1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:02,400 Speaker 1: There was a big story that broke this week and 2 00:00:02,520 --> 00:00:06,960 Speaker 1: it dealt with an important issue, actual silencing and censoring 3 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:11,039 Speaker 1: of conservative voices on Twitter right before major elections. We're 4 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:13,320 Speaker 1: gonna do a deep dive on it. I'm Ben Ferguson, 5 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:16,960 Speaker 1: and this is verdict with Ted Cruz, Senator. The Internet 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,919 Speaker 1: got broken the other night because of Elon Musk and 7 00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:23,240 Speaker 1: all that he exposed, and it was a big story, obviously. 8 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:26,320 Speaker 1: But before we get to that, there's a guy in Washington, 9 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:29,200 Speaker 1: DC that looks like you and it's freaking me out. 10 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:32,479 Speaker 1: I think it's freaking a lot of people out. And 11 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:35,479 Speaker 1: it's someone you would never expect to be wanting to 12 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:38,839 Speaker 1: look like you. His name is Mitt Romney, who has 13 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:42,879 Speaker 1: grown a beard for people watching there. It is I 14 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:45,280 Speaker 1: don't know if he lost his razor. I don't know 15 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:47,560 Speaker 1: if he's trying to resurrect his career to make people 16 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:49,960 Speaker 1: like him. And he saw how much people loved your beard. 17 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 1: You got advice on this one. Well, listen, I think 18 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 1: Mitt's beard looks great. He came back from Thanksgiving and 19 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:01,320 Speaker 1: he had white stubble covering his face. U it's interesting 20 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 1: that his beard is all white. His hair is not 21 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:07,319 Speaker 1: all white, but the beard beard is and uh, and 22 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:09,360 Speaker 1: I thought it looked good at so met and I 23 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:13,040 Speaker 1: were laughing on the on the Senate floor. I welcomed 24 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:16,760 Speaker 1: him the cooks in the Bearded club and and said 25 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:18,480 Speaker 1: was glad to have him. As you know. I asked him, 26 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 1: what's the deal, what's going on? And he said, oh, 27 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 1: he just you know, didn't shave over Thanksgiving. And said 28 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,679 Speaker 1: he was, you know, figured what the heck keep it? Uh, 29 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 1: he said, he said, Anne thought it looked kind of cute. 30 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 1: He liked that. That made him happy. Yeah, he said 31 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 1: he's never grown a beard in his life. It's entire life, 32 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:38,000 Speaker 1: like college, grad school, never in his life had a beard. 33 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:42,679 Speaker 1: And I did share with him a story. I said, well, 34 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 1: you're gonna find they're different views depending on the generation, 35 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 1: and in particular, young people twenty something thirty something will 36 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 1: love the beard. But there's another generation, which is typically 37 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:58,440 Speaker 1: women in their seventies and eighties who can't stand it. 38 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:02,560 Speaker 1: My grandmother said she didn't like my dad. When my 39 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 1: mom they were daying, she said, I don't like his mustache. 40 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:08,360 Speaker 1: He was a police officer. He's hiding something. That's literally 41 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 1: what She wasn't joking she goes, I don't like him, 42 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:12,560 Speaker 1: I don't trust him. So my father had a beard 43 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:15,640 Speaker 1: in the seventies and he's shaved it because a woman 44 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 1: at church said she didn't trust men with beards, that 45 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:21,840 Speaker 1: they were dishonest. And look, I think that really comes 46 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 1: out of the sixties and seventies and hippies, and there's 47 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:26,639 Speaker 1: a generation where they see someone bearded and they think 48 00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:31,600 Speaker 1: you're a hippie. And a story I told Mitt. I said, look, 49 00:02:31,639 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 1: I was standing actually right where Mitt and I were standing, 50 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:37,160 Speaker 1: which is down at the well of the Senate, and 51 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:41,359 Speaker 1: I was talking with Mitch McConnell and Diane Feinstein came 52 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:45,239 Speaker 1: up and Diane looked at Mitch and said said, Mitch, 53 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:49,400 Speaker 1: when are we going to get ted to shave that 54 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:52,960 Speaker 1: hideous thing on his face? And I turned to her. 55 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 1: I said, Diane, next thing, you know, I'm growing a ponytail, 56 00:02:56,760 --> 00:03:00,360 Speaker 1: I'm getting birkenstocks, and I'm coming after your bass. Would 57 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 1: she say? Mitch McConnell cracked up, laughing, and Diane looked 58 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 1: at me, completely confused and befuddled. It just she did 59 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 1: not understand what I was saying. So I told Mit that, 60 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 1: and apparently that might have scared him too, because the 61 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:22,239 Speaker 1: next he shaved it. The very next day he shaved it. Well, 62 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:24,320 Speaker 1: he didn't want to take that kind of heat from Democrats. 63 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 1: Let's be honest. He wants to be friends with him. 64 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 1: He loves the Democratic bass. He I loves the liberals 65 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 1: liking him. Of course he's going to shave them well ed, 66 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 1: he said to him, He said, this thing itches? Does 67 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 1: it really itch? I said, yeah, for a day or two, 68 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 1: and then it passes. And so I actually went to 69 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 1: MIT that next day and said, Mit, I want to 70 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 1: officially lodge a protest on behalf of all of your 71 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:52,080 Speaker 1: grandchildren growing back that you're denying them a Santa Claus 72 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 1: beard right before Christmas, and I think it's wrong. The 73 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 1: grandkids are dismayed. I gotta ask your two daughters. When 74 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 1: my dad apparently he shaved his mustache the only time, 75 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:04,920 Speaker 1: we apparently freaked out and cried, I don't remember we 76 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:07,640 Speaker 1: were little kids. Did your daughters like the beard instantly 77 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:10,200 Speaker 1: or do they say no, dad? Yeah, my girls are 78 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:13,119 Speaker 1: actually not crazy about the beard even now, even now 79 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 1: it's I've had it now a couple of years. I 80 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:18,839 Speaker 1: like it, but my girls, my girls could do without. 81 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:20,919 Speaker 1: Well if you get if you if you get confused 82 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:23,480 Speaker 1: with Mitt Romney, it's really gonna screw with people. He 83 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:25,200 Speaker 1: shaved it now, so I think you're safe. You're not 84 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 1: gonna have to worry about people walking on Hey, Senator, 85 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 1: can I get a picture with Mitt? Can I get 86 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:30,800 Speaker 1: a picture with you? From Utah? I don't think that's 87 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 1: going to happen now. It's fair to say mits bass 88 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:37,560 Speaker 1: and my bass are very different. Yes, very different. I 89 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:40,039 Speaker 1: want to get into this serious topic obviously, and we're 90 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 1: gonna do a deep dive. So everybody today make sure 91 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:47,680 Speaker 1: you hit that share button. Share the podcasts, and we're 92 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 1: doing this one is a video as well, so you 93 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:51,839 Speaker 1: can share that wherever you're watching this video on Facebook, YouTube, 94 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:55,359 Speaker 1: et cetera. Because we're doing an entire show dedicated to 95 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 1: what just came out of how much government And there's 96 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 1: two parts of the story. There's government influence in the 97 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:07,240 Speaker 1: private sector, and there's a private sector also silencing people 98 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:10,840 Speaker 1: that they're told to silence by government officials. And I 99 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:13,760 Speaker 1: think it's shocking to see how much their collusion there was. 100 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:16,840 Speaker 1: And Democrats love the word collusion. They've been obsessed to 101 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 1: that word for a long time. You want to talk 102 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:21,680 Speaker 1: about real collusion, Elon Musk is showing us there was 103 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:26,600 Speaker 1: real direct collusion between the Democratic Party and big tech 104 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:30,359 Speaker 1: silencing conservatives. 