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the fbi have a lot to answer for as well. they appear to be imply caughted in what is -- implicated in what is another deep state cover-up. both agencies had knowledge of joe and hunter biden's relationship with burisma, and both agencies buried it. thelations come in the form of -- revelations come in the form of newly-discovered e-mails extracted from a computer hard drive. the computer had been abandoned at a computer repair shop in delaware in april of last year. an fbi subpoena shows the laptop and its original hard drive were taken, seized by the fbi in december. and intriguingly, that subpoena came a day before the radical dems started their failed effort to impeach president trump. had it not been for the computer repair shop owner who backed up the laptop's hard drive, the

contents of the computer likely would have never been seen again. at least seen by the american public. the smoking gun e-mail pulled from the laptop is a message sent to hunter biden by the number three executive at burisma. the april 17, 2015, e-mail reads this: dear hunter, thank you for inviting me to d.c. and giving me an opportunity to meet your father and spend some time together. it's really an honor and pleasure. there's also a may 12, 2014, e-mail in which the same burisma executive asks hunter biden for, quote: advice on how under use your influence. end quote. at the time of those e-mails, hubber biden was paid up to $-- hunter biden was paid up to $50,000 a month by burisma, his father was the vice president of the united states and, clearly, pressured ukraine into firing a ukrainian prosecutor who was overseeing corruption

investigations into burisma. something joe biden actually bragged about in 2018. >> we're not going to give you the billion dollars. they said you've got no authority, you're not the president. the president said you should call. i said, i'm telling you, you're not getting a billion dollars. i said you're not getting a billion. i think it was, what, six hours, i said meet him in six hours, and the prosecutor's not fired. you're not getting the money. well, son of a [bleep] [laughter] he got fired. lou: the laptop was given to the u.s. attorney's office in delaware by the fbi, we're told. a spokesman from that office says they can neither confirm nor deny the existence of an investigation. we know this evening that senator ron johnson's homeland security committee is now investigating these newly-released documents, and he will be our guest here tomorrow evening. big tech is trying their hardest to cover for joe bidenned today.

facebook -- joe biden today. facebook and twitter are actually suppressing "the new york post" reporting about hunter biden and the contents of the laptop. facebook says the claims in the story need to be fact-checked. twitter is blocking users from sharing the story and notifying users that the story is potentially harmful, end quote. more empty investigations from the justice department, but before we go there, i think we should note that the biden campaign has not responded to inquiries for explanations about "the new york post" reporting. by the way, authorities now saying they have a five-month-long investigation into the unmasking of general michael flynn. didn't result in any charges, and there will be no public report. former u.s. attorney john bash was in charge of the investigation. he was given that task by attorney general william barr after former director of

national intelligence ric grenell declassified a list of obama-era officials who had unmasked general flynn. among those who requested unmasking were john brennan, james clapper, samantha power, obama chief of staff dennis mcdonough and vice president joe biden. we have no explanation as to why they would be doing such a thing as seeking unmasking. perhaps the former u.s. attorney, bash, his failure to deliver is the reason he left the department of justice last week. it isn't just the department's ineptitude that's at an issue here. it's outright refusal to follow the orders of president trump, it's obscene. in a court filing, justice department attorneys arguing that president trump's recent tweets demand, quote: total declassesification of any and all documents related to

obamagate. those teats, say they -- tweets, they say, are not considered orders from the president. the attorney talks with the white house counsel's office and were toll, quote: the president's statements on twitter were not self-executing declassification orders and do not require the declassification of any particular, particular documents. well, in an interview earlier today president trump said he he had no comment on whether he would keep attorney general william barr in his second term. the president is clearly not pleased. he said, quote: i'm not happy. we'll have more on all of this later in the hour. we'll be talking with "just the news" editor in chief john solomon and journalist sara carter and government accountability institute president peter schweizer. and also best selling author. and today in washington the focus on, well, the senate judiciary committee hearing room where judge amy coney barrett

was answering more questions today. in just a few days, judge barrett will be voted upon for the high court. she's demonstrated that she is the smartest attorney in the entire hearing room and perhaps on all of capitol hill. senator ted cruz today saying it is clear barrett is well on her way to confirmation. >> the last three days of hearings have revealed very good news. they have revealed the news that judge barrett going to be confirmed. very little of the time we've spent in heres has concerned her record as a judge, her 20 years as a respected scholar. instead, much of this hearing has focused on political attacks directed at president trump. it is striking that as we sit here right now in this committee room there are only two democratic senators in the room.

