let not your heart be troubled. laura ingraham, take it away. ♪ >>welcome to washington. i'm laura ingraham and this is "the ingraham angle". we have a jam-packed show for you tonight. busy primary tonight across the country. and we'll give you hints about what november might look like. this includes an extremely razor thin margin in ohio. huckabee is also here to react to a loony left wing. rosy --

steve scalise joins us exclusively on the increase hostile that republicans face these days, including a death threat that he just received. but first, big tech and the new corporate censorship. that's the focus of tonight's angle. remember what facebook ceo mark zuckerberg said back in april. >> there's certain things we do not allow. hate speech, anything that makes people feel unsafe in the community. from that perspective, that's what we generally try to refer to what we do as the platforms for all ideas. >> a platform for all ideas. really? over the past few months, facebook and other tech giants have given us ample reasons to doubt that proclamation. the latest example started early

yesterday morning when apple pulled several podcasts associated with the controversial alex jones. facebook followed suit, unpublishing four of jones' pages, saying they violated the hate speech policy. youtube suspended the alex jones channel. of course, he's the media's poster child for conspiracy theories. but this isn't about alex jones. this is about freedom and our access from information from the sources we as individuals trust and like. if big tech can control the information flow, then they can also perhaps even influence the

outcome of the midterm and even future presidential elections. >> essentially, alex jones has been deleted from these websites. >> and that's the point, controlling who has a voice and who doesn't is tantamount to limiting speech. and as you'll see in a moment, it's also viewpoint discrimination. back in february, facebook launched a new algorithm that would see a dramatic drop in traffic. this included personal pages, but the way. president trump's facebook page saw a 45% drop. diamond and silk said their content was similarly blocked on facebook. >> facebook, along with other social media sites have taken aggressive actions to silence conservative voices such as

ourselves by deliberately weaponizing our page with algorithms that repress our free speech. >> next it was youtube that limited their channels with no warning at all. this has happened to conservative commentators like ben shapiro, dave ruben. >> for my on the left, the view seems to become that if you can't beat them, prevent them from speaking. just look at what's happened on the conservative speakers on college campuses. and after liberal radio hosts flopped on air america -- remember them -- well, some democrats thought to revive the fairness doctrine to snuff out conservative talk radio. thankfully that went nowhere. but now they've moved onto the internet and squelching

political speech there. a leaked proposal outlines a detailed plan to take over the internet by regulating digital platforms and purging content they deem harmful or inaccurate. in other words, information they don't like. they would require social media users to be tracked and labeled according to how reasonable their content is deemed to be. democrat senator chris murphy even hinted at this yesterday, tweeting, infowars uses sites like facebook and youtube to tear our nation apart. these companies must do more than take down one website. the survival or our democracy depends on it. how dramatic. translation: the survival of the democratic party depends on it. there's an old saying in tv and radio that content is king.

same goes for the internet. if they can shut down political speech on the grounds that it's hateful, you have to ask does this end. if you want to see hate, check out some of the comments on my twitter feed after the show tonight. he's a casual racist, of course, and an anti-semimite who called white people "potential humans," praised hitler. he has a million followers. and what about those who traffic in violence. if facebook really cares about standards or safety, i don't think they would be granting antifa chapters from coast to coast with their black hoods and all. and by the way, if there's so much concern over conspiracy theories like the one alex jones

peddles, well, do moments like this give social media kings pause? the fact of the matter is, he's not only bad because he's a liar, he's bad because he doesn't know how to inspire people or invoke that emotion in them. >> what about his rallies? >> people are paid. you know that. he pays people to show up at those rallies. >> trump pays people to go to his rallies. that would be a lot of money. she still has a youtube channel. the truth is we conservatives always want more political speech, not less of it, even when it's offensive to us. our only point usually about speech is limiting it if there's a direct incitement to violence. but political speech in general, we want more. now, while facebook and apple are private companies and thus

aren't actors for first amendment companies, they be really careful because voters in the future might just demand that facebook, twitter, youtube be treated more like public utility, public utilities that much to operate in the public interest. but since a utility can't refuse to give electricity to a family because they disagree with their views or heaven forbid because they're of a different race, they act in the public interest. ted cruz in response to the alex jones purge said tech companies have a degree of power and an ability to censor that we could never have imagined. they have the ability if there is a speaker that is disfavored simply to silence the speaker.

your words float off into oblivion and nobody hears them. well, he's right about their power. the big five tech companies are now worth an estimated $4 trillion. well, that figure puts them above the gdp of all but seven countries on the planet. the immense size of these companies is concerning, but so too is the speed with which they can succumb to external pressure. point in case, just three weeks ago, mark zuckerberg defended keeping infowars on his platform. >> if you look at the things that are getting the most distribution, people flag them as potential hoaxes, we send those to fact checkers and if they say that it is provably false, then we will significantly reduce the distribution of that content. >> why don't you want to just say, "get off our platform"?

