go. >> fast -- i don't know what we are doing. >> really fast. >> santa-con? >> i can't wait, i hope to take it in. like college game day in the south. let's see the santa crawl. >> goodness. ainsley. >> this is horrible. puking santas are never good. >> where is your holiday spirit, sean? >> not drunk santa. >> happy everything to everybody on the couch. it's been a great week, "america reports." >> sandra: thank, team. wnba star britteny griner is back on american oil after a shocking prisoner swap with russia. moscow getting back the world's most dangerous arms dealer, viktor bout, and the pentagon is concerned he could go back to illegally trafficking weapons, around the world, including the war on ukraine. >> john: new york post puts it, a deal with the devil. critics say the u.s. is in a

weaker position as a result. former vice president mike pence is here with his take on all of this. he'll join us in just moments. >> sandra: all right, we look forward to all that. begin with this. part 2 of the twitter file bombshell. independent journalist bari weiss exposing the company's so-called secret black list. hello, and welcome, everyone. sandra smith in new york, and we have made it to friday. >> john: and you know what that means, in two more days it will be monday. i'm john roberts in washington. didn't mean to pour cold water on everything. black listing certain tweets and users, conservative voices. >> sandra: stunning allegations of censorship from the highest levels of twitter, including its founder, jack dorsey. >> john: not the end of it. word of a third traunch of

twitter files. james comer will be here on congress's plans to investigate the social media giant. but griff jenkins has had a busy 24 hours, and twitter executives not telling the truth when they went to congress to say shadow banning? perish the thought. no such thing. >> john, that is the question. now, bari weiss says twitter executives used visibility filtering, or vf, what we consider shadow banning. she says in one of her tweets that, just a touch to get to the full screen, twitter denied it does such things. in 2018, 2 said they do not shadow ban, and don't shadow ban based on political viewpoints or ideology and jack dorsey was asked about it on the hill, remember? >> are you censoring people? >> no.

>> twitter shadow banning prominent republicans. bad. is that true? >> no. >> turns out, john, that may not be true. conservatives were largely the targets. weiss also wrote, take for example, dr. jay batacharia that lockdowns would harm children, and they prevented his tweets from trending. and or consider the popular right wing talk show host was slapped with a search black list, and this one saying twitter said the account of charlie kirk to a do not amplify status. weiss also revealed there was a small secret brain trust, included gadde, roth, dorsey, and former ceo agual. tom cotton had this to say earlier. >> it is remarkable this was

happening and you had executives lying in public and some cases misleading the public under oath. >> then there is this, we are not done yet. weiss ended that 30 tweet thread saying her colleague, matt taibbi will have the next. who knows what's coming next. >> john: the two people out the door when elon musk took over, the whole idea, i mean, down to semantics, you call it shadow banning, we don't, so we are not engaged in it, we call it visibility feature. >> sounds like another opportunity to talk on the hill. >> john: depends what your interpretation of the word is. thank you, good to see you. >> sandra: thanks, john. surprise announcement from arizona senator kyrsten sinema, rocked the democratic party after she announced she is leaving for good and will serve

as an independent. we have complete coverage of that now. our political panel will weigh in in just moments. and break down sinema's split from the democrats. but first, chad pergram is live on capitol hill, keeping you busy today, chad. does this truly change anything in the senate? >> sandra, in short, no. here is the math. it will be 51-49 for the democrats next year. three senators will caucus with the democrats. she joins king and sanders as independents. she contends she's in the same place as she always was. >> i promise that i would always do what is right for the people of arizona. that's what i've done. registering as independent and showing up to work with the title of independent is a reflection of who i've always been. >> the important thing is that sinema will caucus with the democrats. senate majority leader chuck

schumer says sinema maintains her committees. if she did not caucus with either party, sinema would lack committee assignments. on capitol, you must be in the room where it happens. >> right, you can have a room, you are the only person in it. they would prefer she call herself a democrat for party unity, but change the party label, so long as she caucuses with the party, they get to take advantage of her vote within that caucus. >> the republicans say democrats veered far to the left leaving a moderate like sinema behind. gop members are already courting sinema. >> she put her foot down earlier this year and said she would not do it and i think you have seen examples of punishment and retaliation from the democrats at her. >> but sinema's vote was important to pass the inflation reduction act, the gun bill, and the infrastructure bill. this is not like 2001 when jim

