senator hawley: none. mr. zatko: based upon the policy i read, i do not believe they were in compliance with that policy. senator hawley: zero compliance with their policy. extraordinary. let me ask you about this. that same facebook whistleblower told us a couple years ago now that twitter's content moderation staff routinely kpwhrab brown-waited with content moderators at facebook and google. is that true to your knowledge? do you have information about that? mr. zatko: that would be in a team under counsel. i wouldn't have firsthand knowledge of that. senator hawley: are you aware of any twitter policies that would have prohibited coordination and content moderation between facebook, google, and twitter? mr. zatko: not to the best of my knowledge. senator hawley: it's possible. mr. zatko: yes. senator hawley: let me ask you about this. are you aware of any communications regarding content moderation with twitter staff and the united states government in your time at the company? mr. zatko: i'm familiar with

senator hawley: that's remarkable. i thought you were the former vice president of marketing, strategic operations and analytics at facebook. mr. boland: that's true. hau awe what do you think drove this kind of collaboration where you have facebook becoming to t another committee i sit on that 4,000 engineers at twitter had access to all of the personal information, user data, geolocations of twitter users. is that accurate? mr. boland: so i never met him and he joined the company after i left so i don't know don't kn is accurate. senator hawley: he said all the engineers. you're an engineer. did you have access to data? mr. boland: when i was there i -- senator hawley: did you have access to user data? mr. boland: i was engineer. senator hawley: did you have user data access? mr. access? mr. roetter: i think i could have gotten it. senator hawley: you did have access? mr. roetter: that's probably right. senator hawley: did you access any user data? mr. roetter: no. senator hawley: lots to unpack there. thank you. >>

hawley: yesterday, mr. zatko testified to another committee i sit on, that 4000 engineers at twitter had access to all of the personal information, user data, geo locations of twitter users. is that accurate? mr. roetter: he joined the company after i left, so i do not know if that is accurate. sen. hawley: but you are an engineer. did you have access to user data? mr. roetter: i was the head of engineering for the entire company. sen. hawley: i am looking for a yes or a no. mr. roetter: no. i think i could have gotten it. sen. hawley: if you could get it, that is what we call access. did you ever access any user data? mr. roetter: no. sen. hawley: were you ever aware of twitter engineers dock sing twitter users? mr. roetter: no. sen. hawley: mr. zatko that he saw that been to unpack there. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you for the witnesses for being here today. transparency and accountability, those are the words of the day because we know that social media companies -- i am a computer programmer. how

senator hawley: none. mr. zatko: based upon the policy i read, i do not believe they were in compliance with that policy. senator hawley: zero compliance with their policy. extraordinary. let me ask you about this. that same facebook whistleblower told us a couple years ago now that twitter's content moderation staff routinely kpwhrab brown-waited with content moderators at facebook and google. is that true to your knowledge? do you have information about that? mr. zatko: that would be in a team under counsel. i wouldn't have firsthand knowledge of that. senator hawley: are you aware of any twitter policies that would have prohibited coordination and content moderation between facebook, google, and twitter? mr. zatko: not to the best of my knowledge. senator hawley: it's possible. mr. zatko: yes. senator hawley: let me ask you about this. are you aware of any communications regarding content moderation with twitter staff and the united states government in your time at the company? mr. zatko: i'm familiar with

congress and hoover approved, the highly protectionist smoot-hawley tariff. hoover took solace from its flexible rate provision that permitted the president upon recommendation by the tariff commission to raise or reduce tariffs by as much as 50%. in this way the white house technocrat, he could take tariff making out of politics and adjust rates on a scientific basis. and i don't believe he would have signed the bill without that provision for which he fought hard. now just how destructive the smoot-hawley tariff proved to be remains actually a subject some debate but psychologically it's impending enactment appeared to upset the edifice of confidence that hoover had been building as the congressional struggle over the tariffs reached a climax. the stock market tumbled in what was described as a of liquidation. by mid-june when the new tariff took effect the market had wiped out all of its gains of past seven months. then in the summer of 1930, across much of the midwest and south, worst drought yet recorded in american history ravaged crops of 30 states. mi

hawley: let me start with you, dr. shogan. you have talked throughout today's hearings so far and in your prehearing q&a about how much importance it is to be a nonpartisan leader. if you are confirmed, you will stick politically neutral in your decision-making? dr. shogan: yes. sen. hawley: i was troubled to hear about this article that you wrote published by the american political science association. republican populism, published in june of 2007. you consider this piece to be nonpartisan? dr. shogan: i consider it to be an academic article, a publication of 16, 17 years ago, a scholarly piece. sen. hawley: you right in your paper that to combat allegations of elitism, the recent republican presidents have defined anti-intellectualism. how would you define it? dr. shogan: the ability to speak in common sense terms to americans. sen. burr: -- sen. hawley: you say recent american pop -- presidents, but you cite those that -- the point that republicans are stupid and democrats are intellectual? dr. shogan: absolutely not. the

