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with me now is glenn greenwald, author of the book "securing democracy" and, glen, you said something rather extraordinary to me to tucker last night. you were talking about the way dianne feinstein and other powerful politicians who are supposed to be in charge of democratic oversight of the nsa and their like, are actually under surveillance by these agencies themselves and so are actually scared of them. >> yeah, this has been going on since the end of world war ii national security state was created on purpose to be outside of the realm of democratic accountability. the argument was we need to do this deter threat no longers exists soviet communism. even then they were constantly interfering in domestic politics. j. edgar hoover had dossiers. they were petrified of him. he could do whatever he want. after dwight eisenhower left after 8 years no leftist he chose one topic to warn the country about which was he called the military industrial complex it was growing so rapidly it was becoming more powerful even than elected leaders and that was before the vietnam war. before 9/11 and

glenn greenwald, thank you very much. go check out his book.order crisis getting worse by the day. drugs pouring in. the border patrol saw more action than they have seen in 21 years last month. they have seen migrants crossing from all over the world. >> i will tell you what, it's been nonstop down here. we have another group of haitians that just arrived at the del rio border. this morning we had a group of 250. monday we mad a group between 300 and 400. these are not just the northern triangle countries vice president harris says she wants to focus on. there have been haitians, ghana, and india. they are coming from all over the place on top of cubans, venezuelans. the word is out that now is the time to come to the border. we have hundreds showing up every day. this is just one spot in del rio. this isn't even the busiest part of the border. it's not slowing down from the summer heat like some thought it would. some said maybe it's seasonal migration. vice president harris said during her tour to the border that extreme progress is being ma

listen to what glenn greenwald had to say about the government and big tech teaming up. >> four timesmocrats have summoned the ceos of twitter, google and facebook to appear before them and explicitly threaten them saying if you don't start censoring what we regard as 8 speech and misinformation you will suffer our legal and regulatory punishment. it is really a merger of state and corporate power which ironically is the classic definition of fascism. >> reporter: josh howley is no stranger to pushing back against big tech, his letters to mark zuckerberg and jack dorsey demanding answer saying, quote, his casual admission of collusion between the state and corporations that monopolize the flow of information is shocking, he requested a full account of social media content flagged by the biden administration. what they asked to be removed and what was removed, follows a trail of contradictory comments from health officials like doctor anthony fauci throughout the pandemic, fauci went back and forth on masks and herd immunity as well as working with facebook to downplay the theory that

[laughter] >> pete: also here tonight glenn greenwald author of securing democracy. enn, thank you very much for being here. i know none of this surprises you, but how embarrassed must facebook executives be when they purport to be, you know, they have to go to cocktail parties somewhere with their fellow leftist, the right seen as right wing commentators most popular on facebook. of course, they have to do something about that, right? >> i think the point though that lara just made with you and that you made in your monologue is the crucial one that i hope everyone understands. i have been trying to make this point for well over a year now which is a lot of people think that this censorship is coming from executives of facebook, google, and twitter, which really isn't true. they set out to create a company that wouldn't have to arbitrate censorship. >> pete: that's right. >> they want as many people as possible using their platforms. the reason this started happening because in particular, journalists, liberal journalists began shaming them over the content that they

glenn greenwald, great to see you tonight, thank you.there's been something missing from this show, you probably noticed it, we've noticed it every week. mark steyn. is no idea where he's been. he's missed a lot of big stories, he's been brooding on them and he will tell us what he thinks when we see him in about 3 minutes. we will be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: everywhere we've gone in the past several months, grocery stores, airports, soulcycle studio -- just kidding -- but basically everywhere in public people come up and they say one thing. "where is mark steyn? your show is great but mark steyn, we long for mark steyn." and honestly we had the same question, where is mark steyn? not really clear but the good news is he's back. dare we ask him where he's been? mark steyn, it is so nice to see you again and i'm not -- because i really believe in propriety and privacy, i have to ask, are you following the news? >> yes, i have been, tucker. don't worry if you don't know where i've been the last couple of months, the nsa is going to b

and in a moment, we are joined by glenn greenwald to expose

information to threaten you and control you, this is a huge problem for the country and yet outside of glenn greenwaldis is a huge problem for all of us they made excuses for the nsa they said you must've been e-mailing and threatening foreign actors i want the e-mails when i want to, i'm a journalist and i'm an american, the front of your business you think of committing a crime, then charge me with it and if i'm not committing a crime, please leave me alone. maria: the politicizing of the government agencies is out of control from the nsa to the department of defense to the irs, do you think the nsa is doing this on their own or is it being directed by the biden administration. >> i do not know, here's what i know i know it on direct authority that the nsa routinely gives information on american citizens to the justice department and fbi which then uses its intel division, that is a legal or not allowed to spy on american citizens that law has been on the books for many times and from our potential enemies people who threaten the united states not from american citizens but it's routine i got this f

