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this is bigger than what you're hearing. it is about media and fbi complicity, covering up garden-variety biden family corruption, profiting off the government. about the former top fbi lawyer who worked on the debunked trump russia story he was working at twitter on the censorship. it is about the biden team manipulating the media starting way back in 2019 and continuing to this day. with us tonight congressman james comer, former white house deputy chief of staff karl rove, dr. marc siegel, legal eagle hans von spakosky, carol roth and jason chaffetz. we have a hot show for you. d-day, herschel walker and rafael warnock in georgia are battling it out for the final senate seat. we'll get you an update. oil prices going higher as the eu shuts down oil imports. here in the u.s. california moves to shut down u.s. oil. plus government cannot account for trillions of dollars in

spending. also this, chinese hackers caught stealing $20 million in u.s. covid relief. but americans now are pushed to report venmo and paypal transactions of just $600 to the irs. florida governor ron desantis reportedly ready to work with the new disney ceo, bob iger after disney's going woke fiasco. i'm elizabeth macdonald, "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: welcome to the show. we begin with the dow, s&p 500, nasdaq down more than 1.4%. it was a broad selloff on wall street. what happened? strong services and factory data driving market fears on inflation. that the fed will have to keep interest rates higher for longer. back to elon musk saying more smoking guns are on the way after friday's release of

twitter emails showing the dnc, the biden team got twitter to censor the hunter biden laptop story. twitter used the false claim of a hack when it had no such verification of a hack from law enforcement. hillary vaughn on capitol hill with more. hillary? >> reporter: good evening, liz. elon musk releasing a stash of internal company documents showing what led to not only hunter biden laptop story being censored and other accounts and tweets were banned at the request of political parties like the biden campaign in 2020. independent reporter matt taibbi who bottom the couples it was routine for high-profile celebs and biden campaign to request twitter take action against certain accounts saying this, by 2020 requests from requested actors to delete certain tweets. more review from the biden team, the reply would come back handled. the reporter noted both parties had access to this. in 2020 the trump white house

also put in requests but says the system was not balanced and it was based on contacts, democrats had more ways in with twitter hq than the gop did in terms of the hunter biden laptop story internal company documents even those at twitter were not sure their hacked materials policy excuse was going to hold. liz. elizabeth: thank you, hillary vaughn. great reporting. look who is back with us now, ranking member of house oversight, congressman james comer. congressman, great to have you on. congressman, what was the reaction when you first heard about this story? >> i wasn't surprised. we had heard rumors and we had talked to potential whistle-blowers from twitter that implied that the fbi did twitter just like zuckerberg claimed they did facebook. that the fbi was coming in saying be aware, this potential hunter laptop story it sure sounds a lot like russian disinformation. you need to be very careful not to put yourself in a bad

position, putting a fake news story on that would be harmful to a presidential candidate just a few days before the presidential election. so we knew this was out there. god bless elon musk becoming transparent bringing it to the attention of the american people. elizabeth: that is where the first amendment violation is. it is about fbi complicity. biden campaign, white house, president, hunter biden never denied the laptop was hunter biden's. the media has been downplaying it, not putting out naked pictures of hunter biden. that is not the story. >> right. elizabeth: the media authenticated hunter biden's laptop. you've been talking about garden-variety of corruption and joe biden and the biden family making millions of dollars selling the power and access of biden's u.s. government job with connections to china, russia, ukraine and more. that's the story. >> that is exactly the story and the investigation is an investigation of joe biden. the laptop just happens to be a significant part of the evidence. the reason joe biden, the biden

campaign, the democrat national committee and unfortunately the fbi were so concerned about the laptop is because of the contents of the laptop. the laptop proves that joe biden knew very well the shady business dealings that his son and brother were involved in. it also implies that joe biden was very involved and going to be a beneficiary of these shady business dealings, particularly the one with china. what is most concerning about the fbi coming to twitter saying that this is russian disinformation, is the fact that the fbi had the laptop a year before this happened because the computer repair guy turned it over long before the presidential campaign. so the fbi knew what they were telling facebook and twitter was a lie. elizabeth: okay so to your point, musk revealing twitter's internal emails, show them again, more to review from the biden team. the reply from the twitter team, quote, handled. we just checked.

