>> steve: good morning, everybody, 7:00 in new york city. and a fox news alert. the second round of twitter files was released last night with stunning allegations of widespread censorship. >> ainsley: independent journalist bari weiss is releasing that reporting in -- she is releasing this in a series of tweets last night. she said a new twitter files investigation reveals teams of twitter employees wilt blacklists to prevent disfavored tweets from trending and actively limit the visibility of

entire accounts or even trending topics, all in secret without inform the user. >> brian: all of your suspicions about what was going on have proven correct. and now there is facts behind it. kevin corke joins us live with more. >> steven, ainsley and b.k. i want to reiterate the question did twitter executives lie? were they dishonesty when they told lawmakers when their site didn't engage in shadow banning. that is obviously one of many questions being considered with the release of this second tranche of twitter material which appears to buoy concerns that the site did in fact target conservatives particularly leading up to the 2020 election. critics say it's actually much worse than that. here is a sample of what we now know revealed as ainsley pointed out in a string of tweets by reporter bari weiss including this reference to shadow bane a critic of the administration's

covid policy take for example dr. jay bhattacharya who argued that covid lockdown would harm children. twitter secretly based him on a trends blacklist which prevented his tweets from trending. are consider the popular right wing talk show host dan bongino who at one point was slapped with a searched back list. thee asked this twitter set the account of conservative activist charlie kirk to do not amplify. now, weiss' reporting suggests there is a small secret trove of twitter officials who are involved in making these politically sensitive decisions. as you see there ghani, roth, dorsey and ago gras they refer o it as disability filtering or df. twitter will offer a solution to

users being shadow banned and will free up space of billions of unused accounts. specifically says the company will now be working on a software that will ultimately be a software update that will show you your true account status. it will also clearly let you know if you have been shadow banned. it will show you why and how you can appeal that ban. and a reminder, substack journalist what the taibbi latest installment of the twitter files. this is material given to these reporters by elon musk. they sort of unpack them. we learn more and i expect that will happen again if not today very soon, guys. >> steve: you are right. >> brian: unbelievable. we will see what else gets dropped any minute at any time. three minutes after the top of the hour. let's bring in senator tom cotton. senator, we had so many different things to talk to you about. but first things first. on this twitter revelation, we knew about the shadow banning, couldn't get confirmation, what is your take away from what we hear about the suppression of

dan bongino, charlie kirk, and others? >> well, brian, as you said, i think it just confirm what is we all knew was happening. that twitter had engaged in censorship and shadow banning and blacklisting of center right voices across america. looks like they particularly had it in for anyone affiliated with fox news, as you mentioned dan bongino, charlie kirk, jay bhattacharya school professor who dissented from the left's party line on the coronavirus lockdown policies. who often appeared on this network. but, it gets to a deeper, deeper point which is that the progressive left in america simply no longer believes in the principles of free speech and free inquiry and open debate. they rely, instead, on censorship and shadow banning and blacklists. that is very bad for our democracy. it's very bad for the spirit of open debate that any democracy relies on. and i'm very glad that elon musk

has exposed. this i have to say that some of these twitter executives have testified before that these practices didn't occur. so, the new house republican majority that i think just has another line of inquiry for their oversight hearings in a few weeks. >> ainsley: do you know what gets me? all the doctor said was that lockdowns are harmful for children. we all knew that at the time. we interviewed a million parents and they all said the same thing, my child is not doing as well. then the test scores prove it when you get back. you talk to any teacher who says the same thing that the kids are behind. i mean, that's what happens when you keep your kids out of school for a year. >> brian: who told them to do it. >> ainsley: exactly, we want to get to the bottom of that what he was saying was not so outrageous. second thing when jack dorsey sits in front of congress and he is under oath and he says he wasn't doing. this now, he says he wasn't shadow banning, maybe this wasn't semantics. >> steve: disability filtering. >> brian: which is had dough banning. >> ainsley: is he held accountable for that? what happens in that situation? >> yeah.

