social media. hello, well come everyone, sandra smith in new york. we have made it to wednesday, rich. rich: we have indeed, i m rich in for john roberts. according to documents, white house officials asked facebook if it could provide special access to tools that would target users hesitant to take vaccines and spreading misinformation. sandra: also show biden administration officials berated facebook employees for not sharing enough data and alluded to the site being more difficult to deal with than other social media platforms. rich: hillary vaughn is live on capitol hill. hillary, did the white house try to have more control on covid content on facebook than it originally claimed. that s the big take away from the documents that we obtained. really publicly the white house was claiming they were just trying to help facebook combat misinformation on their platform. behind closed doors, it is clear that white house officials were trying to have much more influence o
Demogodic cases i ve seen in a high profile case. anyone who listened to that, normal person would assume that trump was alleged to have carried out the capitol riot. when i take a red pen through material that s protected by the first amendment it reduces much of this to a haiku. many things that the prosecutor is charging here is protected speech. and rich, we are learning more about the judge who will preside over the trial, the case assigned to judge tanya chetkin, 2014 obama appointee to the bench and handled several cases involving january 6th riot defendants. meanwhile, we are keeping a close eye here looking to see if the security preparations ramp up a bit. expect the scene to look similar to what we saw in miami in june when trump was indicted on