if you look at the dais, there's chair after chair after chair that is empty. the democratic senators are no longer e even attending. i assume they'll show up for their time, but it is indicative of what they're tacitly admitting, which is that they don't have substantive criticisms. lou: hillary vaughn has been following the hearing today and joins us now with more. hillary. >> reporter: hi, lou. well, today senate democrats tried to push the narrative that judge amy coney barrett covertly campaigned for this nomination when she disagreed in a 2017 article with chief justice roberts' ruling upholding obamacare. but judge barrett called out senator amy klobuchar for suggesting that her article back then was, quote, an open letter to the president. >> were you aware back then? >> well -- >> when you were nominated?

>> well, senator klobuchar, i think that the republicans have kind of made that clear. it's been part of the public discourse. >> but is the answer yes then? >> senator klobuchar, all these questions with you're suggesting that i have animus or that i cut a deal with the president, and i was very clear yesterday that that isn't what happened. that's a matter of policy on which i can't express a view. [laughter] >> to me, that's a fundamental part of our democracy. >> if you're asking me whether i was nominated for this seat because i worked on bush v. gore for a very brief period of time as a young associate, that doesn't make sense to me. >> i'm just, i just think it's such a coincidence and that the pluck has the right to know that now three of these justices have worked on the republican side related to a major presidential election. >> reporter: some democrats, though, are disturbed that judge barrett won't divulge her own

personal political opinions on matters that could come before the supreme court. barrett's persistence to remain unbiased has us frustrated some democrats trying for her personal opinions. senator chris coons was the first democrat to announce today he is not voting for judge barrett's nomination. >> how closely you would ally yourself with justice scalia's jurisprudence. >> i hope that you aren't suggesting that i don't have my own mind. >> president trump did not nominate you to carry on justice ginsburg's legacy. he nominated you because he wants to undermine or change or shift that legacy. do how you just acknowledge that your confirmation, even though you won't be identical to justice scalia, will profoundly impact the balance of the court? >> i very much agree with senator sasse that we shouldn't talk about republican judges and democratic judges, because i think they're just judges. >> reporter: and, lou, even though judge barrett is wrapping up round two or day two of questioning with no prepared notes, she did make a comment

showing that she is just like us. she admitted yesterday after a long day of questions she did need a glass of wound to unwind. lou? lou: well, it -- [laughter] just like us. i'm trying to think how many iq points separate -- well, i'll put it this way, how many iq points separate the judge and myself. hillary vaughn, thanks so much. appreciate it. thank you. coming up next, the latest on china virus relief negotiations between treasure true e secretary steven mnuchin and house speaker nancy pelosi. secretary mnuchin joins us here with the latest and an analysis of where we are in this economic recovery. a thank you to everyone who's made my new book a national a bestseller. "the trump century: how our president changed the course of history forever," it's available now at loudobbsshop.com. loudobbsshop.com, book shops all around the country. stay with us, we'll be right