senator hawley, six minutes. >> thank you for being here, thanks for your testimony. i want to make sure i get this straight you've stated toed and in your report, 4,000 twitter employees are classified as engineers, is that right? >> yes, sir. at the time half of the employees, i believe, there were 7,000 plus full-time employees. got it. and that means that these 4,000ish employees would have had access to live user data all over twitter and access personal information including their live data, have i got that right? >> yes, sir, they would have access to the production environment if they spent the time to meander around and look around and so the large troves of data. >> did you testify early-- i know that twitter has ip locations and they use geo location services based on ip addresses. >> wow, 4,000 employees with access to that data. that's extraordinary. so, those employees would be in a position then if they wanted to to get this information and docs twitter users. >> that's a concern of mine. >> wow, that's a significant concern, 4,000 people with the abili

i've learned a lot from this exchange, extraordinary. >> sean: here's senator hawley with reaction totor, i guess you are transphobic and, according to this professor, opening up trans people to violence by not recognizing them. at no time during that exchange did i see -- you didn't acknowledge that there are people who are transgender. >> you know, here is the modern democrat party today, sean. it is the "you have to say that men can get pregnant, and if you don't say it, then you are a big it, and you are responsible for violence." i mean, that is the party line. let's not forget who invited this witness, she was there was a democrat witness, you didn't see a single democrat disagree with that. in fact, they are all over social media applauding her and saying that's exactly right. it's not exactly right, it's exactly crazy, which is why voters are running screaming away from the democrat party. this is craziness and i tell you, sean, they are so out of touch with america. you can even make this stuff up. >> sean: so when she says to you and i ask you a question, i guess offering yo

hawley says he supports holding hearings to question top justice department officials. >> including therney general merrick garland should resign over this. he should be removed from office. house republican leader kevin mccarthy is promising an investigation that will leave, quote, no stone unturned. if republicans seize control of the house after the midterm election, until then, the former president and department of justice remain locked in a legal battle. both sides have until friday at midnight to submit their proposals, suggesting how they'd like an independent 3rd party to review the documents removed from trump's home. we're asked to believe that a former president who took some boxes with him, that that in massive crime, nobody believes that. but michigan democrat and former cia analyst alyssa's law, ken says the investigation is definitely warranted. the cover sheets on those classified documents some significant classification. right. top secret level of classification. that should be concerning for everybody. she calos republican threats to retaliate. dangerous. i don't thi

i was like, well, this is your job not my job, you know. >> not like the way that met beyoncÉ hawleying. >> she was upset, you know, that there was -- >> nobody's doing anything. >> yes, yeah, none of our family was interviewed. >> it was like they were letting it go. >> exactly. >> but holly had three children to race, alone. police versus corner politics was not exactly uppermost in her mind. to make ends meet, she took on two, sometimes three jobs at the same time. and through herself into coaching her children's little league baseball team. meanwhile, mark kept hounding investigators but getting nowhere. >> made me feel like there was nothing -- >> it made me feel like my brother's case was on the desk of somebody who could care less and was counting down the days to his retirement. >> but the mark was getting nowhere, holly was hearing things not from the police. remember the plant where matt supervised other workers? what was really going on around the powder coating machines? >> coming up -- >> holly and her sister had their own theory about how matt died. >> there were some p

have you seen the tactics and behavior of senator cruz and senator hawley change since january six? that that really briefly but not really. i remember senator cruz staying in a posture in the house. so i can test this or whatever the words were he used having an appropriate number of house members who had to support him. we knew senator hawley had pictures of giving a salute to the demonstrators and then shortly thereafter, as the demonstration was running up, the steps to the security of the police. that is not the way i want a senator to be and i don't care. was democrat or republican and interesting enough that calls me when i talked. we got to go back on the floor and let the american people see where we stand. we had a couple of senators who are going and originally planned to file objection to the electoral college set. we're not we're not we're not going to do that. i i think they realized this has so out of hand. nobody, you know, when we were in this year, they were showing some of the pictures that we hadn't seen a donald trump say should march on the capitol. and i'll be

