. >> brian: matt taibbi and michael shellenberger were given access by elon musk and they deserve theulk of the credit for the fact we're at this place. which backs up mark zuckerberg's trying to get you again. we don't know what happened with facebook you get on threads you'll no longer know what's going on. >> steve: i just got on threads. >> kayleigh: a lot of talking points. >> brian: saying elon musk is going to make sure the best he can the first amendment's impressed. does anyone think mark zuckerberg the author of sucker bucks to make sure certain districts got money to vote against donald trump in 2020. pull them away from twitter and begin to manipulate again. senator eric schmitt is one of the ags that brought this forward and he talked about, he expected the appeal and talked about what changes now. listen. >> the state department's cancelling meetings, weekly meetings, whatever's happening tlpg with facebook officials and they admitted to having weekly censorship meetings during covid. i mean, this was -- you know, you mention ped the agencies, the cdc tfbi, white house o

meanwhile, here with me is author, investigative journalist math to -- matt taibbi.kerberg? if. >> well, it's an extreme step, you know, contempt of congress. but i think, you know, chairman jordan, he's correct in identifying that there are a lot of indications that the same things that went on at twitter were going on at facebook. in fact, we had in the twitter files joint e-mails that were going from meta or facebook to both twitter and the fbi, for instance, so we mow they were talking about the same kinds of things. so he's right, i think, to look for that same kind of evidence. david: do you think that facebook is still in some way working with government agencies? >> i would imagine so. i would imagine all the platforms are, have some kind of a relationship. there are people, actually, there are lots of indications that facebook was more enthusiastic about cooperating with the government than, say, twitter was for years. so i would think that that's going on, for sure is. and that's extended also to instagram and, you know, everything else in the universe. dav

or what matt taibbi -- by the way, laura, matt taibbi said what we are beginning to uncover here is morenificant than the twitter files. he was one of the primary authors of the twitter files and he has been attacked for. so things he has done to expose this attack on the first amendment. so, yeah, we have that bill and stopping what mr. taibbi and mre censorship industrial complex. now we are figuring out how this complex worked and that's the first step into stopping it. >> laura: well, i think they probably know pretty much what the biden administration doesn't want out there. so, the cat is kind of out of the bag. you don't even have to get an official order anymore. you just -- there can be a wink and a nod. i wouldn't be surprise there is body language being read here. they want us to do this. congressman, on this issue of hunter biden, i know you have been, obviously been all over this, but we're going to ask you the same question we asked senator hawley. how serious is this that the doj was willing to give the president's son a total free pass on criminality, potential criminalit

that's according to new messages released by independent journalist matt taibbi and others. >> the topors to anthony fauci misled congress last week when they claimed that what they were doing was science. the messages show they were engaged in politics, they were responding to what they called higher ups, pressure from their bosses and openly working to deceive reporters. >> shellenberger and gop lawmakers also claim the federal government was working with big tech companies to suppress the lab leak theory, which, sandra, we now know according to several government agencies, could be a likely explanation for how covid started. >> sandra: grady trimble. thank you. >> bill: we went to bed last night and woke up today with tensions soaring with north korea yet again after the rogue regime launched two ballistic missiles. the launch and apparent response to america's di employment of a nuclear sub to the southern part of south korea for the first time in decades. retired general jack keane is with me now. nothing really happens in the hermit kingdom without the approval of beijing. this f