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160 million americans ree leaf from the covid -- relief from the covid virus pandemic. it didn't go well. great to have you with us, mr. is secretary. what is, would you -- how would you characterize what seems to be an um pass? >> well, first of all, it's great to be with you. the president and my first priority would be there's about $300 billion that was approved in the last cares package that we haven't spent. we need authority to spend that money. so our choice would be to immediately use that money for small business, for more ppp money, second payments, use it for airline workers, use it for kids and to support jobs. so we could get that money into the economy quickly. the president would also like to send direct payments to hard working americans quickly. there's a lot of areas in here that we would have enormous bipartisan support if they could be passed on a stand-alone bay

is uses. the speaker and senator schumer have insisted on an all-or-nothing approach, so we've been trying to negotiate in good faith a comprehensive package that would include a lot of things, would include money for testing, vaccines, kids, jobing health care. certain areas we've made a lot of progress on, certain lawyers we still is more -- certain areas we still have more work to do. lou: the calculus on the democratic proposal rises to somewhere, and i think it's conservative, $2.6 trillion which was their response in your negotiations to bring them down from what was $3.3 at least in their judgment. what is the issue here? why is there not an ability to move to immediate, if you can refer to it as piecemeal. it's not comprehensive, comprehensive is not attainable. that's been made clear here. why would they not want to have

the president's direct payments to those millions of americans who need it right now? much of the funds are right now unspent, could be used. small business, as you point out, job creators where most of the jobs are created, small business. critical to do that. what is the reason? >> lou, i don't think there's a good answer for that. i suspect that they don't want to give the president a win three weeks before the election. but they are holding up relief to hard working americans. mitch mcconnell wants to bring the ppp back to the floor. again, this is areas we have money. we don't need to appropriate more money. there's $130 billion sitting in the ppp, we just need congressional approval to send out send checks. i have -- second checks. i have over $200 billion that was allocated for the federal reserve facilities with the treasury. i'm not going to the need that. i'm reallocating that. and we have national security

money that we want to allocate to the airlines. again, these are areas of the economy, no fault of their own, they've been shut down by the china covid virus. lou: and the -- so what you're saying as i hear you is that speaker pelosi simply wants to use the american people who desperately need this money as political pawns to secure an advantage over the president in the election. that's outrageous. >> well, lou, we're really proud of the fact that the last two bills we passed on a huge bipartisan basis. 96-0 and 100-0 in the senate. the good news is when the economy was really bad, everybody came together, put politics aside. the president's leadership, we executed those quickly, and as a result of that, the economy has come back significantly. unemployment is way down, areas

of the economy that are open are doing great. but there are still areas of the economy -- travel-related, restaurants, hotels -- and these areas need more work. and the president has said to me, you know, keep at this until you get this done. we need to get everybody back their jobs who lost their jobs. lou: well, let's talk about the economy here. before we do, let me just ask you, have you got other talks scheduled of any kind, any sort of marker that you have to hit to have a discussion or that you have put down on the table? >> well, we both have some homework we aagreed today, we spent an hour on the phone today. we agreed to regroup tomorrow. we'll be discussing this again tomorrow. i think we've made some very significant compromises. there are some areas where we've made a lot of progress. they want some more details. we're going to keep trying. our objective is if there's a fair deal for the american worker and american business,

the president wants us to get this done. lou: and a fair deal for the american taxpayer should, i'm sure, looms large. the bailout for these blue state -- cities and blue states themselves that are in significant financial trouble through mismanagement, pelosi obviously wants a bailout for the big blue, california, new york, illinois. the list goes on. do the tax pea ierses have anything to -- taxpayers have anything to worry about, that somebody will conflate that money with this package? >> well, we've been very clear, lou, we've been very clear that any of the money that we allocate to the states can't go to be used to pay pension funds and other problems. in certain cases in cities we're working with the states to institute what are state financial control boards. but the objective here is if we are going to allocate money to the states, to make sure that it goes to policemen, firemen,

first responders, medical people. we want to make sure these people don't lose their jobs. they've been on the front line. if they lose the jobs, they go on unemployment, we end up having to pay for them. so our objective is if we send new money, to make it very targeted. lou: are you hopeful that anything will be done before the election? >> i'm always hopeful, lou, and we're going to keep trying. i think it's, obviously, hard to get it done. if the speaker wants to compromise, we can get this done quickly. but we're going to keep working. the president is is determined. we're going to get this done, and if we don't get it now when the president wins the election, we'll get it passed quickly afterwards. lou: let's turn now then to the economy, mr. secretary. we've seen some bright spots, as you saw, we have seen surprising strength -- for many, surprising strength -- in the economy. is it sustainable? and what do you see over the