>> as abhorrent as some of this content can be, it gets down to this principle of giving people a voice. >> so why did he end up caving here? we'll continue to demand answers for you. remember when disgraced fbi agent strzok texted lisa page about an insurance policy to keep trump from getting elected? well, maybe just maybe these latest moves are the beginning of big tech's own version of an insurance policy to see that someone with trump's views never reaches a position of authority again. and that's the angle. joining us now, monica crowley, attorney dan, and elizabeth, who had one of her campaign ads temporarily blocked on facebook. it's great to see all of you.

elizabeth, let's start with you because i watched your campaign ads. and you had some images from your parents' country of birth, cambodia, and the brutality of cambodia, the cambodian purge, and facebook blocked it. they said what to you when you brought this up? this is some of the images from the ad. what did they say to you when you brought this up? >> they said that my -- the ad was shocking, disrespectful, and too sensational to be on facebook. and that was absolutely maddening in so many ways for me. when i decided to run for congress, i got into the race because i -- and part of my message was that great things can come from great adversity. my parents lived through the genocide in cambodia and came to

the united states as refugees. and so for some reason, facebook found that offensive and removed my ability to advertise the campaign message. >> dan, this is kind of problematic. i think our civil libertarians. this is democrats, aclu's amazingly quiet on this. i don't see them on any television shows. they're too busy representing illegal immigrants. where the the libertarians on this issues? those are historical photos. and the holocaust. are we not able to talk about that? >> i want to restate something that you said earlier which is really important, that none of these companies you'ring talking about, they're not state actors, they're not the government. this first amendment thing is out the window. what you're

talking about here are decisions by companies on their content, something that fox news does, something that every single media outlet does... and i think for you to go and say, listen, this is all about because we're republicans or conservatives -- >>where is the discrimination or the similar actions against a myriad of leftists? >> left me give you an example. >> well, no, why isn't antifa blocked from facebook? why are they on youtube? they're smashing windows. >> let me answer the question. back in 2015, being liberal was knocked right off of facebook. i have a lot more liberal friends on my facebook feed than a lot of your viewers do, around i see them griping time and time again every night about facebook knocking them off for stupid things they say. facebook has made a decision, and it seems like it's not that hard to understand given the history and the $16 billion

mr. zuckerberg took a hit on, that he made a decision that his company is going to start making different decisions on content than he did before. but infowars is still out there on instagram. it's still there on instagram. >> you see no difference between a cable channel -- there's how many cable channels out there? i don't know. but there's a lot. between a cable channel and youtube or facebook or the entire apple platform worth a trillion dollars? do you see no difference as far as their control of information? really? what's the equivalent of youtube? >> i'm not really sure where you're going. >> name it. it's about controlling information. what is the equivalent of youtube? >> i don't know. >> there isn't one. that's my point. >> instagram. >> no, no, no. you don't know social media.

it does not compete. youtube and instagram do not compete with each other. monica, you see my point. my point is when you have an overwhelmingly left-wing, 100% of all twitter employees, for instance, contributed to -- that's a factual determination. twitter admitted it. >> come on, common sense points to the truth about this. look, these internet companies, they're giants. they're behemoths. they are incredibly influential and dominant. and that's the point. to your point about twitter, the guy who used to run tech for twitter is now running tech for the democratic national committee, just in time for the midterm election. that's just one example. we're not talking about particular content about

infowars, et cetera. what we are talking about is that a few select companies that have near monopolies in the digital sphere are now having control over the information that is available to you. and it's only going to get worse. so we are now on this slippery slope, laura, where they're controlling the infowars website and so on. but go a couple of years down the road or maybe a shorter time period and they -- those leftist overlords in the digital sphere will be able to deem anything that they consider unacceptable, and that's a subjective standard, inappropriate for consumption, whether that's statements about islamic fundamentalism. >> abortion, pro-life. >> support for the police. they will be able to use a sliding scale based on what they