glenn greenwald is an independent journalist, written an awful lot about this topic, thank you so much coming on. you were once called paranoid and i have been too. i don't think you can be paranoid enough about what is this? >> i think it's really important and i'm glad you started the show talking about the hunter biden laptop story because that for me is the original sin. i really regard that is the most egregious act of censorship in the last decade is not my lifetime. "the new york post" got hold of huge numbers of documents revealing serious questions not about hunter, but about joe biden. twitter banned any attempt to post the link on its platform. facebook monopoly said they would algorithmically suppress the story so they barred americans from hearing about reporting from a laptop. we talk all the time about how china is so tyrannical because they restrict the internet now talking about how cuba is so oppressed because they don't allow them access to the internet. that's what was done meant together with the corporate media based on a lie by the cia censor the internet and joe

glenn greenwald, thank you for clarity as always. >> could to be with you tucker. >> tucker: a lot goingnd the country and will bring you another snapshot, los angeles bringing back and doormat mandates. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: the city of los angeles has announced it is bringing back indoor >> tucker: the city of los angeles has announced it will bring back indoor mask mandates even for people who have been vaccinated. >> masking indoors must become a normal practice by all regardless of vaccination status so we can stop the level of transmission we are currently seeking. >> tucker: it so it doesn't make a ton of sense, and the l.a. county sheriff a sheriff has announced he will not enforce the mandate that youte just heard, and that does make sense because it's not rooted in science.? how do we know this? back in may the director of the cdc rochelle walensky said that the vaccinated people don't need to wear masks. >> we are asking people to be honest with themselves, if they are vaccinated and not wearing a mask, they are safe. if they are not vaccinated, they are not safe. >> tucker: so the e

. >> pulitzer prize winning and independent journalist glenn greenwald. the biggest shock, that they use the social media companies, the the media's to be whistling past the graveyard on this. your response. >> the model just weeks before the election the silicon valley giant united band reporting done by the new york post, authentic documents about the biden family and the media didn't raise any concerns, they supported, send a signal the biden administration once in power could use that model of suppressing information off of the internet with very little objection from the people who are supposed to defend free expression and the thing that is so amazing is even if you're somebody who isn't incredibly disturbed by the ideas that the government is instructing social media companies what should or shouldn't be allowed to be on the internet these are the people least competent to judge what is misinformation, they spent a year saying the theory of covid lab leak in wuhan was a crazy conspiracy theory and now they say it is highly plausible, the same peopl

it was founded by glenn greenwald and of course now they are busy covering it up and tearing it all in, instead of foiaing our foia request -- you want to wonder what the nsa is doing? that might occupy your time, that might be a virtuous thing to do. it does not occur because of course they support him and his successes. jonathan turley is a law professor at george washington university and knows a lot about the stuff. thanks so much for coming on. now i remember the foia request from the intercept is a lot easier because there's nothing classified that they need to respond to so it doesn't really explain why they filed it in the first place. if you are the intercept and you have some creepy billionaire paying the bills then why not get to the bottom of what the nsa is doing? has it occurred to anyone? >> apparently not a number of people, who have remained relatively silent, that you r would expect to be raising questions. i just testified under the house judiciary committee under the surveillance of reporters andndt was one of the few times in recent memory that there was bipartisan

and in a moment, we are joined by glenn greenwald to expose what we know about what our government isng to us. but first tonight, good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." last week democrats in new york city voted for a new mayor. the end of de blasio era. new york is a one-party state with exotic esperanto speakers in new york city so primary effectively the same as the general election. that is the vote. in new york part of some battles, all the bickering s between different shades of corrupt left-wingers. in some way, it would be easier to get elections done. but you would be wrong. eight days later, we still have no idea who the next mayor of new york will be. all votes are in.ay they have all been counted supposedly. the problem is no one in charge can do math. in addition, it's the main stumbling block. it is hard to overstate just how embarrassing this is. in brazil, a poor country where a lot of people have far less than the homeless do in new york city, the latest national election took a total of four hours to tally and added up all the votes and then announced

pulitzer prize-winning journalist glenn greenwald tweeted "the white house is admitting that they areists of people who they claim are posting content they regard as problematic and that constitute misinformation and are demanding facebook remove them. this is authoritarianism." where is the outrage? for the biden fans out there, are you excited for a possible future republican president to do this? with increasing frequency, social media companies have sought to suppress content they don't like, often under the guise of stopping the spread of misinformation or to avoid the incitement of violence, and by picking winners and losers, often based on nothing more than political ideology, the tech titans have the ire of lawmakers, and today's revelation proved to be a tipping point. >> i just think that this kind of coordination between big government and the big monopoly corporation, boy, that is scary stuff and it really is censorship. >> hawley said it is actions like today that are key to -- calling into question of facebook as a clearly private enterprise when it is acting on behalf o

this is a towering conflict of interest as glenn greenwald tweeted about this weekend.s is by far silicon valley tech stocks. 75% of the pelosi stock trading over the last two years has been in big tech. your thoughts? francis: yeah. so material nonpublic information sort of is a big deal for the sec, insider trading. while they don't appear to have done anything illegal, i think it's a good time to look at what the laws are governing this. this is not getting as much attention as a kelly loaf letter's situation got. potentially conversations could take place or of winks and nods, i'm not of saying they did that. there's no proof of that. but it's just very bad with the optics. they they should have third parties managing this money. it is curious about how people get so wealthy and they win these trades. a lot of us spend a lot of time doing this and we may not have the success that nancy pelosi's husband has. however, the optics, why do people not trust government? i think this is a larger issue and i think that this is -- this, whether it's hunter biden, people are n