next few months? >> i think it is sustainable. and the good news is the president's economic policies is have worked. the bipartisan package worked. these have had tremendous impact. we're going to have a very, very big gdp number coming up. we've had very bug jobs numbers. but -- big jobs numbers. but, again, what we want is targeted help for areas and business that, again, are small businesses. i think, you know, 50% of our private payroll is in small businesses. there's a lot of small businesses no fault of their own we've got to help. lou: all right. i don't want to leave without asking you about tiktok. where is tiktok, and what is your view about what will transpire there? >> well, the president is determined -- there's a national security issue. we want to make sure that americans' information that are on their phones is safe, their personal information.

so we negotiated what we think was a very good deal to turn this into an american company. they need to comply with that under the cfius order. they also need to comply with the shutdown order which is being fought in court at the moment. the president's determined. we're going to have one or two outcomes. this'll either be a safe american company or it'll be shut down. lou: treasury secretary steven mnuchin, good to have you with us, sir. appreciate it. up next, more on today's biden bombshell with "just the news" editor-in-chief john solomon who always has a few bombshells of his own. stay with us, we'll be right back. she wanted a roommate to help with the cooking. but she wanted someone who loves cats. so, we got griswalda. dinner's almost ready. but one thing we could both agree on was getting geico to help with our renters insurance. yeah, switching and saving was really easy!

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told, he was set to be fired. bruce ohr served as a back channel for christopher steele for the fbi. he also gave anti-trump information to the fbi compiled by his wife and an opposition research smear lab, fusion gps. and the story goes on. the "lou dobbs tonight" quotation of the day comes from president trump in the midst of all these new revelations and the fact that the department of justice has done nothing to correct or to charge culpable parties. the president said a back in 2016, we'll never be able to fix a rigged system by counting on the same people who have rigged it in the first place. truer words were never spoken. joining us now is "just the news" editor-in-chief john solomon, author of the book

"fallout: nuclear bribes, russian spies and the washington lies that enriched the biden and clinton dynasties." john, good to have you here. >> thank you, lou. lou: i want to get your reaction to these blockbuster elements in the washington -- the washington, "the new york post"ment. >> yeah. lou: a bombshell report on biden and uncovered documents from a laptop hard drive that was ostensibly left of in a computer repair shop by hunter biden. your reaction. >> well, it's another reaction that the vice president, the man running for president right now, his son worked for a corrupt ukraine oligarch and had all the elements of corruption surrounding them in that relationship. and then when new revelations come out that maybe could inform the american public, a whole new set of american oligarchs -- those who control facebook and

twitter -- try to keep that story from the american pluck. it's the tale of two oligarchs, the powerful social media oligarchs that control thought now in america and the oligarch that hired hunter biden while he was under corruption investigation, paid him millions of dollars and managed to walk away without being prosecuted. it's a tragedy you can story, and it's why people -- tragic story, and it's why people have to make a hard decision on november 3rd. lou: yeah, to me, it is, for me, making things easier. i mean, you don't have to look too far to see the problems with the fbi, the department of justice. they've not been forthcoming, they're not honoring the pluck's right to know. -- the public's right to know. the dems and the deep state in every major instance are on the side of the deep state and keeping information and knowledge away from the public, and the are republicans and this president in every instance are calling for transparency, the

production of documents for the american public to see and judge for themselves. and the fbi, just in this case in the report of "the new york post," we would have never known about this if hunter biden, if it hadn't come to light that hunter biden had received a $3.5 million payment from the wife of the mayor of moscow. that troubled the shop owner who said he was afraid and turned it over to others, in this case, rudy giuliani, who he hoped would protect him. >> right. lou: your thoughts. >> one extraordinary thing, lou, is the date in which he turns it over. the subpoena shows that he turned this ed over in december of 2019 -- evidence evidence. what was going on? oh, the impeachment trial of president trump. lou: right. >> this evidence sitting in the fbi's possession could very well have been very important excull pa tour evidence to the

