one of them is yoel roth in the headlines a lot. g that jack dorsey said about a year and a half ago that this was a mistake to block the story. here is roth on the hill. >> i've been clear that in my judgment at the time twitter should not have taken action to block the "new york post"'s reporting. just 24 hours after doing so, the company acknowledged its error. but the decisions here aren't straight forward and hindsight is 2020. it isn't obvious what the right response is to a suspected but not confirmed cyberattack by another government on a presidential election. i believe twitter erred in this case because we wanted to avoid repeating the mistakes of 2016. >> bill: i don't know how the questions are going to go. but the damage was done. >> this is very easy monday morning quarterbacking from roth. the damage was done. a lot of polling showing if the american people had full knowledge about the post hunter biden story we might have had a totally different election. after biden is safely installed as president maybe we made a mi

mind you, this is also a few days after though i went after yoel roth and twitter for exposing them as being joint state actors. i am on congressional oversight. i do believe that they are trying to again attack my credibility. i'm not going to let them get away with it. the american people deserve honest representation. i'm exactly that and i have the receipts to prove it. >> will: many people saw that interaction with yoel roth this week from twitter. you brought up race. i would love to ask you this one last question. you know, your situation with the "the washington post" here reminds me of a story again with the "the washington post" from a few years ago when it came to south carolina senator tim scott. they seemed to question scott's story and by implication whether or not he was ethically black or had an ethically black experience in america. they point out that you changed your last name. that you previously went by your father's last name and later in life changed your last name to luna. and, again, the implication seems to me to be you're not ethically hispanic. >> that is co

they just prebunked it by explaining as yoel roth, one of the executives said in a sworn declarationw, we are expecting that there will be some sort of russian disinformation hack and leak dump in probably october and likely about hunter biden. so of course they were sort of presuaded before the story to view it with suspicious eyes as russian disinformation and did what they had been groomed and brainwashed into doing and of course the fbi was pushing an open door because these executives at twitter, as you could see, were tweeting their own, yoel roth tweeting anti-trump diatribes calling everyone at the white house a nazi. >> john: in the hearing on the weaponization, says the fbi took possession of the laptop fully nine months before your story came out, and that the computer repair guy, mac isaac, and gave it to the fbi, the fbi was trying to stay quiet. listen to what johnson said. >> as the fbi left his shop with the laptop, mr. mac isaac recalled one agent saying "it is our experience that nothing ever happens to people that don't talk about these things." that statement was

forth, twitter disclosed publicly e-mails between b and yoel roth regarding one of donald trump's tweetsout covid. i do not have access to my twitter enos we do not know if or how i responded to mr. ross. roth. to the best of my recollection i do not recall directing or urging them to take action with respect to mr. trump's tweets are in somewhat of a call is that it asked to a question so i could better understand how he and others were implementing twitter's covid misinformation policy. asking questions and learning more about what a client, a client activities are as what i think good lawyers should do. and again hardly surprising. fifth, the twitter files reference prior investigations of me. it is true that the department of justice investigated certain aspects of my conduct while i was employed by the fbi. related to the handling of certain information. because i believe in the accountability for government officials, i cooperate with the department including sitting for lengthy interviews. eventually the department closed the matter. no adverse action was taken with respect to me

james baker former deputy general counsel, yoel roth, former head of trusted safety and anna could call your a former member of twitter's u.s. safety policy team. i want to let everyone you all are appearing under subpoena by your own request. pursuant to committee rule, the witness is what please stand and raise their right hand. [witnesses were sworn in] let the record show that the witness of all answered in the affirmative. we will begin the five-minute question portion of our hearing today. the chair recognizes -- oh, apologize. ready to get to the questions. we will start with the opening statements and then we'll go to the questions. so each witness will get five-minute opening statements and will begin with you, mr. baker. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, ranking member raskin, and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. i hope we will have a useful conversation about matters that are of great importance to the nation and the world. my main goals for this day but are simply to attempt to set the record straight with respect to

