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Speaker 1: The House Republican Conference chairwoman was questioning the FBI director

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Speaker 1: Were you aware that the FBI personnel were in contact

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Speaker 1: to listen of which the Hunter Biden laptop story was

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Speaker 1: Director Ray, the American people deserve answers and this is unacceptable. Lastly,

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Speaker 1: when we go live center, Ted Cruise and I do

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Speaker 1: Verdict co host, right, we put that video up there

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Speaker 1: on Verdict, we'll get six thousand, seven thousand total view

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Speaker 1: I mean really, what does that tell you about the

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Speaker 1: situation and the corruption of the deep state in a

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Speaker 1: big tech And it's not just social media. That's the

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Speaker 1: other part. I'm gonna say it over and over again,

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Speaker 1: This is also shopify, This is also things like that

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Speaker 1: it is incredibly hard to operate. Not just to operate,

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Speaker 1: her up to six hundred plus thousand followers, building Facebook

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Speaker 1: It's part of my job. And they said, we're partnering

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Speaker 1: a keyboard. That's what he's describing here. And his final

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Speaker 1: thoughts to Congress about just how powerful big tech in

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Speaker 1: the Democratic Party in the deep state is. As he

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Speaker 1: he was going through the Twitter files, was this, I'm

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Speaker 1: running out of time, so I'll just sum up and

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Speaker 1: say it's just not possible. To instantly arrive at truth.

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Speaker 1: It is, however, possible, becoming technologically possible to instantly define

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Speaker 1: and enforce a political consensus online, which I believe is

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Speaker 1: what we're looking at. This is a grave threat to

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Speaker 1: people of all political persuasions. The first Amendment an American

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Speaker 1: population accustomed to the right to speak is the best

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Speaker 1: defense left against the censorship industrial complex. If the latter

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Speaker 1: these groups will have no serious opponent left anywhere. If

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Speaker 1: there's anything the twitterfiles show, it's that we're in danger

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Speaker 1: of losing this most precious right, without which all democratic

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Speaker 1: rights are impossible. Thank you for the opportunity to appear,

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Speaker 1: and I'd be happy to answer any questions from the committee.

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Speaker 1: You listen to his closing statement there and the point

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Speaker 1: that he's basically trying to explain to congresses. You guys

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Speaker 1: then you are no longer a part of the greatest country,

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Speaker 1: in the greatest society in the world. This is a

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Speaker 1: guy who now is experiencing this now because now he

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Speaker 1: is the Democrats public Enemy number one, solely because he

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Speaker 1: what we've found. That's all he did, folks, that's it,

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Speaker 1: and now they're trying to destroy his entire life. We're

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Speaker 1: going to have more of this, I can promise you.

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Speaker 1: So make sure you continue to listen, make sure you

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Speaker 1: us a five star review, and we'll see you back

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