Speaker 1: See you're right here for our final news roundup and
Speaker 1: information overload.
Speaker 2: I do's round up Information overload hour. Here's our toll
Speaker 2: free number. It's eight hundred and ninety four one.
Speaker 3: Sean.
Speaker 2: If you want to be a part of the program,
Speaker 2: if you're just joining US. Federal judge and that would
Speaker 2: be Eileen Cannon has now temporarily blocked Jack Smith's attempt
Speaker 2: at releasing a report relating to his investigations into Trump's
Speaker 2: alleged twenty twenty election interference case. I mean, it really
Speaker 2: is pretty unbelievable that even though these cases have fallen apart,
Speaker 2: even though we had a Supreme Court immunity decision, the
Speaker 2: fact that he wants to bludgeon Trump on his way
Speaker 2: out the door, just like Judge Murshawn wants to label
Speaker 2: Donald Trump a convicted felon his way out the door.
Speaker 2: I mean, it is law fair at its first. And
Speaker 2: Donald Trump laid into Prosecutor Jack Smith earlier today at
Speaker 2: his press conference.
Speaker 4: Listen, I mean Jack Smith, that cases all over the place,
Speaker 4: people were being subpoened, lives were being ruined, they were
Speaker 4: spending everything they had money. We were helping them out,
Speaker 4: we had to. They were subpoenaing people from that had
Speaker 4: no idea what they were even talking about. That's a
Speaker 4: sick group of people, and it reolved to influence the election.
Speaker 4: It was all a fight against a political opponent. We've
Speaker 4: never had that in this country. We have had that
Speaker 4: in certain countries. We've had that in.
Speaker 3: Third tier countries.
Speaker 4: We've had that in Banana republics, but we've never had
Speaker 4: that in a place like the United States. I don't
Speaker 4: even know if it's been on a small level. I'm
Speaker 4: sure it has been on a small level, but this
Speaker 4: was the largest level ever. They brought this moron out
Speaker 4: of the Hague.
Speaker 1: He's a mean guy.
Speaker 4: He's a mean, nasty guy. His picture was perfect because
Speaker 4: you look at his picture, you say that's a bad guy.
Speaker 2: Cann said that Smith is temporarily enjoyed from releasing, sharing,
Speaker 2: or transmitting the final report or any such drafts of
Speaker 2: outside of the Department of Justice. The order remains in
Speaker 2: effect until three days after a resolution is announced in
Speaker 2: the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit is Friday.
Speaker 2: We know that the president on the tenth is scheduled
Speaker 2: to be sentenced that in that ridiculous case in New
Speaker 2: York even those statute of limitations had run out. This
Speaker 2: novel legal theory Alvin Bragg, as it relates to what
Speaker 2: was a legal non disclosure agreement put together by a
Speaker 2: lawyer labeled a legal expense. Again, statute of limitations run out,
Speaker 2: and then of course they stack the charges thirty four
Speaker 2: to thirty eight, whatever the number will happen to be.
Speaker 2: And anyway, the dogmatic refusal last Friday to dismiss this
Speaker 2: ridiculous case against Donald Trump and proceed to sentencing is
Speaker 2: just another example of the weaponization of justice the country,
Speaker 2: and it's got to stop. A lot of people have said, well,
Speaker 2: you know, the Donald Trump's Department of Justice and his
Speaker 2: FBI and his intelligence communities, they should act the same way.
Speaker 3: I don't believe that's the case.
Speaker 2: I think we need equal justice under the law, equal
Speaker 2: application of our laws. He can't have a double standard.
Speaker 2: And they have done this now to Donald Trump for
Speaker 2: nearly nine consecutive years, and it didn't pay off. And
Speaker 2: in spite of all of these nefarious efforts. Anyway, our
Speaker 2: friend Greg Jarrett is with US best selling author Fox
Speaker 2: News Legal Analysts, Sir, Happy New year, great to have you.
Speaker 1: How are you sir, I'm well, thank you and good
Speaker 1: to be with you.
Speaker 2: Let's start with Eileen Kannon blocking Jack Smith from releasing
Speaker 2: this report. The thing that sticks in my mind about this,
Speaker 2: he wants to be able to lay out his case
Speaker 2: with no defense at all by the Trump team. He
Speaker 2: wants to be able to put out all of the
Speaker 2: scurrilous information that he would liked to have brought up
Speaker 2: a trial that he wasn't allowed to bring up a trial,
Speaker 2: and just smear and slander Trump one last moment on
Speaker 2: the way out the door.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's exactly it. But keep in mind, he already
Speaker 1: did it. He leaked a lot of allegedly incriminating information
Speaker 1: about Trump in court documents that were completely gratuitous right
Speaker 1: before the election. And of course it had no impact.