think is appropriate rather than a first amendment standard... and that is a very dark and dangerous place for this country to be. >> mark zuckerberg was questioned about this by ted cruz back in april and he said, look, there's no bias, but we're going to have standards in place. let's watch. >> to a great many americans, that appears to be a pervasive pattern of political bias. do you agree with that? >> i understand where that concern is coming from. facebook and the tech industry is located in the silicon valley, which is an extremely left-leaning place. i try to make sure that we don't have any bias in the work that we do. and i think it is a fair concern that people would wonder about. >> that was a moment of candor from zuckerberg. anyone who has spent anytime in

silicon valley, it's a political monolith. i know there are conservatives there, but they probably hide their views. they literally do not want to say they're a conservative when they work there or they probably will lose their jobs. i've literally heard those xaents. >> comments. >> it's undeniable that facebook has algorithms that lean towards and incentivize those that have more liberal tendencies and their algorithms will promote those such as chuck schumer, nancy pelosi. why did it take five days and the whole national movement for facebook to respond to my ad here? this is my story. this is the story in which i told that they i am assuming had concerns with in the beginning of it, where it showed glimpses of genocide. those were just photos.

>> you think you're being targeted as an asian conservative candidate in liberal california because you represent a dangerous possibility for the left? is that what you're saying? >> yeah. we constantly see this time and time again with conservatives, that from these tech giants that the algorithms that are in place do not support conservative ideologies. the important part about all of this is is it so important to have diverse political thoughts on there. we see this is not the case. >> more speech is better for everybody. dan, go ahead. >> polls today, 43% of republicans support trump's idea

of shutting down media outlets that don't behave. this goes both ways and this is not a republican versus a democrat issue. you mentioned the aclu. i know they do not like any infringement on anything speech related. >> they're nowhere. they're focusing on illegal immigration and partisan issues. >> monica, real quick. we've got 30 seconds. >> i really feel for elizabeth because she's trying to tell the story of her family, the american dream. but as she points out, they've got these algorithms. they're clearly set in a certain direction. but then there's a next barrier of actual human beings who are trying to review these and artificial intelligence decisions. so those people are on the left. >> and by the way, jack dorsey

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>>president trump tonight facing a political test in his influence in a house special election in ohio. it's neck and neck at the moment. kristen joins us live from the election headquarters for that ohio house seat. what is the latest there? >> well, laura, everyone is on the edge of their seat here at the headquarters because this race is shaping up to be exactly how the polls predicted. it is razor type. and everybody in the room has their eyes on one county. there's only one that doesn't have their precinct in and it's delaware county. it's the county that president trump came to on saturday. it's where he held his big rally. this is also a country that has been reliably republican over the year. and when the early votes came

in, the democrat won the early vote by about 2,000 votes. so that has everybody here very nervous and watching delaware county very closely. the unofficial results on the ohio's secretary of state website, we have 95% in delaware county and he's ahead 54-45. so we'll see if that holds. the only county, franklin county, this is where the democrat danny o'connor is from. it's also what the republican had alluded to last night. he made a little bit of a flub when he said, you don't want to see someone from franklin county representing us. and now o'connor is ahead there 65-35. not a huge surprise there, but this is so close. laura, the other thing i'm hearing a lot from people in the

room, the possibility of an automatic recount. if the difference is .5% or less, that triggers an automatic recount. it is close but still outside of that automatic recount margin. it is very exciting in here but everybody is still very nervous and cautiously optimistic. that's a phrase i keep hearing over and over. >> certainly loud there. great reporting. we'll continue to monitor this race and others and bring you the results as they come in. very exciting. even if he wins, the other networks will say it's really a loss for trump. so just make sure you get that right. well, as we touched on earlier in the angle, one of your favorites -- and i know you've missed her on television --

rosie o'donnell led a singalong protest in front of the white house with some of her fellow hollywood and broadway stars, even though no one told them the president wasn't home. >> we are so thrilled to finally be here on night 22. how many have been here every night? let's hear it. [cheers & applause] and we're going to keep coming back until he's out. let the president know in no uncertain terms that we are alive, awake, and we are woke. we are not going away. >> raise your hand if you're sick of woke. i am. formaler arkansas governor mike huckabee joins us with a reaction. on my radio show, i played all the really bad singing. these are great broadway stars, a lot of talent, but the