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But the 136 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 1: first one is stunning, and it's a whole Twitter thread. 137 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:17,960 Speaker 1: I'd encourage people to read the entire thing. But what 138 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 1: we're going to do on this pot is we're going 139 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:22,520 Speaker 1: to go through the highlights of what's most important. So 140 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 1: let's start. Let's start with the first one. And this one, 141 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:28,600 Speaker 1: this is actually I think the eighth tweet, but it 142 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 1: goes right to the heart of it, and it is 143 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:36,679 Speaker 1: an internal email within Twitter that reads more to review 144 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 1: from the Biden team colon and there are a series 145 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:42,600 Speaker 1: of five links to different tweets other people have said, 146 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:46,120 Speaker 1: and then it says thanks all, and the response two 147 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:50,000 Speaker 1: words handled these. And to be clear, this was basically 148 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:52,480 Speaker 1: they went through Twitter the day before or in the 149 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 1: last couple of days. They said, Hey, these are the 150 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 1: tweets are most damning to us the Democratic Party. We 151 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 1: send them to Twitter, and we want you to get 152 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 1: rid of all these silence all these people, shut all 153 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 1: these people down. And it was just direct links to 154 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 1: tweets and then that said handled. There was no pushback, 155 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:11,840 Speaker 1: there was no questioning, there was no we'll take a review. 156 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:14,680 Speaker 1: It was how high you want us to jump at Twitter, 157 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 1: We'll take care of your problems. Yeah, this is Twitter 158 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:21,480 Speaker 1: acting as an arm for the Biden campaign, acting as Look, 159 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:25,160 Speaker 1: that's almost how you task an employee. Hey, here five 160 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 1: more to take care of. Handled these done. Just that's 161 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:32,319 Speaker 1: who we work for. We're carrying it out and it 162 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:35,480 Speaker 1: goes worth. Let's look at the next one. Okay, So 163 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:38,480 Speaker 1: this is Elon Muss kind of commenting, giving a meta 164 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:42,080 Speaker 1: comment on the entire thread, and he points out he says, 165 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 1: Twitter acting by itself to suppress free speech is not 166 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 1: a First Amendment violation, but acting under orders from the 167 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:55,319 Speaker 1: government to suppress free speech with no judicial review is. Now, 168 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:58,960 Speaker 1: let me explain something that's important. Why is Twitter acting 169 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:01,040 Speaker 1: on its own not a violation of the First Amendment. 170 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 1: The reason is the First Amendment only applies to government. Actually, 171 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:06,960 Speaker 1: as it was written, it only applied to the federal government. 172 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 1: First Amendment begins with Congress shall make no law. It 173 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:13,439 Speaker 1: applied to Congress. Now, since then, the courts have expanded 174 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:16,040 Speaker 1: the First Amendment, so it applies to the entirety the 175 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:18,480 Speaker 1: federal government, it applies to state governments, it applies to 176 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:23,079 Speaker 1: local governments. But a private company, Twitter or anybody else 177 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:27,680 Speaker 1: implementing some policy, the First Amendment doesn't govern it. But 178 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:31,200 Speaker 1: as Elon points out, there's a major exception to that, 179 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:35,640 Speaker 1: which is, if a private company acts at the behest 180 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 1: of the government, if it is censoring because the government 181 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:46,400 Speaker 1: is turning it into an instrumentality of censorship, then the 182 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 1: First Amendment does apply. And what these tweets show is 183 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:53,080 Speaker 1: that's what was happening. And I got to say this podcast, 184 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 1: we have been explaining this theory of First Amendment liability 185 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:01,960 Speaker 1: for three years Yeah. We got into it on a 186 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:06,800 Speaker 1: deep dive when the emails became public between doctor Fauci 187 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:10,079 Speaker 1: and Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook, and I explained on the 188 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 1: Verdict podcast how those emails make Facebook and they're similar 189 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:20,760 Speaker 1: communications with Twitter face very real liability because they're not 190 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:25,719 Speaker 1: just acting as private corporate actors, they're acting as an 191 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:29,199 Speaker 1: instrumentality of the government, an agent basically of the government. 192 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:31,600 Speaker 1: If you are one of these individuals, and we've seen 193 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 1: a lot of this come out, and I want to 194 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 1: do a deep dive into this is their legal recourse 195 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:39,160 Speaker 1: now for the people that clearly were put on these lists, 196 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:41,400 Speaker 1: and there's a lot of conservatives that are now on 197 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 1: this list that we don't that we know of. There's 198 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:45,440 Speaker 1: obviously going to be more that we're going to find 199 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:48,240 Speaker 1: out about where their tweets were silence or counts or 200 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:51,400 Speaker 1: silence and even shut down. If you are one of 201 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:54,880 Speaker 1: those individuals, is there a real chance that you could 202 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:59,560 Speaker 1: actually sue because of this and possibly win. Absolutely. Yes. 203 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:01,840 Speaker 1: Let's go to the next tweet because it actually goes 204 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:07,120 Speaker 1: directly to the question you just asked. So celebrities and 205 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:11,520 Speaker 1: unknowns alike could be removed or reviewed at the best 206 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 1: of a political party. And if you go to the 207 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:19,280 Speaker 1: attachment here, I grabbed the first one under SI defer 208 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:22,280 Speaker 1: to safety on the high profile second one. So the 209 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:25,760 Speaker 1: first one, someone who I don't think is well known, 210 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 1: but apparently that poor fellow tweeted something that Biden and 211 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:32,840 Speaker 1: the DNC didn't like, and Twitter promptly squashed him. The 212 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:36,080 Speaker 1: second one there is his famous guy is a tweet 213 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:40,520 Speaker 1: from James Wood, the actor, And so the tweet says, 214 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:43,560 Speaker 1: or the email says, an additional report from the DNC, 215 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:47,440 Speaker 1: and they forward a tweet James Woods sent and Twitter 216 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:51,280 Speaker 1: responded by immediately banning James Woods. And he has said, 217 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:54,080 Speaker 1: I am going to sue on this. I'm not backing down. 218 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:56,240 Speaker 1: Does he have crowns because we hear a lot of 219 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:59,599 Speaker 1: people say a lot times, are going to sue these emails? 