joining us tonight to talk about the central issue involved here is brendan carr, exhibitioner of the -- commissioner of the fcc. he previously served as the fcc's general counsel. brendan, it is good to have you with us, and thanks for being here. quite a remarkable display with all the time spent on capitol hill in a democratic-led house that the central issue here, the behavior of those massively powerful economically and politically titans of technology wasn't even discussed. how could that be? >> look, lou, this is one of the most important conversations we can be having within the conservative movement right now. when it comes to big tech, there are many on the right -- including a lot of people here in d.c -- who say we simply have to sit on our hands and do nothing. faced with impassive accumulation and abuse of power, they take an ostrich-like approach. i don't think that's right, and there are some in d.c. that are standing up. the trump administration this week took a big step in the right direction, they filedded a petition at the fcc on section 230 which is going to look

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lou: president trump and that is it for us tonight, fcc commissioner brendan carr, byron york, michaelw. we hope you will join us, follow me on twitter at lou dobbs, like me on facebook, and instagram at "lou dobbs tonight". aaaaa maria: good thursday morning, everybody, i'm maria bartiromo, it is thursday july 30th, your top stories right now 6:00 a.m. on the button on the east coast. stimulus stalemate, extra unemployment benefits to expire tomorrow. coronavirus effect on the u.s. economy coming up. at 8:30 this morning we will get first read on gdp, record-breaking contraction, decline of 34.1% expected this morning. plus initial jobless claims expected this morning to rise for second wee

lou: president trump and that is it for us tonight, fcc commissioner brendan carr, byron york, michaelur guest tomorrow. we hope you will join us, follow me on twitter at lou dobbs, like me on facebook, and instagram at "lou dobbs tonight". nterviewing the president next week, be sure to join us for that and tomorrow. good night from sussex. liz: more fireworks on capitol hill for the second straight day, this time it was republicans led by jim jordan taking on powerful big tech titans, jim jordan declaring it is in fact that they are out to get conservatives, he brought dozens of examples of censorship of conservatives. before they could even get a word in, president trump fired off a tweet warning that he will drop even more executive orders if congress does not bring fairness to social media into big tech when it comes to conservatives.

brendan carr is with us. thank you for taking the time.tack some of these guys are getting that they are much more zealous going after conservative thought than say, i don't know, ayatollah thought? >> yeah. i think what we saw yesterday with that hearing in israel, government official pretty blatantly said look, you know, tweets calling for genocide are permissible, other tweets commenting on political situations in other countries aren't. if it weren't for double standards, i'm not sure twitter would have much. when you look right now, it's not so much that they have stort of a covid misinformation policy which we saw this week when they took down tweets from donald trump jr. you go on twitter right now, you can see tweets up from democratic congressman swalwell that says don't wear masks. you can go on twitter right now today and see tweets from the w.h.o. that says there's no real evidence of human-to-human transmission of covid. so it's less about a misinformation policy, it appears, than an orange man bad policy and it's playing fast

lou: president trump and that is it for us tonight, fcc commissioner brendan carr, byron york, michael pillsbury among our guest tomorrow. we hope you will join us, follow me on twitter at lou dobbs, like me on facebook, and instagram at "lou dobbs tonight". a reminder of the interviewing the president next week, be sure to join us for that and tomorrow. good night from sussex. liz: more fireworks on capitol hill for the second straight day, this time it was republicans led by jim jordan taking on powerful big tech titans, jim jordan declaring it is in fact that they are out to get conservatives, he brought dozens of examples of censorship of conservatives. before they could even get a word in, president trump fired off a tweet warning that he will drop even more executive orders if congress does not bring fairness to social media into big tech when it comes to conservatives. republican from house judiciary, with us tonight on how this will hit the 2020 election. he was among the few chosen to grow these powerful ceos. also with us tonight black voices for trump 2020 member jack brewer

lou: president trump and that is it for us tonight, fcc commissioner brendan carr, byron york, michael pillsbury among our guest tomorrow. we hope you will join us, follow me on twitter at lou dobbs, like me on facebook, and instagram at "lou dobbs tonight". aaaaa maria: good thursday morning, everybody, i'm maria bartiromo, it is thursday july 30th, your top stories right now 6:00 a.m. on the button on the east coast. stimulus stalemate, extra unemployment benefits to expire tomorrow. coronavirus effect on the u.s. economy coming up. at 8:30 this morning we will get first read on gdp, record-breaking contraction, decline of 34.1% expected this morning. plus initial jobless claims expected this morning to rise for second week in a row. meanwhile federal reserve not even thinking about raising rates now. fed chair jay powell saying the current economic down torn is the most severe in our lifetime. warning containing covid is essential to protecting our health and the economy. big tech in focus all reporting today, their earnings after the bell, ceo's grilled on capitol hill yesterday ab