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general jack keane >> but breaking tonight, house republicans looking into what they call the weaponization of the federal government. they say federal employees, fbi employees specifically who have talked about it, have faced retaliation. its another blow to the bureau thats already enduring greater scrutiny in the wake of the special counsel conclusion that it should not have opened an investigation into the trump-russia collusion case. the john durham report. democrats on that commi...

president biden downplayed that balloons significance in an interview this week saying the flight was, quote, not a major breach. lets bring in retired four-star general jack keane, chairman of the institute for the study of war and a fox news senior strategic analyst. general, good to see you. thanks for coming in. so do you think the administration did the right thing here shooting down this latest object so quickly after it had waited a long time to shoot down the balloon? >> no, ye...

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♪ paul: as they promised, the new republican majority in congress is stepping up its investigations holding the first hearings this week into claims of censorship by tech giant twitter as well as the so-called weaponny weaponization of the federal government including alleged bias at the department of justice. democrats calling both hearings political stunts, but iowa senator chuck grassley, a witness at thursdays panel, warned that the american publics trust in our institutions is at stake. >...

The twitter employee responded, well, those tweets were nonconsensual, nude images of hunter biden. so i think thats worth keeping many mind. i dont eni have the job -- envy the job these platforms having, trying to manage the tweets being posted every day. paul: khan, this by now -- dan, this by now and given what weve learned at hearings and learned in the twitter files, is there any doubt that twitters decision to essentially censor "the new york post" story on hunter bidens laptop and its al...

The middle of the election campaign. theres one larger issues -- issue thats emerging from these hearings. the democrats basically said social media platforms like twitter, facebook, youtube and the rest of them, they think they should suppress misinformation and disinformation. well, lets talk about things like covid or climate. i mean, there was the idea of climate conditioners or the great barrington declaration which was scientists who disagreed with the extreme shutdowns during the covid pe...

Somehow, and as difficult as its going on to tax the rest of the population, they have to try to hit something like billionaires. and, again, the question is whether the american people actually believe that the democrats can get away with that much spending and not eventually come after the money inside the middle class. paul: all right. when we come back, republicans are ramping up their investigations with the householding its first hearings on twitters censorship and the so-called weaponizat...

Laptop story that they blocked from the new york post that there was no government request to do that. so, i mean, maybe we will see more pushing in future hearings on that question. but it did confirm, i think, the hearing a lot of what we know already which is that in response to that stuff, they were -- twitter executives were just making it up as they went along. and we already knew that because of some of the information that elon musk, the new owner of twitter, is putting out, the so-calle...

More threads that come out of this, paul, but that was a big kind of opening, opening round. paul: well, how persuasive is the evidence, kim? i mean, you talked about allegations, but do they really concern they had the goods. >> oh, yeah. no, there is definitely can information out there that was provided by these senators in particular about steps that the fbi took that looked deliberately intentional to try to sabotage the them as they were trying to get the information out, conducting a brie...