camera. how long have you been play something >> like seven years. >> ainsley: seven years, good. aren't they cute. >> steve: you are all invited, tomorrow all american summer concert series continues with gary gchl to fox and friends.comto register for free stuff. >> ainsley: and free barbecue. >> bill: rfq junior is on the hill testifying on government censorship. jim jordan tends to be on time as we say good morning. the team is back together. good morning to you. >> dana: i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." republicans want to prove the government and big tech worked together to censor some americans. it is plain on its face.

kennedy is eating into the president's lead. that makes some democrats very nervous. we have team fox coverage. byron york and andy mccarthy are standing by. rich edson is live from the white house as we get ready for this hearing to get underway. hi, rich. >> good morning. republicans are focused here on the federal government's coordination with tech companies. democrats are focused on that key witness robert f. kennedy junior. this hearing is just about underway on capitol hill. this is the select subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government. xhiflty republicans say they'll examine the government's role in censoring americans and what is big tech's collusion with out of control government agencies to silence speech. previewing his appearance kennedy says it's working with partners in tech. this is a systematic program to control what americans can say and think.

as such it is -- in a democracy the people tell the government what to think not the other way around. instagram booted kennedy but reinstated his account when he announced his run for president. democrats have ripped republicans for inviting kennedy. congressman jerry connolly said rfk junior's appearance is another example of republicans having crack pots for witnesses. democrats have pointed to kennedy falsely saying covid was ethic any targeted. they wrote mr. kennedy has repeatedly and recently spread vile and dangerous anti-asian conspiracy theories that tarnish his credibility as a witness and must not be legitimized before congress. it is getting litigated in federal court. back to you. >> dana: thank you. >> bill: as we get ready, i see

kennedy in the room there and jordan is there, too. byron york is in the room. the hearing yesterday went 5 or 6 hours. most people could only see it here on fox. what would be your expectation a day later with kennedy now in his seat today? >> well, as you've just heard rich reported, democrats are going to make robert f. kennedy junior the focus of this hearing. i think it's entirely possible that republicans have outsmarted themselves on this one. it is about a very serious issue, the hearing is. it's about the government censoring information, violating the first amendment. censoring information that's available on the internet. there is a very serious court case, missouri versus biden, that is going through the courts on this. a big ruling on july 4th. this is a serious issue but what we'll have is democrats attacking the witness who has a

long history of pretty much crack pot statements about vaccines and other things. he is a big conspiracy theorist. contrast this with the hearing yesterday about hunter biden. you had the two i.r.s. whistleblowers who were beyond reproach. career professionals at the i.r.s. very serious cases. everything they said they backed up with a lot of evidence. democrats were reduced to suggesting that maybe it was all a misunderstanding or something. they really couldn't go after these witnesses. today will be very, very different. >> dana: andy mccarthy is with us. byron mentioned the lawsuit missouri verses biden. fourth of july a big ruling about freedom of speech and the questions there about whether the federal government went way too far in censoring americans when it came to these type of topics in particular covid. how does that figure in today's

hearing? >> i will echo what byron so well said a second ago. it is a really serious and complicated issue, and it would be bad if it was treated as a cartoon thing. on the one hand those of us who remember the bad old days of terrorism we want the government and private parties to cooperate with the government in times of national emergency. the government can push that too far to the point that it is influencing the social media companies to suppress content. it is not a black and whitish yu. there is lots of gray area. what i worry about with stuff like this, if it's not treated seriously, we'll draw the lines in the wrong place and important that congress draw these lines. i like the court opinion for the most part. but we don't want the courts making these policies. they are supposed to be made by

congress. >> bill: we heard the pledge of allegiance. there are two other witnesses, one is a journalist, emma jo morris. she will talk about the reporting or lack on hunter biden's laptop. a little bit of yesterday's hearing will bleed into this one today. let's go to chairman jim jordan. >> wanted to flag the below tweet. i wonder if we can get moving on the process for having it removed asap in all caps. that third day, what did that tweet say? tweet from mr. kennedy said hank aaron's tragic death is suspicious deaths among elderly. he received the vaccine january 5th to inspire other black americans to get the vaccine. what is interesting about the email that the white house sent to twitter is the subject line says flagging hank aaron