jeffords defected to go to the democrats. then it made a split senate. >> sandra: chad pergram with the breaking details, thank you, chad. let's bring in our panel now, welcome to both of you, good to have you. i feel this is like the 18th friday panel to kick things off. sinema, the question i put to chad pergram, you are a capitol hill insider, garrett. how much does it change things in the senate? >> i don't think it changes things. it shows the democrats are moving further to the left when you have sinema to want to leave and run as independent. one point. second point is it shows that really not a lot is going to change. you have bernie sanders and angus king who are democrat -- i'm sorry, independent senators caucus with the democrats and she votes with joe biden 93% of the time, according to 538. i don't think there is much that changes here. the only thing politically that

benefits her, she does not have to go through a nasty primary. a lot of democrats are annoyed she bucked joe biden on big ticket items for his agenda, that's an issue. so she gets to avoid that. >> sandra: and her own words, she said those in arizona, including democrats and republicans are eager for leaders who focus on common sense solutions rather than party doctrine. if the loudest most extreme voices drive each party toward the fringes, to your point, garrett, and energizing their bases than delivering for all americans, the legislative successes will become rarer. your thoughts. >> i thought that the headlines that like axios and politico came up with were hilarious. she said nothing is going to change, not going to caucus with the republicans, suggest she intends to vote exactly the same way she has in the last four

years. but the headlines were shaking up the senate. >> sandra: change that to scrambles the senate. >> delivering a jolt, and then axios was it's a political earthquake. no, none of it was a political earthquake. it's going to fall exactly the same way it would fall before she moved from the d to the i, and bernie sanders is an i, and there's nobody further left than that. so a congressman was, she's running the risk of being primaried by him, but now might not get ramped by a gallegos and less than two years out from re-election won't say whether she's running again, and she waited until after the georgia run-off to tell chuck schumer. it would have been -- it probably would have benefitted

the democrats if she had told him ahead of time. >> video looked like a campaign ad. >> sandra: fair enough. >> turned her into a campaign ad for warnock. >> sandra: another headline back to the top story on twitter, elon musk's second twitter files claiming the secret black list. what is your take away? >> i think elise stefanik pointed out jack dorsey has big problems, said shadow banning didn't happen, now it shows it happened. and clearly want to look at censorship, whether it's jim jordan -- >> sandra: does it go anywhere? >> it might, and some things are moving in congress. elon musk pointing out the 30% fee apple charges, amazon self-preferences, and there are bipartisan bills that have tried to solve the issue, republicans will look at this in the next congress, jim jordan is a very

good investigator. >> sandra: apparently not just republicans. ro khanna said this this morning. listen. >> it's not just that they are taking down speech that is hate and elon musk has said he wants to take that down, it's that they are censoring based on viewpoint and that's simply not what we do in this country. >> sandra: that's a democrat that has serious questions. hopefully all americans have big questions about what went down. >> ro khanna said that back in 2020 about the censorship of the hunter biden laptop, bad for speech and politically for the democrats, but his district is right in the heart of silicon valley. i'll point this out. jonathan turley wrote in the new york post, the legal ramifications will continue to be blunted by a media and administration that have overwhelmingly supported censorship, but lawsuits could get revived. here is what elon musk said when asked, here is a question, chong

asked bari weiss and elon musk, were any political candidates, either in the u.s. or elsewhere, subject to shadow banning while they were running for office or seeking re-election? elon musk, yes. who were they? those are the questions we need to get to the bottom of. that's election interference. >> sandra: we may find out more with republicans in control of the house. thanks for sticking around. >> i'm on "the five" later. but way to remind us monday is a couple days away, john roberts. >> john: thanks, that was a nice way of saying, sandra, she was hanging around anyway, so she just would drop by. >> i'm on "waters world" too. >> sandra: thanks for making us your first stop. >> i agreed to do the show because i love you both, even though john sobered me up

already. >> john: well, somebody has to do it. >> sandra: amazing. ok, so coming up, a huge show, john, right? miranda devine, james comer, we'll ask him about the fact that he is the house republican that is planning the hunter biden investigation. we'll ask him about that. miranda divine, obviously, can react. >> john: a lot to talk about with twitter and vice president mike pence as well. we'll ask him about twitter, and censoring of voices on the right. biden administration suffering an unexpected blow, just seeing the report on last month's wholesale prices, up 7.4% over a year earlier. down slightly from november, the hikes were worse than what economists had predicted. now raising concerns the fed is going to lift rates even higher and keep them there longer trying to tame inflation, we are seeing the result when you take a look at the stock market.

