsibility to take accounts of the effects of their platform on the american people while making independent decisions about the content of their platforms. so zuckerberg is off the hook for now because jordan believes that he s now fully cooperating
Outrage, the outrage comes easy. i guess for people who are outraged, they are surprised that they are not seeing more outrage from conservative politicians. do you think there is going to be any shift today or is it going to be a protracted process?- today or is it going to be a protracted process? this is the bearinnin protracted process? this is the beginning of protracted process? this is the beginning of a protracted process? this is the beginning of a process, - protracted process? this is the beginning of a process, i - protracted process? this is the beginning of a process, i think| protracted process? this is the l beginning of a process, i think if you are looking for dates, the next big one is the 5th of may in a couple of weeks, when the local elections, we begin to see the impact on voters on the doorstep. the important point is when you look at, your correspondent has gone through this, there are two motions, to processes that labour can try to use today to put some pr
it does. it is the president of the united states, it is the morning of january 6 and how do you forget a ten-minute phone call with the president on that day of all days. you won t forget the phone call with the president under any circumstance. so his answers have been evasive as ryan said, inconsistent and the committee has a real problem. what do they do? if they subpoena him and he still said i m not going to peer, then they have to be willing to follow up with that and they have to be willing to say we re going to hold you in con contempt and that caused a lot of problems internally in the house of representatives. so there is discussion in the committee about that. some would like to do it, some would not. but this news that ryan and annie are breaking is very important. it is a very important piece of the puzzle. what was donald trump s state of mind the morning of that of the insurrection.
announcer: this is cnn breaking news. indeed it is major breaking news. unpre unprec unprecedented. the house voting whether to refer mark meadows to the doj for criminal contempt of congress for defying the subpoena from the january 6th committee. that is our breaking news as well as this. there is a spike in the coronavirus cases hitting cornell university especially hard. the school shutting down its campus after reporting more than 900 coronavirus cases among student body in just the past week. we ll bring that to you a little later on. i what. i want to get to jason crow of colorado. i want to get colorado. so you just voted to hold one of your former colleagues in con contempt. how is this sitting with you tonight? do you think it will get to the bottom of january 6th? hi, don, 2k3good to be with .