misinformation. misinformation is when you don't have the facts right. you are saying things that aren't true. when you look at mr. kennedy's tweet there was nothing in there that was factually inaccurate. hank aaron, real person, great american, passed away after he got the vaccine. pointing out facts. yet the white house on the third day was -- actually, 1:04:00 a.m. january 23, 2021. 37 hours into the administration they were trying to censor mr. kennedy. i find that interesting. the irony trying to censor the guy who is their democratic primary opponent. three months earlier the f.b.i. helped censor our second witness, ms. morris on the hunter biden laptop. the f.b.i. censored her because of work this committee has done to uncover what happened and our

third witness, mr. sauer, in federal court he argued in a case they got the amazing ruling from on july 4th two weeks ago. go back to the course of that investigation, the course of that lawsuit from missouri and louisiana, roth, former head of security at twitter brought out in that lawsuit, sworn declaration in front of the federal election commission said this. during weekly meetings federal law enforcement agencies commune indicated they expected hack and leak operations before the 2020 presidential election likely in october. these expectations discussed throughout 2020 were discussed throughout 2020. i also learned in these meetings that a hack and leak operation would involve hunter biden. think about it. weekly meetings throughout 2020,

hack and leak operation, in october involving hunter biden. five key things they pointed out throughout that year and guess what, it all happens just like this predicted. how did they know it was going to happen like that? because they had the laptop. they had the laptop for ten months before ms. morris's story on october 14th. her story breaks that day. that same day twitter meets with the f.b.i. specifically the foreign influence task force at the f.b.i. later that same day, again the day her story comes out, facebook also meets with the f.b.i. the head of the foreign influence task force now is lord demelo. this committee interviewed her three days ago. an interesting interview. we asked her about these meetings. she stated in the first meeting the f.b.i. and twitter in that first meeting she said someone

from twitter asked is the laptop real? they asked the fundamental question. it was big news. twitter asked the f.b.i. in front of them prepping them for a year, is the laptop real? she conveyed to the committee this week an f.b.i. agent answered yes, it is. another f.b.i. agent, a lawyer very quickly followed up with no further comment. so here is the scenario, story breaks, twitter meeting with f.b.i., twitter asks is the story real and the laptop real the f.b.i. answers yes and quickly followed by all this, the lawyer says no further comment. in the later meeting with facebook, again that same day, the f.b.i. was asked the same question and this time the f.b.i. gets their story straight and ms. demelo comments and says no comment. by the second meeting the f.b.i. had coordinated and she conveyed

this in her deposition they had deliberated what they were going to respond when that question was asked. think about this. after being repeatedly told a hack and leak russian info operation is coming, for a whole year it arrives on october 14th in the form of ms. morris's story, our government knows the laptop is real and not a russian information op and the story is true. when directly asked they say no comment. of course, ms. morris's story is censored. visibility filtered the term the tech companies use. no, you can't send it. keeping the american people from valuable information just days before the most important election we have, election for commander-in-chief. election for the presidency of the united states. i'm glad ms. morris is here today. she knows what it is like to be censored and why louisiana and missouri filed the case and why mr. sauer argued the case and

why mr. kennedy is running for president. it's to stop. help us expose and stop what's going on. this alliance, big government pressuring private entities to censor americans. in ms. morris's testimony that i read this morning, big tech, big government working together, big media working all together to censor american speech. we look forward to your testimony over the next few hours. i will tell you this just get ready. i think these guys, last time we had a journalist sitting there they tried to get them to divulge their sources. you can handle it and appreciate your willingness to come forward and fight for the first amendment. with that i yield to the ranking member for an opening statement. >> good morning to everyone. administrative matters first. page 55 from the committee's

interview with f.b.i. employee demelo who you just spoke about that took place on july 17th, 2023. in that line she says the question was asked okay, if someone were to leave here today, leave this interview and to suggest or imply when you said the laptop was real, that it meant the f.b.i. had affirmatively determined in october 2020 that the laptop belonged to hunter biden, that the contents belonged to hunter biden and that the contents had not been manipulated in some way, would they be representing what you said, correct? >> answer, by ms. demelo. they would be representing what i said because i don't have much knowledge of that. they would be misrepresenting what i said because i don't have much knowledge of that. because this committee likes to misrepresent or leave off complete sentences of what individuals said, i would like to introduce this into the record. >> no objection.