, during matt taibbi's testimony, at the moment he was testifying on censorship and government interferenceith regard to the bidens, the irs was knocking on his door, a personal knock on his door that he'd never received before. the irs is now saying that it's going to end unannounced visits to people's moments. do you think that that is at least one good thing that came out of this testimony? >> yes. i hadn't even previously been aware that the ir are s would just go to americans' moments for unannounced visits. it strikes me as witness intimidation, especially given how this administration wants to finance a lot of its programs through stepped-up irs enforcement, anytime we can remove the heavy hand of government from people's live is the is a good thing. david: jon with, great to see you. appreciate it. >>> well, first it was gas stoves, clothes washers, refrigerators and and air conditioners, now biden's next target is home water heat educationers -- heaters for more government rules. >>> and parents defending education, nicole neily is here on a cnn panelist condemning vp harris for ly

that according to new messages released by independent journalist matt taibbi, and two of their colleaguestists, top advisers to doctor anthony fauci misled congress when they claimed what they were doing was science, the messages show they were engaged in politics, responding to what they called higher ups, pressure from their bosses and openly working to deceive reporters. >> gop lawmakers claim the federal government worked with big tech platforms like facebook, google, and twitter to suppress the lab leak theory on their platforms. we now know that theory according to several government agencies could be legitimate. stuart: thanks very much indeed. there is a huge argument with drug prices and pricing. johnson & johnson is suing the administration. this is about drug pricing. ashley: yes. it is about the constitution. j&j suing the administration over medicare's new powers to cut drug prices, becoming 1/3 big pharma company to challenge the controversial provision in the inflation reduction act but also filed in federal district court in new jersey, argues the medicare negotiations vio

. >> criticizing the address for making a house call to matt taibbi during the 2016 elections, only formernt donald trump had his tax records weeks. his level punished and the obama administration, irs director criticized for auditing only conservative groups greatly albany conservative groups during that time. stuart: thanks very much. russell fry is a member of the house oversight committee, will be questioning this afternoon and he drives me now. it seems the administration is government to protect the biden family. i'm going to hear about the cover-up today? >> i think so, think you have to brave whistleblowers coming forth, for the american people to see, their testimony is that the by fbi testimony released this week that corroborates statements made by the whistleblowers so having them in front of the american people serve great deal of justice. stuart: former president trump ripped into the media trying to bury stories about hunter biden. >> they haven't even got to the bottom of the laptop, they have pictures in there that anybody who goes away for ten years, what happened to hunt

as you recall, the irs showed up at the home of matt taibbi's home on the day he testified before congressn musk flipping the bird. they tossed out the blue bird logo for the new shiny letter x this morning. kelly o'grady has more this morning. obviously he's trying to harmonize with spacex. is this going to fly? >> i like what you did, john. a good time. no longer flying with the bird. he has been telegraphing that he wants to create the everything app. twitter needs help. ad revenue is down 50%. he said this during a discussion on the platform. >> yeah, should have been done a long time ago. sorry it took so long. we're twitting the twitter logo off the building with blow torches. >> this is the new logo. remember the letter x, it's been on about everything that he's touched. x.com was the new name for paypal decades ago. the new ceo shared this. it's an exceptionally thing in life that you get a second chance to make a big impression. twitter changed the way we communicate. now will will transform the global town square. zooming out, sounds like musk is attempting to save the digital to

testifying about what happened with fbi and twitter, they showed up at his house, from the irs, that is matt taibbisure p has mr. shapely been faced with isolated at irs a supervisor in elite squad intbl agents really good at what they do 12 agents, but supervisory structure he hasn't talked to supervisor in six weeks despite trying to reach out update ongoing cases he has so he has been retaliated against continues to be isolated. but, he is strong. he wants to come forward. and understands that this was part of the risk going forward. maria: i mean he had access to all sorts of information you know the oversight committee has been stonewalled trying to get more bank statements trying to understand why the biden family had set up 20 shell companies, were expecting money from foreign nationals that money was going to be shell companies distributed to biden family members. what kind of data has mr. shapley seen to indicate this influence peddling scheme underway. >> well, mooern he has seen a lot of data that came across during investigation one of the big problems is that every time, some investiga

