>> mr. roth, whether experts? whether people you consulted that were cybersecurity experts between 9 a.m. and 10:15 a.m. on that date? >> my recollection is that we were following discussions about this as an as they unfolded on twitter. so cybersecurity experts were tweeting about this incident and sharing their perspectives, and that inform some of twitter's judgment here. but i want to emphasize as i said in my statement, i didn't think that the evidence or those perspectives warranted removal and advocated against taking that action. >> i understand. let's look at one other document. our teams made the determination that the materials fall under our hacked materials policy. it's my understanding from reports and control sources that normally hacked material policy would require a government official or law enforcement determination that there is actually been a hacked account before the hacked policy were to be in place. or imposed. is that accurate? >> no, sir, it's not. >> so the policy did

>> mr. roth, agenda 22nd, 2017 you tweeted that the actual nazis living in the white house. do you still stand by that comment? yes or no. >> i regret the line which are used. no, do not. >> earlier you said you regretted tweeting that quote actual nazis are living in a white has been however iran's ayatollahs it anti-semitic tweets one stating quote israel is a malignant cancerous tumor that has to be removed and eradicated a yes or no to twitter have been the ayatollahs or remove this hateful anti-semitic tweet? yes or no. >> to the best of my knowledge twitter did not remove that. >> the answer is no. threat to its clear voices are being sought a social media in the mainstream to appreciate this here. i would also suggest we look at holding what one on directx and oan. i give the rest of my time to speak so the user knows when the account has been suspended or blocked, but they don't know when they have some of these goal terms of renter mr. bongino and mr. kerr, is that right, mr. roth? >> as

>> mr. roth, agenda 22nd, 2017 you tweeted that the actual nazis living in the white house. do you still stand by that comment? yes or no. >> i regret the line which are used. no, do not. >> earlier you said you regretted tweeting that quote actual nazis are living in a white has been however iran's ayatollahs it anti-semitic tweets one stating quote israel is a malignant cancerous tumor that has to be removed and eradicated a yes or no to twitter have been the ayatollahs or remove this hateful anti-semitic tweet? yes or no. >> to the best of my knowledge twitter did not remove that. >> the answer is no. threat to its clear voices are being sought a social media in the mainstream to appreciate this here. i would also suggest we look at holding what one on directx and oan. i give the rest of my time to speak so the user knows when the account has been suspended or blocked, but they don't know when they have some of these goal terms of renter mr. bongino and mr. kerr, is that right, mr. roth? >> as

mr. roth. >> thank you, chairman comer, ranking member raskin and members of the committee for the opportunity to speak with you here today. in nearly eight years at twitter i worked in and let a division called trust and safety. trust and safeties core duty is content moderation. removing tweets the miley twitter's terms of service and suspending users who repeatedly break the rules. this work is sometimes dismissed merely as censorship but represent a key way that twitter and other companies live up to the responsibility to keep the users of their products safe. much of this work is uncontroversial. for example, taking debt accounts that engage in child sexual exploitation or promote terrorism. the great area of this work of though is when trust and safety teams have to make decisions about so-called lawful but awful material. content that may be legal in many jurisdictions but isn't something else people would want to experience. think of things like posting some else's home address without

mr. roth. mr. guilty. mr. santorum. mr. santos graham. guilty. mr. sarbanes. mr.. not guilty. mr.. mr. schumer not guilty. mr. sessions. mr. sessions was guilty. mr. shelby. mr. shelby. not guilty. mr. smith of new. mr. smith of new hampshire. guilty. mr. smith of oregon. mr. smith of. guilty miss snow. ms.. snow. not. mr. specter. heard or. mr. stevens. mr. stevens. not. mr. thomas. mr. thomas. guilty. mr. thompson. mr. thompson. not guilty. mr.. you are. mr. thurmond. guilty. mr. torricelli. mr. torricelli. not guilty. mr. voinovich. mr. voinovich. each guilty. mr. warner. mr. warner. not guilty. mr. whetstone. mr. wells stone. not guilty. mr. widen. mr. widen not guilty. this. on this article of impeachment, 45 senators having pronounced william clinton president of the united states guilty as charged, 55 senators having pronounced him not guilty, two thirds of the senators present not having pronounced him guilty. senator judges that the respondent, william jefferson clinton, president of the united states, is not guilty as charged in the first article of impeachment. the clerk