>> as to no comment by an f.b.i., that's usually what they say when there is an ongoing investigation. particularly when it's a couple of days before an election. but why are we here? why? you know, that's been the question that quite a number of people have been asking me. why are you having this hearing? what does this have to do with inflation? what does this have to do with the cost of living? what does this have to do with the everyday lives of americans, the thing that the republican party said that they would focus on if they had control of the house? why would you republican leadership in the committee majority give a hearing and platform to the witnesses today? specifically to mr. kennedy, a man who was recently claimed that covid-19 is targeted to caucasian and black people and before that in his film medical

racism the new apartheid that him stated covid-19 vaccines don't work for black children because of their, quote, kick ass kind of immune system, that hyper super human kind of language. he also said even in hitler's germany you could cross the alps to switzerland meaning jews in nazi germany had more freedoms than people in the pandemic. some will rush to cover they have mr. kennedy here to protect his free speech. they do not believe in american censorship. this is not the kind of free speech that i know of. the free speech that is protected by the constitution's first amendment. but free speech is not an absolute. the supreme court has stated

that. and other's free speech that is allowed, hateful, abusive rhetoric, does not need to be promoted in the halls of the people's house. this republican charge of free speech is he being used by republican members to promote quasi science, things such as the replacement theory that says the brown people are replacing good white americans here in this country. let's not remember this country first belonged to brown native american people. it is a rallying cry for bigotry and hate. there are members of the republican conference who frequently suggest that americans have to deal with covid rules is the same as oppression of nazi germany. some have questioned whether the holocaust took place. we have staffers who openly follow white supremacy without

any condemnation of the republican conference. some give it chuckles, slaps on the back, shrugs. all under the mantra of free speech. it's a free country. you absolutely have a right to say what you believe. but you don't have the right to a platform, public or private. we don't have to give one of the largest platforms of our democracy, congress, this hearing, our right does not mean that we as americans are not free from accountability. that's what's distressing about this hearing. even knowing what they know about mr. kennedy's hateful, evidence-free rhetoric and invited a number of witnesses to make their point, speaker mccarthy, chairman jordan, affirmatively chose to give this a platform. they chose to elevate this rhetoric to give these harmful, dangerous views a platform in

the halls of the united states congress. that's endorsing that speech. that's not just supporting free speech. they have co-signed on idiotic, bigoted messaging. this is a conscious choice. there is no doubt as to why they are making the choice. it is not to guard free speech or to insure equality for all. all of this, as you'll hear throughout this hearing, is to show us by their conduct over and over again, that any attack on joe biden to get donald trump back in the white house is what they need to do. they think that by hurting the biden administration, by putting mr. kennedy on display, they have said that he is only running for censorship. i think people run for the president of the united states because they want to advance the

american people. over the last eight months, the extreme maga majority has spent its time, not to mention tons of taxpayer money, something they are always so cautious about, on baseless investigations that have gone nowhere. all in an effort to serve as a legislative arm of the trump campaign and discredit any agency that dares to hold the president or those that work with him or who have the same ideals that he has accountable for those that are such as white supremacy, such as election deniers, such as inciteers and those who engage in the riots of january 6th. truth be told, i have no idea whether the chairman actually believes any of the stuff. i don't. that's not a question i've asked him or one that is necessarily even important. but it's clear that one aim of

this investigation is to bully tech and media companies into turning a blind eye to right wing extremist conspiracies from qanon to the great replacement theory as they spread across their platforms even when those theories violate basic terms of service about deliberate disinformation and promoting violence. let's not even think about what happens in 2024 with russian trolls, iran, china trying to interfere in our elections. and the bullying extends far beyond tech companies. witness after witness have testified to the treatment they received from chairman jordan and his team. one of our earliest witnesses n nina received thousands of death threats while pregnant with her first child. after chairman jordan first posted a doctor video of her. when "politico" ask mr. jordan about the threats his office

