america's john hardy reports. the twitter hit list continues the social media site has permanently suspended more than $70000.00 accounts accused of promoting conspiracy theories or violent rhetoric including most prominently banning donald trump from the platform friday concluding his tweets constituted a risk to public safety and could potentially lead to more violence in the wake of these efforts twitter stocks tumbled as much as 12 percent monday and continued to fall today the crackdown has drawn iron criticism from some republican lawmakers who say twitter is attacking the president's right to free speech and u.s. lawmakers aren't alone a spokesman for german chancellor angela merkel said chancellor merkel criticized twitter is trying to ban arguing legislators not private companies should decide on free speech and expression regulations european union commissioner terry britton called the chaos on capitol hill the quote $911.00 moment of social media writing in an op ed for politico that by banning donald t

john hardy was tight johns to continue to crack down then on the president and he and spoke to a panel of guests on whether they've now become simply too powerful. they just won an election they're going to see how far they can push this this is a stress test to see how far the law will go how long how much people will tolerate and are going to go as far as they can because drunk with power like it in gorge to kick that is filled with blood just can't get enough of this so where it ends who knows they know which way the wind is blowing donald trump is no longer going to be in the white house almost all of these companies face antitrust suits that are going to be decided by the biden department of justice and so now there is going to be less of a priority to maybe make these arguments internally that donald trump and his account should be protected but these are self interested actors it is over years that they are now controlling pretty much the the entire communications system all over the wall which is unprecedented but we are going to see a police some backlash because it will be a

john hardy earlier we spoke to former u.s. army captain roger hill hussein's the additional vetting of troops is on warranted i think it's a form. of censorship this is just a step towards that for troops and i think it's just a prequel to. what we will see with this new by the ministry if if we know that these patriots who swore to take an oath just like i did for the 13 years that i served to support defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic . what do they have to be afraid of and we also we all swore an oath to do so. why the loss of trust in that at this point in time. ok moving me program or no apple is under pressure to ban the increasingly popular messaging app telegram a campaign group is suing the tech giant for failing to remove telegram from its store claiming the service is being used to spread extremist content telegram currently is the preferred see white nationalist communications channel fanning anti semitic anti black incitement during the current wave of protests across america the coal

america correspondent john hardy reports. we are at the corner of 14th street and ask and we are just away from the national mall the national mall is basically all this area is what's called the red zone it's in the d.c. metro area it is all locked down the streets the bridges the tunnels it's been like this for basically a week but it's really over the last 24 hours you know the amount of security the amount of intensity has ratcheted up you can see just yesterday when we were out here as i mentioned earlier it was pretty quiet couple media people like myself out here doing reports but now there's actually national guard members troops standing on the street you know information and that's the case behind me here you see the white tent that's one of the many checkpoints the way this works is in the red zone all the streets you have to go through checkpoints and that's already happening in a lot of these checkpoints in fact my photographer rode 17 miles incredibly from his house this morning he wasn't allowed to bring his bi

service members are routinely extreme or extremist connections however are to america's correspondent john hardy reports from d.c. . so we're at the corner 14th street and street just just down the just south of here is the national mall so basically all of this area has been shut down the streets the bridges the tunnels as we get closer to on the ration day and the fencing that you see behind me right there this is throughout the area basically every street has this fencing up and if you follow me as i walk out on the street there are no vehicles only security vehicles only police vehicles but just over my shoulder here as you look south you see the concrete barriers and then you see a white tent well in order to get through into this area you have to go through various checkpoints along the way on the major surface roads here on the major streets you have to show your i.d.'s in some cases they're checking bags i didn't have that issue when i came from my hotel which by the way is full of national guard members i'm not going to say which one for security reasons but that's really the case here

pledging to get to work amid pressure to pass the next stimulus package as soon as possible archies john hardy has the latest from the national mall. was a pivotal moment in america's history with the transition of power on a cold windy but beautiful day certainly much more subdued and scaled back event because of the covert 1000 pandemic generally in past inaugurations the national mall behind me would be full of people this year it's full of flags as far as those in attendance for the inauguration.