another twitter from twitter executive yoel roth talks about the lessons of 2016. congressman what lessons of 2016, what is it? if twitter workers don't suppress or censor speech, someone they don't like might win the election, is that the story? >> i guess. i don't know if they were implying the hillary emails prior to the story, prior to the 2016 election where comey came out and said potentially they were being investigated, i don't know. the fact that the fbi continues to surface as a major story before presidential elections is wrong. elizabeth: okay. >> the fbi tried to you know, participate in both beneficial and unbeneficial to both the clinton and trump campaigns. so the fbi has got to stay out of these elections. there is no sign of them doing that. elizabeth: people saying this is the biden campaign. this is the fbi. this is where the first amendment violations are. it is the government dictating speech.

america's top former intelligence officials, you know you talked about this, they're mostly silent after they claimed this was russian disinformation without proof. the biden team just made that up. again you point out the fbi did have hunter biden's laptop. let's watch this msnbc guest admit twitter was tight with democrats more than republicans. watch this? >> what it does show, twitter had a close relationship with democrats, much closer relationship than with republicans and that is enough. elizabeth: it's not. it's a bigger story. congressman say on this for a second. it's a first amendment violation with the fbi got twitter to censor. twitter's top lawyer working on this was former fbi general counsel james baker. he was former fbi chief jim comey general counsel during the trump russian collusion fiasco. he was the main fbi contact for the hillary clinton campaign spreading falsehoods of trump campaign working with russia's

alfa bank. that was debunked. he approved the fisa wiretap to spy on the trump campaign. he was in charge of fbi grilling of michael flynn. now he is at twitter approving censorship. >> who would pay this guy? the amount of information they have gotten wrong shows incompetence, or worse, bias to the point he violated his trust as an attorney. this is something will not go away for him. we already pledged over the weekend every single employee of twitter that was involved in censoring the fbi story will come to testify. elizabeth: elvis chan, he leads the fbi san francisco office where social media is. he testified to the attorney generals of louisiana and missouri that the fbi held weekly meetings before the 2020 election about quote suppressing information. are you calling that guy in.

>> absolutely. we're paying close attention to that lawsuit. remember what elon musk disclosed over the weekend that was prior to biden becoming president. he has not gotten to the part over past two years where biden has been president. where the white house has been communicating with twitter to suppress conserve conservative speech and ban certain people that didn't agree with their left-wing agenda. this story will get worse for the biden administration. this will only get worse for the fbi. elizabeth: the hunter biden laptop revealed joe biden was deeply if debt in the early 2000s. he spent too much money. they put hunter biden out front to deals overseas in russia, ukraine, kazakhstan. to sell liquid national gas reserves out of five u.s. states to china. to your point the the biden camn is on the record attacking the press as far as back as 2019 saying to the press you have to stop reporting on hunter biden.

watch this. >> is the white house still going with russian disinformation? >> i think it is broadly known and wildly known, peter, there was a broad range of russian disinformation back in 2020. president biden: five former heads of cia both parties are saying what he is saying is a bunch of garbage. no one fs [bleep] with the bidens. >> biden family corruption, this abuse of government assets. this is use of government assets to make millions of dollars. government bureaucrats we're okay with censoring the bill of rights is not absolute. which house democrat is saying that? they're supposed to uphold, they swore an oath to uphold the bill of rights. this story is bigger than what the media, msnbc, are not reporting on. >> democrats are starting to learn the contents of the laptop. they led to believe, because their media outlets told them it

was russian disinformation. it was his laptop but it is compromised. republicans added a file to it to implicate joe biden. now they're realizing the fbi was in on the trick all along and tried to suppress the story. why were they doing this? because of what is in the laptop. all the shady business dealings, influence peddling the biden family has done. the democrats in congress will not be able to defend the biden administration on this. the media will continue to go down and lose credibility every day if they don't get on board like cbs and a few other mainstream media outlets starting to report this is in fact real news. this was never russian disinformation. this was a coverup at the highest levels of our government. this shows bad, bad behavior on the sides of the bidens with our adversaries which could lead this white house being compromised. >> congressman comer, thanks for being on. we'll have you back on soon. chinese hackers with secret