>> sandra: the white house celebrates a drop in oil and gas prices, americans are paying higher for credit card bills, car payments, mortgages, housing affordability continues to worsen, what is next for the fed, and why we have the uncertainty in the markets today. >> sandra: dow down 71. after days of near silence from idaho, potentially huge new developments in the murder mystery that left four college students dead. a tip from one of the victim's neighbors, she reports seeing something odd a few hours after the murders happened. could it help police crack this case. live at the scene of those brutal crimes just ahead. >> john: britteny griner back with her loved ones. did president biden endanger more abroad after agreeing to

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u.s. custody. the deal sparking all sorts of concerns, including that he will sell arms to america's enemies around the globe and cause more countries and terrorist groups to kidnap americans abroad. let's bring in former vice president mike pence, and author of a new autobiography "so help me god." it's obviously good news that britteny griner is back on u.s. soil, but did the biden administration give up too much to get her back? >> well, john, i want to agree strongly with you. it's always a good thing to get americans home. during the trump-pence administration we brought three north korean hostages home, i remember pastor andrew brunson, but it's always about what price do you pay. i'm so glad that britteny griner has been restored to her family and can continue her career, but to have released one of the most dangerous arms dealers in the world at a time when russia is

advancing a heartless war in ukraine alone i think is ill-advised. what our administration did is bring pressure to bear, whether it be in negotiations with turkey in the release of pastor brunson or north korea to secure the release of americans. i'm glad she's home, i would to get the marine home as well, with you deeply troubled we released this dangerous international arms dealer at a time when -- when russia is at war in ukraine and continuing to have violence around the world. >> in an interview with cbs, john bolton said president trump

turned down bout for whelan two years ago, for very good reasons, having to deal with viktor bout. is that true? >> i would refer to john and his role as national security adviser. >> john: you were vice president, you knew. >> we were not in the business of prisoner swaps, not in the business of this kind of an uneven trade, john. so i -- i wouldn't question that at all as having been the case. you have to understand, we are constantly working to bring americans home from captivity, but what we did in the trump-pence administration, turn our diplomats loose and use the economic power of the united states to secure the freedom of those americans. i would that they had done that here, but the release of this arms dealer i think is deeply ill-advised and frankly while

i'm glad she's home, i'm deeply troubled at the imbalanced nature of this trade. >> john: safe to say this is not a trade your administration would have made? >> i think it's highly unlikely that we would have even considered that trade, given the approach that we take. i just remember when we secured the release of andrew brunson, it was all about economic pressure that was brought to bear, literally what we communicated to president erdogan, we were going to sanction individuals, individual industries, members of his government if they didn't release andrew brunson and at the end of the day he expedited him and pastor brunson came home. it's about using the economic power of the united states, the strength of our country to bring our people home. releasing a dangerous arms dealer at a time when russia is propagating this unconscionable

war in ukraine i think is unfortunate and ill-advised. >> mr. vice president, time is growing short and i have two questions i want to ask you. all the latest revelations of twitter begs the question, and let me see if you answer it directly, did twitter cost you the 2020 election? >> well, look. what i want to say is i wrote about this in my book, "so help me god," what the revelations from twitter now prove what we already knew, that big tech and big media suppressed the truth about the hunter biden laptop story. literally for a year and a half big media completely ignored this, and as i wrote in my book, that was a disgrace. but i couldn't be more grateful to elon musk for essentially turning on the lights at twitter and revealing to the american people that there was this shadow banning, that there was an active effort underway to prevent the sharing of the new

york post story. look, i don't think any one factor cost us the election, but the american people had a right to know the truth of the hunter biden laptop story, and those emails that came out, and to have big media, present company excepted, to press the story in the waning days of the campaign are unacceptable. the american people have a right to all the information when we are choosing our elected officials and leaders in elections. we clearly didn't have that, and i expect the new republican majority is going to continue -- continue to put real daylight on this issue and work to make sure it never happens again. >> john: one last quick question "so help me god," traces your life as a young adult to the present, a lot of people are looking at this and saying this really is a de facto

announcement that you are going to run. i know you are going to take the holidays with karen and your children, talk about this, decide what to do in terms of whether or not you are going to run for president. which way are you leaning? >> well, look, our hearts are always leaning toward finding a way to stand up for the conservative agenda and for the values we have always advanced in our public career, and i'm looking forward to this christmas, all of our kids, two of whom are in the military will be home the first time in three years. we are going to spend some time together, prayerful consideration to it. but whether i'm a candidate or simply active in the cause, i'm never going to stop fighting for the policies i wrote about in the book that characterize my career in the congress, governor of indiana and as your vice president. those policies left america more prosperous, and those policies we must return our nation in the next two years.