Speaker 1: Nobody really cared because they knew what Jack Smith was doing.
Speaker 1: You know, he was one of several components of the
Speaker 1: law fair war waged against Donald Trump that backfired spectacularly
Speaker 1: the other point, but.
Speaker 2: We didn't know at the time that people were ignoring it.
Speaker 2: That's the scary part. They had hoped, they had hoped
Speaker 2: it would have an impact. They released it because they
Speaker 2: wanted an impact, didn't they.
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely. I mean Jack Smith wanted to interfere in
Speaker 1: the presidential election. He wanted to throw it in favor
Speaker 1: of Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2: And that's why, by the way, isn't that against Justice
Speaker 2: Department policy.
Speaker 3: To do such?
Speaker 1: Oh, it's totally against it. And you know, Merrick Arland
Speaker 1: was all in. He didn't care. He you know, let's
Speaker 1: do it, let's help Kamala win. And you know it
Speaker 1: didn't work because people were wise by that time to
Speaker 1: the law fier campaign weaponizing the law, the law, contorting it,
Speaker 1: mangaling evidence for you know, political vengeance and electoral gain,
Speaker 1: and they didn't buy into it, and Trump won. The
Speaker 1: other point that I think one of the reasons why
Speaker 1: Aileen Cannon, the federal judge in Florida, you know, told
Speaker 1: Smith you can't, you know, release this report is because
Speaker 1: remember he was illegal, unconstitutionally appointed. So why should an
Speaker 1: illegally appointed special counsel release a report? You know that
Speaker 1: report is arguably illegal. And that's part of her reasoning here.
Speaker 2: What did you make over the holidays of this report
Speaker 2: that Joe Biden was most disappointed with Merrick Garland? I
Speaker 2: found that somewhat spectacular to me, and that he was
Speaker 2: angry that Garland didn't move faster in terms of getting
Speaker 2: a prosecutor to go after Trump and get him on
Speaker 2: trial before the election, and was even angrier still that Garland,
Speaker 2: although the DOJ tried their level best to give him
Speaker 2: that sweetheart deal in Delaware and make this whole thing
Speaker 2: go away, they did try that that he was His
Speaker 2: anger and fury against Garland was greater than any other appointment.
Speaker 3: Did you see that, Yeah?
Speaker 1: I did, And it's you know, it's pretty laughable because
Speaker 1: Americ Garland was doing Joe Biden's bidding at every turn,
Speaker 1: running a protection racket for Hunter Biden, interfering in the case,
Speaker 1: offering up a sweetheart deal allowing statute of limitations of
Speaker 1: the most serious crimes to expire. So you know, he was,
Speaker 1: you know, Hunter Biden's bff. And at the same time
Speaker 1: he did launch a special council at the behest of
Speaker 1: Joe Biden. Remember, Biden leaked to the New York Times
Speaker 1: that he wanted Trump to be prosecuted, and lickety split,
Speaker 1: Garland named Jack Smith's special counsel. And then, of course
Speaker 1: he launched his two criminal cases in Washington and Florida.
Speaker 1: So you know, Garland was doing everything that Joe Biden
Speaker 1: asked him. It's just that all of it failed to succeed,
Speaker 1: and so much of it backfired in the case.
Speaker 2: Of Judge Marshaw and his desire to move forward with
Speaker 2: the sentencing. Now he says he's not going to jail
Speaker 2: Donald Trump or in any way have him, you know,
Speaker 2: have any type of home confinement. But what I find
Speaker 2: so interesting about this that entire case, starting with the
Speaker 2: novel legal theory, starting with the statute of limitations that passed,
Speaker 2: starting with the idea that a non disclosure agreement. I
Speaker 2: bet if we got into the records of of Alvin
Speaker 2: Bragg's office, there are probably numerous non disclosure agreements that
Speaker 2: they've never talked about. Probably would have been good evidence
Speaker 2: to bring up if Trump was able to get it
Speaker 2: in the trial.
Speaker 3: But in that case, beyond the novel.