services, chinese hackers in connection with the chinese government there stole $20 million in u.s. covid relief. as irs is pushing americans to report venmo and paypal transactions $600 each. herschel walker and rafael warnock are battling it it out for the final senate seat. >> in votes actually cast warnock is a little bit ahead. he is not ahead up by enough to be safe so it is up in the air. [coughing] hi, susan. honey. yeah. i respect that. but that cough looks pretty bad. try this robitussin honey. the real honey you love, plus the powerful cough relief you need. mind if i root through your trash? robitussin. the only brand with real honeyand elderberry.

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♪. elizabeth: welcome back. reports that hackers linked to the chinese government stole at least $20 million in u.s. covid relief from over a dozen states. now, the secret service reportedly warning this number is likely much bigger. that chinese hackers targeted all 50 states covid relief programs. we've got the government, the u.s. government cannot account for trillions of dollars in federal spending. gerri willis in new york with more. gerri? >> reporter: liz, when it comes to financial oversight by the government look only the little guys have their feet held to the fire. the irs warning its cracking down on individual taxpayers this year as it attempts to sniff out even small amounts of income earned from part-time work, side good, selling goods.

the threshold will be 600 bucks. receive that amount or more, you are required to report the income for tax purposes. filling out a 1099 form, getting paid via venmo, paypal that is no excuse as the government is requiring these apps to report those details. the pentagon is showing a complete lack of fiscal discipline, failing yet another audit, that is its fifth consecutive by the way, as congress is poised to approve the 84billion dollar -- 840 billion-dollar budget. the agency only accounted for 39% of 3.5 trillion in assets. that means $2.2 trillion has been left unaccounted for. liz? elizabeth: gerri willis, always terrific journalism, great reporting, thank you so much. joining us former white house deputy chief of staff karl rove and fox news contributor liz peek.

karl, reaction to the report, a private company, if the sec caught what the pentagon was doing they would put that company out of business. >> look, government accounting is almost an oxymoron and you know, apropos of your opening on this talking about the secret service announcing a foreign hacking group based in china, associated with the chinese communist party stole $20 million, think about this, the estimates from the government are that $80 billion of ppp money was stolen. that ninepy billion dollars of state unemployment funds were stolen and $80 billion from the covid disaster relief program was stolen and it took until march this year to appoint a special pandemic prosecutor to look at the things in a systemic way. we're talking about a quarter of a trillion dollars the federal government admits it believes it was stolen. coming across the stuff, in california and michigan, there have been actions already taken

against insiders inside the state departments of unemployment, the state workers' comp office, state unemployment offices who were feeding information to people in prison in order to help them get money illegally from these kind of covid relief programs. so we got a problem. elizabeth: it is breeding cynics out of people. americans don't want to be cynical, liz, you know what i mean? they're good people. americans are generous. they're good. i have full faith in the american people. what do you think, liz? now they want the irs to go after americans for 600-dollar venmo or paypal transactions to pay for that corruption? >> this puts that entire exercise under real scrutiny, doesn't it, liz? we're talking, as karl said, we're talking about amounts of money would fund significant government programs vanished into thin air. i read the story about the pentagon losing two trillion dollars. elizabeth: they can't account

for it. they don't have the paperwork. they can only account for 40% of their spending. they don't have paperwork for the rest. >> by the way, when we have a republicans questioning where some of the money going being shipped to ukraine you can understand why they are concerned. my guess is we have no idea where the money has been going. elizabeth: yeah. >> where is the money supposed to appropriate for infrastructure spending? i don't know. it is out of control. elizabeth: is money going to oligarchs over there in swiss bank accounts, karl? >> no. elizabeth: i hear what you're saying. >> we do know, we do know. most of that money is going to pay for goods and services that are provided here in the united states. we're not sending money over there to buy ammunition. we're buying the ammunition and sending ammunition over there. elizabeth: there has not been an audit. there has not been an audit on ukraine aid. hang on. let me finish. stay with me. the president of nigeria is now

