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And the latest round of twitter files shows more government agencies besides the fbi were sy the social media network. show the fbi door mat program surveillance and censorship encompassing agencies across the federal government from the state department to the pentagon to the cia. taibbi also revealing the government was in constant jacket with other tech firms such as facebook, microsoft and reddit. and executives from twitter struggled with the governments claims of foreign interference on th...

-the latest batch -- this was the latest batch released last night, batch number nine. and here we go, this is from matt taibbi. starting off, the fbi acting as doorman to a vast program of media sur sill advance -- surveillance and censorship from the state department to the pentagon, to the cia. carley: yeah. he also writes this: each ex-fbi lawyer jim baker agreed odd that they are searching for violations of our policies. another tweet he says the twitter files show execs under constant is p...

Spending bill. thats a bit of good news. a bipartisan coming together to fix some of the problems that caused all these issues on january 6th. >> the committees report is 900 pages. much of the big headlines we covered. there were a lot of nuggets in there, from lesser-known players that really highlighted a lot about january 6th. what did you find in there, based on all of the reporting you have done over the last year and a half? what popped out to you? >> its incredible that you think they sp...

About it? >> that is right. so, theyre definitely is in the 34 transcripts, definitely a lot of over assertions of the faith as you said with effect to questions i couldnt possibly incriminate the person, it should be noted though that some defense lawyers take the view that because they dont want to be accused of waiving the fifth amendment they instruct their clients to try to basically take the fifth to everything. and of course the government, whether it is doj prosecutors or congressional i...

Andrew, i just wanted to do a quick note on the fifth amendment since i know people are puzzling over how you can take the fifth amendment when you are asked where you went to college for example or what your ages and all of these things. many of these assertions of the fifth amendment could be broken in another setting since they obviously do not involve any potential self incrimination and it is just a device the witness is using, but when they are in that committee setting and they kept immed...

Court, i think taking the fifth on your phone number, your name, that wouldnt really stand up, but they knew that they could delay things, just by taking the fifth on every single question that way. so that just tells me they didnt want to be cooperative at all. were they to appear in an actual courtroom, with that, you could certainly probably defeat some of those assertions on the fifth, on the innocuous questions like that. >> in an interview with msnbc, chairman bennie thompson did have a lo...

With that lays out the obligations on both sides. he refuses to tell her whos paying his bill. its just replete with red flags that lead you to believe that this was not for her benefit, it was in fact for someone elses. and that cuts at the core of the ethical problem. >> shan, obviously transcripts here -- i wonder what you think about how many people took the fifth? >> a lot of people were taking the fifth. i thought what was particularly interesting about the invocation of the fifth was ther...

Something has to be done, and of course that leads to the purpose of the inquiry in the first place, to produce legislation to correct this problem. >> so your two headlines here, when you say theres something dramatically wrong here, and you highlight how much the former president did or did not pay in federal taxes, did you see any evidence that suggests illegality? >> you know, that i dont know. to me its hard for me to imagine that its legal to be one of the richest people in america, accord...

Chances to correct their statements? >> they still havent corrected them. to me, thats the most powerful part of the complaint. >> lee levine is a first amendment attorney who litigated cases for 40 years on behalf of most media companies, including cbs and fox. hes retired now, but his old firm is currently representing cnn and me in a separate matter filed by attorneys who also represent dominion in its cases against fox news and others. >> take the fox case, for example. november 12th seems t...

Statements. >> they still havent crafted them. to me, that is the most powerful part of the imperative. >> leigh levine is a first amendment attorney. he is litigated cases for 40 years on behalf of most media companies, including cbs and fox. hes retired now, but his old firm is currently representing cnn and me in a separate manner, filed by attorneys who also represent dominion in its cases against fox news and others. >> take the fox case, for example. november 12th seems to me to be the key...