but senator hawley, take it. we appreciate it. we will follow it closely. with the midterms holding those only 42 days away, biden's border failures are in full focus as democrats are more desperate than i were to distract from biden's failures and of course, desperate to demonize republicans at all cost. get this. a new poll finding a majority of the american people are now supporting sending illegal immigrants to democratic twin cities as border communities in texas and arizona continue to suffer under what is now an undeniable catastrophe caused by joe biden. arizona senator mark kelly that he is a rubberstamp of the entire biden agenda. he voted for every single major piece of legislation backed by biden. he is refused to hold the administration accountable for any of their open border failures. and of course, he is now in election year conversion mode. trying to put tend that he is some sort of moderate like christian seminar. who cares about safety and security that is a complete live. here to explain more republican was a dictated candidate arizona b

caroline hawley, bbc news.isco in county tyrone in northern ireland. lauren bullock, seen here, and morgan bernard and connor currie suffered fatal injuries in the incident outside the greenvale hotel in cookstown in 2019. our ireland correspondent chris pages in cookstown for us. bring us up—to—date and tell us more about what we know on this. it bring us up-to-date and tell us more about what we know on this.- about what we know on this. it was on st patrick's _ about what we know on this. it was on st patrick's night _ about what we know on this. it was on st patrick's night 2019, - about what we know on this. it was on st patrick's night 2019, three i on st patrick's night 2019, three and a half years ago, that hundreds of young people were queueing outside the greenvale hotel in cookstown and what should have been an enjoyable night turned into unspeakable horror. there was a crush, three teenagers lost their lives, morgan bernard and lauren bullock, 17, and connor currie, who was a year younger. there's b

joining me now, missouri senator josh hawley. did it take a new interval republicans like yourself, to wake up to the reality of what corporate america has becon china joined the wt n. >> i think for a long time you had the old republican establishment, the old d.c. establishment that said to the big corporations, we are all for that and the big corporations could do no wrong and what we found and what you've been talking about is the big corporations are increasingly anti-america. increasingly onboard with the woke agenda. at looking at the worst damage that's been done in terms of forcing a woke agenda on the american people and it's the big corporations working with big government. if selling out the workers to china is part and parcel of that. we are not in favor of the multiviral corporations, no more special deals were sweetheart deals, we are in favor of america, we are in favor of the america first economic policy and the american first foreign policy and it means doing what's good for the american worker and also what is

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caroline hawley, bbc news.ng proceedings inside westminster hall now. after hours of queueing and the chatter of the crowd, the atmosphere suddenly changes, when people arrive here in westminster hall, the vast medieval space is silent and from the top of the stone steps, people see their queen's coffin for the first time, raised high on a plinth, draped with the royal standard and draped with the royal standard and draped by four candles and a rotation of gas. the cabinet ministers havejoined rotation of gas. the cabinet ministers have joined this afternoon, both of them members of the king's bodyguard and... we would like to remind — the king's bodyguard and... we would like to remind you _ the king's bodyguard and... we would like to remind you that _ the king's bodyguard and... we would like to remind you that the _ the king's bodyguard and. .. we would like to remind you that the bbc- the king's bodyguard and... we would like to remind you that the bbc is - like to remind you that the bbc is offering a con

hawley wanted to straighten this out and asked if a biological man could have a baby.hat's not a question you're allowed to ask, apparently. professor bridges said that line of questioning is trans-phobic and encourages violence. that was her answer. that's not free speech. what on earth is going on at our universities these days? three generations ago mario savio was arrested for demanding free and open political discussion at berkeley. his free speech movement won the day. today free speech is losing. you can't ask if a biological man can have a baby? democracy takes a hit if you cannot speak your mind. third hour of "varney" starts right now. ♪ ♪ stuart: miranda devine is with us this morning, thank goodness. what do you think mario savio would have to say about the state of free speech in america today, miranda? >> look, stuart, i think it's pretty sad. this is something that america bo all other -- above all other countries has safe guarded with its first amendment to the constitution. america has always been the country where free speech has blossomed, and that's

here is josh hawley today describing what he sees as his most pressing concern about the whole searcht mar-a-lago, and hint, the word nuclear is not in it. >> i have a lost concerns about. >> it the fbi raiding the home of the likely presidential nominee in 2024, the former president of the united states, and particularly as we learn more and more about what's going on with the fbi. and i got to tell you, i mean maybe there is some valid explanation for why the fbi raided mar-a-lago but if there is, we haven't heard it. >> we haven't? his colleague, texas senator and member of the intelligence committee john cornyn chimed in, i know the presidential records act makes these not his records. i think what attorney merrick garland decided to do was heavy handed and frankly nye neve. what he's done is create a precedent that the department of justice can execute a search warrant against a former president when it is not clear what is available. >> it is not what is clear when he said alternative means, when they were trying to retrieve the documents a year and a half before the execution o