president. the president was being accused of pursuing an investigation of hunter and joe biden without merit. this hard drive raises the strong possibility this was a lot of merit to invest hunter and joe biden. it's a tragedy that the fbi, if it possessed that hard drive at that time, failed to produce it to the defense lawyers of the president. lou: do you think that the fbi is any less corrupt now than it was in the obama era? >> it's a hard word for me to use to say corrupt and fbi because i see so many great law enforcement agents every day that do amazing work. but there is a culture at the fbi with the ticket-punchers that work in washington to protect the agency, to protect themselves at the truth of expense. and you see that day in and day out. today just give us another example. the president last week said release all documents, no redactions. i could read that tweet as good as anyone, but today they still have redactions. the president says i want

accountability. the justice department allows bruce ohr to retire to escape the sort of accountability he was about to get for his role in the russia case. the swamp is still in charge of washington in many way, and the justice department -- really more, or truly the fbi is at really ground zero of a bureaucracy that has gone astray and has not been corrected by it new direct or, chris wray. lou: yeah. it's -- i will tell you, i think we're a long ways from having an fbi -- >> i agree with you. lou: -- we can respect. and i believe the american people hold the fbi in outright contempt, because the public's right to know, the concept of equal justice under the law, it just isn't happening. >> yeah. lou: if you're a republican, good luck to you. that's all there is to it. the democrats, don't worry. we'll bury it, we'll sit on it. i don't care whether it's benghazi, whether it's bruce ohr

and his involvement, gps -- i mean, these, this swamp is so entrenched, i think that the president, i think all of us underestimated just how strong and entrenched it really is. meanwhile, meanwhile, if i may, let's turn to declassifying the documents and your reaction to the justice department saying, well, we have to have a specific order. we can't just hear from the president on twitter. >> well, the president -- i think i said this on your show last night, the president could just sign an order, and it would happen. i think he should just sit at his desk, sign that order, and let's see if the bureaucrats still drag their feet. i think they'll come up with a hundred excuses, but if you want to sign an order, we'll put it up on justthenews.com, everybody can see it, and then we'll find out if the fbi and the justice department are going to do the foot-dragging, the excuse-making. it's all designed to keep the american people in the dark even

when you have bill barr at the head of the agency. it's time for the president to call their bluff. sign an order, make it public, give 'em 24 hours. it shouldn't take long. lou: john solomon, always great to have you here. thanks so much. appreciate it. up next, china joe gets confused again on the campaign trail. we'll have that and much more with peter schweizer. he is a best selling author, one of the best investigators in all the land. stay with us, we'll be right back. ♪ this is decision tech. find a stock based on your interests or what's trending. get real-time insights in your customized view of the market. it's smarter trading technology for smarter trading decisions. fidelity.

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♪ ♪ lou: china joe biden back on the campaign trail, at least for one stop, but at that one stop he he got a little confused yesterday. here he is looking for his handler at the end of his speech. and that story just thrown in about his grandparents to boot. >> thank you for listening, you were very patient. [applause] thanks. [inaudible conversations] i wish i could shake all your hands. every time i used to walk out of my grand pop's house up in scranton, pennsylvania, he'd yell, joey, keep the faith. and my grandma said, no, joey, spread it. let's go spread e the faith. lou: well, that's not the first

time this week that biden has been confused. here's the end of his speech monday. >> visit iowa.com/ohio. god bless you anded god bless the autoworkers. god protect, thank you. which way am i going? lou: there he is again. the web site biden mentioned doesn't exist. ours does, loudobbsshop.com. "the trump century," best seller, a great place to go for it. our next guest has been uncovering the illegal activities of the bind family for years -- biden family for years. joining us now is peter schweizer, president of the government accountability institute, best selling author, author of "profiles in corruption: abuse of power by america's progressive elite." peter, that has such a ring to it, progressive elite. you wouldn't think that they should be politically corrupt. i i mean, progressive elite? your thoughts about this

