how the social media company rigid the covid debate with elon musk teasing there are more files to come. correspondent aishah hasnie joins us tonight. good evening, aishah. rich, good evening to you. in a relatively brief thread writer says both the trump and biden white house is, quote: directly pressed twitter to moderate covid content. you, however they saw fit and that the platform oftentimes complied. today s newly released twitter files focus on the pandemic. how the government tried to control the narrative. writer da david says the trump white house came looking for help from the tech companies to combat misinformation about runs on grocery stores. but there were runs on grocery stores. he also reveals twitter monitored the trump white house sharing an email exchange where twitter s former deputy general counsel jim baker asked why a tweet from then president trump telling people not to be afraid of covid was not violating their covid misinformation policy. twitte
about 650 homes, rich, without power. they do expect that to be back online by tonight. rich? rich: alexis mcdams live mcae tonight. timely reminder of the dangers of homelessness crisis in the united states. correspondent alexandria hoff looks at the biden s ambitious effort to reduce homeless willness by 25% in two years. i came from paying for a two bedroom 2200 a month barely making 15 an hour working 40 plus hours. so i lost all of that. i had to come here. for two month now sid has been living in a tent just two blocks from the white house where last week the biden administration released an ambitious plan to reduce homelessness by 25% by the start of. we need to get people stabilized also close the gap on affordable housing.
we were not involved. i can say that we were not involved. swigert says twitter executives didn t always do the administration s bidding but twitter did suppressing experts that council flicked with positions of the white house. now, we did reach out to the white house for a response to this recent dump of twitter files. we have not heard back yet. rich: aishah hasnie thanks so much. we will have more on that, i would imagine, going forward. a monstrous and deadly winter storm crippled travel across the nation this holiday weekend. correspondent charles watson tracking the latest developments tonight from heartsville jackson international airport in atlanta. good evening, charles. good evening, rich. it is certainly a frustrating day for air travelers from this terminal and thousands of others
there is even deeper thing more important in america we believe you have the right to express your opinion. can you debate with people when you disagree with them. we should not make our first instinct to be shut people down but rather to tolerate differents of opinion. interpretations of fact and have people be free to debate those things. we turned a very dark corner think if you disagree with someone or disagree with the government that therefore there is some trite be shut down. that s just wrong. any government involvement was wrong also twitter was wrong even if they hadn t been bullied by the government. scientific debate is just that no such thing as settled science. people should have been free to debate the efficacy of vaccines or the benefits and the problems associated with them. it s very dangerous that they weren t. rich: jessica, what about that? there really is no sense of actual scientific conclusion that you are going to reach on twitter in 140 or 182 characters or
congress too often is punch be below its weight. there is mystic around how congress works and doesn t work. behind the scenes how it gets done, how the sausage is made. you mention speaker elect mccarthy. you are confident that s on the way? absolutely. mccarthy is going to get across the finish line and i look forward to really getting to work in the 118th congress. we have got a lot of important things that we need to tackle for the american people and they are long overdue and i m hopeful that we can really make some meaningful impact. bret: well, we are thankful for this civil conversation. we look forward to following it. it s not something we follow every day. modernization of congress sounds pretty good to us on common ground. thank you, gentlemen, for being on. rich had, i will send it back to you. rich: well, you can see all the common ground segments bret has done on his podcast common ground find them under bret baier podcastst @foxnews.com, spotify, or wherever