220 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:03,199 Speaker 1: Give him what he actually needs for a case. Is 221 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:05,280 Speaker 1: what I've been told from several others who said, hey, 222 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:08,160 Speaker 1: this is bad news for the DNC. Yeah, and it's 223 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:12,160 Speaker 1: bad news for Twitter in general. So going Twitter will 224 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:15,360 Speaker 1: get sued, Biden will get sued, the DNC will get sued. 225 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:19,400 Speaker 1: James Woods has said on Fox that his career was 226 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:23,480 Speaker 1: destroyed by what the DNC was doing. That Twitter acting 227 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:27,120 Speaker 1: to ban him ended up hurting his acting career. And 228 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:29,640 Speaker 1: so one of the things you have to prove in 229 00:12:29,679 --> 00:12:34,280 Speaker 1: a defamation suit is you have to prove damages. I 230 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:37,080 Speaker 1: think there's a very real chance someone like James Woods 231 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:38,400 Speaker 1: will be able to All right, let's go to the 232 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:42,480 Speaker 1: next tweet. So this is shifting into Hunter Biden. So 233 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:46,120 Speaker 1: the Hunter Biden laptop story comes out. It's October of 234 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:48,680 Speaker 1: twenty twenty. It's right before the election. The New York 235 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:53,120 Speaker 1: Post publishes it, and then this is reading from this tweet. 236 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:56,600 Speaker 1: Twitter took extraordinary steps to suppress the story, the Hunter 237 00:12:56,600 --> 00:13:02,200 Speaker 1: Biden laptop story, removing links and posting warnings that it 238 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:07,520 Speaker 1: may be unsafe. Reading this story may be unsafe. They 239 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 1: even blocked its transmission via direct message, a tool hitherto 240 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:21,040 Speaker 1: reserved for extreme cases, eg. Child pornography. So they decided, 241 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:23,839 Speaker 1: we're going to use every tool we can to nuke 242 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:28,440 Speaker 1: the Hunter Biden laptop story, and essence and essence taking 243 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 1: the Hunter Biden story and making sure that you couldn't 244 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:34,320 Speaker 1: share it as if it was child pornography. They used 245 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:40,280 Speaker 1: the same exact technology yep and importance within Twitter to 246 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:44,400 Speaker 1: say this story is so damning to Joe Biden, to 247 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 1: the Democratic Party, to this presential election, and obviously Twitter 248 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:51,480 Speaker 1: was acting as an agent of the Democratic National Committee 249 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:54,280 Speaker 1: in the Joe Biden campaign, that we will treat it 250 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:57,040 Speaker 1: like it as child pornography to make sure this story 251 00:13:57,120 --> 00:13:59,360 Speaker 1: can never get out to the masses. What I think 252 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:02,000 Speaker 1: is funny is the use of the word unsafe, because 253 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:04,600 Speaker 1: you know, you think of unsafe, liked reading this may 254 00:14:04,679 --> 00:14:08,840 Speaker 1: damage you. You know, you think in the online world, 255 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:11,360 Speaker 1: this has a virus in it, like there's something unsafe 256 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:14,640 Speaker 1: about this website's unsafe. You don't want to go there. No, No, 257 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:17,760 Speaker 1: What they meant about unsafe is it's not safe for 258 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:20,240 Speaker 1: the political fortunes of Joe Biden and the Democrats, that 259 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:23,520 Speaker 1: if you read this article, it's gonna hurt the candidate 260 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:25,560 Speaker 1: we support. All right, let's go to the next one. 261 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:29,400 Speaker 1: So how far did they go? White House spokeswoman Kaylee 262 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 1: Mcaninny was locked out of her account for tweeting about 263 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:38,720 Speaker 1: the story, prompting a furious letter from Trump campaign staff 264 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:43,720 Speaker 1: or Mike Cohn, who seethed quote at least pretend to 265 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:47,000 Speaker 1: care for the next twenty days. The next twenty days 266 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:49,800 Speaker 1: was until the election. And if you look at this 267 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:53,600 Speaker 1: email that the campaign staff are sent to Twitter, Kayley 268 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:55,800 Speaker 1: mccaneey has been knocked out of her account for simply 269 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:59,200 Speaker 1: talking about the New York Post story. All she did 270 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:01,640 Speaker 1: is cite the story and first hand reporting that has 271 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 1: been reported by other outlets when the story came out. 272 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:06,720 Speaker 1: Joe Biden didn't say this is not my son's laptop. 273 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 1: Joe Biden didn't say this is false. He didn't say 274 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 1: it was fraudulent. He just said, oh crap, this is bad. 275 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:13,720 Speaker 1: Please no one read it because I don't like the outcome. 276 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:16,960 Speaker 1: It makes me look really bad. The email continues, I 277 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:20,200 Speaker 1: need an answer immediately on when how she will be unlocked. 278 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 1: I also don't appreciate how nobody on this team called 279 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 1: me regarding the news that you'll be censoring news articles 280 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:31,600 Speaker 1: like I said, at least to pretend to care for 281 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:35,960 Speaker 1: the next twenty days. Look, this is the White House 282 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:42,360 Speaker 1: Press secretary that Twitter bands less than three weeks before 283 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:49,160 Speaker 1: a presidential election. Why because Joe Biden the Democrats wanted 284 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:54,239 Speaker 1: this story suppressed and the arrogance of we will silence anyone. 285 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 1: So now, according to Big Tech, the White House Press 286 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:03,480 Speaker 1: secretary cannot talk about articles in major newspapers. The New 287 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:06,600 Speaker 1: York Post has the fourth largest circulation of any newspaper 288 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:09,360 Speaker 1: in the country that, as we now know, are true 289 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 1: and accurate news stories, but are politically damaging to the 290 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 1: side Twitter wants to prevail. If you're Kaylee MCKININNY and 291 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:20,920 Speaker 1: you see now what was happening behind the scenes, what 292 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:24,160 Speaker 1: are her options legally? Can she do anything because she 293 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 1: was at the White House? Because that's what I think 294 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:28,760 Speaker 1: many Democrats are betting on as well. This was the 295 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:31,080 Speaker 1: fog of war that so they kept going back to, right, 296 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:34,720 Speaker 1: we didn't. We were so concerned about Russianson's information. That's 297 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:37,320 Speaker 1: our get out of jail free card, and we were 298 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:40,320 Speaker 1: just trying to protect the integrity of an election. They're 299 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:42,880 Speaker 1: going to go back to that. That's their game plan here, 300 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:45,640 Speaker 1: And Bennet, It's why what Elon Musk is doing is 301 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:48,800 Speaker 1: so important, because they could maintain that a couple of 302 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:50,560 Speaker 1: days ago, they could say, oh, it was fog of war. 303 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:52,240 Speaker 1: We were doing it because we thought it might be hacked. 