during us now to elaborate on the lawsuit and the larger issues involved, sarah fisher reports for axios. thanks for joining us. >> thank you so much. host: can you elaborate a little bit more on the legal basis that the president is facing this suit on? guest: what he is alleging is that tech companies like states, -- facebook, google and youtube are so big that we should be treating them as state actors and if we are going to treat them as state actors, they would be protected by the first amendment. that is a tough case to make because they are not state actors, they are publicly-traded companies and because they are private companies, they can make all the rules they want when it comes to who is allowed to use their services. that is one argument he is making. the other thing he suggests in the lawsuit is that section 230 of the communications decency act, which is a law that was passed by congress 25 years ago, should be deemed unconstitutional. the reason that matters is you and i both know you can't just deem a law unconstitutional, congress would have to pass something else. it d

. >> sarah fisher reports. you can see her work at axios.com. thank you for your explanation, i appreciate it. >> have a good one to you as far as the ability of these companies as you heard our guests talk about the issues of moderating content, especially going to the lawsuit filed by former president trump, asking you to give your thoughts on your ability to trust companies to moderate content. 202748 8004 democrats, 8001 four republicans and independents 202-748-8000 two. text us at 202 748-8000 three and our social media platforms itself areopen to this . our all in virginia, texting us this morning saying he doesnot trust big tech . they would have to ban or remove 75 percent of their users and also another text message, rate in colorado saying some tech companies are better than others big tech can do it better than government ever should. we should embrace the choices we have and thenwayne miller, also on our facebook page this morning , our site as many of you are posting before the show area big tech shouldn't be moderating anything. g

the word, any information, further evacuation, and showing that bella sarah fisher, has more on the resettlement from the white house. well, we know that the 1st flights are on their way the 1st one left camilla round lunchtime. they are heading to dulles international airport, which is just south of washington. and the 2nd flight is on its way to london. they will probably land part once they arrive here in the us. they will be taken to fort lee, which is an army camp in southern virginia, that is where they will be process for their s i v, as they call a special immigrant visas. now initially was around for thousands of guns and their families who would expect to go through this process. other countries have taken some of those numbers. so it's expected that the us will be dealing with somewhere in the region of $2500.00. i do can process them and get this done quite simply because they don't have the resources, the able to do it here and 20, blinking as well as your bike has acknowledged that the u. s. does or debt to these people and has to treat them properly. the united states as committed

joining me for reaction is axios reporter sarah fisher. >> good morning, frank. >> we chatted about this yesterday. netflix a mixed report what's the big take away >> the big take away is subscriber growth is stalling. we saw there are bad projections heading into this quarter. the stock tanked this quarter, the same thing they also forecasted growth to be slow for the following quarter, q3. that mamatters, frank. they thought the back half of the year is when growth would pick back up they're saying this is a response to covid volatility we expect this to flatten out and become more consistent i think it's really a matter of whether or not you have new entrants to the market hbo max, disney+ are starting to cut into that growth especially here in north america. >> you're taking the words out of my mouth. i was excited to see "black widow" and i thought about going to the theater and i popped over to disney+ and it was there. i'm a big fan of nfl football. i can watch that on amazon prime. how does netflix fend off the competitors? >> that

>> sarah fisher broke the story yesterday.to media lawyers, first amendment scholars, they say there's very little ground for this lawsuit. like there's some ads made to run during newscasts, this is a little bit how this lawsuit is. you mentioned the instant text messages that people got who are on those lists and that does seem to be what the president wants. definitely wanted the media event at bed minister, a little bit of an oval office, white house, setting. complete with the teleprompters, complete with the seal. so donald trump is getting what he wants, he's starving for attention and he's about to get it with the 20-some books that are about to come out. you and i talked about the fact that he did interviews for 17 books. so months ahead, lots of trump. >> lots of trump. axios' mike allen, thank you very much this morning. >> thank you, kasie. >>> private companies, not the government limiting free speech. thank you all for getting up "way too early" with us on this thursday morning. don't go anywhere. "morning joe" s

host: sarah fisher reports from axios.nk you for your time and your explanations of these issues this morning for our audience. really appreciate it. guest: thanks so much, have a good one. host: as you heard our guest talk about the issues of moderating content, this going to the lawsuit filed by president trump yesterday, we are asking you to give your thoughts on the ability of these companies to moderate content. (202) 748-8000 free democrats, -- for democrats, (202) 748-8001 republicans, and for independents, (202) 748-8002. @cspanwj for twitter. this text this morning, doesn't trust big tech, they would have to banner remove 75% of their users if they enforced. ray in colorado saying that some big tech -- big tech companies are better than others and they do it better than government could. we should embrace the choices we have. wayne miller off the facebook page, many of you posting before the show this morning, big tech shouldn't be moderating anything. georgia, republican line, on the capability of big tech to mod

join us now on the potential fallout for espn, sarah fisher, axios media reporter this is one of thel media, dealing with the same type of issues i don't know if all our viewers are familiar with what happened, so you might give us a brief summary of the story itself. >> yeah. over the weekend, "the new york times" put out this bombshell report, basically explaining leaked recordings of rachel nichols, an anchor at espn, her conversation with a third party, not at espn, about the network giving maria taylor a contract to host the nba finals, something she said was in her contract it is causing controversy. the way nichols framed it said, look, i don't wish this person ill, but she's only getting the job because she is a person of color. now, the issue brings to light a lot of problems at espn. as you know, joe, the network has struggled when it comes to issues of diversity. it really, really shows that these types of problems are no longer just things you have to address externally they're issues you have to address internally, as well. when you have a leak like this, clearly, it spe