>> john: always good to spend time with you, thank you, we'll check back in to see which way you are leaning. appreciate it. >> sandra: great to see the former vice president there. thanks to him. meanwhile, we are continuing to follow the story out of moscow, idaho at this hour. the neighbor of four murdered college students in idaho tells fox news the front door of the home there was wide open hours before the 911 call was ever made. alexis mcadams is on the ground there, has been for quite some time reporting from moscow for us. alexis, you talked to that neighbor. what did he have to say? >> sandra, he says he was walking right back from campus on that morning around 8:30, and noticed that the door to that home was wide open. he says it stuck out to him enough when he found out what had happened he did contact authorities and give them that tip. we had not heard much about it from police, they focused on the backsliding door which backs up to that parking lot there. but we are going to take a live look right now at that front

door of the home in moscow, idaho, still at the center of this, in crime scene tape. the neighbor gave authorities the information because it stuck out to him and as he passed by the home did not understand why it was open. the question we had for police is why was it open in the first place, did they know about this, how long did they know about it, and possible the killer or killers could have walked out the front door. now the other piece of information here on the ground, the biggest thing we have had in the past few days, it's the white hyundai elantra, that's a stock photo or example of the car with the make and model investigators are looking for and we don't know exactly how it fits in. were the killer or killers in the vehicle, they have not said, but the car was possibly in the parking lot. off of king road, you go up and around into an apartment complex, it dead ends there and you can see from the parking lot to the house. where was it parked and how many

people saw it, investigators say this is something they are looking into but want to talk to the person or persons inside. listen. >> we are not stuck but we do know that that car could have key information, and we are asking the public for help in this. we have gotten so much information but we need more, we want that information that someone might have if they know someone who had that car or borrowed it or where it might be now. >> so back out here live, we can tell you authorities have been in contact with the ports of entry at the u.s.-canadian border and if anyone spotted the vehicle of interest, and pulled lots of crime scene evidence and also surveillance video from nearby businesses. sandra. >> sandra: keep us posted on all developments, they have been slow to happen but when they do, helps move the investigation forward. >> john: disgraced crypto kingpin samuel

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might as well talk to congress. >> and also doing it remotely as well, testifying from the bahamas rather than in-person in d.c., according to numerous sources. bankman-fried confirming in the tweet saying as a committee thinks it would be useful, i'm willing to testify on the 13th. not entirely voluntarily, only agreeing to participate after threatened with a somebody. >> i think it is credible to tell him he needs to be at the december 13th meeting. if he's not, then let's see what's happening, because i think that somebody is on the table. >> so the hearing is scheduled for tuesday morning. pat toomey says the senate banking committee also wants to hear from bankman-fried the day after, significant unanswered questions on how client funds were misappropriated, clients were blocked from withdrawing their money and orchestrated a cover-up.

bankman-fried has been speaking in numerous interviews admitting to the transfer of funds from cryptoexchange to personal hedge fund. >> one phrasing would be to say alameda effectively sent those dollars from the ftx account to the user but that's electric transfer, of course. outside of that, the answer is they were wired to alameda. i can only speculate what happened after that. >> legal experts say it's illegal, violates terms of service. and saying that ftx u.s. was solvent, but not sure if that means the u.s. customers will get their money back. >> john: find out what congress has to say to him next week. >> sandra: second edition of the elon musk twitter files that dropped last night, the documents exposing how the social media giant used secret black lists to limit the visibility of tweets and even

entire accounts of conservative users. our next guest is set to take over as head of the house oversight committee in the new year and pledging to launch an investigation into big tech censorship, one of many probes republicans have teased when they take over control of the house. congressman james comer. a lot of changes in your life, big changes for the house of representatives. so, when it comes to twitter, what should we expect in the new year as far as investigations you plan to launch? >> well, for me, and being chairman of the house oversight committee, we are interested in what the government's role was in banning conservative stories. we are very interesting in what the government's role was in banning the hunter biden laptop story. and invited the three employees

implicated in musk's first twitter dump to come before congress and talk to us. we'll interview them. if they don't come -- agree to come before january 3rd they should expect to get a subpoena. we are very serious about, this, very concerned about this, from biden family perspective, why was joe biden so interested in banning this story, why did the fbi seem so interested in this story, and i think that's going to answer a lot of questions we have moving forward as to whether or not this administration truly is compromised or not. >> sandra: congressman, twitter founder jack dorsey in 2018. flashback to rep mike doyle pressing him on whether twitter was indeed shadow banning conservatives. the exchange. >> are you censoring people? >> no. >> twitter shadow banning