304 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:55,400 Speaker 1: We were doing it. What Elon is doing is releasing 305 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:57,040 Speaker 1: the goods and so let's get through a few more 306 00:16:57,040 --> 00:17:01,040 Speaker 1: of these, because it will show that the lefty Twitter 307 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:03,840 Speaker 1: defense is just complete bs. So let's get to the 308 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:07,720 Speaker 1: next one. You can see the confusion in the following 309 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:13,760 Speaker 1: lengthy exchange, which ends up including Gaddy and former Trust 310 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:19,280 Speaker 1: and Safety chief Yoel Roth. Comm's official trent and Kennedy writes, quote, 311 00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:22,959 Speaker 1: I'm struggling to understand the policy basis for marking this 312 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:27,400 Speaker 1: is unsafe. And let's read the exchange in close. So 313 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:30,560 Speaker 1: this is October fourteenth, twenty twenty, so just a couple 314 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:34,000 Speaker 1: of weeks before the election. New York Post Hunter Biden 315 00:17:34,119 --> 00:17:37,720 Speaker 1: laptop article privileged and confidential. Oh, I don't want to 316 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:40,439 Speaker 1: get sued. Let me you put privilege and confidential on 317 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:43,240 Speaker 1: something when you're afraid of getting sued, and you're saying 318 00:17:43,280 --> 00:17:46,240 Speaker 1: this email will really hurt us and cause us to 319 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:50,160 Speaker 1: lose if we get sued. Our teams continue to investigate 320 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:53,639 Speaker 1: the origins of the material included in the reporting. Trenton 321 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:57,800 Speaker 1: Kennedy is the COMMS official. I'm struggling to understand the 322 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:02,679 Speaker 1: policy basis for marking this is unsafe, No kidding, and 323 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:06,480 Speaker 1: I think the best explainability argument. Okay, we got to 324 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:08,560 Speaker 1: figure out a way to explain it. Yeah, we banned 325 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:10,679 Speaker 1: it because it hurts Biden. That's not a good answer. 326 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:14,960 Speaker 1: So I think the best explainability argument for this externally, 327 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:19,120 Speaker 1: not internally. Externally, internally, we know exactly what we're doing, 328 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:21,000 Speaker 1: but externally we got to figure out something to say. 329 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:26,000 Speaker 1: Would be that we're waiting to understand if this story 330 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:29,879 Speaker 1: is the result of hacked materials. We'll face hard questions 331 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:33,960 Speaker 1: if we don't have some kind of solid reasoning for 332 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:39,240 Speaker 1: marking the link unsafe. And Katie Roseboro comes and says, 333 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:42,280 Speaker 1: will we mark similar stories as unsafe? And she points 334 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:46,960 Speaker 1: out that the Senate Homeland Security Committee was investigating the 335 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:50,200 Speaker 1: hard drive in the laptop. No answer to that, Let's 336 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:54,280 Speaker 1: go to the next one. By this point, everyone knew 337 00:18:54,359 --> 00:18:58,760 Speaker 1: this was FT YEA, and they didn't abbreviate FT, said 338 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:04,359 Speaker 1: one four employee. But the response was essentially to air 339 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:08,360 Speaker 1: on the side of continuing to air. Now, let's look 340 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:10,680 Speaker 1: at the exchange back and forth, and it'd be quick. 341 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:13,040 Speaker 1: This means let's just run out the clock. Yeah, close 342 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:16,440 Speaker 1: to election day. If we can just run out the 343 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:20,600 Speaker 1: clock here until the election, by default, if we win, 344 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:23,720 Speaker 1: we're good. We succeeded in our goal, which was to 345 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:26,119 Speaker 1: make sure that Joe Biden won the election and Donald 346 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:29,560 Speaker 1: Trump lost the election and other Republicans losing the process 347 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:32,959 Speaker 1: that are down ticket. We just gotta be smart. For 348 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:37,240 Speaker 1: twenty days, nineteen days, eighteen days, we're on account down clock, guys. 349 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:40,400 Speaker 1: We can pull this off for our team. That's exactly right. 350 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:45,920 Speaker 1: And they know what they're doing is political. It's utterly transparent. Look, 351 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:48,000 Speaker 1: they're going back and forth. Yoel Roth, who was one 352 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:52,080 Speaker 1: of the senior officials at Twitter. The policy basis is 353 00:19:52,119 --> 00:19:57,679 Speaker 1: hacked materials, though as discussed, this is an emerging situation 354 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:00,520 Speaker 1: where the facts remain unclear. In other words, we don't 355 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:02,760 Speaker 1: know that this is hacked. We're just making this up. 356 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:06,040 Speaker 1: By the way, it wasn't, but they didn't know it was. 357 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:10,200 Speaker 1: Now here's the most revealing sentence of all of this. 358 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:16,120 Speaker 1: Given the severe severe as in all caps risks here 359 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:22,840 Speaker 1: and lessons of twenty sixteen, we're airing on the side 360 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:29,760 Speaker 1: of including a warning and preventing this content from being amplified. Now, 361 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:32,879 Speaker 1: what were the lessons of twenty sixteen. I'm trying to 362 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:36,119 Speaker 1: remember and go back to twenty sixteen. Well, there was 363 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:39,400 Speaker 1: this guy named Donald J. Trump, who won. Yeah, and 364 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:43,880 Speaker 1: the severe risks here is Donald Trump winning again. Holy crap. 365 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:47,040 Speaker 1: If people read what Hunter Biden and Joe Biden we're doing, 366 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:50,160 Speaker 1: if they read the corruption, they're not going to vote 367 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:53,440 Speaker 1: for that guy, which means the guy we hate will 368 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:57,480 Speaker 1: get reelected. They're admitting, here's what's the risk. The risk 369 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:01,920 Speaker 1: is Trump wins. So we're just story nothing connected Hillary 370 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:04,560 Speaker 1: Quenton back in the day. They're literally saying, the risk 371 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:08,840 Speaker 1: is Donald Trump wins another four your term. That's exactly right. 372 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:11,280 Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the next tweek. All right, 373 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:15,960 Speaker 1: so the former vice president of Global Communications guy named 374 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:21,679 Speaker 1: Brandon Borman asks, can we truthfully claim that this is 375 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:25,680 Speaker 1: part of the policy and let's pull up the full context. 