particularly young, healthy people. this is a good move. i'm glad the biden administration is going to go along with it. see if that gets removed as we go truth ndaa process. >> ashley: thank you so much for being here this morning. griff, thanks for being on set. first time we have met today. "fox & friends" starts right now. have a good day. ♪, a lot of new developments around hunter biden. >> the "new york post" is learning that the fbi was warning twitter about so-called materials leading up to the 2020 election. >> they prebunked the story with twitter. >> all eyes on georgia crucial senate race. >> raphael warnock holds a narrow lead over republican herschel walker. >> this is an emergency. >> you can't sit on the sideline anymore. >> parents of one of the four murdered idaho students believe their daughter and friend were

murdered based on. >> slider window middle floor. doesn't have to go upstairs. kicking out men and women that have been serving. >> house minority leader kevin mccarthy told president biden to end the covid vaccine requirement for military members or republicans will tank the national definition authorization act. >> we will secure lifting that vaccine mandate. >> after the 7-yard gain. going deep for a.j. brown, he has got it! touchdown, philadelphia. ♪ ♪ here's today is december 5th, 2022. as you look at the all-american christmas tree. we have 37 degrees here in new york city. certainly feels li winter. we are going for a daytime high of 46. on this, the first monday of

december 2022. and, ainsley, look who stuck around. >> ainsley: i know. so kind of you. we appreciate it. >> pete: good to see you both. >> ainsley: how was your weekend? >> pete: so nice you know i love working with will and rachel. >> steve: you don't know the commentary from the makeup room starting the program today. i went in and i said to pete as he was having his hair and makeup done i said it doesn't look like a mullett. apparently over the weekend debate on this couch is whether or not pete is growing a mullett. >> pete: rachel doesn't like it. i want to grow a multi-but america says it isn't a mullett. >> ainsley: what about your wife. >> pete: she loves it. >> pete: going for it. >> steve: a baby mullett tongues seed dough mullett. >> pete: that's what will came up with. kind of like a rebeef pitcher. >> ainsley: tighter on the sides. >> steve: by christmas time you

will have a full blown mullett egg. >> ainsley: in the military how short. >> pete: like this way out of regulation. i could not be in uniform. >> steve: you are out of order. >> pete: i'm out of order. >> steve: pete, great to have you on the couch. >> pete: thanks for having me. >> steve: talk a little bit about the news of the day. hunter biden reportedly blew off the press during a kennedy center celebration at the white house before the kennedy center honors. >> ainsley: twitter releases stunning new details about the sprefings the "new york post" reporting on hunter's laptop leading up to the election in 2020. >> pete: our own griff jenkins joins us live with the details. griff? >> griff: good morning. by the way, i was there when pete got the mullett hair cut. ,. >> steve: let's see yours. >> griff: mine is not quite ready. >> griff: story of the week. hunter biden making a rare white

house appearance for this year's cond center honor years. it toward the back of the room where two reporters approached limb. they asked him about the 2020 "new york post" story on his laptop as well as potential house republican investigations into his finances. surprise, he didn't answer either question. but that's not stopping new imomedz a "new york post" cover to date you see it here highlighting their latest finding that the fbi warned twitter to expect a hack and leak operation gave the platform time to prepare when the article was published it was censored immediately. twitter ceo elon musk teased the release of more details on twitter's role in censoring this story in the 2020 election over the weekend. listen. >> on everything that has happened in the past in order to have both public trust for the

future. >> i think there will be smoking guns. the next question is what happened after the election? that's probably the right thing for episode 2 is what happened after the election. >> griff: twitter files released thus far should be the basis for investigations into other big tech companies. >> now have become arms of the democratic party. arms of the biden administration. but they also use the intel community as well to lie to the american public. >> and congressman tim buck echoing that gradual mccarthy. he labeled twitter and other big tech companies monopolies that violate the first amendment by suppressing conservative viewpoints. pete, ainsley? steve: all right. thank you very much, griff. >> ainsley: congressman tim buck, i was reading these articles what he said sums it up. the government was directing private companies. the fbi wants meeting with them on a weekly basis, right? and they meet with twitter. they meet with facebook. they are telling them what they can and can't put on there.