responded she deserves to be held accountable. anyone who doesn't agree with their point of view deserves whatever hatred and threats are thrown at them. now i'm across the hall from mr. jordan and several months ago i saw somebody who seemed to be threatening to his office and the capitol police were moving them away. i was grateful they were doing that. i don't want anyone to harm him or his staff for their rhetoric, for the things that they say. that's inappropriate. that's unconscionable. another witness, this one a current member of federal law enforcement who spent years protecting americans from harm described receiving threatening mail not just to her work office but home address. someone out there figured out where this person lives and targeting them based on disinformation this committee spread. she summed it up in a single

sentence i'm frankly scared. why does the chairman send this movement to intimidate witnesses? so change their behavior. to make it less safe for law enforcement officers to enforce the law. less likely that researchers and companies will combat the spread of hate and violence online. one witness, an academic who organization helped identify disinformation threats to election processes and procedures described the threat sent to him and his family in detail when the republican staff asked him if he would consider performing the same research for 2024 elections he said, quote, since this investigation has cost the university now approaching seven figures in legal fees, it has been pretty successful in discouraging us from making it worthwhile for us to do a study for 2024. another witness a researcher who analyzed massive datasets to assess the way rumors spread online was explicit and personal about the effect of the threats on her life. quite frankly i don't have kids

and if i did, i would no longer be doing this work. i'm worried about my students. i know they are worried about doing this kind of work because of these kinds of threats and what they say i'm going through. at the same time i just think the work is so important and i want to make sure it keeps going so i don't want to step off that stage. i don't want -- i think we have like special skills that can be really useful and helpful and make our country grow stronger and this is having a chilling effect. it is not just me. other researchers are experiencing the same thing. these are the fruits of this committee's majority investigations. if maga republicans agree with you, you are given a platform to spread any conspiracy theories no matter how harmful. if they disagree with you, you get death threats until you have to go away. these folks have a plan. they want to force social media companies to promote conspiracy

theories because they think that's the only way their candidate can win the 2024 election. they want to bully the experts into abandoning their work on disinformation to parv the way. they want to give expression to the most vile sorts of speech here in this committee room because it prepares the ground for their own conspiracy theories and pseudo science. they apparently don't care how many people are hurt or die as a consequence of their actions either through lies about vaccines or threats to the safety of witnesses because nothing, nothing, is more important to them than power. it's a free country. both chairman jordan and mr. kennedy are free to say whatever they want. the chairman's right to promote any views he wants to. that freedom doesn't mean the rest of us can't see what they are doing and demand something better from our representatives,

from my colleagues, from this congress. be better than the witnesses, my colleagues, let's be better. let's get about the business, the real business of the american people and stop the division, the divisiveness that is being promoted through this committee. i yield back. >> bill: i would ask consent to enter into the record from ms. 29. do you recall whether any of these social media companies meeting with asked you any questions about the laptop story. i do was her answer. what is your recollection? somebody from twitter asked if the laptop was real and one of the f.b.i. folks did confirm that yes it was before a another participant jumped in and said no further comment. who said it was real? i do. who was that person? i'll have to get back to you. we'll enter that into the record. i want to start with morris. politics editor at breitbart

news and served as the deputy politics editor at the "new york post." ms. maya wiley previously served as counsel to new york city mayor bill deblasio. >> bill: watching this here. the democrats have come ready to play, i will say that. once mr. kennedy starts his question and answer session here, i imagine there will be some fireworks inside that room. >> dana: byron york is still with us. before we went to the hearing you said something that i would like to go back to and get you to expand on. i think we might have seen a little bit of what you were suggesting. democrats might outsmart themselves and make this a hearing about rfk rather than about the government censorship and the very impassioned by lengthy statement by the ranking member would indicate that might be what they are doing.