Speaker 2: Legal theory, which we've spent a lot of time analyzing,
Speaker 2: the judge held to this eighty million dollar valuation in
Speaker 2: one case, and this is angoron of maur A Lago.
Speaker 2: In this particular case, you know, we had testimony, for example,
Speaker 2: by Hope from the time she was in the White House.
Speaker 2: We subsequently had a Supreme Court decision on immunity, and
Speaker 2: that decision should have rendered her testimony. Thus the verdict
Speaker 2: in that case moot, and that whole verdict should have
Speaker 2: been thrown out. The judge refused to do that. If
Speaker 2: this sentencing goes forward on Friday, in a sense, is
Speaker 2: maybe there a silver lining in this in that without
Speaker 2: the sentence thing, I'm not sure if President Trump would
Speaker 2: be able to get it out of this guy's courtroom
Speaker 2: off to the Eleventh Circuit that could weigh in on
Speaker 2: the immunity decision and on the witnesses that testified in
Speaker 2: the case, like Holepix.
Speaker 1: Yeah, look, there is a benefit to being sentenced on Friday.
Speaker 1: It allows, under the law, the first opportunity to appeal
Speaker 1: all of the mistakes, the reversible errors made at trial
Speaker 1: in Shawn's case on the merits. You know, the law
Speaker 1: is kind of quirky here. You are not allowed to
Speaker 1: file an appeal until you've been sentenced, and so you know,
Speaker 1: there's an advantage here to being sentenced. Now. You know,
Speaker 1: Trump wants to clear his name. He's not officially a
Speaker 1: convicted felon until sentencing, but doesn't really matter. I mean,
Speaker 1: the media already branded him a convicted felon the moment
Speaker 1: the jury vertic came in lasted May. So it's a
Speaker 1: practical matter. I mean, who really cares. I think it's
Speaker 1: important to get this case overturned, and it will be
Speaker 1: I think, easily overturned. It'll take time, but there were
Speaker 1: so many mistakes in this case. It was a sham trial,
Speaker 1: a convoluted incoherent legal theory, utterly absurd, rife with reversible
Speaker 1: errors by the judge. You know, Trump's due process rights
Speaker 1: were shredded on almost a daily basis. This wasn't a
Speaker 1: fair trial. It was a farce. And I think higher
Speaker 1: courts will eventually make mince meat out of the decision
Speaker 1: and it'll get tossed out.
Speaker 2: Okay, would that be the likely the Eleventh Circuit that
Speaker 2: I believe would have the first crack at it.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not optimistic that the New York Appellate
Speaker 1: system will reverse Mershan. They they're liberal.
Speaker 3: I did reverse. They did reverse in Goron quite a bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but not entirely. So we'll have to wait and see.
Speaker 1: I'm not terribly optimistic. I think eventually it'll be the
Speaker 1: Federal courts because there were federal constitutional issues involved, not
Speaker 1: the least of which was immunity, but also do process violations.
Speaker 1: And I think the federal courts are more reliable once
Speaker 1: it gets to them. I think they'll give a spanking
Speaker 1: to Judge Juan Mrshan.
Speaker 3: All right, quick break.
Speaker 2: More with our friend Greg Jarrett, Fox News Legal analyst,
Speaker 2: best selling author. Your calls coming up on the other side,
Speaker 2: eight hundred and nine to four one, Sean. If you
Speaker 2: want to be a part of the program as we continue,
Speaker 2: let me continue now. We're reacting to the possible sentencing
Speaker 2: that may take place on Friday in the case Alvin
Speaker 2: Bragg Judge Juan Mershawn in New York Eileen Cannon's ruling
Speaker 2: that Jack Smith cannot release his quote final report until
Speaker 2: it is reviewed by a higher court. Greg Jarrett, Fox
Speaker 2: News Legal Analyst, best selling authors with us, what do
Speaker 2: you think? Attorney what's his name? Mike Davis gave an
Speaker 2: interview and he said, I would say this to Judge
Speaker 2: Juan Mrshawn, you better lawyer up because what you're doing
Speaker 2: is a very serious civil rights felony under eighteen USC.
Speaker 3: Two forty one. What's your reaction to that.
Speaker 1: He's absolutely correct, and I've mentioned this before on several
Speaker 1: occasions on your program. Two forty one is very important.
