witness known to have testified so far. and we ll talk more about what that might say about the justice department s criminal investigation, and how far it can go. also late today, president biden weighed in on the central figure in thursday s january 6 hearings. we saw what happened. the capitol police, the dc metropolitan police, other law enforcement agencies were attacked and assaulted before our very eyes, speared, sprayed, stomped on, brutalized. and lives were lost. and for three hours, the defeated former president of the united states watched it all happen, as he sat in the comfort of the private dining room next to the oval office. as for the committee, it apparently is not waiting for september either. today, a member virginia democratic congresswoman elaine lauria released a new video clip that shows the former president s unwillingness to include language that held the mob he invited, incited, and wanted to join accountable. do you recognize what this is?
do we know why congresswoman laurie released this video clip today instead of if including it in the hearing last week? yeah, we do. it s basically because the committee has so much evidence and they do not have enough time to pack them all into these public hearings. more than 17 million people watched on thursday night, but the hearing only lasted about two and a half hours. i m told that as they planned these hearings, one of the first dress rehearsals, the initial hearing could have run as long as four hours because they had so much content and evidence that they believed was necessary to share with the american people. as a result, they still have a lot that didn t make it into the hearing that they will release at different point. a adam kenz ger released a preview to the hearing. on that day, none of that content was in the hearing itself. we saw this today. there s a good chance we re going to see more examples of this in the days ahead, particularly in the month of august,
all this and insists that the leaked documents have been cherry picked to paint a false picture of the company. congresswoman laurie is backing legislation to protect kids and teens from online harm. she also co-wrote a letter to mark zuckerberg, urging him to abandon plans to develop an instagram for kids platform. congresswoman, great to see you as always. i mean, this this revelation about what the engineers of the facebook algorithm did, whereby they put five times the value on somebody expressing anger after reading content, the angry emoji face, than they did likes. what more do we need to know? what has been the real-world consequence of that algorithm? well, i think we know the real-world consequences of these engagement rankings, right, that frances haugen talked about in her testimony. i mean, they do they lead to one in three young girls feeling poorly about themselves as a result of being on the platform. it leads to events like january