ainsley, i think our friend, jim jordan the new chairman of the house judiciary committee just got another line of inquiry added to long line of inquiries for the oversight that needs to be conducted on the administration and on their allies in corporate america. another thing i want to point out is i mean twitter is not a small company. it's remarkable this was happening. you had executives lying in public and in some cases misleading the public under oath. and not a single person in twitter spoke out. went to a newspaper or another website. went to the government, went to a representative in congress to be a whistleblower and say what was happening. it just goes to show how monolith particularly these left wick companies are. >> louisville, we wouldn't know any of it had elon musk not bought the whole joint for 40 billion bucks. but now it's being laid bare. something else we wanted to talk to you about know jaw dropping development in the last hour and 15 minutes. and that som is one of your

colleagues in the senate kyrsten sinema is no longer a democrat. she is now registered as an independent. the big question is whether or not she would caucus or meet with the republicans or democrats. if she met with your side, it would help you, you would be back to 50/50. ed to per gram says that fox is being told sinema is expected to maintain her committee assignments through the democrats, suggesting she will caucus with the democrats like senators king and sanders. so, what's your gut tell you this morning about kyrsten sinema saying so lock to the democratic party? >> well, it's a reflection on the democratic party and just how extreme and left wing it's become in recent years. they have essentially drug kyrsten sinema out of her party. we would be happy to have her slump in with us as well. i haven't talked to her this morning. this news was breaking.

i knew this is something that might happen but i would just tell her if she wants to come over and join us we would be happy to welcome her into our party. we are a big tent party. everyone from susan collins to ted cruz in the senate with us don't have that degree of are point. kind of like we saw in the twitter story. they will do not brook any dissent from their party line. we would be glad to welcome senator sinema into our ranks. >> brian: this interview was recorded last night. she gave a 45-minute interview to politico saying this titanic news. listen. >> i know some people might be a little bit surprised by. this but, actually, i think it makes a lot of sense, you know, a growing number of arizonans and people like me just don't feel like we fit neatly into one party's box or the other. what i think is important about this decision and this move is that i will be able to show up to work every day as an

independent. and not be, you know, stuck into one party's of following without thinking. you know, removing myself from the partisan structure not only is it true to who i am and how i operate, i also think it will provide a place of belonging for many folks across the state and the country who also are tired of the partisanship. >> brian: moving herself from the party structure but still caucusing with the party, we watched that together for the first time. what's your take away? >> well, again, it's a reflection of how far extreme the democrats have become. it's not like kyrsten sinema is voting against chuck schumer's agenda half the time. she voted for both of their big spending billings. their gun control bill. she voted to implement a very radical abortion policy as well. it's just that she won't take certain steps that are too edges stream for most americans like trying to end the practice of

unlimited debate of amendment in the senate and make it a pure majoritarian body and o'reilly do things like pack the court system mane in the supreme court. make washington, d.c. a state. federalize our election law to take over election administration from our states. this is all an example of how democrats are simply trying to change forever the structure of american politics. to their benefit. she put her foot down on that earlier this year and says she wouldn't do it. i think you have seen examples of punishment retaliation coming from the democrats at her. >> brian: they won't dare do that now. >> an example of how extreme they have become. >> ainsley: brittney griner is home now, she landed in san antonio, texas. this is the front cover of "the new york post." i don't know if you can see this, if you have a monitor it, says deal with the devil. people are complaining we are so glad that she is home. people are saying that's not a fair trade, this guy is one of the worst criminals in the world. listen to this. this is mike braun's take who is a former d.e.a. chief of operations. he is talking about how bad this

guy is, viktor bout. listen. >> viktor bout in my eyes, is one of the most dangerous men on the face of the earth. >> on the face of the earth? >> without a doubt. he transformed these young, adolescent warriors, into insidious, mindless, that nikely driven killing machines that operated with assembly line efficiency. >> u.s. has indicted him on four terror related charges including conspiracy to kill americans. >> what makes him a threat to the united states? >> is he a shadow facilitator. is he arming not only designated terrorist groups, insurgent groups, but also arming very powerful drug trafficking cartels around the globe. >> ainsley: meanwhile paul whelan is still there. is there any way that we can get him out? nancy pelosi said that we had to trade for the wnba player because -- brittney griner