>> absolutely. look, i don't think there is any real doubt that republicans invited this one witness, rfk junior because he is running for president against joe biden. he has made some inroads. but if you look at the real clear politics average of polls, his support has bounced around between 14% and 18% for the last couple months. it is not really going anywhere. i think that the support that you see in the democratic party for rfk is not so much support specifically from democrats who want robert f. kennedy junior to be president of the united states but for democrats sending a message we want another candidate. we don't want joe biden to be our nominee in 2024. so i think republicans may have misread some of rfks support. >> bill: watching the expression on mr. kennedy it was quite

clear he was itching and ready to go. chip roy is talking. we expect mr. kennedy to answer some questions next. >> potential for committee to examine vaccine safety and scientific integrity. your conversation touched on the cdc and ways to increase independence from financial conflicts. announced campaign for president of the united states. during his campaign he stated quote my mission over the next 18 months of this campaign and throughout my presidency will be to end the corrupt merger of state and corporate power that is threatening to impose a new kind of corporate feudalism in our country. mr. kennedy finds himself receiving the scorn of the political left and right. if one dares challenge the powers that be, one is their enemy. as a graduate of the university of virginia he knows the following quote. for here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead.

thomas jefferson. that truism was lost during the covid pandemic. individuals receiving scorn simply for asking questions and silenced for challenging the status quo. these are the kinds of questions that should have been publicly debated and this hearing is folk elksed on that truth and we welcome mr. kennedy. >> mr. kennedy, we are glad you are here. we will now proceed with the opening statement. i want to introduce the guy sitting behind you, a former colleague of ours and a good friend of mine dennis kucinich who served in the united states congress for 14 years, i believe, and great buckeye. we welcome dennis and elizabeth as well. we will go with opening testimony. mr. kennedy you are recognized for your opening statement. >> are you going to swear in the

witnesses? >> please stand and raise your right hand. do you swear or affirm under penalty of perjury the testimony you are about to give is true and correct to the best of your knowledge, information and belief so help you god. let the record reflect the witness answered in the affirmative. mr. kennedy, you are recognized for your opening statement and we'll go right on down the line. >> point of order. i know that witnesses usually have five minutes. i see ten minutes on the board. >> we are pretty lacks with this and let him go for a little -- >> i've seen you gavel down on quite a number of witnesses. >> given senators and former members of congress. >> he is neither. >> i'm saying in past history. >> okay. watch the time for all the witnesses. >> if you want to cut him off and censor him so more.

>> that's not my job. that's your job. threat en the witness so they won't want to be a witness. >> mr. kennedy is recognized for his opening statement. five minutes more or less and we'll move to the next one. go right ahead, mr. kennedy. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> if we could put five minutes on the clock, then, not ten. >> put five on the clock and start it running. >> thank you, mr. chairman and i want to start -- i want to put aside my written statement for a moment and address one of the points that was brought up. i think an important point by the ranking member that this body ought to be concerning itself with the issues that impact directly the american people, the rising price of groceries, basic food stuff, the

war in ukraine, the inflation issues, the border issues, many, many other issues that concern us all as a nation. we can't do that without the first amendment, without debate. when i gave my speech, my announcement speech in boston two months ago, i talked about all those issues. i focused on groceries and the fact that working class people can no longer afford to live in this country. i talked about inflation, all the issues that deeply concern you and that you have devoted your career to alleviating those issues. five minutes into my speech when i was talking about paul revere, youtube deplatformed me. i didn't talk about vaccines in that speech. i didn't talk about anything, i

was just talking about my campaign and the conversation that we ought to be having with each other as americans. i was shut down. and that is why the first amendment is important. debate, congenial, respectful debate is the fertilizer, the water, the sunlight for our democracy. we need to be talking to each other. now, this is a letter that many of you signed, many of my fellow democrats. i spent my life in this party and devoted my life to the values of this party. 102 people signed this. this itself is evidence of the problem that this hearing was convened to address. this is an attempt to censorship hearing. the charges in this -- by the way, censorship is antithetical

