Good morning, everybody. I think we have senator blumenthal remotely, is that correct . Mr. Chairman. Is it okay, senator blumenthal, if we move forward . Absolutely. Thanks very much. Okay, ill make a brief Opening Statement and this is about censorship, suppression and the 2020 election, sort of a deep dive, when it comes to twitter and facebook, about the platforms and the decisions they make, how they make them. Can we do better . Do we need to do better . So the first thing i want to talk about here is Health Risks Associated with social media. A 2018 Research Center survey of nearly 750 13 to 17yearolds found that 45 are online almost constantly. A 97 use social media platforms such as youtube, facebook, instagram or snapchat. So why are we having this hearing . The products that these two Companies Offer people like and they use. So the bottom line is, theyve probably been more successful than their wildest dreams. And theyre having to make decisions that offend people on the le
How a Single Supreme Court seat can change history. And this may be one of the most propitiouslytitled books to hit the book stands in a long time. [laughter] senator, its great to have you with us and also we recommend the senators book to you highly. I want to begin with the level of fraud that we see now. Many people do not realize you were also a part of the republican legal team back in gore v. Bush. Its give us your sense of what, where we are right now in terms of electoral fraud. Well, look, weve got litigation all over the country. The results of the election arent final, and theyre not final until the matters are litigated and the results have been finally tabulated. And there are recounts ongoing. You mentioned my book, one vote away, theres an entire chapter in the book on bush v. Gore. And in 2000 i was part of george w. Bushs legal team. And if you think about it that night, that night initially the news media called al gore the winner, then they switched it and called ge
Other, whose platform and has done more to protect the 2020 president ial election. Mark zuckerberg is going all in on the claim that facebooks moves have been historic. They have done more than any other country in history to make sure bad, fake information about this election is staying off of their platform. I will paraphrase something he said. They introduced new policies to combat Voter Suppression and misinformation and we worked with local Election Officials to remove hundreds of thousands of false claims about polling conditions. That he worried could have led to Voter Suppression. There is one thing so far in this hearing everyone agrees on, that is which posts stay up on these platforms, which come down and which get slapped with warning labels should definitely not be up to the u. S. Government. Take a listen. When it comes time to flag content as being reliable or not reliable do either one of you believe that the government should do that . I dont believe so. I think that
That they have created. They had to reverse their first decision to certify results of the vote and the recount for joe biden. Its just all part of the chaos theyre created in the state of georgia, the mess. And the battle for the white house goes on. Joining us tonight to talk all of this up, Pennsylvania State congressman seth grove. He was supposed to chair a hearing today in pennsylvania talking to officials of dominion Voting Machines. But instead, dominion has lawyered up and backed out of that hearing. Well find out why. Were also joined by Trump Legal Team member jenna ellis and Judicial Watch president tom fitton with us tonight as well, one of the republican canvass Board Members in wayne county, michigan, monica palmer, who was threatened, intimidated, harassed until she awe greed to certify results agreed to certify results. Who are the radical dems, what have they become and why are we tolerating them . Well have her story this evening. Pastor Robert Jeffress joins us as w
Trump and joe biden in nevada, the president has a sixpoint lead in pennsylvania in the Trump Campaign has declared victory and claimed pennsylvania 20al electoral votes. President trump is ahead of joe biden by 1 North Carolina and the president is leading biden by 1. 5 in georgia. The foxnews decision desk says joe biden one the state of arizona and 11 electoral votes. The Trump Campaign is adamant they will protect the integrity of the selection and they will be able to declare victory in arizona by the end of this week. Just over 600,000 votes remain to be counted the president is behind only 93000 votes there. President trump expressing his frustration with the delay and states calling many of those races last night after results showed him leading in a number of the states. Heres whatt President Trump sad earlier today. This is a fraud on the American Public, this is an embarrassment to our country, we were getting ready to win this election, frankly we did win this election. [ch