mr. roth. >> thank you, chairman comer, ranking member raskin and members of the committee for the opportunity to speak with you here today. in nearly eight years at twitter i worked in and let a division called trust and safety. trust and safeties core duty is content moderation. removing tweets the miley twitter's terms of service and suspending users who repeatedly break the rules. this work is sometimes dismissed merely as censorship but represent a key way that twitter and other companies live up to the responsibility to keep the users of their products safe. much of this work is uncontroversial. for example, taking debt accounts that engage in child sexual exploitation or promote terrorism. the great area of this work of though is when trust and safety teams have to make decisions about so-called lawful but awful material. content that may be legal in many jurisdictions but isn't something else people would want to experience. think of things like posting some else's home address without

mr. roth. >> thank you, chairman comer, ranking member raskin and members of the committee for the opportunity to speak with you here today. in nearly eight years at twitter i worked in and let a division called trust and safety. trust and safeties core duty is content moderation. removing tweets the miley twitter's terms of service and suspending users who repeatedly break the rules. this work is sometimes dismissed merely as censorship but represent a key way that twitter and other companies live up to the responsibility to keep the users of their products safe. much of this work is uncontroversial. for example, taking debt accounts that engage in child sexual exploitation or promote terrorism. the great area of this work of though is when trust and safety teams have to make decisions about so-called lawful but awful material. content that may be legal in many jurisdictions but isn't something else people would want to experience. think of things like posting some else's home address without

you see a problem there, mr. roth? >> i'm seeing a flashing red light and i'm happy to answer the question. do i think it's a valuable use of the f.b.i.'s time? no. but i don't see in a request for review a problem under the first amendment, no. >> i sure do. i thank you and give back. >> mr. connolly for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. my, my, my, what happens when you hold a hearing and can't prove your point. we heard from the chairman in his opening statement that it is wrong for government to call twitter and say take down a tweet. >> harris: we are watching that fiery capitol hill hearing now as the three twitter executives are in the hot seat. you saw a member of oversight but jim jordan is also the chairman of judiciary and we got to see a little bit of his legal -- he gave this executive advice. you guys got played. first of all, douglas, i will come to you. tell me the significance of where chairman jordan was going there. >> he is trying to show that -- on that particular point that i think it is a

mr. roth, how do you believe this tweet from the leader of iran calling for eradication from israel was received and interpreted on and-off twitter? >> i couldn't say for sure how that tweet was interpreted. >> you'd have a good idea how many re-tweets and amount of traffic it got? >> only from what i can see in that illustration. >> why does the iranian leader that explicitly pledged to eradicate the jewish state of israel get to remain on twitter? mr. roth? >> like all twitter users, he's subject to the same set of rules and i can't speak for twitter's decision today, i can say that twitter took a number of enforcement actions against the act same way we would against -- >> that's still up. you understand how hardship critical this is -- hypocritical it is; right? you banned a sitting president and a sitting member of congress, marjorie taylor green, and then this man can openly call for the murder of millions of jewish people and he remains on twitter. understand how that looks and how hypo

>> again, not to the best of my recollection >> but the answer is, mr. rothou did i found out last night from twitter staff that you suppressed my account for this tweet. it's a freaking joke [ laughter ] about hillary clinton being angry that she couldn't rig her election it's a joke. but in response, being the sinister overlords that you all are, you placed a 90-day account filter so i could not be found you silenced me from communicating with the american people over a freaking joke. now, who the hell do you think that you are [ laughter ] >> seth: it was a freaking joke, kaylee, okay [ laughter ] i said it's cool you won prom queen. even though you're already the queen of bitchistan. [ laughter ] it's a freaking joke you overlord [ laughter ] then there was the other boebert, marjorie taylor greene, who similarly used her time to scold former twitter employees for suspending her personal twitter account after she repeatedly lied and spread dangerous misinformation about the pandemic and the covid vaccine. now, just a quick warning about this clip -- don't

. >> mr. roth, are you familiar w? >> yes, ma'am, i am. >> are you aware from august 11t account posted false informatios hospital claiming that they wero children? >> yes, i am aware that and oth. >> and are you aware that this r prominent far-right influencers? >> yes. >> are you aware that all thesee reiterated were false, and thist platform today, isn't it? >> regrettably, yes, it is. >> tucker: not enough censorshik makes no claims at all. it putst they want to say and you can ass hospital admits this is not a cn observation that it performs gen and in a video that hospital wep surgeries, mastectomies, so thas they do vag ginoplasty. gender , watch. >> hysterectomy is similar, a l of the uterus, the cervix, the n tubes, also include the removal. >> tucker: we know it exists, sk you so much for coming on. so,g is that you don't do a lot of cu hold up the facts, you do repors congresswoman sandy cortez so m? >> i believe that aoc and yoel e to see the truth. it's very cone upset about people knowing thate happening