have been removed from duty 2 of them for possible links to right wing extremist groups artie's john hardy has been following the buildup in washington. we're at the corner of 4th all story. and we're just for national or national was basically all this area is what's called the red zone . in the d.c. metro area it is all locked down the streets the bridges the tunnels it's been like this for basically a week but it's really over the last 24 hours you know the amount of security the amount of intensity has ratcheted up you can see just yesterday when we were out here as i mentioned earlier it was pretty quiet couple media crews people like myself out here doing reports but now there's actually national guard members troops standing on the street you know information and that's the case behind me here you see the white tent that's one of the many checkpoints the way this works is in the red zone all the streets you have to go through checkpoints and you get to the national mall down the road in the distance here it increases with the amount of security intensity so presumably tomorrow we'll

with the unprecedented 25000 national guard troops are in washington to maintain security auntie's john hardy was following the inauguration ceremony. in past inaugurations during i guess you say a normal inauguration there'd be hundreds of thousands if not more people behind me instead there are flags so obviously the coded pandemic we knew this was going to be a much scaled back and smaller and much more subdued affair because of the cove in 1000 pandemic but then add in what happened january 6th and the intense security the red zone through you know around the national mall and around the capitol that massive security perimeter of the 25000 national guard troops but nonetheless joseph r. biden giving a speech about a 20 minute speech a message underscoring unity in america perhaps one of the most divisive and divided times in this country's history saying that america or democracy is precious democracy is valuable this is a day about democracy not about the candidate and that despite the events on january 6th democracy has prevailed jennifer lopez saying also lady gaga you know sing the na

correspondent john hardy has more. the twitter hit list continues the social media site has permanently suspended more than $70000.00 accounts accused of promoting conspiracy theories or violent rhetoric including most prominently banning donald trump from the platform friday concluding his tweets constituted a risk to public safety and could potentially lead to more violence in the wake of these efforts twitter stocks tumbled as much as 12 percent monday and continued to fall today the crackdown has drawn iron criticism from some republican lawmakers who say twitter is attacking the president's right to free speech and u.s. lawmakers aren't alone a spokesman for german chancellor angela merkel said chancellor merkel criticized twitter's trunk ban arguing legislators not private companies should decide on free speech and expression regulations european union commissioner terry britton called the chaos on capitol hill the quote $911.00 moment of social media writing in an op ed for politico that by banning donald trump

john hardy r.t. . joining me now to go further in depth on what we can expect from the next president and of course how the markets will react are boom bust co-host christine and professor richard wolffe host of economic update and author of the sickness is this a step professor i'll start with you here. where the biden administration is pushing for what they call the american rescue plan which would cost $1.00 trillion dollars and include another round of stimulus checks state and local government aid and an increase in the federal minimum wage to $15.00 an hour is that enough to rescue the american economy at this point. well to give you be honest answer that i wot i want to preface it by saying this is a much better program that anything i'm on the books for the trumpet ministration a lot don't want to shortchange that but to be honest in an answer i think the level of our problems one of the worst economic pressures in our history coming together with one of the worst public there's extra's in our

major championship tournament next year a move that reportedly gutted the president for boom bust john hardy. continuing with our tech conversation what's up rival figure the encrypted messaging app soft 7500000 downloads last week a 4200 percent surge from the previous week now shares in signal have also soared well that's because mistaken investors put their money in a separate company called signal advance it's a micro-cap technology stock and it trades on the over the counter market it's hard to as high as $70.85 on monday from the 67th just before a tweet by you on musk last thursday that tweet encouraged users to move to signal as a secure way of messaging well joining me now to discuss been with co-host investigators want to be tucker editorial director of the american institute for economic research ben let's start with you what was a tweet by you on musk that triggered. you know it's pretty simple it was a good signal that's all it was. essentially say move to these other messaging apps that are encrypted and are safer you mentioned over 7000000 new downloads signal since last week