blockbuster report today by "the new york post" and the revelations about what appears to be the hard drive from hunter biden's laptop. >> yeah, lou, i mean, we've talked about it before on your program. there's always been this, you know, question of what were the ukrainians, what were the chinese, what were the other foreign entities paying for when they were paying hunter biden? they weren't paying for his expertise, they weren't paying for, you know, his knowledge or experience. and, you know, we assumed and i think argued and demonstrated that they were paying for access. what the new york post reporting seems to demonstrate is that's exactly what it was. and there should be no doubt in anybody's mind that this is how the biden commercial family enterprise is operated. it involves hunter, it involves other members of the family, and they use political power to

create income opportunities for the extended family. and it often times includes very sketchy foreign inti fews including rival countries like china. lou: i want to, peter, read this statement that we've received from the joe biden campaign about the meeting with the third highest official on, in burisma. we have reviewed joe biden's official schedules from the time, and no meeting as alleged by "the new york post" ever took place. do you have a reaction to the form of that denial? peter? do you notice anything -- >> yeah. it's pretty, it's pretty ridiculous. if you go look at joe biden's official schedule as it is on the, you know, former obama administration web site where they have the daily schedules available, there are large gaps of time.

i mean, there are three or four-hour gaps of time. they don't tell you what he's doing during that tame -- that time period. i'll also tell you, lou, we know from experienced research that we've done that there are individuals who either have photographs or say that they had meetings with joe biden, and they're happy about it, they're reporting it, but it doesn't show up on any official record. so to me, this is an absolute dodge. to claim that, well, official records say they didn't meet so, therefore, they didn't meet. they're going to have to do a lot better than that to clear it up, and they're going to have to be a lot more, i think, transparent in continuing to argue -- which they've argued from the beginning -- that joe biden has nothing to do with his son's commercial activities. that's been demonstrated time and time again to be a lie. so i think they have to be more forthcoming with the american public and deal with this honestly. lou: forthcoming, that doesn't sound exactly like the joe biden

we're watching on the campaign trail. [laughter] why not just a straightforward denial? just say never met him, never met anyone from burisma, never talked with him. simple deal. you don't have to have people going through researching everything. that would loom large, i would think, in his memory in ukraine. perhaps not. i mean, give me your thoughts about this. i mean, we're watching a man who, obviously, has significant cognitive decline. he manifests it almost constantly. and the american people are being asked to vote for him for president of the united states, yet he won't explain whether he will or won't pack the supreme court were he elected, he will not speak straight about just simply denying that a meeting ever took place. this is a peculiar moment the

political corruption, the cognitive decline. how in the world can he be ahead of president trump who is, without question, in my judgment, the most successful historic president since abraham lincoln? >> well, here's the paradox, lou. we've all seen the gaffes, the misremembering, however we want to put it, statements that joe biden has made. people will debate what that means, but we've all seen that. but then joe biden makes a blanket statement that extends back ten years to say i never once discussed my son's business activities. so we're really supposed to believe that he can make a defun ty statement like that -- definitive statement like that and know it when he's making slip-ups and mistakes on other things that happened more recently? that's the problem here. they're basically telling us when it comes to these corruption issues, take my word for it. i'm going to give you a definitive statement, take my

word for it. when he -- there's very little that's definitive about anything else that he's been saying on the campaign trail. i think they're making a bug mistake in assuming that people aren't interested in this or that people are going to take his word for it. i think they need to be much more forthcoming, much more honest. i doubt they will, but i think that's the approach they need to take to the american people, because there's a yawning gap between what he's doing on the campaign trail and the exact precise things that he's saying in these denials. they just don't match up. lou: or it's a great cover story when gets caught with a faulty memory. [laughter] either way, it's not a particularly charming or attractive or persuasive conundrum, paradox or cover-up for a person in the oval office. it's, to me, it's unimaginable that the american people would elect such a person. but we will, as they say, see. peter weitzer, always good to

see you, thanks for coming by. up next, kamala harris follows joe biden. she also refuses to say whether they plan to pack the supreme court. what does that mean? what does that mean? investigatorrive reporter sara carter with the answers right after this. stay with us.