chanting, it was very disappointing. what do you make of her resurgence on the scene? these people are still out there i guess until they feel like they can drive the president from office. >> well, i think it's important that you noted he wasn't there. i think they thought it was halloween and they were there to do some early trick-or-treating. the other thing that i believe that may perhaps solve this mystery, where did that noise come from that damaged the hearing of the people who were working for the state department down in the cuban embassy? i think we now know rosie and her team caused that physical damage. one other observation, i thought she moved to canada. she promised if trump got

elected she would go. after all, she's canadian now, isn't she? did i miss something? >> she's a woman on a mission. she actually said to chris last night that donald trump and his organization pays people to attend his rallies. and chris was like, "what? well, maybe but he had tens of thousands of people." and then she said, "no, he doesn't." i guess she didn't remember the mobile, alabama rally in 2015 in august. i guess those were all cardboard cutouts. >> those cardboard cutouts are sure making a lot of noise. it's absurd to say those people are paid. they just happen to love that you are country. let me be fair. she has as much right to protest. this is america. we're all fine with that. but i think we all find a little

bit disingenuous is that her attitude is that rather than accept the election results from 2016, their idea is let's invalidate the election results because we don't like how they turned out. this is the rantings of a seven-year-old who got defeated playing baseball and decided that we're just going to overturn the game rather than learn how to play the game a little better next time. >> governor, not just that but now the entertainment industry on the left coast and the west hollywood crowd has voted. i'm sure the president is devasta devastated, to remove the president's star on the hollywood walk of fame. so no longer will they have to guard the star. people won't pick ax. this is what it's come to. this is how petty and pathetic they have become. they're going after some -- what is that, marble. i don't know what it is.

but i guess that makes them feel better. that's their idea of victory. >> well, if they're going to chop up everybody's star who has done something they don't like, they might as well rent a bunch of jackhammers because there's a lot of people on that sidewalk who represent some pretty crazy views and some things that have gotten them landed with the "me too" movement. so will we see a good-bye from kevin spacey? how many of the hollywood elites are going to have their stars chopped up because they didn't exactly do the right thing, to be charitable about it? >> and it's such a double standard. if you're a star like james gunn and director of "guardians of the galaxy" and you had bad tweets, they make an excuse for you. if you're anyone that's a conservative, they never forgive you. the forgiveness only ever goes

one way. thank you so much. and by the way, the showdown between the trump legal team and mueller over that presidential interview is about to take a dramatic turn. details, reaction, alan dershowitz and wisenberg next. so i can buy from enterprise car sales and you'll take any trade-in? that's right! great! here you go... well, it does need to be a vehicle. but - i need this out of my house. (vo) with fair, transparent value for every trade-in... enterprise makes it easy.

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joining us, dershowitz and wisenberg. we'll also get into the can cantank cantankerous -- he seems to leave a possibility of a very narrow set of questions on obstruction. alan, i'll go to you first. what might be the wisdom in that? >>i think giuliani's tactic is to be able to say to the public, look, our president was willing to speak and mueller turned him down. i think he's mueller an offer that mueller can't really accept. he's putting forth a kind of narrow window. if mueller accepts it, then game on and we'll see some narrow questioning.

but if i were trump's lawyer -- i'm not -- i would not under any circumstances allow him to testify because all you need is one question in which he answers truthfully but somebody else answers in a different way, saying he says, "i didn't know about the meeting at the trump tower involving the russians," and cohen says, "yes, he did," then you have an opportunity to spring that perjury trap. so in the end, i don't think lawyers generally will advise a client to testify or sit down with a prosecutor. but i think this client wants to be able to say, "i offered to sit down and it was mueller who turned me down." so i think that's the strategy. >> here's some of the previous conditions, sol, placed on any potential interview. it could only be two to three hours long, narrow set of

questions collusion, show proof that trump committed a crime, b show testimonies needed to end a probe, and curtail obstruction questions. so that's the one that kind of was fleshed out a little bit more tonight in giuliani's comments, that last bullet point. sol, you're reaction to these latest developments? do you agree with what dershowitz? >> no prosecutor is going to accept those kinds of preconditions. but there's a reason -- and i do agree with, and have long agreed with professor dershowitz's assertion that the president shouldn't go in and answer these questions. it's far too dangerous. but there's a reason mueller has put up with this dance for so long. and i think a lot of people don't understand it. if he issues the subpoena to force president trump to be interviewed by him, to go to the grand jury, for example,

certainly president trump has to accept that subpoena. you can subpoena a president. but then when president trump invokes executive privilege, under the law, the current law in the d.c. circuit, it is going to be very difficult and time-consuming for bob mueller to ask the questions he wants to ask, particularly about obstructions and there is absolutely no guarantee that he will win. you're talking about the heart of executive privilege here, presidential communications and presidential thought processes. and mueller would have to show that it's very, very important evidence and that he can't get it anywhere else. and don't forget, when he won the tapes case against nixon, they knew their subpoenas were incredibly narrowly drawn, they knew the tapes existed.