senator josh hawley is demanding answers from the fbi and department of justice after the arrest of an pennsylvania. hawley wrote a better to ag merrick garland and he says the reports are essentially shocking given that your office has so far turned a blind eye to the epidemic of violence across the country by pro-abortion extremists. mark houk was arrested friday, charged with assaulting a planned parenthood escort last year. the s.w.a.t. team showed up at the door, pointed guns at mark and the family, he was arrested in front of his seven kids. the fbi is disputing the claim. i've heard it now from several people including y utah senator mike lee who was on sunday morning futures on sunday. your thoughts, amber. >> mark houk was he defending his child from someone that was verbally assaulting him. i don't think any american would begrudge him for doing that. the case was dismissed at the local level. it was after that, that the fbi decided to get involved. this is a clear attempt at intimidation of pro life voices. the biden administration is sending a message that you can illegall

and also by sarah raynsford, former russian correspondent who spent many years there and caroline hawleyt with you, sarah. this is obviously a huge escalation in terms of the response from the ukraine and the west. this in terms of the response from the ukraine and the west.— ukraine and the west. this is definitely _ ukraine and the west. this is definitely rushed _ ukraine and the west. this is definitely rushed and - ukraine and the west. this is definitely rushed and this - ukraine and the west. this is definitely rushed and this is l ukraine and the west. this is i definitely rushed and this is not the timescale vladimir putin had in mind and there were certainly going to be referenda and the process would happen at least for the two regions of the donbas but it's much bigger and is happening much faster because russia is on the back foot in ukraine. vladimir putin really needs a win, he needs something from this. it does not need to be defeated but this is him escalating because he is in a bad spot and it is a massive escalation.— is a massive escalation. quite a different atmosphe

senator hawley. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr.cebook has said in the past that it's their position as a private company, you're not subject to the first amendment. i assume that hasn't changed, is that right? >> that's correct, senator. >> but the united states government is subject to the first amendment. i think we can probably all agree on. hopefully we can. hopefully that's still true in this country. is it appropriate for facebook to work with the united states government to avoid the first amendment, help the u.s. government avoid the first amendment? >> senator, we do think it is sometimes appropriate to be in contact with government and with government organizations. >> to help them avoid the first amendment? >> senator, i'm not sure what specifically you're referring to. >> well, let me ask you this, do you think it's appropriate to work with the united states government to target private individual's speech that is constitutionally protected? >> senator, i'm not aware of that. >> well, let me educate you. on july 16th, 2

caroline hawley, bbc news.in moscow. earlier in the year, the board of lukoil — russia's second biggest company — called for the conflict in ukraine to be brought to a close as soons as possible. mr maganov is the latest in a series of high—profile business executives to die in mysterious circumstances — including several energy oligarchs. earlier, olga ivshina from the bbc russian service gave us this update on the story. russian officials have confirmed the death but there is no further detail, so lukoil has public statements saying that a top official has died following a long illness and also in several reports there is notice that he was admitted to the hospital because of issues with his heart. as you rightly mentioned in march of this year, a bunch of lukoil top officials published a statement saying that they are very much concerned with, as they called it, conflicts in the ukraine and definitely the mood in the industry is very depressive but mr ravil maganov wasn't involved in politics. he is a very f

missouri republican senator josh hawley and texas republican senator ted cruz have already given the bill a thumbs down. i think that's not in the constitution. the constitution leaves this issue. states. >> that's always been the case for 200 plus years. this bill is not solving any real problem. >> but it is causing a very significant problem is in particular, deeply harmful to religious liberty. >> democrats want this to be a standalone bill but are open to the idea of incorporating it into a government funding bill. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell says that will cause more problems. >> i think the key to getting to see are gone with the least amount of controversy. is for it to be clean. >> now many lawmakers are still optimistic that they can keep this bill as a stand-alone bill and they hope to have this pass before the end of the month. reporting live in washington. i'm basil, john. >> all right, basil, thanks for breaking that all down for us. well, back here at home and alameda county sheriff's deputy is in custody, accused of >> shooting and killing 2 people. investi

caroline hawley, bbc news.et. a year ago, it was worth $130 billion — today it is valued at less than $20 billion. from new york, sameer hussein. since the beginning — from new york, sameer hussein. since the beginning of— from new york, sameer hussein. since the beginning of the _ from new york, sameer hussein. 5 “ice: the beginning of the year, snaps and plummeted more than 75%, like so many other countries, it's grappling with some tough economic conditions as high inflation persists and the cost of borrowing will go even higher. oradd cost of borrowing will go even higher. or add revenues have taken a big hit — and that's why the company has decided to cut around 1200 staff, which should save it about $500 million annually. now it's not the only cost—cutting measure snap is embarking on. it's cancelling original shows, is embarking on. it's cancelling originalshows, inapt is embarking on. it's cancelling original shows, inapt games and other projects. in a company memo, the c0 other projects. in a company m