Speaker 1: It makes it a crime to engage in a conspiracy
Speaker 1: to violate somebody's constitutional rights, and running for office as
Speaker 1: Trump did is certainly a constitutional right. So, as I
Speaker 1: wrote in my column over the weekend, it's incumbent upon
Speaker 1: the incoming Department of Justice Pambondi, if advised and consented
Speaker 1: by the US Centers, open a comprehensive investigation into the
Speaker 1: whole lawfare campaign that Special Counsel Jack Smith, Onnie Willis
Speaker 1: in Georgia, Dais and Bragg, even Letitia James brought almost
Speaker 1: simultaneously and only after Trump announced his bid for election.
Speaker 1: That was not a coincidence, Sean. There is reason to
Speaker 1: believe and some evidence that there was coordination among all
Speaker 1: of them with President Joe Biden's White House and or
Speaker 1: with Attorney General Merrick Garland's DOJ maybe both.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 2: We saw a lot of trips by a lot of
Speaker 2: people involved in these cases from Georgia on down, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that were headed to the Biden Whitehouse during that.
Speaker 1: Time, And if laws were broken, prosecutors should be exposed
Speaker 1: and held accountable for weaponizing the justice system in One
Speaker 1: of the ways to do it, as you appropriately point out,
Speaker 1: is you know two forty one under the criminal codes
Speaker 1: conspiracy to deprive Trump of his constitutional rights?
Speaker 3: You see? Do you really see that as impossible reality?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 1: I absolutely do, and I'll be writing a column about
Speaker 1: it very soon.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, we appreciate your time. Happy New Year, my friend,
Speaker 2: Greg Jarrett. Thank you for being with us as always. Sure, Brandy,
Speaker 2: you're a fine girl. That Have you made any after
Speaker 2: your time off? By the way, how was your vacation?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask you yet, Oh it was great.
Speaker 3: How was yours?
Speaker 2: It's oh great. Any time off for me is a
Speaker 2: good time. Anytime with family is a good time.
Speaker 6: Agreed.
Speaker 2: Did you do anything special or did you just have
Speaker 2: some hopefully you had some downtime.
Speaker 6: Had I had a massive epiphany about the song? Brandy?
Speaker 6: Actually so, I would say it was actually a very
Speaker 6: special vacation.
Speaker 2: Well, please do share. I'm dying to hear it. I've
Speaker 2: been trying to connvince you that your interpretation was wrong
Speaker 2: for a while.
Speaker 6: I tell you what, I have seen the light and
Speaker 6: I am now on the Hannity bandwagon. You are right.
Speaker 6: You've been writing all along on this song without a doubt.
Speaker 3: Is this your new year New Year's resolution?
Speaker 6: This was my New Year's resolution. I'm like, I need
Speaker 6: to do a deep dive. I need to put this
Speaker 6: bad boy to bed. Brandy, You're gonna lay down. You're
Speaker 6: never getting back up again. This is it, right, very clear.
Speaker 3: Brandy.
Speaker 2: You're a fine girl, a fine if you would be,
Speaker 2: that's right, fine girl. But my life and if I
Speaker 2: love and my lady is the sea meaning not you.
Speaker 6: That's right, you are cool.
Speaker 2: But but you thought originally that Brandy represented the sea,
Speaker 2: which would have contradicted the lyrics, and then you thought
Speaker 2: that Brandy might have something to do with the liquor.
Speaker 6: Brandy, I did you know? I think I was getting
Speaker 6: a little too deep in the weeds there. You know,
Speaker 6: I was having a little bit of a Van Gole
Speaker 6: moment with this song. I don't think that's what it
Speaker 6: was at all. I think it just is what it
Speaker 6: is on phase value, and I was like, you know what,
Speaker 6: I'm just gonna take it for what it is. They're
Speaker 6: telling me what it is. This is what it is,
Speaker 6: and that's that.
Speaker 2: I think you might have spent a lot of time
Speaker 2: with your pastor over the holiday, because this is a
Speaker 2: whole new Linda or.
Speaker 6: I spent a lot of time with Brandy and realize
Speaker 6: it's just not that great.
Speaker 2: Probably looked up as we did, looking Glass that sings
Speaker 2: the song Brandy, and it was really about a woman
Speaker 2: named Randy. They just changed the name of the wood
Speaker 2: woman according to the author of the song, and anyway
Speaker 2: it had to do with that relationship.
Speaker 6: Well, I'll tell you what. I had A little Brandy
Speaker 6: had a little like I got a little drunk. I
Speaker 6: saw the light. I now know it's it's a lady,
Speaker 6: and we're moving on.