to our party. it was appalling to my father, my uncle, fdr, harry truman. thomas jefferson. it is the basis for democracy. it sets us apart from all of the previous forms of government. we need to be able to talk and the first amendment was not written for easy speech. it was written for the speech that nobody likes you for. and i was censored not just by the democratic administration but the trump administration. i was the first person censored as the chairman pointed out, by the biden administration two days after he came into office. by the way, they had to invent a new word called mal information to censor people like me. there was no misinformation on my instagram account. everything i put on that account

was cited and sourced. peer reviewed publications or databases. nobody pointed to a single peels of misinformation that i published. i was removed for something they called mall information. that's information that is true but inconvenient to the government that they don't want people to hear. and that's antithetical to the values of our country. after i announced my presidency, it became more difficult for people to censor me outright. now i'm subject to the new form of censorship called targeted propaganda where people apply per or tifshs like anti-vaccine. i've never been anti-vaccine. everybody in this room probably believes i have been because that's the narrative. anti-semitism, racism. these are the most appalling,

disgusting words applied to me to silence me because people don't want me to have that conversation about the war, about groceries, about inflation, about the war on the middle class in this country that we need to be having. and by the way, i want to say this while i'm on the record. that in my entire life, why i'm under oath, in my entire life i have never uttered a phrase that was either racist or anti-semitic. i have spent my life fighting my professional career fighting for israel, the protection of israel. i have a better record on israel than anybody in this chamber today. i'm the only person who has publicly objected to the $2 billion pay-out that the biden administration is now making to iran, which is a genocidal

program. i'm the only one who has objected to that. i fought more ferociously for israel than anybody but i'm being censored here, through this target, through smears, through misinterpretations of what i said, through lies and through association, which is attack particular that we all thought had been dispensed with after the mccarthy hearings in the 19 50s. those same weapons are now being deployed against me to silence me. i know many of the people who wrote this letter. i don't believe there is a single person who signed this letter who believes i'm anti-semitic. i do not believe that. there is no evidence of that. i want to say something, i think that's more important and it goes directly to what you talked about, ranking member, which is

the need, the toxic polarization that is destroying our country today. and how do we deal with that? we are more -- this kind of division is more dangerous for our country than any time since the american civil war. and how do we deal with that? how are we going -- every democrat on this committee believes that we need to end polarization. do you think you can do that by censoring people? i'm telling you, you cannot. that only aggravates and amplifies the problem. we need to start being kind to each other. we need to start being respectful to each other. we need to start restoring the come -- this has to start here. my uncle edward kennedy had more legislation with his name on it

than any senator in the united states history. why is that? because he was able to reach across the aisle. because he didn't deal in insults. because he didn't try to censor people. he brought home people that were antithetical to what he believed in. he came home almost every weekend with people like orrin hatch to our house and the compound in hyannis port. at that time orrin hatch to me was like darth vader. i was an environmentalist. why is teddy bringing this guy home? he was effective because he understood that respect and kindness and compassion and empathy for other people is the way that -- the only way to restore the function in this chamber, but more importantly, we need to give an example in the leadership of our country of

being respectful to each other. if you think i said something that's anti-semitic, let's talk about the details. i'm telling you all the things that i'm accused of right now by you and in this letter are distortions, misrepresentations. i didn't say those things. there are fragments that i said but i denounce anybody who uses the words that i have said to imply something that is negative about people who are jewish. i never said those things. i want to point out also that the chairman pointed to dennis kucinich who is right behind me. there are no two people in the country who feel differently about -- more differently about american politics than these two people and yet they were friends. dennis attended his children's basketball games, attended his daughter's wedding. this is what we need. how we need to start treating each other in this country.