♪ ♪ lou: joining me now, sara carter, investigative reporter, fox business contributor. good to have you with us. let's start with this brock buster report -- it's great to have you -- this blockbuster report by "the new york post" which facebook users may not even know about if they were only to rely on facebook. your reaction to what is clear censorship on the part of facebook, denying their users the reports. >> yeah, absolutely, lou. i think what we're seeing here, and we've been seeing this for years now, how twitter and facebook, i mean, with mark zuckerberg and orrs are -- and others are controlling the flow of information to the american public. these are public entities, publicly-traded entities.

they were platforms that originally stated that people could go on and shower their ideas, exchange ideas with one another, and now they've become a part of the censorship. you had john solomon on, a colleague of mine, and he made a very good statement. they're operating like oligarchs, and the government needs to do something about this. section 230 protects them from lawsuits. if they want to act like they're publishers, if they want to pretend to be publishers, then they should be open to lawsuits, you know? i see it happen on my web site, i've seen it happen with stories that we have written both on facebook and on twitter, and we all know this is going on. this, however, is so blatant, it's so blue about the, we have seen -- blatant, we have seen fcc, the head saying something needs to be done and it needs to be done now. we know that the president has asked for something to be done. it's about time that something takes place. it's unfair to the american people, it's against our first

amendment rights, and the new york post had a very legitimate story. they ran the russia hoax, let's talk about this. how about twitter allowing the russia hoax to go haywire across their entire platform and facebook as well? so they definitely have shown that they are partisan, and they need to be held accountable for their actions. and i'm probably going to get shadow banned for saying that to you, but, you know, we really don't care. we have come to a point now where the american people deserve to know the truth. lou: absolutely. and the idea -- mark zuckerberg saying we don't want to become arbiters of the truth. and they then install a panel of so-called -- >> right. lou: -- i don't know what they're called to determine what we will see and won't see on facebook, and it turns out they're nearly all left-wing, prominently left wing. it's just really -- let me read

to the audience this statement from facebook's policy communications director. i love that. andy stone -- [laughter] if we could put that up, please. >> right. lou: while i will intentional lu not link to the new york post, he says i think rather augustly -- [laughter] i want to be clear that this story is eligible to be fact-checked by facebook's third party fact-checking partners. in the meantime, we are reducing its distribution on our platform. now, what do you suppose that means, reducing its distribution? a little bit? a lot? to whom? what is -- t just stunning, the arrogance and, frankly, the absurdity of what they're doing. not to mention -- >> well, absolutely, lou -- lou: -- nefarious result. 30 seconds, sara. >> it is nefarious. they are limiting the distribution of ideas and thought and actual facts, and they are controlling the flow of

information. and this is very dangerous, it's very dangerous because they worry about the russians? well, guess what, i worry about the oligarchs at twitter and facebook because they are all operating in cahoots with this radical extremist leftist agenda, and we all have to be concerned as americans. lou: sara carter, well said, as always. stay with us, we're coming right back. businesses today are looking to tomorrow. adapting. innovating. setting the course. but new ways of working demand a new type of network. one that's more than just fast. you need flexibility- to work from anywhere. and manage from everywhere. advanced technology. with serious security. and reliable coverage, nationwide.

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♪. lou: tomorrow senator ron johnson and cory does does, among our guests. we hope you will join us. thanks for being with us. buy my new book "the trump century" at loudobbsshop.com. maria: good thursday morning, everybody. thanks so much for joining us, i'm maria bartiromo. it is thursday, october 15th. your top stories right now, 6:0. now 19 days out until the november general election. president trump and joe biden gearing up for dueling townhalls. the bombshell report that caused technology meltdown, e-mails showed joe biden's son made money on his father's position and the sitting vice president was aware of it. how big tech tried to censor the story from being shared. this morning we'll get reaction