Speaker 3: At least you're not drinking the moonshine that people keep.
Speaker 6: Definitely not. I threw that out over the holiday. I
Speaker 6: was like, I can't do this anymore.
Speaker 3: You did not throw it out.
Speaker 6: My hands are God. I'm like, I can't look at
Speaker 6: it anymore.
Speaker 2: What about the rope the team? If you're having a moment,
Speaker 2: they forget about it. That moonshine.
Speaker 6: I ruled the roost. I left the vodka. I got
Speaker 6: rid of the moonshine.
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Speaker 2: with Mark Halpern early in the program today, and the
Speaker 2: media is never gonna learn, and I think as a result,
Speaker 2: Americans are going to continue to tune them out. I
Speaker 2: think Americans are fed up with being lied to. I mean,
Speaker 2: they lied about Joe's cognitive decline, they lied about the borders,
Speaker 2: they lied about the economy, They lie about Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: You know, nobody in the media ever ever had a
Speaker 2: critical thought as it relates to all the weaponization of
Speaker 2: our Justice department, all the law fair used against Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: They never questioned a phony evaluation of mar A Lago
Speaker 2: at eighteen million dollars when it's worth a billion plus dollars.
Speaker 2: And any realtor in Palm Beach, Florida will tell you
Speaker 2: that's the case. But of course the judge in that
Speaker 2: case would not let the testimony of real estate experts
Speaker 2: to be brought into that a civil case. And it's
Speaker 2: the same thing yesterday. I mean, Sonny Houston over at
Speaker 2: that hit hard hitting news show, The View comparing January
Speaker 2: sixth to the Holocaust.
Speaker 3: You can't make it up.
Speaker 5: I say no, you don't move on because January sixth
Speaker 5: was an atrocity. It was one of the worst moments
Speaker 5: in American guests. And when you think about the worst
Speaker 5: moments in American history, you know, like World War II,
Speaker 5: things that happened, like the Holocaust, chattel slavery, we need
Speaker 5: to never forget because past becomes prologue if.
Speaker 7: You forget any race.
Speaker 2: Can we remind people that the Holocaust carried out by
Speaker 2: Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler in Europe killed tens of millions
Speaker 2: of people, six million Jews, roughly twenty million military personnel,
Speaker 2: forty million civilians dying during World War Two? And is
Speaker 2: that the comparison? You're going to invoke Nazi mass murder
Speaker 2: of the Jewish people and others and compare that to
Speaker 2: January sixth, and live in the past if that's where
Speaker 2: they want to live, and that's where fake Jake Tapper
Speaker 2: was apparently yesterday too, and if they want to if
Speaker 2: they want to live. They ran on this, They ran
Speaker 2: on this, They lost on this. They ran hard on
Speaker 2: January sixth, on insurrection and Trump's a Nazi and a
Speaker 2: fascist and a racist and all the other cliches that
Speaker 2: they use every election season.
Speaker 3: It didn't work.
Speaker 2: One person more to the left, our old friend Heraldo
Speaker 2: said it would be right for Trump to pardon most
Speaker 2: January six ers. And then the question was did these
Speaker 2: punishments of years and years in prison or was it
Speaker 2: appropriate for the crimes committed. You know, look at this
Speaker 2: guy that killed two people in the New York City
Speaker 2: subway system over the last weekend. I mean, this guy
Speaker 2: had been at eighty seven prior arrests and was still
Speaker 2: walking the streets. One other thing I want to get
Speaker 2: to that I think has a very profound impact. And
Speaker 2: some of you may think this is purely political, but
Speaker 2: there's a deeper history here that I want to go into,
Speaker 2: and that is the announcement of Mark Zuckerberg. First of all,
Speaker 2: that he brought in Dana White to be among three
Speaker 2: new board members of Meta, that platform formerly known as Facebook.
Speaker 2: And I will tell you that there is no doubt
Speaker 2: that this has been a process.
Speaker 3: This is not about.
Speaker 2: Long before Donald Trump won the election, they had made
Speaker 2: a lot of changes at Meta. And I'm not saying
Speaker 2: all of them are perfect, and I'm not saying any
Speaker 2: I'm not telling any of you to trust it. And
Speaker 2: I mean I'm a I'm a trust but verify guy.
Speaker 2: But this is what he went into in great specificity,
Speaker 2: in detail today that they're changing their filters to reduce censorship.
Speaker 2: Now there's certain things that they're going to have to censor.