they are favoring liberals. a bias against conservatives. telling social media companies to change their algorithms it. could be covid vaccines, mask mandates or hunter biden. >> steve: we remember. and from what i have read and the matt taibbi's stuff. it was just a general it was vegas what the government was putting out there was vegas. vague.expect some sort of russin interveerns. we knew that because going back to 2016 it was all about donald trump and russia. >> ainsley: then they said it could involve hunter biden and it will be in the month of october. steve: it was always vague. they never had any specifics. i was reading andy mccarthy's article that's the way the feds operate for the most part. at that time everybody wassing some sort of something. we didn't know what it was. the key is the people at twitter took that vague ammunition and run with it.

they wanted to put their thumb on the scale and help joe biden. >> pete: we didn't know what it was but the fbi did. the fbi had the laptop since late 201. they knew precisely it wasn't hacked material. so if you are sitting on a laptop for month and months, 8, 9 months. then you are briefing social media companies, look out for this leak and dump that's coming in october. then -- that's why this is the cover of the "new york post" is the fed lied. the story here is the feds knew about the hunter biden laptop. they knew it wasn't leaked material. so they worked the will refs they prebuncked it to use miranda devine's phrase. they worked gives them excuse to suppress it. >> ainsley: maybe that's why they were so vague so they didn't have to say it's going to be the laptop story. >> pete: it's the laptop story they ask for questions. chatter about something make sure you suppress it then they do your bidding. that's the corruption. >> steve: i don't know and none of us know for sure that the fbi had even looked at the laptop,

at that point, in 2019, we don't know that they actually had looked at it. >> gave it to agent specifically. >> steve: absolutely them. gave it to them and the people at fbi headquarters doj, remember those 50 intel officers they all said russian collusion. it had the earmarks of russian collusion. so, anyway, you know, i know a lot of people are looking at what twitter put out. and they are saying there was no smoking gun. i think there is a smoking gun. the smoking gun is that it worked. that that story about the laptop was censored and did it change the outcome of the election? we don't know for sure. but we do know that there had been polls that have shown that had people known about the hunter biden story and how joe biden may or may not have been involved ultimately in the biden family that would have changed their vote. ultimately, would it have changed the outcome of the presidential? well, obviously donald trump felt so because he felt -- he

said yesterday that the constitution should be thrown out. >> pete: he wants a redo. >> pete: elon musk when he did that two hour twitter space where he basically held court and answered. will cain got a chance to pop in and ask a question. he said it was election interference. there is no other way to put it. twitter was working for the dnc. twitter is a re-election of san francisco society. # 9% democrat donations. they were a will don't in the suppression of a story that definitely constitution election interference. >> ainsley: the media, if they're reporting it, they are attacking the people that are reporting it. many of the media decided not to cover it. we will get to that in just a second. charlie wrote an op-ed for foxnews.com about this. and it's titled media hunter biden collusion. twitter files dump has them on defense, attacking the messenger it. goes on to say the bidens were able to make this elephant of a scandal disappear because twitter and the media wanted it

to disappear. musk has now pulled away the cover and revealed the elephant rather than acknowledge the beast, the media is turning on those who made it visible. the bidens forced many liberal reporters and pundits to excuse the raw corruption of influence peddling. they are now getting the same figures to dismiss censorship. >> steve: because, ultimately, the story was not just about hunter biden. i don't think mainstream media really cared about hunter biden. they. ed to protect joe. because they were willing to do anything to drag him across the finish line. and, you know, and when you look at the television networks, the coverage friday, saturday, and sunday, according to fox tracking, the big three didn't even touch it. cnn did 10 minutes, msnbc did three minutes, and that tells you a lot. why wouldn't they do that story? >> pete: why would they tattle on their buddy?

that's why they don't. >> ainsley: don't want anyone to know what happened at twitter. they don't want to know that they were censoring articles that could have changed the election results. >> steve: ultimately, if hunter biden and i do believe hunter biden is going to be charged with something. i don't know what. if hunter biden is charged with something, that's going to be a big story. and they are going to have to broadcast it. and for their viewers, it's going to be like hey, i have never heard about that. i think that's one of the reasons why "the washington post" and the "new york times" they came to admit that the laptop was reeling very, very late. but, ultimately, i think it's because they know that they are going to have to at some point explain what happened. >> ainsley: they might not. >> pete: they might not. on page 815 one column story and not the next day. that's what they do they launder this stuff. >> ainsley: or spin it and blame ton trump. >> pete: exactly. >> steve: they blame everything on trump. we knew that. >> ainsley: i know. >> steve: coming up on this

monday morning, blackout. 40,000 people in north carolina left powerless as two substations are taken out by gunfire. the investigation into that attack coming up. >> ainsley: plus, we are heading down south where tomorrow is election day for georgia's tight senate runoff. warnock and walker's final pitch to the voters next. ♪

