Running these social media platforms are practically communists, they re common carriers, they aren t companies, they re countries. We need to regulate them just like we regulate telephone companies and utility companies. Harris: how are republicans going to respond to all of this? i will talk with congressman ken buck on that question moments ago. He has been part of this conversation to protect conservatives and their first amendment speech rights. We ll get into it. First to gillian turner with much more on the top story. Before i go to you i want to point out facebook didn t have to listen to this board. It was advisory. They took their advice. I m curious to know how it works its way into story. That s right, harris. Let s start with this. The decision from the oversight board is a big deal not just because it is going to impact the former president s ability to connect with his own hundreds of millions of followers but also sets a precedent for the power of big speech big tech ve
significant subpoenas by the january 6th select committee showing a clear determination on their part to march swiftly towards justice for the individuals and forces behind those. the leaders who played a role in the violence on that day in what appears to be premeditation of those events. the proud boys, the oath keepers and its president, and the first amendment and its chairman, robert patrick lewis. that s an organization that provided security at multiple rallies leading up to january 6th that amplified the president s baseless claim that the election was stolen. bennie thompson sums it up, quote, the select committee seeking information from individuals and organizations reportedly involved with the planning of the attack with the violent mob that stormed the capitol on january 6th or with efforts to overturn the results. we believe the organizations we subpoenaed today have relevant information about how violence erupted at the capitol and the preparation leading up to
indication yet that investigators remain skeptical that trump has been fully cooperative in their efforts to recover documents the former president was supposed to have turned over to the national archives at the end of his term. here s how team trump responded to brat according to the new york times reporting. the outreach from the department prompted a rift among trump s lawyers about how to respond, one camp counseling a cooperative approach that would include bringing in an outside firm to conduct a further search for documents. and another camp advising trump to maintain a more combative posture. the more combative camp, the people briefed on the matter said, won out. to put all this in perspective. after months of pleading by the national archives, a subpoena from the department of justice back in may, a court-approved search of president trump s private golf club and residents which yielded 11,000 government documents, all in all, a process that has now gone on for m
the select committee to investigate the january 6th attack on the united states capitol will be in order. without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess pursuant the house deposition authority regulation ten, the chair announces the committee s approval to release the deposition material presented during today s hearing. good afternoon and may god bless the united states of america. four months ago, this committee started to present our findings to you, the american people. from the beginning, we understood that some people watching those proceedings would wrongly assume that the committee s investigation was a partisan exercise. that s why i asked those who are skeptical of our work to simply listen. to listen to the evidence, to hear the testimony with an open mind. and to let the facts speak for themselves before reaching a judgment. over the course of these hearings, the evidence has proven that there were a multi part plan led by former p
soon as we get that adds up we re gonna go to. it mike, i will start to the control room for second. we think the president is coming out now. all right. got it, as soon as he comes out it to. we do in a move on to the general six hearings. this hour we re taking an in-depth look at this weeks generous committee hearing. potentially the final one. members made it clear in this hearing, in case it wasn t, before this all boils down to one individual. the central cause of january 6th was one man. donald trump. who many others followed. that none of this would ve happened without him. he was personally substantially vault in all of it they laid out in meticulous detail a plan for the former president began long before january six, even long before election day 2020. . in the course of our investigation, we also interviewed brad parscale, president trump s former campaign manager. he told us he understood that president trump planned as early as july that he would say he won th