because we didn't have any other way to get paul whelan out too. he said he is in a different position, dinner category. they are accusing him of spying over there in russia. >> . russia china and iran always accuse americans they unjustly detain as spying. brittney griner, whatever you think of the charges against her, did commit those crimes. we welcome any time we bring back americans who have been held under unjust terms of confinement or unjust length of sentences but we should have never traded viktor bout. i want to stress how dangerous he is. this is not someone selling firearms for street gangs in moscow. aircraft systems, tanks artillery. missiles and rockets that fueled thousands and thousands of deaths, rapes, amputations, torture, dismemberment.

>> now is he going to help vladimir putin. >> exactly. it's not just about his past, moral culpability. it's about what he is going to do now. this is not some decensorshipped 78-year-old man dying in confinement. he is only 55 years old. vladimir putin last wanted him out for a decade. he has gotten even more insistent over the last year as he has gone to war in ukraine. a war that is increasingly supported by paramilitary groups. private security firms and war lords in ukraine. why do we think vladimir putin held brittney griner, sentenced her to such a long term earlier this year, he realized he could use her as leveraging against joe biden to get back one of the world's most dangerous men that he could then unleash against the united states and our allies all around the world. we should have never released viktor bout. it was a dangerous concession to vladimir putin and it will set a dangerous precedent going forward. >> steve: it's great that she is back home in san antonio.

we just hope that brittney griner now takes up the case of wall whelan so that nobody ever forgets about him as so many did for her. >> carley: a marine went over there for a wedding. >> steve: senator, thank you for joining us on this very busy friday morning. >> thank you, all. >> steve: all right. it is 14 minutes after the top of the hour. and carley joins us with news out of kentucky. >> carley: that's right, steve. concerning news at that authorities in kentucky investigating an angry message that threatened to kill school children, as well as senators rand paul and minority leader mitch mcconnell. the anonymous threat reading quote you want to vote mitch mcconnell and rand paul then you all deal with what comes with that. i want you all to look at your dead kids and know it was because of how you voted. wow, i will do it at a football game, i will do it whatever, you can't stop me. that message now being investigated. texas house republicans unveil their agenda to secure the

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complaint over the pickle ballers hogging the blacktop. there were up to 12 matches a day planned for that park. if weather permitted and remember when "fox & friends" had its very own pickle ball outing? >> and you have to go diagnosely over to steve. >> not in the right box. not in the right box. great return. >> oh! >> made it over. it made it to the other side. >> it's got to be in the right box though. >> no good. no, no. >> that was short. if we hit the ball. okay, so side out now. i had to give you a chance. >> oh. >> steve: i will go there. >> carley: it was hilarious chaos. >> ainsley: i see it all the time. >> they play in the elevator here at fox. >> steve: it's so much fun. it was fun.

now new york city hates pickle ball. >> brian: they are mean to the kids. they set up 12 courts right in the middle of the only playground. >> ainsley: parents are like this is our playground our kids need to play you all are hogging it. >> steve: think about it take one area and turn it into 12 matches. that is very -- >> brian: unless you are a child looking to live out your youth. >> carley: brian saying pickle ball players are mean to children point blank across the board. >> brian: it's been that way forever. >> ainsley: i'm a pickle ball player and a mom. >> brian: i would like to see a video of you with children. >> ainsley: you should have watched last night i was with my daughter reading. >> brian: were you nice? >> ainsley: i was very nice. >> steve: how tone deaf new york city. pickle ball fastest growing sport in america for the second year running. and new york is not rolling out the red carpet. >> brian: kids want to play jacks. >> steve: you can do that at home.