billions of dollars of student loan debt and yet he did it anyway, missouri republican senator josh hawleyin iowa, senator chuck grassley say they welcome lawsuits that would stop the plan before it goes into effect this winter. this would really be a tremendous win. >> for the fight against inflation be a tremendous win. >> the on fairness center brings to people that don't go to college to pay for people to go to college. but the white house contends the president is on solid legal ground and is still encouraging americans to apply for forgiveness next month. illinois senator tammy duckworth says republicans are wrong to try and undercut this. really. why would they want to keep this financial burden on the backs of so many young graduates and so many middle class families, but not all democrats are coming to the president's defense. i just don't think the band-aid approach works. michigan democratic congresswoman elissa slotkin says it's up to congress, not the white house to decide how to help students. the legislative branch is the one that appropriates money. >> and this was a decisi

samantha hawley: it's only a jump across the water o;o;ó7ó7 from great britain to no, but some wayst's broken out again. violence not seen for decades is back on the streets. northern ireland should be celebrating its centenary as part of the united kingdom, but people are angry.

caroline hawley, bbc news.t brought allegations of torture and rape in re—education camps to light. thank you for being with us. this report is pretty damning, pretty critical. but go through the findings. —— talk us through the findings. -- talk us through the findinus. ~ , ., findings. well, it is about oppression _ findings. well, it is about oppression of _ findings. well, it is about oppression of china's - findings. well, it is about. oppression of china's uyghur findings. well, it is about _ oppression of china's uyghur muslims community. it has... of sexual violence and the art can be enforced disappearances being a direct consequence of the means by which the detention programme has been operated on this has been exacerbated by a pattern of threats of reprisals and victims of their relatives inside and outside hsing jang. it says the onus is on the whereabouts of missing family members. —— in xinjiang. we had spoken to people who manage to get out of the country and their reports were quite disturbing,

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this is senator hawley, the senator from missouri. i don't say this often on the senate floor, but i agree with senator hawley's question here, and tomorrow he and every member of this body will have a chance to vote to say that, yes, we should know about what foreign entities and interests are spending money in our elections elections, because there is all sorts of money, in fact about $300 billion a year in foreign money being laundered through our whole economy, and we don't know how much of that these days is flowing into elections. as president biden said, we need to pass this to do that. and if you look at some of the titles of this bill that senator whitehouse has put forward, they're pretty simple. there are whole sections of the bill to get at the question of foreign money in our elections. i don't know why anyone is going to oppose that. so, madam president, here we are 12 years later after that vote in 2010 that got 59 out of 100 votes. it would have had 60 except senator kennedy passed away. and our republican colleagues w

senator josh hawley, you are recognized. >> mr. rasicot, i would like to start with you, i want to ask you about one of the most potent drugs that are crossing our border and flooding into my state, unfortunately just about every state in the country. that is fentanyl. in 2021, ccpcs more than 10,000 pounds of mental in missouri where i am. from up to hundred and 4%. about 80,000 people between 18 and 45 died of fentanyl overdoses. -- just in the last two years. a number of members of congress have called for doesn't meeting fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. senator markey has talked about, it among others. the florida attorney generally just yesterday urged the administration. i wonder if you have a view on this, designating fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction? >> thank you for the question. dhs recognizes the legality of fentanyl. it also recognizes the potential for it to be weaponized. and from a cwmd perspective, we recognize in our broader reference, where we work on chemical warfare agents, that said, any declar

white men rifling through senate papers, then president trump and efforts by republican senators josh hawleycruz to overturn the electoral college vote, pose for selfies, and stand on the senate dais for a prayer led by qanon conspiracy theorist jacob chansley. this is an extended excerpt from the video filmed by you luke mogelson on january 6. amy: we are going to leave it here. talking about cnn. before that, you see the qanon theorist jacob chansley take off his horns on the dais to lead prayer. i was wondering if you could talk, luke mogelson, about how you are accepted by them to film and in the midst of them? did you climb to the window to get there? then talk about them praying, not to mention attacking, everything they saw? >> as far as how i was able to record that video, it was surprisingly easy, actually, just because so many of the rioters themselves were taking selfies and filming. there was a real performative quality to the attempted insurrection in which i really had the sense that they were enacting a kind of demonstration of dominance over their adversary for one another an