Speaker 2: And inasmuch as you can't have people on any platform
Speaker 2: making making threats of violence or physical harm to other people,
Speaker 2: I mean, it becomes a fine line if people are,
Speaker 2: you know, so outwardly virulently racist, anti semitic, and they're
Speaker 2: you know, some people are more subtle and some people
Speaker 2: overt and each platform will have their own standards, but
Speaker 2: this is what Zuckerberg said will be the standard of Facebook.
Speaker 2: By the fact checking will be ended and they'll be
Speaker 2: more inclusive in terms of content, and they're changing their
Speaker 2: filters to reduce the censorship, and they're bringing back civic content.
Speaker 2: And Facebook is moving trust and safety moderation teams out
Speaker 2: of California to Texas, and they're going to work with
Speaker 2: Trump to push back on government around the world going
Speaker 2: after him, after American companies and pushing for more censorship.
Speaker 2: In other words, it sounds like he's fighting for free speech.
Speaker 7: But listen, first, we're going to get rid of fact
Speaker 7: checkers and replace them with community notes similar to X.
Speaker 7: Starting in the US, after Trump first got elected in
Speaker 7: twenty sixteen, the legacy media wrote NonStop about how misinformation
Speaker 7: was a threat to democracy. We tried in good faith
Speaker 7: to address those concerns without becoming the arbiters of truth,
Speaker 7: but the fact checkers have just been too politically biased
Speaker 7: and have destroyed more trust than they've created, especially in
Speaker 7: the US. So over the next couple of months, we're
Speaker 7: going to phase in a more comprehensive community notes system. Second,
Speaker 7: we're going to simplify our content policies and get rid
Speaker 7: of a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and
Speaker 7: gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse.
Speaker 7: What started as a movement to be more inclusive has
Speaker 7: increasingly been used to shut down opinions and shut out
Speaker 7: people with different ideas, and it's gone too far. So
Speaker 7: I want to make sure that people can share their
Speaker 7: beliefs and experiences on our platforms. Third, we're changing how
Speaker 7: we enforce our policies to reduce the mistakes that account
Speaker 7: for the vast majority of censorship on our platforms. We
Speaker 7: used to have filters that scanned for any policy violation. Now,
Speaker 7: we're going to focus those filters on tackling illegal and
Speaker 7: severity violations, and for lower severity violations, we're going to
Speaker 7: rely on someone reporting an issue before we take action.
Speaker 7: The problem is that the filters make mistakes and they
Speaker 7: take down a lot of content that they shouldn't, So
Speaker 7: by dialing them back, we're going to dramatically reduce the
Speaker 7: amount of censorship on our platforms. We're also going to
Speaker 7: tune our content filters to require much higher confidence before
Speaker 7: taking down content. The reality is that this is a
Speaker 7: trade off. It means we're going to catch less bad stuff,
Speaker 7: but will also reduce the number of innocent people's posts
Speaker 7: and accounts that we accidentally take down. Fourth, we're bringing
Speaker 7: back civic content. For a while, the community asked to
Speaker 7: see less politics because it was making people stressed, so
Speaker 7: we stopped recommending these posts. But it feels like we're
Speaker 7: in a new era now and we're starting to get
Speaker 7: feedback that people want to see this content again, So
Speaker 7: we're going to start phasing this back into Facebook, Instagram,
Speaker 7: and threads while working to keep the communities friendly and positive. Fifth,
Speaker 7: we're going to move our trust and safety and content
Speaker 7: moderation teams out of California, and our US based content
Speaker 7: review is going to be based in Texas. As we
Speaker 7: work to promote free expression. I think that will help
Speaker 7: us build trust to do this work in places where
Speaker 7: there is less concern about the bias of our teams. Finally,
Speaker 7: we're going to work with President Trump to push back
Speaker 7: on governments around the world. They're going after American companies
Speaker 7: and pushing to censor more. The US has the strongest
Speaker 7: constitutional protections for free expression in the world. Europe has
Speaker 7: an ever increasing number of laws institutionalizing censorship and making
Speaker 7: it difficult to build anything innovative there. Latin American countries
Speaker 7: have secret courts that can order companies to quietly take
Speaker 7: things down. China has sensored of apps from even working
Speaker 7: in the country. The only way that we can push
Speaker 7: back on this global trend is with the support of
Speaker 7: the US government, And that's why it's been so difficult
Speaker 7: over the past four years. Years when even the US
Speaker 7: government has pushed for censorship by going after US and
Speaker 7: other American companies, it has emboldened other governments to go
Speaker 7: even further. But now we have the opportunity to restore
Speaker 7: free expression and I am excited to take it.