att and mr. roth dided the story violate your policies? >> in my judgment at the time,d. no, it did not. th yeah, that's what you said. said what i would propose.said,o excuse me. as you said, iu t isn't clearly a violation of our hack materials policy, nor is it any clearly a violation of anything. else. >> so i think what a lot of people are wondering is if it didn't violate your policiesdn't and they didn't tell you it waes fake, didn't tell you, wasked, hacked, why did you take it down? the company made a decision that found that it did violate a the policy. >> i think you guyte s wanted to take down. the i think you guys got playedwh by the fbi. and that's the scary parict. >> now, twitter, other big tech, they eagerly censored the new york post, america's oldest newspaper, because of their blind rage against donald trump, evidence that, in fact,bl they've been politicized in own their own right, working with the fbi r, having weekly meetings, pretty, pretty insane to even think about. they are incapable of being fair, balanced, objective.bala don't believe me.nc edy

. >> mr. roth, miss gaty and mr. baker. appears you failed at your jobs. in a matter of hours, deciding on a story that involved years and dozens of transactions. >> power they wielded. >> what we also learned through the twitter files thank god for that data, debate or rejection. russian bots. list that came over. these accounts are russian bots. they were talking in e-mails how they knew that wasn't true and what to do. because it was false. they did it any way. i think there is a problem when we are presuming good will when you say you have, you failed at your job, this was their job. >> yes. >> they did their job. we have to remember that nobody tripped over a log. it wasn't a leb leprechaun. the squad wants you to think they are naive and dumb. twitter individuals testifying it is important. what is important the data behind the scenes americans need to see these people behave in a way that makes no sense. >> kayleigh: i want to say one thing, i like to praise principle, democrats congressman row sent a private e-mail unbeknownst asking what was going

you see a problem there mr. roth? >> i am seeing a red light, i am happy to answer the question. do i think that's a valuable use of the fbi's time? no. but, i don't see a request for review a problem under the first amendment. >> was he the obamacare pajama boy kind of celebrate at birth. >> there was another strange occurrence. >> on june 3rd, 2018, the ira iranian - sounds like it is a brand new deal to me. >> the electrical issue. democrats were running an interference of their own. >> counsel mueller concluded of the trump campaign in 2016 of welcoming the russians. all of you sitting here today are highly -- >> silly does no begin to capture in obsession. joining us now is jim jordan and randy devine, fox news contributor, author of "laptop from hell," congressman, did you hear anything from any of the witnesses today that surprised you? >> no, not really. we know it was not hacked and the story was not fake. it didn't violate their policies but yet they blocked it. the reason they blocked it because the fbi and the government had primed and prepped them, oh, expect as hack

them of possible disinformation campaigns and according to the twitter and integrity site leader, mr. rothhe testified in the state of missouri under oath and they even mention of this misinformation campaign may be about hunter biden. hence, when the hunter's laptop comes out which the fbi could have corroborated in the 11 months prior, they're out there pedpe pedpe pedpeddal pedpeddaling this nonsense. >> they should we using it for corruption or potential threats to the united states. the guy who became president, his son is working with the chinese and someone with someone hunter biden called the spy chief of china. instead, they're trying to say it was misinformation of disinformation. i think the fbi really needs to be held accountable here. hopefully, that's what the house committee would use their subpoena power to look at what did the fbi know and when did they know and what decisions were made and why social media sites told this was disinformation. they could have told them yes, this is real. >> josh boswell, we appreciate the report. here now with more on this investigation int

. >> mr. roth. did you write this tweet?guage that i used in some of my former tweets, but yes, i did post that. >> i'll read the tweet, yes, that person in the pink hat is a bigger threat to your brand feminism than actual nazis in the white house. >> do you believe in the nazi. >> certainly not. >> those who worked in. >> twitter did not have a practice of restricts employees. >> what are on the left, have people gone haywire and emotional and not sticking to facts calling people they disagree with fascists or nazis. like swearing or cursing to win an argument. >> and here is the thing, roth who james comer was grilling there, he was the head of site integrity for twitter, he is tweeting there is nazis in the white house. such an insult to everyone holocaust survivor, families of survivors, they justin tthey --y this invoke this language over and over again, watering it down. now done so often with racists it has no value. >> joe, good to see you, we'll have you back on soon. >> new democrat bill in chicago, to fight skyro

