matt taibbi. but i seen the light and -- i'm so sorry. oh, matt taibbi. it's true oh, please believe me. i'm sorry. >> yes. >> is that david bowie? >> that was -- that was gene. >> that was very david bowie esque gene. he he never heard that song before. >> i am touched. >> back to this topic which seems like a million years ago. do you think that was good advice? >> well, i think if you don't know how to talk to girls because you are too online, talking to a robot probably isn't going to fix the problem. >> yes. >> you know, i kind of second walter's thoughts on this. if you want to learn how to talk to girls, probably -- you know, getting instruction from a guy who spends his whole day in front of a screen is not the way to go. send these people to italy for three hours, right? >> that's true. >> come back and they'll know something. >> in exchange dating program where they send to you places where men still talk to women. talk to women constantly. exactly. this should be taught by construction workers. >> and mick jagger. >> and mick jagger. >> oh, my

matt taibbi was the first person musk brought in. did you come in with any degree of skepticism?n here, what, was he using you in some way? >> of course i worried about that. >> jacoby: yeah. >> of course i worried, is he, is he using me? but what i decided from the beginning was, i want to look at the material. if the stuff in there looks like it can be confirmed, i'm just going to focus on that. and i'm not going to worry about his motivations as long as i feel like the stuff in the stories is, is right. ♪ ♪ >> jacoby: taibbi and the team combed through thousands of company emails and internal communications. they started publishing a series of controversial stories known as the twitter files. >> in the words of elon musk, "here we go." (phone buttons clicking) he alerted his 119 million followers to a long thread called the twitter files. (tweet posts) >> twitter files. >> twitter files. >> twitter files. >> twitter files. >> jacoby: most major news organizations were skeptical of the twitter files. >> potentially what has been presented is selective. >> twitter employees knew

let's bring in journalist matt taibbi, reported big tech censorship. we had this massive attack that you reported and covered on free speech and america just slugged its shoulders. what do you make of this? >> you noll, trace, i'm actually not sure that that's 100% the case. i think people actually do care quite a lot about this issue. the only segment of american society that really doesn't care about it is the main stream press. the people who should care about it the most because it most directly effects their livelihoods and, you know, and their professions. but there has been a virtual blackout on this issue when we started covering twitter file stories, no matter what we covered, whether it was about, you know, censorship on the left or the right, they ignored it. and this historic case that is going towards the supreme court, in addition to some others, they should be getting huge amount of coverage and they are not which is a bit of a mystery, frankly. >> and the reason i brought this up, matt, because there are two polls that caught my eye, on

thanks, matt taibbi, studio audience. i life you america. >> trace: it's 11:00 p.m. on the east coast, 8:00 in los angeles, and this is america's late news. fox news at night. and breaking tonight, first they were deplorables, then ear redeemables, hillary clinton says trump voters are part of a cult and need to be deprogrammed. kevin cork is live with more on hillary's brand new attack on half of the country. >> operate he incredible stuff. good evening, trace. it's cringe worthy or spot on analysis depending on your political perspective that is of course depending how you view secretary clinton's musings. some people they were equal parts hair racing or hand racing depending how you see it suggesting that supporters of former president donald trump are cult members, who require formal deprogramming, well, that was -- well, it was something. >> and when do they break with him? because at some point, you know, maybe there needs to be a formal deprogramming of the dolt members, but something needs to happen. >> well, clinton's comments infamous basket of deplorables

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. >> thank you, walter kern, matt taibbi, kennedy harris. our studio audience as i have a because i lo news alert. i'm lauren greene in new york. israel is mobilizing soldiers and declaring a state of war alert after the palestinian militant group hamas fires thousands of rockets from the gaza strip into southern israel . the group's leader says it's part of a new military operation against israel. israel's territory has also reportedly been infiltrated by numerous palestinian militants during the unprecedented attack. several videos posted on social media appear to show dozens of uniformed gunmen inside the israeli border town of sderot ready across the region are being ordered to remain indoors. and we're learning a woman in her 60s was killed and at least 100 others were injured in the rocket attacks. israel's security cabinet is set to convene in the coming hours for following its state of war alert declaration. officials warn hamas will face consequences for the attacks and has reportedly already begun striking targets in the gaza strip