authentic? no, i did not. is bitty it correct the biden campaign had contact with twitter in the run-up to the 2020 election? not to my knowledge. and you are telling this committee that you didn t ask any biden representative if the laptop was real or for hunter biden attorneys phone number to confirm its authenticity? we did not speak to anybody related to that. mr. baker are you aware the f.b.i. had hunter biden s laptop since december of 2019? i m sorry am i aware of that now? were you aware then? then, no. i don t believe to the best of my recollection. you are aware now. i ve heard that now, yes. did you call any of your contacts at the f.b.i. to ask whether or not they knew if the material had been hacked? i don t recall contacting them about that on that day. mr. ro it appears to me you
roth. the damage was done. a lot of polling showing if the american people had full knowledge about the post hunter biden story we might have had a totally different election. after biden is safely installed as president maybe we made a mistake. no. we learned from the twitter files so much about the role of the intelligence community in influencinging twitter s decision and in pushing twitter to make this decision. so there are so many unanswered questions about the nature of that relationship that i hope we can get to the bottom of today. bill: byron, sometimes the hearings they have a payoff and sometimes they don t. right now we aren t quite sure. are you? the thing to remember about this hearing is as much as we ve talked about it as a twitter hearing or even a hunter biden hearing, it is not a twitter or hunter biden hearing, it is an f.b.i. hearing. a hearing about the national security authorities of the u.s. government. james comer, chairman of the committee said something
we ll monitor that hearing for news. the headline from the wall street journal, the state of the union contraction went on to say this. president biden devoted most of the state of the union address tuesday to celebrating what he says is a long list of legislative and economic achievements. spending on social programs and public works, subsidies for computer chips and more subsidies for green energy and strong labor market. if he has done so much for america why does most of america not seem to appreciate it. mr. speaker, the polls show that people are in a sour mood. they don t feel like this is working for them. did he convince anyone last night that it should? no, look. this was a fantasy state of the union. you got to hear from a guy who resides in a white house, flies on marine one to the airport to pick up air force one to go to delaware so he can bicycle every weekend. his world is fine.
witnesses before us today participated in an aspen institute exercise in september 2020 on the potential hack and dump operation related to hunter biden. other big tech companies and reporters attended as well. this exercise prepared them for their future collusion to suppress and delegitimize information contained in hunter biden s laptop about the biden s family business schemes. on october 14, 2020, the new york post published its first story based on information contained in hunter biden s laptop story. the post provided proof of the laptop s legitimacy by releasing a computer repair store signed release for the laptop and federal subpoena used by the f.b.i. to retrieve it in 2019. the article revealed that a top executive at burisma paying hunter biden $50,000 a month had spent time with then vice
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