. >> here to tell us more about yesterday's announcement is laura weiss from cq roll call. yesterday's announcement is laura weiss. thank you. guest: good morning. thank you for having me. host: we appreciate you getting up for us this morning. it took several hours to announce a decision and the boat was a long path -- the boat was along party lines. can you tell us some of the behind the scenes and points of tensions during the debate yesterday? guest: basically the committee voted along party lines to go into this closed session to discuss the tax returns and what they would be doing with them. we know that democrats's argument has been that this is about a presidential audit system of the irs. one of the things that democrats said yesterday is because president trump did not release his tax returns publicly, and that was the first time since nixon that a president had not done that? , they wanted to understand the system of private scrutiny. republicans argued that this was about politics. they argued this would set a dangerous precedent in terms of disclosing president

here to tell us about yesterday's announcement is laura weiss. thank you. guest: good morning.hank you for having me. host: we appreciate you getting up for us this morning. it took several hours to announce a decision and the boat was a long path -- the boat was along party lines. can you tell us some of the behind the scenes and points of tensions during the debate yesterday? guest: basically the committee voted along party lines to go into this closed session to discuss the tax returns and what they would be doing with them. we know that democrats's argument has been that this is about a presidential audit system of the irs. one of the things that democrats said yesterday is because president trump did not release his tax returns publicly, and that was the first time since nixon that a president had not done that? , they wanted to understand the system of private scrutiny. republicans argued that this was about politics. they argued this would set a dangerous precedent in terms of disclosing presidents information. it was really divided along party lines. one of the things r

. >> laura: boy, was he right. according to weiss twitter deemed his research so dangerous that it secretly placed him on a transblacklist which prevented his tweets from tweeting. dr. bhattacharya will join us exclusively in a few moments. remember, we just learned a few weeks back that this was all occurring at the same time dr. anthony fauci's daughter worked as an engineer at twitter. and other names listed include prominent conservatives such as charlie kirk and dan bongino. since the angle was pretty much the first national platform to slam the lockdowns i suspect my own name will pop up on some suppression list eventually. i hope so during the spring of 2020 i myself noticed and i believe i said it, that the reach of my own tweets seemed to be oddly declining. but frankly, i think it was obvious to all of us and one of the many questions lingering tonight is whether there was any contact between public health officials and twitter executives that encouraged censorship, of course, for public safety. of course, when any of us qu

laura: "no real proof of." what held up is legitimate public debate and scientific discourse and there's plenty of evidence and it was worse, by the way, than mere suppression. toward the end of weissread tonight it becomes clear that some within twitter leadership develop something like a god complex. in early 2021, the "global head of trust" and safety unwittingly fingered dorsey for approving of the censorship. and even used the word of what integrity" to describe what they were doing. we got jack on board with him lamenting this for a civic integrity in the near term but we are going to make a more robust case to get him in a repertoire of policy recommendations especially for other policy domains. what does that mean? twitter's mission originally was to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly without barriers. but we see now without a doubt that all of that was just a marketing campaign. because barriers were an integral part of their strategy to control and dominate the public square. now imagine if elon musk has never bought twitter, would never know anything about any of this. it costs $44 billion. but now we just see how corrupt, how cut