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>> brian: fox news alert right now. former adviser to russian president vladimir putin saying the deal to swap brittney griner for so-called merchant of death viktor bout was a win for moscow and made america look weak. he writes vladimir putin outplayed biden, we got back our spy it seems and gave away normal girl. here to react to general jack keane four star general retired fox news strategic analyst. is that right? do you think we got played? >> well, certainly, when you use the major vehicle as the swap, i mean, it's always going to be lopsided. i mean, let's face it. our people are there on phony charges or exaggerated charges, we are going to give up convicted criminals, thugs. killers, and sometimes terrorists. that's -- that is by definition

lopsided and is always going to be a disappointment to us. despite the fact we get american citizen home. that's the reality of what we're dealing with here. and the trump administration was pretty successful in getting people back. but they didn't use the swap as the basis for all of that. >> and that's the danger. when you are using that, we're normally going to be frustrated and disappointed by it, as we are with this. >> brian: vladimir putin needs arms. he is begging iran for drones. is he begging north korea for rockets. now he has his guy, best in the world cargo plane parked somewhere. he gets an asset, a pr asset and physical asset. >> oh, certainly going to use them. and obviously the guy still has those connections, even though he has been in the jailhouse for years. is he going to take advantage of that look it, putin hasn't had much to cheer about in 10 months.

he has been losing a war slowly his population sees there is major, major problems. he has people that surround him you, openly criticizing his judgment about the war. so, this certainly has helped him a little bit with his domestic audience. he still has major, major problems, obviously in ukraine. >> bria brian house has passed a defense bill $858 million to the pentagon. also rescinding the mandate when it comes to the vaccine. they have already kicked out 8,000 men and women. what's your thought on both these things? >> well, first of all, the bill is still inadequate. we're talking about an 8% increase in the defense budget. which doesn't allow for inflation. so it means the budget is flat. that's the reality of it. yet, trying to dig ourselves out of a whole in the independent dough pacific region where we are outgunned and outmanned and

have to do it with a sense of urgency. we need a defense budget pretty similar to what reagan had. 5% to 6% of g.d.p., brian. this sits at 3. and that's why, in my judgment, it's not enough to really jump start what we need to do in the indo-pacific region. yes, are there good things in the budget? certainly. yes, there are. but, overall, not sufficient. as to the vaccine, i have come full circle on this. so our audience understands, when we deploy our troops around the world, they get a protocol regiment of shots to protect them from that particular region of the world. tetanus shots, et cetera. and this is why the covid-19 shot was added to that protocol regiment. but the science has moved us in a different direction. we now have natural immunity throughout this country. most people asymptomatic. we also have this particular cohort of the united states military, which is young and healthy. and does not have co-morbidity

issues, except for a very few percentage of that population. so this is a healthy cohort. let them have the option of whether to take a shot or not as opposed to mandating it. the science has moved on. it's unfortunate that dod and the administration did not move along with the science when it dime mandatory vaccination. >> brian: that's why you are a great leader. this is what i believe. i got the facts i changed my mind. why can't the administration and general austin do the same thing? it's a shame. general, i always love talking to you. thanks so much. >> great talking to you, brian. you and the team have a wonderful weekend. >> brian: you too. the president and the freedom fighter. thanks to everybody who comes out and gets the book. listeners sold it out. working on overflow right now. please come out. everybody's book is going to get signed. next friday dana perino at point pleasant in new jersey. and then the next day in mac