mr. roth. >> mr. chairman, i'm seeing. a flashing red . i'm happy to answer t the question. fbi' do i think that that's a valuable use of the fbi's time? no, but i don't see a request a for review, a problem under w the first amendment. >> no. wasn't he that obamacare pajama boy kind of separated at birth?k i wasn't just the confrontation moments, though, that made the hearing kind of compelling. the ocaring kind of compelling. occurrence on june 3rd. 2018, the iranian tillicum did twitter do the sounds like the green new deal to me. >> and beyond that, conveniently timed electrical charges, democrats were running interference of their own twitter. like special counsel mueller concluded about the trump campaign in 2000, 16 wantedign to welcome russian interference in an election. >> all of you sitting here today were entirely correct to be highly concerned about the legitimacy of this story. >> my colleagues havhere tode td to whip up a faux scandal about this two day lapse and their ability to spread hunter biden propaganda on a private media platform. >> silly does not eve

. >> mr. roth, did the story violate your policies?> in my judgment at the time, no, it did not. >> if it didn't violate your policies and they didn't tell you you were fake or hacked, why did you take it down? >> the company made a decision that found that it did violate the policy. it wasn't my personal judgment at the time that it did, but the decision was communicated to me by my direct supervisor and ultimately i didn't disagree with it enough to object. >> i think you guys wanted it to be taken down. i think you guys got played by the fbi. ashley: ben, they claim they got key details of the censorship story and seems very convenient to me contraindication for cerumen removal right? >> there's a couple things going on here and one there's a bit of shell game being played by the former twitter executives when it comes to the influence the intelligence community and fbi had on that decision. it was clear they were seeding the ground well before the laptop story broke for exactly this type of circumstances, including the idea that ha

. >> mr. roth, are>> mr. rot you i with this account? >> yes, ma'am, i am. >> areare you aware from that?t >> from august 11 to august , that account posted false the information about bostonlse the children'swe hospital claiming that they were providing hysterectomies to children. t ts >> yes, i am aware of thatlate and other claims from the account. and are you aware that lie wasdy then circulated by other prominent far right influencers? >>promgh yes.ware tha >> and are you aware that allret these claims, which i haveer reiterated, were false and this account is still on that platform today, isn't? , yes, regrettably, yes, it is . not enough censorship. ma the funny thing is it lives of tick-tock makes almost no claims at all. putit just puts up videos of people saying what they wantchin to say and you can assess it.s o so boston children's hospital, for example,ai admits this is nn ob a claim we're making. it's an observation thatat i performs gender's surgeries on children. and in a videoand in a, that hol boston quote, we will see

mr. roth, did you write this tweet?ome of my former tweets but i did post it. >> i will read the tweet for the record. the person in the pink hat is clearly a bigger brand to your brand of feminisms that nazis in the white house. do you think all conservatives are nazi? >> certainly not, sir. >> what about the hundreds of people who worked in the trump administration? >> certainly not. >> did any other lawyer in twitter take down the tweet? >> they didn't have a policy of personal viewpoints. >> are you available that hunter biden's lawyers as early as last week wrote the department of justice about hunter biden's laptop? >> i have seen some articles about that. yes. >> they did. it appears that hunter biden's attorney is admitting the laptop and emails on it are authentic. in october 14th, 2020, did hunter biden report to twitter he was the victim of a hack? >> no, i don't believe he did. >> when the "new york post" initially broke the story good the laptop did you call his lawyer to ask if it was authentic? >> no, i d

do you see a problem there, mr. roth?you think that is valuable use of the fbi's time, no, but i don't see in a request for review a problem under the first amendment, no. >> i sure do. >> reporter: for democrat this is is entirely different hearing, neil. ranking mem her as can focusing on the set h september 6th role. white house says latest effort by the house republican majority, extreme maga members to relitigate the outcome of the 2020 election. the hearing is ongoing. it is in a quick recess right now. neil we had very theatrical exchanges. remains to be seen whether the inquiries will translate into reaction. neil: very thee rat trick theatrical. i want to two to susanly talking about artificial intelligence, it seems far lung in the future. >> reporter: not that far away. jarvis i can make the reference to you, you know what i'm talking about. neil: yes. >> jarvis from iron man. neil: goes back to 2001 space odyssey. you have to. >> i tried using turn space odyssey but no one got it. we all know "the jetsons," th

. >> mr. rothr knowledge, what percentage of your colleague when you say worked at twitter donated to democratic causes or candidates in 2020? >> i don't know, sir. >> we have it here. it was 98.4%. believe it or not, those numbers actually went up in the 2022 cycle to 99.7%. did you receive 10 confidential documents from special agent for the fbi elvis chan, the night before the hunter biden laptop story ran? >> yes. >> brian: so, the laptop is one side of the story, pat, congressman, but the other side of the story is what the fbi did leading up to and after. the fbi was constantly on the phone with twitter saying take down this account. what about this account? this is russian disinformation? what do you think? and twitter would come back and say no, this wasn't. but they actually got $3 million and as matt taibbi said they were remarkably under paid by how much the fbi was on top of twitter to do they probably had a proclivity to do anyway. >> well, yeah. the fbi was, again, they should be play