warning that guns and weapons are showing up in his region in africa in the hands of boko haram terrorists. there is lack of accountability what is being given to ukraine. i have to move on to this, karl. miranda devine reporting at the "new york post," hunter biden's past employer, bois, they got $10 million in pandemic loans from the federal government. that was meant for the little guy, mom-and-pop shops, karl. >> they gave a million dollars in campaign contributions to the democrats the same year. we were in a desperate place. i don't disparage the biden, excuse me the trump administration for executing this program. it saved a lot of businesses but we should have paid more attention both to the unemployment program and to the distribution of these funds. when it was done by a local bank could tell you whether it was real business or not, that was one thing. when it was taken advantage of by wealthy companies like the

bois law firm, nonexistent companies skate through the process -- >> bo system s law firm, the bosi law firm reportedly gave a million dollars to the democrat party. liz, final word, the runoff between herschel walker and rafael warnock. herschel walker is talking about fiscal responsibility. seems like his message is falling on deaf ears. your final word. >> people won't respond to how much alarms how much money is spent until it is showing up in a practical way. it is showing up in inflation. that is a problem. it will show up in terms of american people not getting programs they desperately need, looking much higher taxes. we'll have to spend, find the money to pay all these bills at some point. that is when people will start paying attention. elizabeth: got it. karl rove, liz peek, that was a great interview. come back soon. do it again. merry christmas to you both. we have this story, hundreds

protested outside of the white house over china's pandemic shutdowns this weekend, and, we've got oil moving higher. it is driving higher as the eu shuts down russia's oil imports but look at this california led by its governor gavin newsom, is now moving to try to shut down u.s. oil in that state. economic pro carol roth on "the evening edit" next. ♪

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denouncing the eu's new oil embargo and price cap on russian oil at $60 a barrel. russia saying it is basically it is going to ignore all of this. russia saying it may cut production to keep prices high and compensate for the lost of exports but we have no word on the white house whether it is going to expand u.s. energy production to fill that gap. edward lawrence is at the white house with more. edward? >> reporter: liz the fact is traders say russian oil is being sold under the price cap. this would be a revenue gain for russia. spokesperson for the chinese foreign ministry that china will maintain what it calls a relationship of mutual benefit with russia over oil. the chinese showing no signs of letting up their support of propping up the russian economy. former national security advisor for former president donald trump says a price cap won't work. national security advisor john kirby says the price cap can be adjusted. he also says the president's

policies are bringing down gas prices, however the american petroleum institute says that president biden's policies started the rise in gas prices and today regular unledded is $3.40. a year ago it was 5 cents cheaper than that look at the day president biden took office. gas is dollar more per gallon. there are no plans to change energy policy in this white house. they're asking opec plus to produce more oil. also coming up with a deal with venezuela to get eventually more oil on the market. back to you, liz. elizabeth: thank you, edward lawrence. we have breaking news coming into the studio. bring in wall street pro author, former investment banker carol roth. carol, here is the breaking news. looks like california, the governor of california is saying that we will do the first of its kind in the nation-state penalty on u.s. oil companies if their profits pass a certain threshold. this is he saying this is price

gouging penalty on big oil. this is breaking news. >> yeah the mental gymnastics being performed at a level that is so high here, liz, i feel like he is going to take home all of the gold medals. i saw the breaking news, breaking tweet, said they're not going to be gas lit by oil companies keeping gas prices high. if i recall california's taxes are the second highest in the nation. they were the first one. they had a little tax holiday. they are adding on costs here. all of their policies are basically limiting supply that california is the leader in, that's what is causing these high prices. to turn this around to start saying we're adding penalties. it is perfectly absurd and perfectly california. elizabeth: california's governor, carol, is not saying how he will return that money to state taxpayers even if they see