james baker former deputy general counsel, yoel roth, former head of trusted safety and anna could callformer member of twitter's u.s. safety policy team. i want to let everyone you all are appearing under subpoena by your own request. pursuant to committee rule, the witness is what please stand and raise their right hand. [witnesses were sworn in] let the record show that the witness of all answered in the affirmative. we will begin the five-minute question portion of our hearing today. the chair recognizes -- oh, apologize. ready to get to the questions. we will start with the opening statements and then we'll go to the questions. so each witness will get five-minute opening statements and will begin with you, mr. baker. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, ranking member raskin, and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. i hope we will have a useful conversation about matters that are of great importance to the nation and the world. my main goals for this day but are simply to attempt to set the record straight with respect to certain

yoel roth is a guy that's deeply partisan and admitted that he was tweeting they were nazis in the trump's white house. the fbi was pushing on the open door and the real question waycross why did the fbi intervene in another election. in the 2020 election to protect joe biden by bearing this derogatory information that was in the new york post story. >> congressman, miranda and great to see you both tonight. thanks. while joe biden is down playing the china threat, the republican governor is stepping up. one of the governor virginia jenkins is joining me tonight in studio to explain how he's doing. >>> have relations now between the u.s. and china take a big hit? >> no. >> how do you know? >> i know, i talked to them. i mean -- [ laughter ] >> the idea shooting down a balloon that's gathering information over america, and that makes relation works? >> i don't know if he didn't get his b-12 shot before this interview? biden and his government continue to laugh off at china. republicans are taking matters in their own hands. >> last month i signed an executive order banning tiktok and wei ch

he was formerly at the fbi and former head of trust and safety yoel roth.rgued that there was no intentional wrongdoing with the hunter biden laptop story, it was simply a complicated judgment call. gop members teasing out deep turmoil how twitter leadership could suppress the "new york post" story. ultimately the gadde made the call. concern about frequent communication with the fbi. jim jordan said twitter was played by the governmental body. >> you have the government saying your terms of service which don't have to comply with the first amendment and government says we don't think these account comply with your terms of service. please take them down. do you see a problem there, mr. roth? >> do 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 me

but there was a wild exchange between congresswoman lauren e bow bert and twitter's safety head, yoel rothlly censored. let's watch this fight. oh, we don't have it. i'm sorry, we didn't get that sound. but, you know, the thing is, it's censoring doctors, and it's censoring lawmakers too. >> yeah, that's right. i thought there was many interesting exchanges. we could spend a fair amount of time, but that was, they were definitely censoring factual information, legitimate information. and it's not just twitter, by way. facebook went to the white house and told the white house that they were censoring accurate information in order to avoid vaccine hesitancy, quote-unquote. we also saw is representative alec ocasio-cortez yesterday commanding censorship of tiktok for basically sharing a video from the boston children's hospital, and there was a slight exaggeration. i looked into this issue around the age of the kids that were getting hysterectomies, but nonetheless the underlying reality is there's very controversial medical procedures that are worthy of social debate. and the response from a

aptop, that's yoel roth because he's on record with some very disturbing views about minors and child. you know, as being the guy inha charge of twitter and safety. heof canceled permanently ban my twitter account for a yearco during my electionfo, hey permanently banned president trump and many conservative americans forir fre simply using their freedom of speech. prt he alloweded child to proliferate on twitteolr to a point where a mother and her son had to file a lawsui t to get to get child about him. and another minor taken off of twitter. yoel ross has a lot to be concerned about. >> i hope that we investigate him more . all right, congressman, we're going to follo congresw these hs very closely. we appreciate you beinthgese ve with us. thank you. . thfor joining us . next, all right. up next, t to handle the investigation, hate to say we told you so, but biden's irs, yes, indeed. they are coming. every everyday americans, all of you that make under foure une hundred thousand dollars a year, you're going to be paying more. joe lied last night, just like he lied during the campai