weaponizing that infamous laptop. plus a chilling new revelation about the torture suspect taken down by oregon police. his bloody trail may now include two murders. and america s big move to try to counter china, the new u.s. military foot hold just announced right near taiwan. welcome to our viewers in also united states and around the world. i m christine romans. we begin with an aggressive new legal strategy from hunter biden, he is calling for criminal investigations of rudy giuliani, a computer repair shop owner and several right wing political figures. hunter biden alleges laws were broken when they attempted to weaponize his personal information against his father. more now from evan perez. r reporter: hunter biden is accusing critics of distributing his personal data reported to come from a laptop left at a repair shop. attorneys for the president s son sent letters to the delaware attorney general, justice department and irs seeking investigations of a numbe
the overall state of the country. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. this is a critical week in the insurrection investigation as the january 6th select committee prepares to hold another potentially explosive hearing in prime time. at the same time, trump ally steve bannon is now standing trial for defying the panel s subpoena to testify. court just wrapped up for the day. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider has all of the new developments. tonight, steve bannon s criminal trial for contempt of congress finally beginning with jury selection after his lawyers tried repeatedly to delay and bannon made a last-minute offer to testify before the january 6th committee. prosecutors saying his late offer will not make up for the near year he s refused to comply with the committee s subpoena. the trial will likely last just a few days. bannon has pleaded not guilty to two counts of c
his personal data reported to come from a laptop left at a repair shop. attorneys for the president s son sent letters to the delaware attorney general, justice department and irs seeking investigations of a number of right wing figures who they say, quote, have weaponized the laptop contents against his father. it is a distinct change of strategy by hunter biden after bringing on new lawyers to help him defend himself against an onslaught of attacks from republicans. in a letter to delaware attorney general kathy jennings, hunter biden s attorneys accused repair shop owner of unauthorized access of the laptop and distributing its contents to the new york post for a story published in the weeks before the 2020 election. mcisaac has said in interviews that he received the laptop at his store from hunter biden in 2019. the letter from hunter biden s attorney abbe lowell says this
it looked like this weird story of a laptop left in some repair shop, it looked like a hack and leak. that s what people inside twitter thought it was. and so, they acted a little fast. and when we heard that from the former head of trust and safety two days ago on a podcast, he said that. he didn t agree with this idea. the day after it happened, jack came out and said i don t agree with what happened. it happened too quickly. because content moderation is a human activity. it s stuff that we do as humans. to fulfill the north star of every organization we have. doesn t musk want to automate it now? sure. and you can automate some things, but it doesn t really work in that way. and you know what, it s funny, musk says, i m a free speech absolutist, these people that don t believe in content moderation, he loves content moderation. if he s the only content moderator. it s just depend on us to say, do we want to be part of a platform like that? we ll soon find out. times they ar
criticized thread, twitter thread, about the laptop of hunter biden. private citizen, someone who s obviously the son of president biden, but who s not a government official. can you explain this whole thing to us? sure. so, background in 2020, there is a new york post story about hunter biden s laptop. when that came out, it was suggesting that somehow hunter biden, the president son, was trading his closeness with the president to gain money and a position in ukraine. when that came out, we now know, it was really helpful thing the twitter files today, we got to see how content moderation works. we got to see how when a group of people with different political ideas and ideologies and views, gets together in the spirit of making a platform safe and healthy, right before an election, right when we knew we had just learned of the hack and leaks in wikileaks and all the stuff that that did to hurt and to affect the 2016 election. in 2020, they were heightened. people were trying to do