any of that money, you know what i mean? there is no detail on that, carol. >> return the money? when have they ever returned the money on anything? they took the money from covid relief around the country, used it on pet projects. california, illinois, other small businesses and other employers will have to pay higher unemployment taxes because they took out the loans and took money so of course it is not going to go to anybody and make the average americans life better. they will continue to struggle. elizabeth: so a week after california announced, a few months ago it wants to get rid of all gas-powered cars, a week after that, they demanded people stop using electricity because of power outages and blackouts, right? >> yeah. no, it's amazing. a question of how is this going to work if you're going to have all of these electric cars, how are you going to power them? how will the grid handle them when you cannot handle the capacity right now?

where do they think electricity comes from? do they think they're a bunch of unicorns peddling bikes that all of sudden power the electric grid, liz? i don't think that is going to happen. the frustrating part, tying back to what we're talking about it is a epic wealth transfer. it's a wealth transfer from the wealthy, from main street to the wealthy and well-connected, people who are invested in these green technologies. it is all about power and control, not making americans lives better. >> i would like to see a unicorn peddling a bicycle that would help the grid over there. to your point, carol, former government officials are warning americans in the midwest should prepare for energy shortages. biden white house done a war on oil, coal, nat-gas, 80% of u.s. needs. react to what the president said here. >> how soon should rail workers -- >> refill the strategic

reserves, mr. . president biden: president as soon as i can convince the republicans to to see the light. elizabeth: what light is he talking about? >> no one knows what he is talking about. he has been out on a campaign, emptying the reserves to get prices down. he is trying to cut deals with saudi arabia and opec plus that haven't worked. he is saying word salad nonsense, assuming that somebody goes no, it is republicans fault. like gavin newsom said big oil's fault. everybody's fault except for the biden administration, gavin newsom, green pushers who are creating policies that are limiting the supply of oil and limiting the investment. by the way -- elizabeth: just wild. go ahead. finish your thought. >> i was going to say opec warned there is a $12.1 trillion underinvestment in oil to meet the needs of the globe by 2045. if we continue to have these

policies, this is not just a problem today or for the next year, we're going to get by it, it will be fine, this is ongoing problem will affect human flourishing for basic power needs and 6,000 derivative products. >> carol roth, good to see you. >> you too. elizabeth: coming out of the bottom of the hour. you're watching the fox business network. we have florida governor ron desantis reportedly ready to work with the new disney ceo bob iger after disney's going woke fiasco. also hundreds protest outside of the white house over china's pandemic shutdowns. we'll be back on "the evening edit" with dr. marc siegel. >> i think that it is pretty clear we do not have the whole story on what happened with covid in china. one can only hope people are compelled to testify under oath to get to the bottom of this.

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elizabeth: hundreds of protesters demonstrating near the white house this week ending caller for the white house to end their severe economic lockdowns and change there. then we got apple, apple may dial down the manufacturing presence in china. susan li has the story. >> reporter: the straw that broke the camel's back for apple in china. why the world's biggest company is now reportedly fast tracking their plans to move production to india and vietnam instead. at its peak, apple assembled close to 85% of their high-end iphones in china according to one analysis, specifically, in the chinese city of zhengzhou where the city is dubbed iphone city. also scene of could not frondtational anti-lockdown protests in the recent weeks. president biden will meet the

chipmaker tmc in the arizona facility orme. apple is urged by reports to make more high-end chips in america to work around china's restrictions. the u.s.-china business council this year says u.s. corporate confidence hit a record low. liz? elizabeth: interesting reporting there, susan li, thank you so much. back with us is carol roth and welcome to the show jason chaffetz. first to you, jason, by the way, carl, thanks for joining us. this is an important story. jason this is about the american people being misled. gop senator josh hawley government documents indicate, homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas misled congress when he testified in may that his controversial disinformation board was only in its planning stages, hadn't met yet. the documents show it already met months earlier in february and was having weekly meetings, jason. >> yeah. what senator hawley is exposing they were meeting on a weekly basis, yet the secretary of

