hate speech and misinformation. not just on the platforms itself. claire, there was reporting from new york magazine about peter thiel. in 2019 while on a trip to washington to answer questions from congress about his digital currency, teal joined mark zuckerberg, jared kushner, donald trump, and their spouses at the white house. thiel later told a confidante that zuckerberg came to an understanding with kushner during the meal. facebook, he promised would continue to avoid fact checking political speech thus allowing the trump campaign to claim whatever it wanted. if the expect followed through on that promise the trump administration would layoff on any heavy-handed regulations. after the din e zuckerberg took an offhand approach to conservative sites. should congress lurn learn more from all these people to find out if there was some sort of deal struck that knowing now
well, i mean, yes, that is true, but we saw fewer numbers this past saturday than we saw that day after the inauguration. of donald trump. you know, as we said before, i want to believe that there will be this big charge come election time by women led by the suburban women that senator mccaskill was talking about in order to punish those who are taking rights away from women, but i don t know that that is going to happen. first of all, we re in the middle of a pandemic. there have been a host of urgent issues that have been put to president biden and this congress that have yet to see action on. and the attack on abortion rights has been going on for quite some time. i mean, even in senator mccaskill s home state, the only place where a woman can obtain an abortion is in st. louis. if you re in jefferson city or kansas city, you have to travel to get it, today, and it s been
an interest into what role social media played. she sounds like a relevant witness. i will leave to it the chairman. but we know that donald trump send over 50 million dollars 5-0, $50 million from ms.-december until january 5th on stop the steal ads just on social media. so it was a call to action for a violent mob to be aimed at the capitol. to me, yes, it sounds like we need to know what the role was. because otherwise going into future big political events or if donald trump loses another political election, the same circumstances exist if we do nothing to allow an even more deadly and perhaps effective coup of our government. congressman eric swalwell, thank you for spending time with us today on this. claire is sticking around. president biden is warning all americans today that if the economy craters, the blame should fall squarely into the lap of one mitch mcconnell and his republican caucus. the very latest on gone inaction and obstruction is next.
congress needs to take this very, very seriously. you know, there are people out there who will say, well, okay, he was too incompetent, it didn t happen. there was no actual coup. well, that was last time. there were crucial republicans, there were crucial state officials all around the country that did the right thing. there s no guarantee that those people will be in place in 2024. in fact, they re being systematically targeted by trump s political operation. yes. primaried and run out of office. ari berman, charlie sykes, thank you so much for spending time with us. we are always paying attention. as we ve been discussing, one of the key components to the ex-president s attempt to overturn the 2020 election result was that six-point memo written by a conservative lawyer named john eastman. we have some brand-new reporting on who he is and how he got inside the oval office. after a quick break. after a quick break.
the role facebook played in amplifying the disinformation that led to the january 6th insurrection. her testimony, set to flesh out the picture that took shape on facebook ahead of the january 6th event. of course, that s also being examined by the house select committee, which is continuing its push forward. a new report in politico describes the committee s preparations for a standoff with trump ahead of a critical subpoena deadline this thursday for sfl of trump sed a advisors. they report, each as it dig into what exactly happened and at whose bequest the select committee is prepared to slam into a wall of in the next days. for a panel that has worked briskly but methodically to gather records, the expected fight from trump is likely to be the first test of its legal and