hi, everyone we start with the fireworks in washington, d.c., today. emanating from the committee set up by the housegop. it took republicans 15 votes now in the days and months that fod followed, the house gop has done nothing except projecting the rest of their colleagues and us to the grievance of lies and conspiracies that animate life over on earth 2 where they live. today a hearing by the so-called weaponization commit presumably focused on censorship on social media and a lawsuit brought by the then-republican attorney general of missouri, he has to be an attorney from missouri, pushing back against efforts by social media to fight disinformation schmidt was one of two witnesses brought forward by republicans, but republican majority on this committee who testified and was dismissed, sent away before democrats could ask one single question so much for a functioning committee in which the free exchange of ideas and sharing of witnesses prevails democrats were justifiabl
they wanted to please their audience they were worried they would lose audience share if they told people that what they hoped was true, mainly, that the election had been stolen. if they told people that wasn t true, that they would turn off the channel, switch to another station, member listen to cnn or god forbid msnbc that was the motive. but it really doesn t matter it s also odd that it s being argued by some people that unless fox news itself endorsed all the lies, they can t be held liable well, number one, they came as delos endorsing all of these lies as anything i ve ever seen. number two, that isn t the standard the new york times itself when it was sued in new york times versus sullivan they just ran an naacp ad that had some false statements they didn t endorse it but the u.s. supreme court said they would be liable any way for
tell genuinely thought they were trying to do something good and really bad things came out of it. and there s responsibility for that too. the only thing worse than that across all of world history are people who are knowingly, wantonly, hypocritically evil, and they just say, that s evil. that s bad. oh, i got to go along with that. and i m not one to make historical analogies on air, not my line of work. i ll just stick to the news. but bill, when you go along with other people s evil and you know it to be wrong, that s when some of the worse things happen in societies. and that s what we see with mccarthy. go ahead. because he well, one more thought. i just want to underscore what we said. this isn t the standard of me or you or t beat. his standard after watching the violence on the 10th was this was a criminal, dictatorial campaign. he wanted no part of it because