homeland security is testifying in front of congress they were just in the planning stages and had not yet met? that is absolutely ridiculous. remember, during the obama administration they were in favor of what is called sopa, pipa, stop online privacy act would have given homeland security unilateral authority to take down websites at will. and so they came up with a different scheme that evidently they had been working on for far longer than congress was ever aware. elizabeth: so what jason is saying, carol, government documents show this digs information board and homeland security, partnering with big tech, more extensive than what the white house was indicating to. commandeer the media on the border, covid vaccines and more. listen to mayorkas trying to drill into reporters his claim the border is secure. watch this. >> there is a challenge at the border we are managing. it's a stressful challenge. we are seeing a significant challenge at the southern border as we are seeing it throughout

the hemisphere. we maintain data with respect to the challenge at the border. elizabeth: okay, 98 terrorists caught at the border, carol, on the watch list. that's a challenge? ms-13 gang members, that's just a challenge? 350 encounters with, excuse me with terrorists at all u.s. ports of entry, that's just a challenge? you sigh the manipulation here, carol? >> i do and i think it is like chef's kiss perfection that the disinformation board and the people who are putting this together are the ones who are the purveyors of misinformation. i mean it is kind of like those horror movies where you say the call is coming from inside of the house and it is always that way. they want to control the narrative. they're downplaying the things that are important. they're misleading, they're misguided, they're gaslighting. yet they want to be in charge of what the truth is. this has been a big wake-up call. elizabeth: big wake-up call from

the scientist, former president of ecohealth alliance. that has ties to dr. fauci, jason. it got nih funding. this scientist there, dr. andrew huff. he is writing a book. he said the pandemic did leak from the wuhan lab. it was genetically engineered. he is saying this is the worst u.s. intelligence failure since 9/11. your final word. >> you're starting to see, you have places like homeland security that is just multiple agencies below it, they're not protecting us from terrorists and these types of things. they're spending even one minute working on this disinformation board, you can tell they're not focused on what they were supposed to be doing. elizabeth: carol roth, jason chaffetz. we'll bring you back. that was a great duo. that was a great interview. good to team you up. see you guys soon. merry christmas to you both. happy holidays. critics warn, we'll stay on this, burying of the hunter biden laptop story. it is deeper. more than just hunter biden. we'll stay on the story.

florida governor ron desantis is reportedly ready to work with new disney ceo bob iger after disney's going woke fiasco. that is on "the evening edit" next.

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desantis the governor holds all the cars at this point. the legislation did pass, nothing else can pass and change without the governor's signature on it. elizabeth: now they may not, florida may keep in place that special district that gives disney perks in terms of how it governs itself around its orlando facility. you know, this was about the, you know the decision to try to teach about essential all orientation and gender identity to children in kindergarten and third grade students which lacked all common sense that was way too much for children to deal with. you know, you have essential education in 7th grade. you put adult themes on children. the far left lost their minds about this, lacked all common sense about that. >> yeah, they tried to spiel it as something that wasn't, so-called don't say gay. ron desantis saying don't standing up to them. you haven't read the bill. that is not what it says.

the governor is there to represent all of the people of the state of florida. to do what is best for the people of florida and i think what across the country we all applauded, we had somebody who actually had a spine that stood up to those folks. bob iger who is a very professional ceo, dealing with a mess that was created there at disney, hopefully get them pack on track. it is beloved brand. we want them to get on track. don't subject politics everything involving kids. >> stick with entertainment. ron desantis, watch this. >> we fight the woke in the legislature, we fight the woke in the schools. we fight the woke in the corporations. we will never ever surrender to the woke mob. florida is where woke goes to die. [cheering] elizabeth: final word? >> governor desantis doesn't just speak the words, he puts it into action. that is why very well may be the