mueller does not have that. and more than anything else, mueller does not have the right to even litigate executive privilege. the first thing president trump is going to say, i'm your boss. you can't be in court. the reason mueller put up with these is he probably can't win if he goes to court. >> we have one of the top partners at williams and conley who's running this side. brilliant guy. they've already gamed this out, correct? this is probably already briefed. >> they had gamed it out a long time ago. that was the firm that represented bill clinton in his efforts to try to prevent testimony. in addition to his claim of executive privilege, there's also constitutional argument. and that is that since a senator

and a congressman can't be questions about what they did on the floor of the senate, i don't believe a president can be questioned about why he pardoned or why he fired or why he tweeted or why he exercised any of his powers under article ii of the institution or the first amendment. so although i think in the end if a subpoena was issued and challenged, i think mueller would be able to get some testimony from the president if he stayed away from issues covered by these privileges. but in the end, it would take so much time that it would guarantee that the report could not be written until after the midterm election. >> when we have you back -- i mean, this is going to be going on for another week or so. >> he's a tough judge. he's a tough guy. >> he says, you've got to look at me when i talk to you. that's what i say to my kids.

and the lawyer's like, i'm looking at you. >> he does this with everybody. but it doesn't make it right. he needs to really hold back and let the litigators try their case. >> all right, guys. >> he did the right thing when he talked about manafort and why they're going after him. he told the truth about that, a truth too few people are willing to recognize. >> but he doesn't need to be doing that in front of the jury, though. >> but when he's saying, "you have tears in your eyes." >>that was not in front of the jury. >> he says, "no, i don't." it is very dramatic. all right, guys. thanks so much. that ohio 12th race is still too close to call. but republican has a slight lead. we'll bring you updates when the race is called. but an immigrant who was set to be deported is now accused of putting a police officer in critical condition. the tragic story next.

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>>our country's immigration laws lead to tragic consequences yet again. a colorado police officer is in critical but stable condition following a gun battle this week with an iraqi refugee. his removal was halted after a court appeals decision. joining me to discuss all this is an international rights lawyer and a professor. and tom is a forming acting director of i.c.e. tom, this guy was quite a beaut. he was arrested on a weapons

charge. and leads to this horrific shooting of this police officer. >> he shouldn't have been allowed to stay in the country. it's a great privilege. that's somebody that needs to leave. they need to remove that privilege and be removed from the united states and send them home. >> the 10th circuit initially said the government didn't have a right. too ambiguous of a term. so once again, the courts end up making the job of enforcing common-sense immigration law much more difficult. >> well, i disagree with the court's decision. but as a law enforcement officer that ran a law enforcement agency, we have to follow the court's order. now it's up to congress. if they're saying the definition of crime and violence is too vague, it's up to congress to fix it and make it not vague.

because people that come to this country and commit crimes need to go home. we need to protect public safety. >> president trump wants to reduce the number of refugees in the united states. he wants to bring it down to about 15,000 because difficulty vetting. we're going to do extreme vetting but we don't know how well that's working out. what's your reaction to this particular story and then the broader issue? >> well, first of all, my response is that you can never extrapolate from one example. there was a very good story in the washington post in june by a guy named christopher ingraham shows that in fact both illegal and legal immigrants commit much less crimes than natural-born americans, which needs to be kept in mind. but i want to note things we can extrapolate from. these wars the u.s. has been

fighting, like in iraq, have exacerbated the immigration issue. if people want to deal with lower immigration, the u.s. ought to think about withdrawing from these wars. >> i probably agree with you on a lot of the wars issue. we're talking about our right, our sovereign right as a people to decide who gets to come in and who doesn't get to stay. and we have violent criminals who are released onto the streets, people who are here illegal and been deported multiple times. they have a trail of tears behind them. and we still have the aclu out there beating the drums for my illegal immigrants in the united states. this has got to stop.