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joining this investigation into vandalism. and marijuana use among children and teenagers has skyrocketed by 245% from 2000 to 2020. that is according to a new study from the oregon health and science university. it also found marijuana had the highest number of calls from 2018 to 2020 and that older male teens ages 16 to 18 were the most likely to get involved edible forms highest increase for calls to poison control in that time. a drug found in cough syrup accounting for 15% of poison control cases. bob mcgraph has died as the age 90. with bringing joy to many generations of kids through his long tenure on the show. here he is singing people in your neighborhood on the show ♪ well now who are the people in your neighborhood? in your neighborhood

♪ in your neighborhood ♪ say who are the people in your neighborhood? ♪ the people that you meet each day. >> mcgrath one of the original stars that 1969. he went on to star in 47 seasons of the iconic children's show. 47 seasons, guys. that's a lot. >> steve: he helped teach millions of kids how to count and spell. >> ainsley: he helped raise us. >> steve: what a life. >> ainsley: thank you, ashley. >> steve: coming up on 6:20 in the east. georgians will cast their votes tomorrow starting at 7:00 a.m. eastern in the senate runoff election after both candidates fell short of hitting 50% in november. >> ainsley: both making their final pitches today. >> pete: charles watson lye in the peach state with the latest. charles? >> good morning, guys.

raphael warnock and republican challenger herschel walker have their eyes locked in on that final senate seat. both men will be out on the campaign trail today as they try to end a painfully are negative election cycle. walker will continue bus tour this morning here in floury branch, georgia. he will continue on to four more stops across the state as he tries to energize voters ahead of election day. warnock has a busy day as well. the senator will visit a teamster's get out the vote worksite in atlanta this morning and also hold a students for warnock rally at georgia tech this afternoon with georgia's other senator georgia senator jon ossoff. with 1.8 million voters having already voted last week during the early voting period, both candidates are solely focused on those voters who can get out to the polls on election day and the message from both is this runoff is bigger than politics, listen. >> elections are about choice.

and this election is about who is competent and who has the character to represent the people of georgia. that's what this election is about. >> it's we the people. this is how we can get them done. we got to get out and vote. it's time to have our voices heard and vote counted. quit making a complaint. not what we need to do. get to the polls. we got to vote. >> and so the dems have control of the senate, but winning the seat would be big for either party. for the dems it would give president biden a little more wiggle room to advance his agenda and on the other hand, the g.o.p. wants the seat to ensure that they have equal representation on some of those powerful committees, the high stake race, guys. the polls open on tuesday at 7:00 a.m. back to you. >> steve: all right, charles, thank you very much. >> ainsley: both candidates have the same message they are

telling everyone to get out and vote. >> steve: all about motivation. had it still been 50/50 or the ultimate outcome would have been 50/50. then i think more people on the republican side may be motivated to go out and vote early and tomorrow starting at 7:00. but because the power is going to be run for the most parted by chuck schumer and company in the senate, i don't know if that is going to motivate enough republicans. >> pete: difference are now in the margins, i'm interested to see the extent to which republicans have learned lessons of the past and decided to really push early voting. >> steve: they should. >> pete: they have to. election of the last couple cycles democrats largely using covid emergency measures know how to vote banks. republicans count on election day which has a lot more variables for failure. i'm sure the information is out there. we will learn i will learn in the postmortem. walker team governor kemp on the

republican side in this last month banked early votes the way democrats have? that will be a big factor. >> >> as charles said 1.8 million voted early. about 27% of the vote of he registered voters in georgia did. ultimately, the analysts say that the bigger the turnout, the better for herschel walker. >> ainsley: that includes absentee and military ballots, too. herschel walker has senator kennedy and senator tim scott on the campaign trail with him. listen. >> i will tell you this about herschel walker. and can you write this down. and take it home to momma. herschel walker as your united states senator will always refuse to be beat. there is no quit in herschel walker. [cheers] so i want you to go vote. >> i love american heroes who answer the call.