we have to stop trying to destroy each other, to marginalize and vilify and gas light each other. we have to find that place inside ourselves of light, empathy, compassion and above all, we need to elevate the constitution of the united states, which was written for hard times. and that has to be the premier compass for all of our activities. thank you very much. [applause] >> i would like to raise a point of order. pursuant to house rule 11, clause two which mr. kennedy has violated: i remove into executive session. he has made comments as recently as last week. rule 11 clause two says whenever it is assert i had by a meme breuer of the committee the evidence or testimony of a -- or asserted by a witness that the evidence or testimony that the

witness would give at a hearing may the end to defame, degrade or incriminate the witness. mr. kennedy, among many other things, has said i know a lot now about bioweapons. we put out hundreds of millions of dollars to ethnically targeted microbes. covid-19 there was an argument ethnically targeted. covid-19 attacks certain races disproportionately. >> are you making a motion or speech? >> i have made a motion to move into executive session because mr. kennedy's testimony and his previous statements. >> gentleman from kentucky has moved to table. >> i ask for a roll call vote. >> the question on the motion to table. general lady asked for a roll call vote. step back for a second. the clerk will come in and call the roll on the motion to table and get back to testimony. >> i think the witnesses can sit in the chairs sitting behind.

>> i will leave that up to the clerks. if the clerks are comfortable with that. why don't we do that. maybe go right down here. >> mr. chairman point of order. is it the custom of this committee to censor viewpoints we disagree with from witnesses? >> it is not a point of order. >> there is a motion and ready -- waiting for the clerks. we're waiting for the clerks. clerk will call the roll. >> mr. jordan. >> yes. roll call vote. >> yes to not censor. (roll call vote: .

>> no, i want to follow the rules that the republicans made at the beginning of this conference with these house rules so no. (roll call vote continues. >> no to allowing a witness to degrade >> this is not speech time. >> violate the rules and not have his testimony and degradation amplified. >> no to the soviet poll it bureau. roll call vote continues.

>> mr. gaetz. aye. >> clerk will report. >> there are ten ayes and eight no, sir. >> the motion to table is agreed to. we'll move to our second witness, miss morris. you are recognized for five minutes. >> thank you. thanks so much for inviting me. my name is emma jo morris, politics editor at breitbart. i'm here because i published a series of news stories in october of 2020 about hunter biden's now infamous laptop. >> bill: we're off to a roaring start. ms. morris is testifying on the censorship of hunter biden's

laptop. there is a bit of irony with debbie wasserman schultz. she was forced to resign in 2016 because of leaked emails that showed her intent to shut down bernie sanders campaign or hurt it and help hillary clinton. she was suggesting they go behind closed doors. >> dana: that is a little bit of irony. why am i laughing? because you can't even make it up sometimes. i thought rfk junior's opening statement was impassioned. he did not have to read from a script. he took great exception to the democrats who have written this letter basically calling him a racist and anti-seamite and very passionately said i am neither of those things and i don't believe any of you think that i am. during the hearing you could see ranking chairwoman plaskett when she had been so vehemently against rfk junior speaking, when he was -- had a chance to

speak she wouldn't even look at him. >> bill: he was directing his comments directly toward her and she was writing notes at the time. let's go to chad to get a rundown of what to expect next, chad. you know this procedure better than most. >> what happened here in the hearing is you had debbie wasserman schultz make a motion to say we're aware of rfk junior's anti-semitic remarks. we have trouble with this. a coalition of 43 democrats who got together and wrote a letter saying he should not be testifying, very concerned about some of his comments he made last friday in new york basically saying that the pandemic there was an immunity to people who were of chinese or jewish dissent. she was trying to get them out of the committee, go into a closed session and debate whether or not this witness should go forward. usually what happens is you have a straight up or down vote on this or they could move to table to set this aside. that's what the vote was on, not

whether to continue in committee but whether or not to set aside the motion made by debbie wasserman schultz. it is one stepped removed what she was trying to do and put it to sleep and get it out of the way and continue with the hearing. that's a party line vote. it was interesting. usually you just had people record their votes by yes or no. you had some of the democrats, talking about hey look, we want to follow the rules here. that type of language is not permitted in a house committee hearing and we want to get off stage and see how to proceed forward. >> bill: chad. thank you. one other note on wasserman schultz. the first female jewish member of congress and the one who took exception to the comments of mr. kennedy there. byron york joining our conversation here. he started talking about

