shirts and a lot of people you know have jobs keep killing the jobs and food deflating the money francis fox pivot and who claims to be on the left who says we need riots like that in america are dangerous there are an awful lot of people in america that would like to exploit those mistakes equal number that would like to bury them and forget them to people really want to destroy it. well people like clarke pivot. francis i've got death threats from glenn beck mentioning me but he was really well against you and the results seem to been pretty dramatic dramatic can you tell us what happened when beck went after you repeatedly on his t.v. show and on his website. well he had been going after me for months before i even found out about it i don't listen to glenn beck. but. couple of people came to my house to interview me claiming they were students at western michigan university. and. i said ok and i said they could have an hour and then clips from their interview showed up. and breitbart very conservative blog. and i began then to google i googled the names of the students the ostensible stu

so this week's conversation is the great lines i'm joined by francis fox pivot for the past thirty years she's been a professor of political science.

fox's melissa francis with details. reporter: twitter getting a new technology raising concern among users. the social media company will now censor messages on a country by country basis it. comes as twitter expands into new countries. many users across the world are saying twitter's commitment to free speech may be weakening. >> it was seen of one of the few platforms free of any kind of censorship heavily used by users during the arab spring, for instance, and even in russia lately over a protest over the elections. >> what twitter is going to is discrimination and more privacy rules, more or less against human rights and shouldn't be applied to any social media. reporter: but the san francisco-based company says the additional flexibility with the censorship tool will make individual messages remain available to as many people as possible before. when twitter erased a tweet, it disappeared throughout the world, but now a tweet can be taken down in a specific country and still be seen elsewhere. >> it is doing what i

this half hour we'll revisit a conversation with great minds i had just last month with professor francis fox been a professor pivot and has devoted her life to activism on behalf of the poor and working class in america and she's been an outspoken critic of war going back as far as the vietnam war. so this week's conversation is the great lines i'm joined by frances fox pivot for the past thirty years she's been a professor of political science and sociology at the.

the fox business network melissa francis with us now.e of the passengers are really already talking about other legal action. >> not surprising. and 14,000es, that doesn't seem like a lot, right? our litigious society. italy consumer groups jumping on othe bandwagon saying they think they can get something like 150 to maybe $1.3 million for the pain and suffering that these people went through. now, to be clear and to be fair. this is for people who suffered no injury and they are paying for, you know, them getting home and the lost luggage and all that stuff separately. this is just for their suffering. $14,000. looks more traumatic than that to me. >> shepard: i would say. i wonder how this compares to other cruise ship disasters of its kind. >> not surprisingly there is not a lot of precedent. i had to look way back in the 1990s the cruise no nowhere in the gulf of mexico and passengers complained of exploding toilets and brown water, yeah. very disgusting. we don't want to talk about this at dinner time. if you look at the company's

fox news channel. we've been number one for 10 years. top that, huh? there is greta and lou dobbs and lori rothman. melissa francis. is the new by around here. came from that other joint to join us here at fox business. marking a big day, ringing opening bell at the nasdaq. hats off to the folks oaf there. congratulations to us. >> big achievement. terrific day down there. all right. let's keep up the hard work, right? let's keep it going. congressman allen west known for not mincing words. tea party favorite with a fire rye speech in florida. he was there endorsing herman cain or was with herman cain endorsing newt gingrich. there we go. west slammed the president's state of the union address. iraq war veteran getting very heated over planned defense cuts and raising a lot of eyebrows saying nancy pelosi and other dems should get the h, e, double hockey sticks out of the country. bob beckel calling for an apology. >> in my 30 years of politics i never heard anything more disgraceful in my life. i think that allen west hose an apology to a lot of people. martha: the congressman appeared on "fox and friends" just a l