White house pressured the platform to Censor Americans and he says he regrets caving to those demands. Good morning im dana perino. Bill is off today. Good morning, bret. Good to see you. Bret im bret baier and this is americas newsroom. Zuckerberg making that admission in a letter to chairman jim jordan saying the white house pushed facebook to take down posts that included Covid Misinformation even ones defined as humor or satire. Dana when meta denied one of those requests the administration grew frustrated. Back in 2020 when jen psaki was the Press Secretary and said facebook needed to be stronger on policing content. Has facebook been as proactive as the white house would like in terms of its response . I think as i noted yesterday, phil, there is more there are more steps that everyone can take. Facebook responded yesterday after the Press Briefing saying that they removed 18 million pieces of Covid Misinformation. So does the white house find that sufficient . Clearly not becaus
To do more. Social media silence the right when they dont like. Nations prepare to Honor Fallen Nypd officer robert mora who died in a ambush last week. These wakeup call for so Many Political leaders who have been soft on crime. Tom brady is officially retired. Not a single mention of new england. He doesnt mention the patriots once . Yeah, it hurts. Brian we start with a fox news alert. This happened overnight. An offduty nypd officer coming under fire, what officials describe as an attempted robbery on his way to work. Another officer shot as new yorks finest prepare to say goodbye to a brother in blue. When these two individuals shot at a passenger driving a car, he didnt shoot at a Police Officer. They shot at a civilian. And then to find out that they shot at Police Officers sent a message. They had no regard of who they were trying to kill. Steve they were trying to car jack them. This as two virginia Police Officers shot yesterday. The accused killer taken into custody. His mot
Persecution of ordinary citizens engage this had legitimate political discourse. Again, they are talking about this, the riot at the capitol. And the riot that ultimate ared in the deaths of five Law Enforcement officers, the riot that featured them chanting for the execution of the Vice President. Prior on the of which a dozen have been charged before and look at these images. Were these purposes. Call what happened on january 6 legitimate political discourse . It is an orchestrated attack on our democracy. On the same day mike pence painted a different picture calling out his former boss in his most pointed language yet. I heard this week that President Trump said the had the right to overturn the election. President trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election. The presidency belongs to the American People and the American People alone. And frankly, there is no idea more unamerican than the notion that any one person could choose the american president. Constito right to
President trump is wrong. Under the constitution, i had no right to change the outcome of our election. He needs to talk to the January 6th Committee. Its taken him 13 months to admit the undeniable. And as the Winter Olympics begin in beijing, Human Rights Abuses are in the spotlight. The Chinese Government is Holding People in Concentration Camps and also glorifying the modernday slavery. Plus were following new developments on the future of Queen Elizabeth and the royal family. Im pamela brown in washington. You are in the cnn news room. Great to have you with us on this saturday. We begin this hour with the Republican Party coming out of a buzz saw of dramatic events compressed into 24 hours. Former Vice President mike pence delivering his most forceful rebuke to date of his old boss, calling out donald trump and his lie that pence was in power to overturn the election. And there are new images of the violence energized by the big lie that the election was stolen. The Justice Depar
Persecution of ordinary citizens engage this had legitimate political discourse. Again, they are talking about this, the riot at the capitol. And the riot that ultimate ared in the deaths of five Law Enforcement officers, the riot that featured them chanting for the execution of the Vice President. Prior on the of which a dozen have been charged before and look at these images. Were these purposes. Call what happened on january 6 legitimate political discourse . It is an orchestrated attack on our democracy. On the same day mike pence painted a different picture calling out his former boss in his most pointed language yet. I heard this week that President Trump said the had the right to overturn the election. President trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election. The presidency belongs to the American People and the American People alone. And frankly, there is no idea more unamerican than the notion that any one person could choose the american president. Constito right to