376 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:30,560 Speaker 1: Brandon Borman new to Ian's point, Can we truthfully claim 377 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:33,640 Speaker 1: that this is part of the policy, ie, as part 378 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:37,320 Speaker 1: of our approach and addressing potentially hacked materials, we are 379 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:41,399 Speaker 1: limiting visibility of related stories on Twitter while our investigation 380 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:44,720 Speaker 1: is ongoing. Now, this is a brief moment of Okay, 381 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:48,520 Speaker 1: we're lying. Everyone knows we're lying. But do we have 382 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:52,560 Speaker 1: any fig leaf to pretend that we're following a policy 383 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:55,840 Speaker 1: and we're not simply doing the behest of Joe Biden's 384 00:21:56,080 --> 00:22:01,240 Speaker 1: this almost like a conspiracy to commit fraud. You where 385 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:03,880 Speaker 1: if you the way that they're with every word you said, 386 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 1: except for the word almost, it is conspiracy to commit 387 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:11,680 Speaker 1: fraud because there's a conspiracy to defraud the American people, 388 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:15,679 Speaker 1: to defraud the American voters, to defraud democracy. This is, 389 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:18,119 Speaker 1: to use the term that Donald Trump likes, this is 390 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:22,560 Speaker 1: rigging an election. This is this is conspirac Say that again, 391 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:24,840 Speaker 1: because it's a very important point that you just said. 392 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:30,159 Speaker 1: This is evidence of rigging an election. Now it's not 393 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:34,880 Speaker 1: rigging an election in the sense of Venezuela hacking into 394 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:38,719 Speaker 1: voting machines, but it is rigging an election in the 395 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:44,400 Speaker 1: sense of big tech billionaires at the behest of one 396 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:51,120 Speaker 1: of the two parties, silencing and censoring and blocking truthful 397 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:57,520 Speaker 1: reporting about facts that would change how people vote. So 398 00:22:57,760 --> 00:22:59,280 Speaker 1: then there's an by the way, you know, you know 399 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:02,800 Speaker 1: who does this, Putin does this. 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So why isn't 434 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:54,520 Speaker 1: someone going to go to jail for this if you're 435 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:56,960 Speaker 1: gonna talk about consequences in a minute. Okay, let's keep 436 00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:58,880 Speaker 1: going through the thread. Okay, Now, this is a very 437 00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:03,159 Speaker 1: interesting one, to which former Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker 438 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:07,399 Speaker 1: again ceeds to advise staying the non course because quote 439 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:10,680 Speaker 1: caution is warranted. Let's pull up exactly what Baker said. 440 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:14,240 Speaker 1: Jim Baker knew privilege and confidential. Notice the lawyer sticks 441 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:17,600 Speaker 1: privilege and confidential. That's oh crap. This is a document 442 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:20,520 Speaker 1: that would be really bad if anyone sees, by the way, 443 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:23,359 Speaker 1: the thing that has totally screwed them all is Elon 444 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:26,120 Speaker 1: Musk bought the company. And so you can always weigh 445 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:28,600 Speaker 1: privilege the fact that Elon must decided to release it. 446 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:31,400 Speaker 1: It's Twitter that has the privilege. Yeah, so in litigate, 447 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:35,359 Speaker 1: not the individual right because Twitter is the client. So 448 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:39,919 Speaker 1: attorney client privilege the client owns and possesses it. The 449 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:43,520 Speaker 1: client can wave attorney client privilege. So when Jim Baker 450 00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:47,639 Speaker 1: typed this, he figured will Jack Dorsey owns Twitter? So 451 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:50,320 Speaker 1: Twitter will never name this privilege. And the relevance of 452 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,200 Speaker 1: this is if you had a lawsuit and the other 453 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:57,040 Speaker 1: side filed for discovery and tried to get this email 454 00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:00,560 Speaker 1: anything that's labeled privilege and confidential off the record, at 455 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:02,399 Speaker 1: that point, a lot of it you'd have an argument. 456 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:04,040 Speaker 1: You would have an argument in front of the chord 457 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:06,480 Speaker 1: about whether it was in fact privilege, whether it was 458 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:09,199 Speaker 1: attorney client privilege, whether it was advice being given to 459 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:11,720 Speaker 1: the client. And they're ways to waive that privilege, but 460 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:13,879 Speaker 1: the simplest one is for the client to say I 461 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,320 Speaker 1: waive it, which is what Elon Musk has done by 462 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:19,359 Speaker 1: releasing it. So let's see what Jim Baker says I 463 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:22,280 Speaker 1: support the conclusion that we need more facts to assess 464 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:25,280 Speaker 1: whether the materials were hacked. In other words, he's admitting 465 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:27,600 Speaker 1: we don't know if they were hacked or not at 466 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:31,920 Speaker 1: this stage. However, it is reasonable for us to assume 467 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:35,720 Speaker 1: that they may have been, and that caution is warranted. 468 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:38,119 Speaker 1: By the way, the Biden campaign wasn't saying they were hacked. 469 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:41,480 Speaker 1: Never once they say the laptop wasn't true. Never once 470 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,720 Speaker 1: the camp they say that it was inaccurate. Never once 471 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:47,199 Speaker 1: they come out and condemn it or say anything negative 472 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:49,560 Speaker 1: about it. They were silenced because they understood that they 473 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:54,639 Speaker 1: couldn't say that. The email continues. There are some facts 474 00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:58,120 Speaker 1: that indicate that the materials may have been hacked, while 475 00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:01,360 Speaker 1: there are others indicating that the computer was either abandoned 476 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:04,720 Speaker 1: and or the owner consented to allow the repair shop 477 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:08,560 Speaker 1: to access it for at least some purposes. We simply 478 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:14,000 Speaker 1: need more information. Now, who is Jim Baker? He was 479 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,200 Speaker 1: the general counsel of Twitter. You know what he did 480 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:18,800 Speaker 1: before that, or was his job before that? He was 481 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,920 Speaker 1: the General council of the FBI, who, by the way, 482 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:24,560 Speaker 1: what everyone just take a moment to digest that that's 483 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:28,480 Speaker 1: a really big deal the FBI General Counsel who, which 484 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:30,600 Speaker 1: is not a little job, explain how big of a 485 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:33,120 Speaker 1: job that is the its a huge job in the FBI, 486 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:36,639 Speaker 1: and Jim Baker was intimately involved in much of the 487 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:40,200 Speaker 1: abuse of power we saw at the FBI. He then 488 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:44,679 Speaker 1: runs over and is at Twitter doing the same thing continuing. 489 00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:46,800 Speaker 1: One of the things that comes out in this thread 490 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:50,560 Speaker 1: is how much of a continuous web it is from 491 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:54,840 Speaker 1: the deep state at the FBI to big tech and Twitter, 492 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:59,000 Speaker 1: which is willingly part of the FBI's effort to silence 493 00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 1: dissent from those they disagree with. It really is stunning 494 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:07,159 Speaker 1: that it's literally the same people. Can I hit pause 495 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:10,080 Speaker 1: on Twitter for a second, and again, I know that 496 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:11,920 Speaker 1: you don't know, but I think we can speculate at 497 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:15,439 Speaker 1: this point if this was going on at Twitter, is 498 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:20,840 Speaker 1: there any ounce of your thought process that thinks that somehow, 499 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:23,479 Speaker 1: other big tech companies like Facebook, we're not doing the 500 00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:27,879 Speaker 1: exact same thing, the exact same emails, get having the 501 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:31,359 Speaker 1: exact same communications that we're now seeing. Revealed by Elon Musk, 502 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:34,960 Speaker 1: they all were, and the mothership is Google, Google, and 503 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:38,840 Speaker 1: they own YouTube. Google is the biggest and the most powerful. 