doctor great to have you as always because it's kind of frustrating, matt taibbi posted this articleit on real clear politics and you look at this and what they're saying is all of us, we were told, is there was no decent allowed. you had scientists behind the scenes saying things like, the magazine jeremy talking the language of nature article saying quote would you be willing to change one sentence, edit the sentence from it's unlikely that sars covid two led through laboratory manipulation that it's improbable. it's just kind of frustrating for a lot of americans to know that the public wasn't allowed to debate this but behind the scenes the scientists were all doing the same thing. >> exactly trace, you're absolutely correct. i was astonished and appalled when i read this. what happened to open communications and encouraging discussion. instead we're seeing stifling debate. and from day one there was a lack of transparency and honesty stemming from, you know, the wuhan lab in china. they wouldn't let us have access to the lab, access to the specimens, their lab books, theory rese

we've had michael shellenberger matt taibbi in before, liberal journalists.l were just vicious. but this reached new levels. i mean, i've never seen anything or heard anything quite as shrill, and it's amazing to see a kennedy, this stalwart name of the democratic party, and every democrat -- not one democrat prepared to have a civil exchange with him or the other witnesses in the hearing. and, in fact, as you covered, debbie wasserman schultz moving to close the hearing so that, in the hearing about censorship, robert kennedy jr. would not be able to be heard publicly. it's astonishing. jackie: congressman, for viewers who haven't seen it, we have a snippet from that hearing. let's watch. >> if you want to cut him off of and censor him some somewhere -- more, you're welcome to do it. [laughter] >> that's your job. why don't you threaten the witness so they can not want to be -- >> the time is mine, i'm reclaiming it. please ask the witness -- >> you asked me a question. >> do not censor the witness. >> i'm not censoring the witness. he's still talking -- >>

twitter files journalist matt taibbi and michael shellenberger along with two of their colleagues publishedhe messages. >> these government-funded scientists waged a disinformation campaign, a propaganda campaign aimed at misleading the american people and it worked. >> shellenberger and g.o.p. lawmakers also claim the federal government worked with big tech companies like twitter, facebook, and google to suppress the lab leak theory, a theory that multiple federal agencies now say, gillian, could explain how the pandemic started. >> gillian: pretty stunning policy reversal on wuhan lab funding. grady, thanks so much. coming up next, bret baier investigates whether massive sanctions in place now against the russian and iranian regimes are actually working. first, here's what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. fox 45 out of baltimore. police there secure arrest warrants in the beating death of a maryland dad killed while protecting his son from bullies. 43-year-old christopher wright suffered brain damage after three teens and two adults confronted his 14-yea

and what was revealed by matt taibbi and michael shellenberg and michael weiss outrageous. i have done x, y and z to fix it. instead he said goal was to target other countries. that, i thought, was bad staff work by the senators and congressman. hey, guys, get me some tweets that taibbi came up with and i enwant him to comment directly. i saw instead a lot of speeches. >> steve: to that point, brian, i don't know if you saw jason chaffetz on our air yesterday. but he made the point that between the democrats and the republicans, the democrats on the committee actually they seemed to be more coordinated because they were unified in hammering nonstop donald trump on mar-a-lago and january 6th and things like that. whereas the republicans, jason chaffetz said, you know, they didn't really have a game plan. they didn't really coordinate their line of questions. the questions selection and stuff like that. i think a lot of people who were watching were frustrated because they have listened to so many republicans talk about theories and then yesterday when given the opportunity t

exactly at the heart of this injunction, and if you just flashback to march, remember, journalist matt taibbi michael shellenberger were testifying in those hearings back in march, here's a little bit of what they had to say take a listen. >> the original problem of the internet was it might demock ra ties information globally. free internet would. it's very existence to threat of forms of anti government everywhere. what we found in the files was a sweeping effort to reverse that promise and use machine learning and other tools to turn the internet into an instrument of censorship and social control. unfortunately, our own government appears to be playing a lead role. government officials have been caught repeatedly pushing social media platforms to censor disfavored users and content. often these acts of censorship threaten the legal protection social media companies need to exist. they aren't asking for a national debate over the limits of the first amendment rather creating black lists of disfavored people and then pressuring ca joeling and demanding social media platforms censor deamplif