Speaker 2: Now, what's interesting about this? Some of you are going
Speaker 2: to say, yeah, well, he's just afraid Donald Trump became president,
Speaker 2: and and in Washington they've been they've been going after him,
Speaker 2: et cetera. Let me take you back to the letter
Speaker 2: that Zuckerberg wrote to Jim Jordan and the House Judiciary Committee.
Speaker 2: And I thought it was I thought I thought at
Speaker 2: the time it was very very interesting. And this goes back,
Speaker 2: I don't know, a year, two years ago whenever he
Speaker 2: sent this this this letter to Jim Jordan, and I
Speaker 2: talked to Jim Jordan about it, and Jim Jordan had
Speaker 2: multiple conversations with the top leaders at META about what
Speaker 2: had happened with the Biden administration. And in this letter
Speaker 2: by Zuckerberg himself, he admitted that his company was wrong.
Speaker 2: He said he regret that they were not more outspoken
Speaker 2: about the Biden administration pressuring Facebook at the time that
Speaker 2: they were wrong not more outspoken about it. Then they
Speaker 2: ended up giving into that pressure, making choices with the
Speaker 2: benefit of hindsight new information that they wouldn't make today.
Speaker 2: I strongly think we should not compromise our content standards
Speaker 2: due to pressure from any administration and either direction. We're
Speaker 2: ready to push back if something like this ever happens again.
Speaker 2: And then that goes to the fifty one. For example,
Speaker 2: I think the most underreported story is the Hunter Biden
Speaker 2: laptop story. Weren't even allowed to share it on most
Speaker 2: social media. Now think about that. That was a very
Speaker 2: real laptop, and the FBI knew it was a very
Speaker 2: real laptop by March of twenty twenty, and they were
Speaker 2: out there. They knew the story or he would break
Speaker 2: because Bob Costello, Rudy Giuliani's attorney at the time, had
Speaker 2: a copy of it, and they knew he had a
Speaker 2: copy of it, so they knew it would leak. And
Speaker 2: in the months leading up to the twenty twenty election,
Speaker 2: the FBI met with all the social media companies and
Speaker 2: warn them they may be victims of a Russian disinformation
Speaker 2: campaign and it may be about Joe and Hunter and Barisma.
Speaker 2: The New York Post story breaks weeks before the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty election. Zuckerberg Facebook, to their credit, Twitter, to their
Speaker 2: credit at the time, asked the fbis this the Russian
Speaker 2: disinformation you were warning us about? And even though the
Speaker 2: FBI had validated the authenticity of that laptop. They refused
Speaker 2: to tell them the truth. And meanwhile, they had prebunked
Speaker 2: the laptop knowing what was in it, knowing it would
Speaker 2: come out. Now, that is a manipulation and politicizing the
Speaker 2: premier law enforcement agency in the entire world. This is
Speaker 2: the type of thing that Cash Bettel is going to
Speaker 2: have to clean out. This is what will have to
Speaker 2: be removed from our intelligence community and it probably is
Speaker 2: going to mean and this is why we have to
Speaker 2: get rid of weaponization. And this is where people are
Speaker 2: going to have to change their thinking and their mindset
Speaker 2: as it comes to all of these issues. But I
Speaker 2: give them credit because this is not what we heard today.
Speaker 2: Has been a long time coming. There has been a
Speaker 2: lead up to this, and there's a history to this
Speaker 2: and my conversations with Jordan, Jim Jordan convinced me that
Speaker 2: this series about being a free speech content platform. Let's see,
Speaker 2: time will tell and it's going to wrap things up
Speaker 2: for today. Don Junior back from Greenland. He'll tell us
Speaker 2: all about his trip Steve Whitkoff, who is the Special
Speaker 2: Envoy to the Middle East. We'll talk about Donald Trump saying,
Speaker 2: well hamas better release the hostages or there will be
Speaker 2: hell to pay. We'll get an update on that situation
Speaker 2: the jack Smith ruling by Eileen Cannon. He can't release
Speaker 2: the report. We'll check in with Dersh and Greg. Jarrett
Speaker 2: also writes previous Ronnie Jackson and Tom Cotton nine Eastern
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