504 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:42,160 Speaker 1: Twitter was the most brazen, like like Dorsey was just 505 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:48,280 Speaker 1: screw it all. We're leftists and we're proud, but we 506 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:50,520 Speaker 1: know Facebook was doing this. They did the same thing 507 00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:53,560 Speaker 1: on the Hunter Biden story. And Google is where you 508 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:57,200 Speaker 1: have the biggest impact. And so I guarantee you Google 509 00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,880 Speaker 1: and Facebook are both looking at this going oh crap, 510 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:03,000 Speaker 1: oh crap, you're airing dirty laundry. Don't talk about this 511 00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:05,360 Speaker 1: in public. First rule of fight club as you don't 512 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:09,920 Speaker 1: talk about fight club. This for all a big tech 513 00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:12,640 Speaker 1: and the abuse of power. This is pulling back the curtain. 514 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:15,920 Speaker 1: Let's go to the next one. Although several sources recalled 515 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:19,440 Speaker 1: hearing about a quote general warning from federal law enforcement 516 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:24,120 Speaker 1: that summer about possible foreign hacks, there's no evidence that 517 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:28,400 Speaker 1: I've seen of any government involvement in the laptop story. 518 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,680 Speaker 1: In fact, that might have been the problem. Let's gone 519 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:37,160 Speaker 1: to the next one. Quote they just freelanced it end 520 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:42,000 Speaker 1: quote is how one former employee characterized the decision. Quote 521 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:46,320 Speaker 1: hacking was the excuse. But within a few hours pretty 522 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:51,440 Speaker 1: much everyone realized that wasn't going to hold, but no 523 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:55,160 Speaker 1: one had the guts to reverse it. Now stop and 524 00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:57,600 Speaker 1: think about that, like they made up this hacking thing. 525 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:01,600 Speaker 1: That was the alibi. No, but he was conclaiming it, 526 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:05,400 Speaker 1: including the candidate, including Hunter Biden. Right, if Hunter Biden 527 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:07,760 Speaker 1: it came forward said this is not my laptop. Okay, 528 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:09,880 Speaker 1: that might be something. If Hunter Biden had come forward 529 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:12,200 Speaker 1: and said my laptop was hacked, you might at least 530 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:14,920 Speaker 1: have something. None of that happened. Twitter just made it up. 531 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:17,960 Speaker 1: Oh crap, bad stuff for Joe Biden. I know it's hacked, 532 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,080 Speaker 1: but within hours let me read again the quote from 533 00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:24,239 Speaker 1: one former employee. Within hours, pretty much everyone realized that 534 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:26,640 Speaker 1: wasn't going to hold, but no one had the guts 535 00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:28,520 Speaker 1: to reverse it. So they knew they were lying, but 536 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:32,080 Speaker 1: they thought they'd never get caught. Next to tweet all right. 537 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:37,000 Speaker 1: An amazing subplot of the Twitter slash Hunter Biden laptop 538 00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:40,640 Speaker 1: affair was how much was done without the knowledge of 539 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:44,400 Speaker 1: CEO Jack Dorsey and how long it took for the 540 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:49,360 Speaker 1: situation to get unt Yeah again, they didn't abbreviate FT, 541 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:52,320 Speaker 1: but were this is a child friendly show, so we're 542 00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:56,960 Speaker 1: doing so, as one X employee put it, even after 543 00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:02,880 Speaker 1: Dorsey jumped in, So listen, I don't exonerate Dorsey in this. 544 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:08,600 Speaker 1: He created a culture where he put in place decision 545 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:15,160 Speaker 1: makers who were hard partisans, who hated Donald Trump, who 546 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:17,840 Speaker 1: wanted Biden to win. And we're willing to do anything. 547 00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:20,680 Speaker 1: We're willing to lie, We're willing to act at the 548 00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:24,480 Speaker 1: behest of the Biden campaign. Remember the exchange at the beginning, 549 00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:28,920 Speaker 1: Handled it? Handled it? Yeah, they view themselves as we 550 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:33,440 Speaker 1: have an obligation. What's the obligation learn from the quote 551 00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:37,720 Speaker 1: lessons of twenty sixteen and make sure it doesn't happen again. 552 00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:40,600 Speaker 1: There's been a lot of reporting saying Jack Dorsey is 553 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:45,000 Speaker 1: mentioned there knew nothing. Was that on purpose by these employees, 554 00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:47,080 Speaker 1: or do you think maybe he said leave me out 555 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:50,680 Speaker 1: of it so I have the ability deniability? Or do 556 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:52,840 Speaker 1: you think they just knew their marching orders so well, 557 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:55,479 Speaker 1: we can do this and this is normal active business 558 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:57,440 Speaker 1: for us. We're just gonna keep doing it. We don't 559 00:31:57,440 --> 00:31:59,080 Speaker 1: need to call him because this is what we've been 560 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:01,880 Speaker 1: doing for all these other stories. Possibly you know some 561 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:05,080 Speaker 1: combination who knows, who knows where he was, who knows 562 00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:06,760 Speaker 1: what he was doing, who knows what his state of 563 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:09,280 Speaker 1: mind was at the time this was happening. I don't 564 00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:13,280 Speaker 1: know any of that because you've actually questioned Dorsey. I 565 00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:16,120 Speaker 1: have questioned, and it got pretty intense when you were 566 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:20,040 Speaker 1: questioning it. We have gotten into it on this topic. 567 00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:22,200 Speaker 1: And in a subsequent verdict, will we'll pull up and 568 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:25,920 Speaker 1: go back to Dorsey's testimony before Congress in light of 569 00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:29,560 Speaker 1: this exchange that that will be one of the podcasts 570 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:32,560 Speaker 1: coming up. Let's finish going through this thread. All right, Now, 571 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:35,479 Speaker 1: here's an interesting thing. I'm just gonna read this. In 572 00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:39,720 Speaker 1: one humorous exchange on Day one, Democratic Congressman Rocanna reaches 573 00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:42,840 Speaker 1: out to Gaddy to gently suggest she hop on the 574 00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:48,280 Speaker 1: phone to talk about the quote backlash respeech. Kanna was 575 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:52,720 Speaker 1: the only Democratic official I could find in the files 576 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:57,240 Speaker 1: who expressed concern. And let's look at his email, Rocanna wrote, 577 00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:03,440 Speaker 1: generating a huge backlaw on Hill re speech. Happy to 578 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:07,240 Speaker 1: chat if you're up for it, best Row. So number one, 579 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:10,720 Speaker 1: this Democrat congressman is on a first name basis with 580 00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:14,720 Speaker 1: these high muckety MUCKs at Twitter, sends him this email. 581 00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:20,360 Speaker 1: He to his credit, Look, I don't know Rocana my understanding. Yes, 582 00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:22,560 Speaker 1: he understood. This is a bad road to go down. 583 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:25,120 Speaker 1: He's a left wing Democrat, but apparently he's one of 584 00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:28,680 Speaker 1: the very few liberals, who actually is a real liberal 585 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:31,080 Speaker 1: in that they believe in free speech. But let's do 586 00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:35,440 Speaker 1: Let's do the next one. Twitter files continued quote the 587 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:40,920 Speaker 1: First Amendment isn't absolute. Zabo's letter contains chilling passages relaying 588 00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:47,000 Speaker 1: Democratic lawmaker's attitudes. They want more moderation, and as for 589 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:49,840 Speaker 1: the Bill of Rights, it's quote not absolute. Let's read 590 00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:53,239 Speaker 1: the whole thing here. The Democrats meanwhile, complained that the 591 00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:57,560 Speaker 1: companies are inept. They let conservatives muddy the water and 592 00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:00,840 Speaker 1: make the Biden campaign look corrupt, even though Biden is innocent. 