that's one of the reasons why i love herschel walker. who is answering the call by winning on tuesday, you are bringing inflation down. >> you are restoring respect to our law enforcement officers and you are fully funding the greatest military in the history of the planet. >> steve: on the last day of early voting, which was friday in georgia, 357,000 votes came in. that shattered a record. so that whole voter suppression thing we have been hearing about for years in georgia, i don't think it's working this time. >> pete: no, it's not. we had herschel walkerrer is he laser-focused on the issues. attacks overwhelmingly against him. >> ainsley: warnock had president obama with him he did preach yesterday he is the minister at martin luther king's old church. >> steve: encouraged people to go vote for the w.

>> steve: 6:24 in the east. lava main highway the warning for drivers as the world's largest active volcano erupts probably be stay away from the lava. if you see lava turn around. >> pete: good idea. >> pete: remember this? >> if you have a problem figuring out if you are for me or trump, then you ain't black. >> now charlamagne tha god says biden is still taking the black vote for granted. our panel of former democrat black voters turn republican is next. ♪ ♪

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you know, late summer, fall than winter. and here's where we are dealing with the potential for showers and thunderstorms across the west. we have had incredible amounts of snow. snow pack for the mountains over two feet in some areas. that's great news for the skiers. heavy rainfall this week for parts of the tennessee and mississippi river valley. they need the rain for the mississippi river valley. however, this is going to cause flash flooding. we will continue to keep you up to date on that. look at the temperatures 78 in class. 54 in atlanta. and colder air across the north and then there are your record highs we were talking about for tuesday. so temperatures well into the 60's, , louisiana, mississippi, and alabama and then north of that is where we are going to get heavy california got quite a bit of rain for them. >> they need the rain, exceptional drought and that's beneficial for some of these areas. all right, my friend, over to

you fox weather.com keep you posted for details and holiday travel. >> steve: as you always do. j.d., thank you. meanwhile, cheryl la main that god railing against democrats fox news digital that's how a large part of the democratic party feels they feel like hey, black men, black women, they are almost all blad black people aren't a part of the democratic party. not something that the crack party can take for granted anymore. >> let's bring in our panel of former democrats to discuss that we have talk radio host and america first policy institute ambassador stacy washington. host of the kisha king show kisha king and the author of black victim to black victor adam coleman. good morning to all of you.

>> good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> steve: adam, let's start with you, you just inked an op-ed in the "new york post" and the headline is cheryl la main tha god is right. democrats think they own our black vote. why is it democrats feel that way? >> well, personally, i think they have taken our loyalty and used as ownership. i think that there is a that dition, and there is a narrative that is used to keep black americans constantly vote for the democrats despite what they may or may not be doing for them. and the narrative is that republicans are racist that is the strongest reason why even conservative leaning black americans have a hard time voting republican. and i think a lot of it has to come down to messaging. i think a lot of it has to come down to local politics. you know, 60% of black americans live in 10 states. name those states based on the large cities that they are. in we are in urban environments. these are democrat-controlled

areas. some of them democrat controlled basically since the late 1800s. so, there is a lot of work that needs to be done for republican party to pick up these votes. but a lot of it has to do with the narrative. >> steve: absolutely. stacey, i know you were a democrat for like 20 years and then you decided to become a republican. why is that? why did you decide to join the other side? >> he. >> well, it was a values proposition for me. church listening what was said on sundays and compared that to the way i was voting. actually about 10 years ago i was a democrat. and i have been a republican for a little bit longer than that and i actually looked at the bible and saw how different god's view of how we are supposed to live in from the democrats' and their party platform lays it out. i wrote about in my book. i talk about it all the time. we have an option in the united states. it's not based on a race, brian, it's based on the policies. of the values that that you hold and the policy that's want to vote for. when we start doing that we will have more actual campaigns

competing for a vote instead of democrats taking us for granted. >> steve: okay. i want to play a soundbite for you all that was -- that made a lot of headlines back in may of 2020 before the election. it was joe biden vs. donald trump at that point. and joe biden, who was working out of his basement, said this to sharla main tha god. >> problem figuring out whether you are for me or for trump, then you ain't black. >> steve: kisha, that's what he said close to two years ago. fast forward to today, does that seem like exactly what the democrat party is taking for granted? >> absolutely. i have to agree with both the panelists here where we see that the democrats do take the black vote for granted. and, you know, we can blame that all on the democrats. we can also say that, you know, the narrative has been able to get into the mind of many black americans, propaganda works.