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are. >> ainsley: in an emergency meeting last night virginia's controversial loudoun county school board appointed dr. daniel smith as the new interim superintendent. >> as interim superintendent i will seek to be the bring that will provide the stability and support for our student and staff while making preparations that will allow the next permanent superintendent to devote their efforts to the most important work our schools perform. >> ainsley: well, the move comes after the board unanimously voted to fire the previous superintendent scott zeigler following a grand jury mishandling of two sexual assaults by the same student. turn to loudoun county parent panel fred reggae a father of two. alecia brand mother of three and kohl founder of army of parents. and we have ram, who is a father

of two. good morning to all of you. >> good morning. >> good morning. recommendation ever. >> good morning, ainsley how are you doing. >> ainsley: doing well. thank you so much. alicia, i will start with you. what's your reaction to this? are you happy with the new superintendent and the decision and does more need to be done? >> well, first of all, more does need to be done. so let's just put that right out there. but i am concerned about the lack of transparency right out of the gate as there was a cabal of people within the school board who chose this replacement and put him on the agenda without deliberation from the full board. with that said, we have to bring our community back together so we have to give dr. smith the benefit of the doubt. i will tell you we will keep him on a very short leash to ensure that he executes upon the recommendations made by the grand jury first and foremost

are you happy with this decision. >> i'm not happy. if there was a manufacturing that was coding information the way public, wishes they were making, they should be held criminally or civilly libel. there has been no justice with respect to what the school board knew and what they did. i'm not happy with the decision at all. >> ainsley: rand, what's your reaction? >> you know, i passionately care about our education and our kid's education my kids are 9 and 7. this graduate report has told us three things. hiring of the super and hiring of the interim. obstruction. and nationwide search for second who has to be outside of loudoun county. hour children have to be safe in school. so those three things have to be the top things in mind as we move forward.

>> ainsley: you have one in private school. you have one in loudoun county school. look at your cute family. showing a picture. beautiful. you know, as a mom of a daughter, i could not imagine this is something i haven't had to worry about. dropping her off at school and snosnowing knowing she could goo the bathroom by herself and be insulinsult assaulted in there d take that student to another school and it happens again. you shouldn't have to worry about that as a parent. >> you should not have tore about that. i will tell you that myself, along with some other parents in loudoun county are terrified about sending our kids to school because there is a systemic problem that started at the very top. they have created an atmosphere of fear, of danger, of violence, so much so that a teacher who walks into a bathroom and sees multiple pairs of feet under a stall says nothing.

they walk out. this little girl sodomized in the bathroom with a pause when that teacher walked. in that teacher said in the grand jury report that this happens all the time and she just walked right outside. that says a lot about the leadership. i'm very concerned about dr. daniel smith being there as he came from a shower. , sexual assault plagued school? fairfax county. so i would like to know what clawfertions does he have to keep our children safe fred, really quickly second to last word and ram you can finish us off with your thoughts. >> thank you. >> yeah, i basically i also made

the decision to move my children to private school. are. >> ainsley: have you? ram, you are a fax pair, you should be able to drop your kids off and know they are safe. parents who can't afford private schools, they feel trapped. >> exactly. my kids, i'm still keeping my kids in public schoolings. i'm very cautiously optimistic with the hirlings of the new superintendent daniel smith. we need to work a lot more in terms of the processes and procedures in public schools. and i have run as a candidate myself school board in 2014 and run for county school board 2023. safety of our kids that need to be put on top of our minds and i will be making and ensuring that our school board has that as a

top priority when i get elected interim. >> ainsley: maybe dr. smith will pull back the curtain like elon has done with twitter. great for parents to have transparency in that district. god bless you all. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> ainsley: merry christmas, happy holidays, whatever you celebrate. thank for coming on. twitter files take 2. the social media giant's blacklist of top conservative accounts uncovered in the new twitter document dump. vivek ramaswamy is going to react next.

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by small group of twitter officials which include former ceo jack dorsey. >> brian: author of nation of victims joins us now. vivek, your sense on the four we just put up on screen and what they were up to? your biggest revelation of what was unveiled last night? >> the biggest revelation to me is that they knew they were doing something wrong and they lied about it and still hid it. they absolutely were engaged in shadow banning. they had the public believe that some of this was just done by ai, when in fact, it was done by actual human beings. to me, that's just nots doing something wrong. when you lie about it, it means you are culpable because it means you knew you were doing something wrong and did you it anyway at the highest levels. and legally speaking, to me, that forms a new basis for a legal claim of consumer fraud, which is actually telling consumers you are doing one thing, when, in fact, you are dag another. but the other observation i would make and in the spirit of not just bowing to the temple of elon here, if you look at some of the things that elon musk has recently said, freedom of speech