593 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,360 Speaker 1: They link this to Hillary Clinton's email scandal. She did 594 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:07,680 Speaker 1: nothing wrong, but the press wouldn't let the story go. 595 00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:11,839 Speaker 1: It became a scandal far out of proportion. In their mind. 596 00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:14,440 Speaker 1: Social media is doing the same thing. It doesn't moderate 597 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:18,080 Speaker 1: enough harmful content so that when it does like it 598 00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:22,479 Speaker 1: did yesterday, it becomes a story. If the companies moderated more, 599 00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:26,960 Speaker 1: if they censored more, conservatives wouldn't even think to use 600 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:31,320 Speaker 1: social media for disinformation, misinformation or otherwise. And it continues. 601 00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:35,560 Speaker 1: The Democrats were in agreement social media needs to moderate 602 00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:41,640 Speaker 1: more because they're corrupting democracy and making all quote truth 603 00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:46,960 Speaker 1: relative when pushed on how the government might insist on 604 00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:52,560 Speaker 1: that consistent with the First Amendment. They demurred, quote, the 605 00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:57,040 Speaker 1: First Amendment isn't absolute. Now, this guy is a consultant 606 00:34:57,160 --> 00:34:59,120 Speaker 1: or a lobbyist. I'm not sure what he does exactly, 607 00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:02,400 Speaker 1: but it's some guy on Capitol Hill who's talking to 608 00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:05,239 Speaker 1: a whole bunch of Democrat lawmakers right in the middle 609 00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:07,880 Speaker 1: of this, and he's reporting back that, Hey, when I 610 00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:11,480 Speaker 1: talk to the Democrats other than Rocana, none of them 611 00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:15,120 Speaker 1: are unhappy at you censoring this story. But they are 612 00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:18,960 Speaker 1: unhappy you're not censoring more. The request from Democrats is 613 00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:25,879 Speaker 1: censor more. In fact, censor so much that conservatives won't 614 00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:27,719 Speaker 1: even be able to tell your censoring because you just 615 00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:31,600 Speaker 1: silence everything. And that's what they did. Everything was fact check. 616 00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:34,399 Speaker 1: We saw. Look, I was at CNN at the time 617 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:36,880 Speaker 1: when this was happening, as a conservative commentator fighting the 618 00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:40,040 Speaker 1: tough fight there. We had to deal with media matters, 619 00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:42,040 Speaker 1: and we had to deal with all of the things 620 00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:45,880 Speaker 1: we were sharing being silence, and it was it happened instantaneous. 621 00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:49,640 Speaker 1: And now you have to wonder if you're not paranoid, 622 00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:52,319 Speaker 1: you're just dealing with probably the reality that they said, Hey, 623 00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:55,000 Speaker 1: these conservatives that are on TV. We want to shut 624 00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:57,680 Speaker 1: them down, these concervatives. We need to just start nailing 625 00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:01,240 Speaker 1: them and silencing and making sure their distributions. And clearly 626 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:04,360 Speaker 1: from those early texts, it was anything that went viral. 627 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:06,680 Speaker 1: It you didn't have to be famous, and you didn't 628 00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:09,759 Speaker 1: have to have a mark. And notice the Democrat congressman 629 00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:15,520 Speaker 1: or complaining about quote truth. Right, the Hunter laptop was true, 630 00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:18,399 Speaker 1: and they knew it was true. And well they knew 631 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:20,640 Speaker 1: at least that the Biden campaign wasn't denying it. They 632 00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:25,320 Speaker 1: didn't care. Their definition of truth is anything that politically 633 00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:30,200 Speaker 1: benefits Democrats. The definition of false is anything that politically 634 00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:32,080 Speaker 1: hurts Democrats. All right, let's move to the next one. 635 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:34,680 Speaker 1: All right, So this is a very interesting This is 636 00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:37,880 Speaker 1: not part of the Twitter thread. But to understand, you asked, 637 00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:40,319 Speaker 1: what are the consequences going to be? Yeah, So this 638 00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:42,920 Speaker 1: is a tweet from Shaan Cooksey. Shaun Cooksey is a 639 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,920 Speaker 1: commissioner on the FEC, the Federal Elections Commission. I know 640 00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:49,279 Speaker 1: Sean well. Shan used to be a lawyer on my 641 00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:51,920 Speaker 1: staff in the Senate Office before he got appointed and 642 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:55,279 Speaker 1: confirmed to the FEC. Here's what Shaan Cooksey tweets out. 643 00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:59,800 Speaker 1: Here's what Twitter told the FEC in its response to 644 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:04,720 Speaker 1: a complaint about this event quote. Twitter did not receive 645 00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:09,279 Speaker 1: a request from the Biden campaign to review, much less restrict, 646 00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:12,279 Speaker 1: the New York Post articles and go to the next one. 647 00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:16,799 Speaker 1: Nor did decision makers at Twitter, or to the best 648 00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:21,160 Speaker 1: of the company's knowledge, anyone authorized to act on Twitter's behalf, 649 00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:25,680 Speaker 1: even communicate with the Biden campaign regarding Twitter's decision to 650 00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:29,680 Speaker 1: enforce its content moderation policies with respect to the New 651 00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:33,880 Speaker 1: York Post articles. You want to talk about very real consequences. 652 00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:41,280 Speaker 1: It appears that Twitter lied to the Federal Election Commission, 653 00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:43,600 Speaker 1: and I will point out so I've got here here 654 00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:47,400 Speaker 1: in my hand. Their actual response. It's a lengthy response 655 00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:50,279 Speaker 1: where they make those statements, but they attach at the 656 00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:57,319 Speaker 1: back of their response two sworn affidavits, one from Yoel Roth, 657 00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:01,080 Speaker 1: who's one of the senior officials deeply implicated in this 658 00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:04,840 Speaker 1: where he says here a couple of things in his 659 00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:07,799 Speaker 1: sworn affidavit. As a matter of practice, neither I nor 660 00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:10,360 Speaker 1: the other members of the site integrity team communicate directly 661 00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:14,360 Speaker 1: with persons outside Twitter that report content for violating Twitter's policies. 662 00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:17,399 Speaker 1: That's a lie. We know that, although he does say then, 663 00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:20,880 Speaker 1: since twenty eighteen, I've had regular meetings with the Office 664 00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:24,440 Speaker 1: of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Homeland Security, 665 00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:29,879 Speaker 1: the FBI, and industry peers regarding election security. And then 666 00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:34,520 Speaker 1: he goes on. He says Twitter's trust and safety leadership 667 00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:38,520 Speaker 1: determined that the New York Post articles violated the distribution 668 00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:42,360 Speaker 1: of hacked materials policy and the Private Information policy, and 669 00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:46,840 Speaker 1: instructed the site integrity team to execute enforcement of those policies. 