>> statistically, immigrants commit less crimes. >> that's such a meaningless statistic. they're not supposed to be here. >> he was a legal immigrant. >> let me respond to the quote you just made that illegal aliens commit less crimes than citizens. that's not the issue. the issue is how many crimes could have been prevented if they weren't here, if we had secure borders and immigration law that is make sense. that's the question. >> and the lot study in arizona showed that illegal aliens are 142% more likely to be arrested for a crime. it's specific police data culled through. it was pain stakingly specific. we're running long.

issues that are important to the american voters, americans' top problem facing the u.s. immigration, number one. government, poor leadership. race relations down at 7%. healthcare down at 3%. immigration, dan, the number-one issue for americans. and i don't think it's because americans want more illegal immigration in the united states. you can close it out relative quake. >> quick. >> i don't like people being scapegoated. i think this is a country of immigrants. my grandfather was here. >> legal immigrants. >> legal. >> yes, but i don't think there's any such thing as an illegal immigrant. >> that's very revealing. borders don't matter, countries don't matter. let's do a john lennon song. there's no wars, b there's no borders, there's no countries or sovereignty and ultimately no freedom.

love the segment. thank you both. police bust a man barely a year after he was nearly killed by a gunmen. congressman scalise joins us with his reaction next.

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scalise facing more threats to his life after more than a year he was nearly assassinated. police have arrested 63-year-old of grand island, new york after leaving violent voice mail messages. authorities discovered hundreds of rounds of ammo and firearm purchase receipts in his home along with bomb-building information. joining us is house majority whip steve scalise. it's great to see you. i'm so relieved this guy was found, this was prevented. lord knows what might have happened. we're also awaiting the election results from ohio 12, which we're going to talk to you about, congressman scalise. but your reaction to yet another violent threat against your life. >> well, laura, it's great to be back with you. and clearly these kind of disturbing things, there's no place for it in politics. i first want to thank, once

again, our united states capitol police. they were very quick to act when my office received this threat. capitol police did research, found out that this man has had some real serious concerns. it was hard to track him down because he was trying to use aliases. but ultimately they found him. he's in federal custody. and hopefully he gets a serious sentence because you can't allow this kind of threats and violence against peoples based on their political voous. >> views. >> did he have postings on social media about you? was it a purely political ax to grind? is he mentally deranged or a combination of both? >> clearly he had strong disagreements with my political views and others. there were others that he threatened as well. he's going to have to account

for that. the justice department has him now. the police acted quickly and worked with the new york authority to make sure that he got into custody. >> does what you see with antifa across the country, taking over this portland i.c.e. office, black hoods, the beatdowns and intimidations of conservatives in public. you saw what happened the other morning in philadelphia. this seems to be ratcheting up. the left blames president trump. they say, well, he's calling the news fake news and calling them out and that's making people more and more anxious. >> no. you look at some of the liberal rhetoric that's coming out from the left. they're encouraging inciting, in many cases, violence. and it's got to stop. in fact, liberals need to call this out. they need to speak up, just as

we're speaking up saying is there's no place for it on the republican and democrat siding. i think people on the left need to be as vocal about calling out this kind of violence. >> we were talking about facebook and apple, conservatives seeing their voices diminished on these mega platforms. are you concerned that groups like antifa, which have incited violence at these rallies, they have -- i mean, they continue on youtube and so forth and facebook seemingly with impunity, other groups like this. >> yeah, clearly a double standard. we've pointed some of this out. in fact, when mark zuckerberg testified before the energy and commerce committee that i sit on just a few weeks ago, i brought this up, the bias that we're seeing on facebook since they put a new algorithm in place to change the way that people get their news feed, where they're

literally starting to filter in, from what we've seen, a left-leaning way and having a bias against conservatives. we've raised it to them and they said this is something they're looking into. but we need to watch it closely because if they're getting into a position where it looks like they're trying to become the platform of the left, there are other social media sites people can and will go to if it becomes a liberal site. >> yeah, a monopoly. we're almost out of time. you predict this ohio 12 is going to go republican, yes or no? >> i do. president trump going in really helped swing this race to the republican side. it was neck and neck all the way. >> thank you.

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to supporters at any moment. and lucky shannon bream and the fox news and night team are up next. they're going to have it all covered. shannon, it doesn't get more exciting than this. it's like less than one point. >> election nights are the best. now we'll wait to hear from the man who is presumed to be the winner in this race. we do begin with this fox news alert. it is all about ohio district 12. tonight the most watched election of the night, where the state's special election for house seat is being billed. still too close to call. kristin fisher calls. we know he's going to take the stage any minute. >> it's been a noisy