. >> mr. roth, while at twitter, how many meetings did you have with the fbi?> more than 10? >> that's a reasonable estimate. >> more than 0 the? >> i couldn't say for sure. >> as mr. dorsey testified on multiple occasions, twitter changed its policy within 24 hours and admitted its initial action was wrong. in hindsight, twitter should have reinstated the post account immediately. >> you silenced me from communicating with the american people over a freaking joke. now, who the hell do you think that the you are? election interference? yeah, i would say that that was taking place because of you four sitting here. the hunter biden laptop story was suppressed. 9 a sitting member of congress was suppressed. a stating -- sitting president was banned from twitter. elizabeth: michael, what concerns you about all of this? you know, people out there on msnbc, cnn, say this is the right-wing, tinfoil hat conspiracy stuff. but it's government documents,st the, you know, we're seeing records coming in, we're seeing e-mails and texts. is this all really conspiracy sufficie

mr. roth? >> mr. cefustice, may i please the court. there is nothing raceeual about alabama's map.district courts unanimous and orgh analysis did not air in finding the black belt is hioric and extremely poor community of substantial significance. yet, alabama's ttracks that community and allows white black voting to deny black voters to have representation in response to their needs. rather than argue clear error, alabam us to ignore statutory -- and to rewrite section tw tt, the voting rights act is a remedial statue that congress has twice reenacted since jingles, and its application here raises no constitutional concerns. that is because plaintiffs maps show consistent with bartlett tt it is possible to draw maps alabama's own board of to education map, and that increased opportunities for minority voters, while satiyi traditional and state redistricting criteria, at lea awell as alabama's map. nothing in the text of sectiotollow alabama to avoid liability by offering up these stawk rationalizations of simulations and court retentn om resulting discrimination. in fact, alabama

and according to the twitter integrity site, leader guy by the name of mr. roth, he testified in the state of missouri under oath that in fact, they even mentioned that this this information ory be misinformation campaign might be aboutt hunt biden.to hence, when the laptop comes out, which the fbi could have corroborated in the 11 months prior, they're out ther peddling this nonsense that is misinformation when in fac, it turned out to be true. >> yeah, i mean, the fact tha they had this huge goldmine of information that they should have been using to maybey shou investigate corruption, maybes investigate the potential security threats to the united states of the the guy the who became president , his son working with the chinese. t if the someone who hunter biden called the spy chief of china. tolled the spy chief of china. to say that it was misinformation and disinformed . i think thatre the fbially n ree needs to be held to accounret here. and i think hopefully that'se co what the house committees, with their new subpoena power, a is going to be able to do.k

mr. roth? >> mr. chief justice, may i please the court.there is nothing reeutral about alabama's map. district courts unanouand thorough analysis did not air in findinthblack belt is a historic and extremely poor community of substantial significance. yet, alabams matt cracks that community and allows white block voting to deny black voters to have represtaon in response to their needs. rather than are clear ever, alabama asks us to ignore statutory -- and to rewrite section twos text, the votingigs act is a remedial statue that congress has twice reenacted since jings, and its application here raises no constitutional concerns. that is beus plaintiffs maps show consistent with rttt that it is possible to draw maps that look very similar to alabama's own board of education map, an increased opportunities for satisfying traditional and state redistricting criteria at least as well as alabama's map. nothing in the xtf section to allow alabama to avoid liability by offering these post hawk rationalizations of silations and courntion from resu

mr. joel roth. he is disgusting. marjorie taylor greene was taken down but he allowed child pornography on twitter. that came out in the committee hearing. that's what's going on and then also with trump being investigated, why didn't we have -- why didn't we get some truths from the biden family and joe biden and also joe biden spoke a lot of mistruths on the address to the nation even the new york post on the front page said joe lie biden. saying republicans are going to get rid of social security and medicare and that was a lie. so you have a good day. republicans are doing great. host: to your point about those moments during the hearings we did talk about the ones you brought up, our viewers can find them on c-span.org in our video player and you can move along and go to the people that joe mentioned. you can go to the people the previous caller mentioned. you don't have to watch the entire hearing. brian in ohio. what are your thoughts this morning. >> it's a tough situation right now to try and wade through al