censor and suppress a new york post story that happened right before the election. it has been authenticated by every outlet on planet earth. dana: james comer says this is just the beginning of holding the white house accountable. go back to the two years of the biden administration. 0 cabinet secretaries or undersecretaries in front of the house oversight committee. not a single one. that s unacceptable. what business is hunter biden in? influence peddling and i have a problem with that. dana: david spunt is at the justice department as things kick off this morning. safe to say some folks at d.o.j. and the f.b.i. across the street will be paying attention to what happens in these hearings. the reason that these three former twitter executives are appearing in the first place is because of the old-fashioned subpoena. who will appear today will be gaty, the former chief legal officer and deputy general counsel james baker and yoel roll f. it will look into suppressi
first meeting on social media censorship with the new york post reporting about hunter biden s laptop. it was october of 2020, a couple weeks away from a national election. twitter took the story, suppressed it. blocked the new york post on twitter. they could not communicate for two weeks time. today lawmakers want to understand from three twitter executives why. we re watching that. headlines when we get them from the hill behind us here in washington. dana: u.s. navy releasing photos of the chinese spy craft shot down over the atlantic ocean. search crews working to recover all the be brie in hopes of getting a better understanding of china s surveillance capabilities. the challenges they face are immense. smaller pieces will get caught in the current and spread across the debris, 1500 by 1500 debris field they seem to have identified. you will have larger intact pieces as well. from there you will begin to map
you can see 2 or 3 groups of people. they have drilled through this concrete in three different places hoping perhaps that they can find some people alive there. it could end up the other way. it could end up being a sad, tragic recovery. my sense is looking at this, there is energy, there is interest and we could see seeing very dramatic perhaps in the coming hours. back to you, dana. dana: thank you for bringing us the story. bill: from overseas to the hill in washington. house republicans holding their first hearing on hunter biden. this one focusing on twitter s suppression of the laptop story in the weeks before the 2020 election. the chair, james comer, out of kentucky vows to uncover the truth. want to bring in john levine a political reporter for the new york post on the story from the beginning and byron york. hello to you.
received about the story. during that time the mainstream media was more concerned about what flavor of ice cream joe biden had ordered on a particular day. all this happened two weeks before the 2020 election, two weeks. one survey found that 17% of voters would not have voted for their ticket. many americans did not know about it because of a coordinated cover-up by big tech, the swamp and mainstream news. now mainstream media outoutlets have verified the laptop but the damage has been done. today we re joined by three former high-ranking employees at twitter. gadde, the former top lawyer. james baker and yoel roth, the former head of trust and safety. we are joined by annika collier
suspended the new york post a cast a spell on the story whether or not it was legitimate. donald trump was using twitter at that time and had 75 million followers. that was one of his main channels of communication to the people who voted for him and also to the media members who covered him. absolutely. it was an indecember p an important tool for him. if you had known more about the hunter biden story might it have affected the way you voted. i think back to in this case the candidate but you ll remember it well. dui story for george bush that came out right before an election. back then in the early days of fox news it was covered full throttle. that was a story that fox decided was important for people to know before the election and made sure people had the information that needed to get out there. dana: it affected the election. karl rove says for the