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and follow the plan, it works. elizabeth: okay, staying on this story, we've got more on twitter's internal documents showing censorship of the hunter widen laptop story and in a q&a on saturday is, twitter's new ceo,s elon musk, he is saying there are more smoking guns on the way. mike emmanuel is in washington with more on the story. >> reporter: liz, good evening. all indications are there will be plenty more from the twitter files. elon musk said he gave substack writer barry weiss access to the complete collection, so weiss is expected to do some reporting as is journalist matt taibbi, taibbi laid out round one in a lengthy tweet thread on friday. he wrote that twitter's posts and users were routinely removed at the request of a political party, noting democrats held more clout on that front due to political leanings of staff.

to make his case, he revealed this comment saying, quote: more to review from the biden team. another twitter employee responded, quote: handled these. during a saturday question and answer session, musk was asked if twitter colluded with the democratic party and biden's team before the 2020 election. this comes as prominent republicans are pledging oversight of biden family business dealings and more hearings on big tech. if the expected next chairman of house oversight says there's likely more to come. prominent republicans say this shows why the white house didn't want elon musk to own twitter, because now he's putting out the truth. liz? elizabeth: mike emmanuel, thank you so much for that great report. let's welcome heritage foundation can senior legal fellow hans von spakovsky. your reaction, hans. he's got more given to barry weiss at substack from elon musk. what do you think?

>> shocking but not surprising. in particular, the e-mails showing apparently coordination between the biden campaign and twitter. keep in mind that just last year the federal election commission dismissed a complaint filed against twitter claiming they had illegally coordinated with the campaign, and one of the main reasons for dismissing it was assurances from both the campaign and twitter that they had had no communications with each other. now that appears to not be true. the fec, obviously, in addition to the oversight by congress, they need to reopen their investigation. elizabeth: to your point, i mean, the biden white house, the president, hunter biden, nobody's ever denied that it is hunter biden's laptop -- >> right. elizabeth: -- and the fbi is working with social media and silicon valley to censor the story, that's where the first amendment violation is. the government can't move in to suppress if free speech, right?

>> no, they can't. no, i keep hearing people say that the first amendment doesn't apply to private companies. they're right. but if a private company's acting as an agent of the government, and all appearances here that hay may have been doing that, well, then the first amendment does apply to them. and keep in mind, liz, at the same time we've had these twitter disclosures we've also had disclosures from the lawsuit filed by missouri against the federal government, and we have now depositions, for example, from an fbi agent about weekly meetings between fbi and twitter or and other social media companies. elizabeth: yeah. we also have this elon musk now if says twitter personnel may have interfered in brazil's recent election to help left-wing candidate socialist candidate da silva. he won by just barely, 50.9%, there were protests in brazil

over that, right? and so there was allegations of widespread fraud. and now twitter -- you know, so there's, you know, hans, the media's silencing of the hunter biden laptop story, burying the damning revelations on friday night, not covering it, what'd you make of that? >> well, they clearly knew it could affect the election. polling since then shows that, in fact, if voters had known about this and the possible financial corruptionen engaged in -- corruption engaged in by, apparently, hunter biden and perhaps members of the family, that a hay might have changed their votes, and it might have affected the last presidential election. i guess we shouldn't be surprised that they now apparently have also been trying to interfere in the elections of other countries including brazil. elizabeth: you know, matt taibbi, the reporter who was posting about the twitter files, he's being attacked by the media as being, doing pr for a billionaire. he's saying he wants to see more of these reporters doing that,.

how many anonymous sources they quoted from u.s. intelligence, cia and elsewhere in their stories. final word. >> well, the final word is that twitter, i think, engaged in the kind of wrongdoing of trying to influence the the last election. they were the ones trying to do that, not the russian-trump collusion hoax. elizabeth: okay, hans, it's good to see you, my friend. merry christmas to you. >> same to you. elizabeth: happy holidays, everybody. i'm elizabeth macdonald. you've been watching "the evening edit" on fox business. thank you so much for watching. we hope you have a good evening and join us again tomorrow night. ♪ ♪ if -- ♪ ♪ kennedy: >> if you're looking for work, i'm pretty sure elon musk is hiring a food taster. good evening, everyone, i'm jimmy failla in for kennedy. twitter's new owner could be dumping a second batch