prominent republicans, bad. is that true? >> no. >> sandra: he said that then, what does that mean for him now with the control of oversight? >> that's a problem, it appears that he was being dishonest to congress and lying to congress, it's a very bad thing, as you know. so, what i believe he will have is an opportunity to come before congress and set the record straight. one thing i will say in his defense is it appears that musk in the first twitter dump made reference that dorsey didn't know everything that was going on. that these other three individuals whom we already have requested their presence in front of congress, that they may have been acting unilaterally. the second dump comes closer to implicating dorsey, so he's going to have an opportunity to come before congress, big tech was always going to be a big priority for republican majority. even before the twitter dumps, elon musk is doing a great

service to the american people and really helping out republicans in our quest to get to the truth with respect to big tech censorship. >> sandra: "the washinton post" ran this headline on you, meet the congressman planning house republicans hunter biden investigation. you sat down with them for a pretty lengthy interview, you talked about the 40 to 50 different investigations you planned to launch as the chairman of house oversight in the new year. one of them obviously is the hunter biden investigation. i'll ask you about that while pointing out there seems to be a growing number of members of your own party who are warning they don't really want to prioritize this in the new year. this was new hampshire republican governor in a podcast, listen. >> i want the next generation of republicans to know that what they see today with the partisanship and the anger and all that kind of stuff, we want them to be excited about being on our team and when we offer and what we deliver.

we are not a party defined by hunter biden's laptop, i think should be investigated, of course, but that's not at our core. >> sandra: knowing there is some opposition in the party to go this route, what are your plans to investigate hunter biden in the new year? >> well, our investigations actually is of joe biden, we are using his laptop as a significant portion of our evidence. the reason we are investigating joe biden, we fear that this administration's compromised because of the millions of dollars that hunter biden and jim biden have received from russia and china, and you look at just what happened yesterday. this bizarre prisoner swap, in the benefit of russia, neither example why we need to investigate to see if the investigation is compromised. we are never going to have 100% support, and always someone pouring cold water on good things republicans are doing but we are going to be doing a lot

of things. focused on the border, reducing spending, our plan to reduce inflation and we have a lot of other quality pieces of our legislative agenda. oversight and accountability will be one major part of that. that was in the commitment to america and we are not going to let up on that. >> sandra: appreciate you joining us today. >> john: busy girl for him. american girl doubling down on a book promoting transgender ideology, teaching girls how to become boys without telling their parents. we'll talk to someone who said she made a big mistake as she detransitions back to a woman. that is next.

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find an adult they can trust to ask about the possibility of transitioning. the doll company saying the content in this book geared for kids ten plus was developed in partnership with medical and adolescent care professionals and emphasizes the importance of having conversations and discussing with trusted parents or adults. we are committed to have content that leaves our readers feeling informed, confident about themselves. 24-year-old prisha is detransitioning back to being a woman, underwent surgery to remove her breasts when she was 18. as a young teen, adolescent, emotional and mental issues. how did those lead to you transitioning from a girl to becoming a man? >> so one of the core features of one of the issues i have is

the lack of identity and on top of not having a lot of friends and having issues at home, when i found the trans community and found a new identity and was affirmed that, you know, everything was very affirming, that's what caused me to transition. >> john: and what has led you to the decision to transition back? >> getting treatment for the actual diagnosises i had prior to the gender diagnosis, like trauma therapy. >> you underwent testosterone therapy at 17, at 18, a double mastectomy, known as tops surgery. some of the treatments you received, including the tops surgery, are irreversible. so, what are you thinking now about everything that happened to you in that time period? >> i mean -- i'm heart broken.

like honestly, the whole time to me i feel like i was in like an fuge, i was so mentally unwell and unstable and that's the time the trans community really found me. but the whole thing just feels really messed up to me. it's heartbreaking, it's -- i'm finally out of denial because i've been talking about it and i'm not able to be there anymore, so there was a lot of grief, but you know. >> your parents say they were manipulated into supporting you through this transition by counselors, by the medical profession. do you believe you were manipulated into it at all? >> oh, yeah, i really do. i was manipulated not only by my trans peers, but by my gender specialist, the person who gave me my letter of recommendation and surgery. i mean, it was all sold as like a wonderful thing.

it was not like a medical condition that you needed to be treated, you know, that was sad or serious, it was like a fun thing like you're trans now and it's celebrated and you are wonderful, you are a hero and all that, and you know, that attention is what i was looking for. >> john: when you see american girl in a book that's targeted towards children who are probably between 8 and 12, because those are the girls who are really into american girl, say if you have not gone through puberty yet, the doctor might offer medicine to delay your body's changes, giving you more time to think about your gender identify and if you have already gone through puberty a doctor can still help. what do you think about that messages targeted to those girls? >> it's incredibly confusing. i almost think it's predatory. i mean, it's setting them up for confusion. every single person who is about to go through or who is going through puberty is uncomfortable with their body, and it's changing and it's hard and this

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