mal information, a new word to keep him quiet. he is ready to do battle with republican or democratic members of congress today during this hearing. >> well, i think we can say the hearing started exactly like we thought it would, which was with both sides bickering with each other. rfk was fascinating. he started out with a very compelling, very heart felt defense of the first amendment. he said we cannot talk as a nation about big issues like inflation or immigration or the war in ukraine, you can't have a meaningful discussion about them without first having a first amendment. he also made sort of a reference to himself by saying the first amendment doesn't protect the speech that everybody likes. it protects unpopular speech like some of the things that he has said. i do think that after this very

compelling beginning, he moved into a defense of himself that was less successful and went on and on about how he was not an anti-seamite and nobody believes that he could be. another thing that you are seeing is just this really fascinating alliances of opposites in this case. sitting behind rfk junior is his campaign manager dennis kucinich, long time progressive, former member of the house, way on the left for a very long time. and jim jordan and dennis kucinich are saying nice things about each other. robert f. kennedy junior is saying nice things to republicans. then the democrats are attacking them. it is just really a fascinating mash-up of political alliances in this. >> dana: thank you. stand by. we have a lot more to come in this hearing. ist is just getting underway. we'll take a quick break and we'll be right back. making a big car payment every month? car loans can be expensive

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>> bill: so we're watching and listening to this hearing. we'll get back inside that hearing in a moment. we are keenly interested in the question and answer between republican and democratic committee members and robert kennedy. stand by for more on that. new developments now on this serial killer. for the first time the wife of the alleged serial killer caught leaving the house. fox news digital with exclusive images. the same day she filed for divorce from her husband, rex heuermann, the new york city architect facing half a dozen cold case murder charges. nancy grace, host of crime stories on fox nation with me now. nancy, good morning to you. learning a few more details. apparently he had two of these vehicles that he kept in a small town of chester, south carolina, which if you look at a map it is south of charlotte. west of columbia. pretty much farm country. very rural. what do you make of that? also i want to know what you

make of the search thus far about what we think we're learning about his home 45 minutes east of new york city. >> thank you for inviting me. right now they better take that house down to the studs because in searches that i have oversaw and conducted, you have to look under the carpet, under the baseboard in case of blood that seeped down. do not displace fibers or hair that may belong to these victims and looking for trophies not from just these three women. but from other victims. we haven't even found yet that may be disposed of in other places. that's what is happening at the search of the home right now. down to the studs. it only took her six days after the shocked arrest to file for

divorced. his wife had no idea what was going on. we understand that she was shown images of her husband buying burner phone minutes and phones and profiles him on dating websites that were used by sex workers. i think that was the nail in the coffin. she recently broke from cover but she will have to speak at some point. three of her hairs that we know of are on the victims. regarding south carolina, can i also point your attention toward vegas where he also has a time share that he would visit without his wife? the south carolina compound is near his brother, where apparently there is another chevy avalanche. >> bill: in nevada in addition to the two in south carolina? >> yes, he has a compound in south carolina and i have looked at the entry. it says no trespassing, don't

enter without a warrant, skull and crossbones. he doesn't want you to come in there. according to neighbors he is trying to buy up the area for more what? rural area? i would be very carefully looking at that area with ground penetrating radar to see if the dirt had been disturbed but he also has a time share in vegas where he would visit without his wife and children. when asked in a 2017 deposition, you go there for business or pleasure, sir? he says i guess you could call it pleasure. man, i would be all over that like a cheat suit. >> bill: i want to quote amanda, a sister of one of the victims, melissa, on these taunting phone calls. she said he knew my name, he knew what i looked like, and the final call he said he would kill her and that's the statement that she has given investigators for some time, nancy.

>> very quickly, this victim's sister got a call from the killer. two things. he is an amateur. he is so consumed by torturing other people that he overlooked common sense and left a trail. >> bill: nancy, more to come on this, really feels like we're in the early days of this and we'll talk again very soon. nancy grace, thanks. >> thank you for inviting me. >> dana: fox news alert happening now on capitol hill a combative hearing on the weaponization of government. alleged coordination between the federal government and big tech to silence speech and censor americans. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," we're off to the races this morning. a lot happening. >> bill: today's big witness president biden's strongest challenger for the democratic