and when you hear a message over and over and over again. you are going to believe that message. >> steve: right. >> constantly saying that republicans are racist and stoking fear in black americans it will lead them to think that they only have an option to stick with democrats. i know, for me, back after the 2016 election. it was can both a spiritual matter and a natural matter where god spoke to me and said that my skin color had become an idol in my life and did i not need to see the world through the lens of being a black person but through the lens of my faith. that was a huge factor for me. and like stacey said. when i lined up those values along with the democrat values along with my faith, they did not go together. it was a conflict. and so i could not continue to vote for people who pushed things that i was just not okay with. and so i had to make a decision. but dr. thomas sowell, roger williams, milton freidman were

some of the first brilliant minds that i had gotten ahold of and told me -- woke me up and opened my mind to a different way of thinking. and it was my life hasn't been the same. >> steve: well, all three of you were once upon time democrats and now you have registered of as republicans. it's a unique point of view and we wanted to hear it and we thank you, stacey and kisha and adam for joining us live. thank you all. >> thank you. >> on this monday morning. i got a proposition for you. i would love to have you join me friday night at 7:00 eastern for a coast-to-coast cook along with the doocy family on fox nation. we're going to be making holiday favorites from our number one simply happy cookbook. peter doocy will be moderating your questions. and everybody is invited. it was the number one cookbook for thanksgiving and now it's the number one christmas gift for the person on your list who loves to cook and anybody loves to eat. get your copy today at simply happy cookbook.com.

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>> pete: elon musk hinting another mowing gun is on the way exposing twitter's censorship. >> we are just going to put all the information out there, try to get a clean slate to provide the most truthful accurate and timely information to people. twitter was acting like an arm of the demo national committee;t

happened after the election? >> here to react is strive asset management founder and author of nation of victims vivek ramaswamy. vivek, thanks for being here. eager to get your take in that two hours that elon musk smoke he talked a lot about the company, viability, restoring credibility. he also did talk about the impact twitter had through the suppression of the story. your reaction. >> so it is clear that twitter was working with one major political party to advance information that that political party wanted to see online and suppress information that it did not pete, one of the arguments online is that actually biden was not yet president of 2020 that might not constitute a technical constitutional first amendment violation. here is what i say to that first of all, this is exactly the pattern of behavior that continued after biden assumed the president presidency, there has sent been numerous examples

of the biden white house specifically suppressing and requesting the twitter suppress critics of the government. in a certain sense, the hunter biden story was just a preview of coming attractions for how he would govern. but the other point i would make is that there are legal violations or potential legal vials that go beyond even constitutional ones. for example, if you take this and view this as a constructive campaign contribution there is little more value that a company like twitter could have done for one major campaign than to suppress harmful information on that campaign it on the eve of a presidential election. and i think that the legalities aside it, reveals the farce of modern democracy if you are going to merge political power with private power to suppress information that neither one could have alone. that's what i see here. >> pete: vivek, how far do you think this goes beyond twitter? we are talking about twitter because the world's richest man bought it and opening the books to others.

we will learn more bari weiss has access. but facebook, google, there are pledged of other companies that likely could be doing the same. and we are not even aware of it. >> this cancer runs deep, pete, not just in silicon valley. but across the private sector. it is emblematic of what i view as the greatest threat to both democracy and capitalism today. it's the merger of the private sector and government to do together what the government could not do through the front door under the constitution. no doubt we will see it at facebook and google. we already have. countless examples and otherwise. smoke signals of the fbi, potentially coordinating with facebook ahead of the election as well. and it's not just about the election. it relates to alleged covid misinformation. increasingly relates to even the claims that are able to be shared online about the debate surrounding climate change. and climate change policy around school lockdowns. you see it, the pursuit of truth in our society depends on free speech and open debate and the