670 00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:49,520 Speaker 1: We know from these internal discussions. No, they didn't determine 671 00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:52,400 Speaker 1: it violated the hacked policies. They pulled that out of 672 00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,759 Speaker 1: their rear end and then realize, oh, crap, there's no 673 00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:57,520 Speaker 1: evidence for us, no basis for us. But well, let's 674 00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:00,799 Speaker 1: just stick to it, run out the clock and election day, 675 00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:05,879 Speaker 1: and Roth's sworn Affidavid, the final two paragraphs I want 676 00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:09,239 Speaker 1: to read for you. I did not receive any communications from, 677 00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:12,920 Speaker 1: or have any communications with representatives for Biden for President, 678 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,640 Speaker 1: the Democratic National Committee, or any of their agents regarding 679 00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:18,560 Speaker 1: the New York Post article before Twitter implemented the enforcement 680 00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:21,560 Speaker 1: actions on October fourteenth, twenty twenty. The final paragraph of 681 00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:24,320 Speaker 1: the affidavit. To the best of my knowledge, no Twitter 682 00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:27,360 Speaker 1: employees received any communications from or had any communications with 683 00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:30,600 Speaker 1: representatives of Biden for President, the Democratic National Committee, or 684 00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:33,000 Speaker 1: enter their agents regarding the New York Post article before 685 00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:36,319 Speaker 1: Twitter implemented the enforcement actions on October fourteenth, twenty twenty. 686 00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:42,320 Speaker 1: There's a second sworn affidavit from Lauren Culberson, who was 687 00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:48,480 Speaker 1: the head of US Public Policy, and she likewise, she 688 00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:53,040 Speaker 1: says that she's the point person for officeholders, election officials, candidates, campaigns, 689 00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:56,160 Speaker 1: and party committees. And she says that the public policy 690 00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:59,240 Speaker 1: team receives requests from persons for tweets to be reviewed 691 00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:03,640 Speaker 1: for ciance with Twitter's policy, and we forward those requests 692 00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:06,800 Speaker 1: to review content to enforcement agents, including members of the 693 00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:10,040 Speaker 1: Trust and Safety teams. So she's the portal to send 694 00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:12,960 Speaker 1: the request on and then she has the final two things. 695 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,440 Speaker 1: I didn't receive any communications with Biden, to the best 696 00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:17,800 Speaker 1: of my knowledge, no one else received communications with Biden. 697 00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:21,879 Speaker 1: And there's scorn affidavits, so that changes things. These two 698 00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:24,920 Speaker 1: individuals who signed their name to sworn affidavits, if they 699 00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:27,880 Speaker 1: don't have lawyers, they need to call a lawyer. They 700 00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:30,759 Speaker 1: need to call a lawyer right now, because they are 701 00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:35,359 Speaker 1: facing potential civil liability, potential criminal liability. And I'll point 702 00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:38,640 Speaker 1: out on top of that, Twitter faces liability, but you 703 00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:44,520 Speaker 1: know who else faces liability the Biden campaign and the DNC. Really, 704 00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:48,960 Speaker 1: so they could be sued and it could be legitimate. Well, look, 705 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,680 Speaker 1: the basis of the complaint that Twitter lied to the 706 00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:58,080 Speaker 1: FEC about was that Twitter blocking the Hunter Biden story 707 00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:03,000 Speaker 1: was an in kind campaign contribution to Biden for president. 708 00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:05,120 Speaker 1: And so their whole defense is no, no, no, we 709 00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:07,560 Speaker 1: just did this based on our hack materials policy. It 710 00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:11,120 Speaker 1: wasn't it wasn't about Biden at all. We now know 711 00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:13,280 Speaker 1: that's a total lie. And I'll tell you what's interesting. 712 00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:17,520 Speaker 1: The next tronch of materials is dropping any minute now, 713 00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:20,200 Speaker 1: which means we know what Wednesday's show is going to 714 00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:22,600 Speaker 1: be about. Yep, We're gonna keep doing a deep dive 715 00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:25,800 Speaker 1: into this. I will say this to everyone that is 716 00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:29,879 Speaker 1: listening and watching us Wednesday morning, we will continue part 717 00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:32,160 Speaker 1: two of this. We will go through it for you 718 00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:34,600 Speaker 1: so you understand what's happening. We do want you to 719 00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:36,440 Speaker 1: get in the fight in the game. Make sure you 720 00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:39,320 Speaker 1: hit that forward button, the share button, share the video 721 00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:42,240 Speaker 1: the audio file with all your family and friends. Senator 722 00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:45,480 Speaker 1: crew is gonna keep going deep into this on Wednesday morning. 723 00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:49,759 Speaker 1: We do this podcast Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays. I have 724 00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:52,600 Speaker 1: a feeling all this week it's gonna be on this, 725 00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:55,799 Speaker 1: So if you if you miss an episode, make sure 726 00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:58,279 Speaker 1: you go back and listen to it as this keeps 727 00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:00,200 Speaker 1: coming out and I have a feeling sent and I 728 00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:03,080 Speaker 1: think you'll agree with me. What they're doing at Twitter 729 00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:05,239 Speaker 1: right now is they're saying this is who we were, 730 00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:07,880 Speaker 1: and we're not going to be this moving forward, and 731 00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:10,480 Speaker 1: we're not going to pull back from this. We're going 732 00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:13,880 Speaker 1: to keep unloading this information in a way. And it 733 00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:17,319 Speaker 1: was clear Elon must said this is basically just the beginning. Now, 734 00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:19,800 Speaker 1: I would assume he's seen everything, which means there's a 735 00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:22,040 Speaker 1: lot more to this and it gets worse than what 736 00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:25,200 Speaker 1: we've even seen. So stay with us all week. It's 737 00:42:25,239 --> 00:42:28,200 Speaker 1: gonna be very interesting to see what this means. I'm 738 00:42:28,239 --> 00:42:30,480 Speaker 1: going to make a prediction. I think this is going 739 00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:33,640 Speaker 1: to bring a lot of pain to Facebook at some point, absolutely, 740 00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:36,400 Speaker 1: And I think what it's also seeing now is this 741 00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:40,600 Speaker 1: worrying you're hearing is document shredders at Facebook and Google 742 00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:44,160 Speaker 1: and YouTube that they're shredding things like crazy because they're 743 00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:46,360 Speaker 1: worried what's coming next. Well, and if there's anything you 744 00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:49,920 Speaker 1: can connect these two dots with is what they were 745 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:52,440 Speaker 1: doing with the laptop. And the way they dealt with 746 00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:55,319 Speaker 1: these things is exactly the same way that they were 747 00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:59,080 Speaker 1: dealing with doctor Fauci and anything he wanted to be 748 00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:02,640 Speaker 1: silenced with COVID nineteen. And if you look at how 749 00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:05,800 Speaker 1: different those stories are, one was quote fake hack material, 750 00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:08,160 Speaker 1: the other one was just a government saying we want 751 00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:10,359 Speaker 1: the narrator to be what it is. I think these 752 00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:12,160 Speaker 1: stories are going to be intertwined in a way like 753 00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:15,000 Speaker 1: we never could have imagined. Stay with us all week long. 754 00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:17,879 Speaker 1: We'll see you back Wednesday morning. Hit that share button 755 00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,080 Speaker 1: right a five star review center. This has been fun. 756 00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:22,520 Speaker 1: Wednesday morning, We'll see all you guys back here.