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in "the faulkner focus." todays hearing comes after the twitter files exposed execs conversations around the hunter biden laptop story and the biden family business dealings. lawmakers looking to those witnesses, among them twitters former deputy general counsel james baker to explain how the true story on hunter bidens laptop was censored by social mead and dismissed by media outlets including "the new york times" and "washington post" as disinformation. the republican and democrat le...

Quietly. >> we know that as well. released audio recordings from cnn say they completely openly the campaign is to get biden in. we know that. that was leaked by project veritas last year. they are completely open about that and one of the reason why their viewing figures have fallen off a cliff. there is an open discussion on these platforms. just to return to what weve been discussing about the complicity and the involvement of government in this. this is the shocking thing. as we said we had ...

Security clearance? >> some did. i wasnt certain about that. >> do you know if yin one took up mr. chans offer to hand out security clearances? >> not that im aware. >> we dont know how many people had security clear clearances at twitter do we know? anyone know how many people at twitter had a security clearance 30 days prior to the election? >> i do not know. >> i dont know. >> mr. roth, you dont know? >> no, sir. >> do you know? >> no. it seemed like they were handing them out like candy. i w...

Twitter executives. jim jordan. lets watch. >> twitter didnt give me access to my laptop but special agent chan has said publicly and the f.b.i. has confirmed those documents did not relate to hunter biden and thats my recollection. >> what did they relate to? >> any relations with f.b.i. entirely focused on what the f.b.i. called malign foreign interference. iranian involvement in the election and russian troll farms not domestic. >> any information on there classified? >> no, i dont hold a sec...

And dont want the american people to be in the know. >> harris: china, taliban, putin, dont consider him a threat. what about iran? how much damage gets done when you let another nation invade your airspace? >> hefty amount of damage. it continues into those dominoes. afghanistan was the first domino of all of those. but each and every action where he allows america to be stepped on sends a message to foreign intelligence agencies whether its iran, north korea, venezuela or any of our allies. th...

Elon musk took over the company. and now we see them finally having to answer to politicians about this. they are very evasive. so far we have not gotten to the full truth of it. we already know how many questions there are to ask. i think they are deeply uncomfortable and understandably so. everybody who looked at this can see there was a significant political cover-up going on. the question is simply how high up in the democratic party and how high up in twitter that went on at. >> harris: all...

Twitter and say take down a tweet. >> harris: we are watching that fiery capitol hill hearing now as the three twitter executives are in the hot seat. you saw a member of oversight but jim jordan is also the chairman of judiciary and we got to see a little bit of his legal -- he gave this executive advice. you guys got played. first of all, douglas, i will come to you. tell me the significance of where chairman jordan was going there. >> he is trying to show that -- on that particular point that...

In "the faulkner focus." todays hearing comes after the twitter files exposed execs conversations around the hunter biden laptop story and the biden family business dealings. lawmakers looking to those witnesses, among them twitters former deputy general counsel james baker to explain how the true story on hunter bidens laptop was censored by social mead and dismissed by media outlets including "the new york times" and "washington post" as disinformation. the republican and democrat leaders of t...

Target but it is not joe biden. it is donald trump. of course, we dont want to talk about that. we dont want to talk about russian bots and russian fabrications using fake accounts on twitter to a political purpose, not to help elect democrats. and we dont want to talk about four years of donald trump manipulating the truth and trying to manipulate social media and threaten it. or directly to try to shape it by taking down content because it was critical of him personally. and thats what we ough...

Materials policy or anything else. i think what a lot of people are wondering if it didnt violate your policies and they didnt tell you it was fake or hacked, why did you take it down? >> the company made a decision that found that it did violate the policy. it wasnt my personal judgment at the time that it did but the decision was communicated to me by my direct supervisor and i didnt disagree with it enough to object to it. >> what i think happened, mr. roth. i think you guys got played. i thi...