mal information, a new word to keep him quiet. he is ready to do battle with republican or democratic members of congress today during this hearing. well, i think we can say the hearing started exactly like we thought it would, which was with both sides bickering with each other. rfk was fascinating. he started out with a very compelling, very heart felt defense of the first amendment. he said we cannot talk as a nation about big issues like inflation or immigration or the war in ukraine, you can t have a meaningful discussion about them without first having a first amendment. he also made sort of a reference to himself by saying the first amendment doesn t protect the speech that everybody likes. it protects unpopular speech like some of the things that he has said. i do think that after this very
$440 million-something to the united nations fund for yemen. that s a 25% reduction from what they gave last year. that wasn t mentioned in his press conference. i don t know how you can square that circle. you know, i don t understand a world in which we we re saying we re going to help by doing less. that doesn t make sense to me. and it certainly doesn t make sense to the parents of these children who are starving to death in this country, where, again, we have moral, ethical responsibility because we have been involved in the conflict. and you know, i think that the reality is as a being blessed as a member of my society, living in the country that i live in with all of the incredible gifts that it provides me, the responsibility that i have to pay back those
that we ve raised, and i still don t the police chief has indicated that they were only given rights to review one of the clips, and the rest were not reviewed by the police. so we don t know whether there are security risks with what carlson has or not. until we know that, i would be concerned about just releasing it to everyone. on the other hand, you know, the first amendment doesn t allow you just to pick a favorite political person if you re the government and to deny other news outlets. so we ve got a real first amendment problem here. but i ll tell you what, you know, january 6th committee didn t withhold anything, as you know, we pushed to publish everything. it s one of when you read the report and there s footnotes in the report, all of the information that s footnoted is available. so to try and distort it now is
results were false. that they knew in the back rooms and internal communications that those claims were false. reporter: when questioned about whether he could have asserted some control over the network s programming, according tot file, i could have, but didn t. documents also revealed conversations between murdoch and suzanne scott. murdoch wanted hosts to say the election is over and joe biden won. but the documents say scott told him we need to be careful about using the shows and pissing off the viewers. over night in a statement, fox news writing dominion s lawsuit has always been more about what will generate headlines than what could withstand legal and financial scrutiny. adding violations are a blatant violence of the first amendment. dominion responded and said the company s a strong believer in the first amendment and its protections, but also makes the point that the first amendment
our democracy. so i don t think that people are overreacting on my side of the aisle with response to the. burden, if you embrace censorship in response to that, you have the burden with of directly connecting it to the former president of the united states whom you intend to ban. and it seems to me when i hear those private companies don t have to apply the first amendment doesn t leslie, i m just using my ears. by the companies may i finish? let me just finish really quickly. i m just using my ears, and i m listening to facebook essentially adopt the idea of the standard of law. when they say in he incites violence, they are echoing the laws of the united states. that is when censorship can be allowed you were our laws and constitution. they seem to be adopting that. and then, therefore, you need to show me where his incitement of violence lies. show me the tweet, the statement that incited violence. howard: of course, that s been the subject of a years-long debate.