open exchange of ideas. and the more we suppress that, the more rethreaten both the pursuit of truth as we saw with the hunter biden laptop story but even the integrity of a self-governing democratic republic. that's what is at stake here. >> pete: integrity of sthiewtions. we only have 30 seconds left. regular meetings between government agency, the fbi and others, leading up to the election and they may have had a lot of material. what do you make of that interaction and would there be a paper trail on any of that? >> i think there is likely to be bread crumbs, maybe even meatball size bread crumbs. both at twitter and the government, one of the things i expect we will continue to see, weren't the people at the highest levels making those decisions. how uninvolved jack dorsey was. i think we will see the same thing on the governmental side as well. that raises the real threat here which is the rise of a bureaucratic managerial class

that is accountable to no one. that is actually techno crablegly using the power to suppress every day citizens without it being visible to everyone else. one of the trends to watch out for. >> pete: speak to a culture manage management areas to take reaction the. vivek ramaswamy thanks so much. appreciate it. >> you got it. >> pete: sticky situation for officers as the nypd try to crack down on phone use. the divisive plan using stickers as crime surges in the big apple. i don't even know what this story is about. i guess we will find out together. plus, don't let scammers be the grinch before christmas. kurt the cyberguy has the christmas scams topping santa's naughty list and how can you avoid them. ♪ you are a nasty ♪ your heart is full of unwashed socks ♪ your soul is full of gunk& fo ♪ mr. grinch ♪ the three words

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>> steve: tis the season but scammers were looking to steal your generosity. >> pete: fake package delivery messages to illegitimate charities you don't want to turn a blind eye to easy to miss

scams. >> ainsley: here with how to avoid them is kurt the cyberguy kurt knutsson. >> good morning to you, steve, ainsley and pete. all together as one? good morning. >> good morning. >> this is the evil creature right here that the first scam comes from. these are really good because i have been victim to this very first one. we are talking about first of all the package delivery scam. you probably also have this get a text or email it looks like it's from u.p.s. maybe fedex or could just say we are trying to delivery a package. click a link to install malware or take to a place grab your information, especially a credit card. wait a second, what just happened? and it happens that fast. because, what's going on right now? we have all participated in ordering some holiday shopping. you got christmas presents on the way, oh, y. i don't want to miss that don't critic it number one. do not click those messages.

instead, as you order online, or at a store they give you either a receipt or give you an email that says hey, thanks so much. here's your order confirmation, and that's where you want to go to click the tracking from or directly back at the website. never on the email, never on the text. have you heard about -- >> steve: sure, kurt, the reason people do that they actually put the logo there. it's a random logo. >> so legit. >> steve: don't know walmart.com. oh that must be to me boom, you are dead. >> that is the one that got you? >> i didn't do it. i didn't do it. is that the one that came in your direction. >> steve: i have gotten some of them. >> a lot of people get the charities. for tax season. >> feeling generous. yeah, ainsley, charity scages number two on the list it morning. you get a text from looks like

legitimate charity like steve is saying it's quote all the right look and name to it but it is not the charity. so, what do you want to do? you want to, instead, go to directly to the charity's website and also, if it's not a charity you have heard of but hey sounds like a good idea. let's say that it is legit. all you have to do is go online and google it. find the actual direct link, or call them. hey, the idea of using a phone to actually verify something instead of boom, so, again '. >> steve: students at the hegseth academy again? >> never. never. you can donate at any time. how about social media gift exchanges? stuff like that? >> so you know you have heard online secret santa. huge warning coming from the better business bureau on this one signing up forking so gift

of wine to send on to someone else. feels good. only $12. just filling this out. give me your credit card and they will do the same thing for someone else. do not do these social media gift exchange or anything that feels like secret santa from some source you have never interacted with. because that itself is a big scam. >> steve: check it all out. he has it all printed out at cyberguy.com. he also has some stuff about porch pirates that you have got to read. thanks so much for getting up early today. >> go to foxnews.com/tech beginning this morning you will see all of these tips there. what to avoid and how to sign up for minus letter as well. >> ainsley: thank you. still ahead congresswoman maxine waters praising ftx founder sam bankman-fried after funds went missing. ♪

>> twitter releases stunning new details about the reporting on laptop. >> the fbi warned twitter to expect a hack and leak operation. it is the merger of the private sector and the government to do together what the government could not do under the constitution. >> maxine waters is parading failed crypto ceo sam bankman freed treating on friday we appreciate that you have been candid. >> bankman-fried won't say when he will testify in 23r067b9 house financial services committee. >> parents of one of the four murdered idaho student say the