not freedom of reach, it's not at all clear that he is not going to continue the practice of visibility filtering either. i think while it was a great public service that elon exposed this and i do think transparency is critical and good. there is also real open questions in my mind about what twitter actually does going forward if it is just not going to apply a new elon filtering shadow banning or different way forward. those are some of my takeaways. >> steve: vivek, it has been revealed and we are going to get more. matt taibbi is going to have the short round shortly. we know he now what was going on at twitter. they have been lying to all of us for a very long time. enough to the focus turns to facebook and google. what are they doing? >> i think still the far bigger issue, if i had to pick between the two, is the coordination with state actors to get done through the back door what could not get done through the front door under the constitution. we now know that was happening at twitter. it was almost certainly

happening at facebook, at google, basically all the big tech behemoths coordinating with state and with each other. that's the real meat of the issue. many were lying on it. basis for consumer fraud. that's where i think the focus needs to be. that was you where the first dump of the twitter files was focused. i think that this stories just keeps unwrapping itself. biggest take abe is when these folks lie about the smaller practices that reveals guilt and culpability and hopefully the path to accountability as well. >> ainsley: what happens in that case? what happens to jack dorsey? if it is true knew about this secret committee and shadow banning people and goes to congress under oath and says they weren't doing that. >> so, you know, i think some of the most agreeng just statements actually came from the managerial class in the lay below jack dorsey. revealing to me and disappointing to me jack in the first set of files apparently did not know what was going on. clearly didn't know what was going on and condoned it anyway.

twitter under jack dorsey wasn't that this guy was imposing that top down but that he increasingly disconnected himself and actually the corporate apparatus as twitter maybe purposely separated it so he could step and in front of congress and make vague statements what was happening. this was the managerial class still running the show. inciteful in certain cases dorsey had visibility. >> brian: he did. one of the lines was we got jack on board. he knew exactly what was going on. real quick bigger question next time you are are are on told them. the fbi, the iminged campaign, the biden administration, when it comes to covid-19? that's what is going to be the story. >> ainsley: is there a paper trail? elon musk, it might have been deleted. steve as they say we are going to have to stay tuned. vivek, thank you very much for joining us live. >> ainsley: thank you. >> steve: 14 minutes before the top of the hour and carley joins us with news about some bad news

for new yorkers. >> carley: bad news for new yorkers. survey finds nearly 14% of new yorkers are living in port. that is almost 2.7 million people, if you can believe it, it's higher than the national average over the past eight years. and the average rent in manhattan, look at that number right there. that's the average representative, hitting $5,249 per month. that is up 19% from last year. and it's third highest ever recorded. how about this? "the washington post" biting back at shark week calling the discovery program racist. the post saying the popular show features too many white male experts. the op-ed claiming scientists say shark week lacks diversity and over represents men named mike. they are going after the michaels out there. the article goes on to say the annual programming over emphasizes negative messages about sharks as well. i hear the sharks are furious about shark week, adam.

over to you, my friend. >> adam: i don't doubt that the sharks are very upset by that story. carley, the christmas spirit out here look at this. when were you guys chanting? what were you chanting when i came out here? >> adam. >> adam: i love it. brings out those forecast graphics. temperatures across the country, not too bad. big coast-to-coast storm we are seeing rounds of rain and snow out west. a little bit of snow in the upper midwest. see rain this weekend across the southeast. that's it. that's all the time we have. for the forecast. but we are going to toss it back into you. as we do it can i hear that one more time? [chanting adam] >> adam: oh my gosh, i feel the love. those are the weather headlines. throw it back inside. >> ainsley: thank you, adam. >> steve: that's the last we saw him. >> ainsley: experience the yellowstone national park like never before.

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