Transcripts For FOXNEWSW Fox Report With Jon Scott 20210109

FOXNEWSW Fox Report With Jon Scott January 9, 2021

Censoring President Trump. Critics say there could be significant implications for all americans if big tech gets to decide who has access to its platform. We have Fox Team Coverage dade spunt standing by and Hillary Vaughn in wilmington, delaware and begin with Charles Watson live in atlanta. Charles. Reporter hi, jon conservatives are krit criticizing big tech and double standarding when it comes to policing view of conservative compared to those of liberals. U. S. Dust testimony and Border Protection acting commissioner mark morgan neigh that point saying conservative and Trump Administration are constantly being censored by Big Tech Companies he says same actions are rarely taken against the left. This is about individuals and position of power that has a different plilg ideologic view point and opinion than others and when that happens they try to shut us down. Twitter and a number of other social media platforms suspending President Trumps account after the president was accused of inciting violent mob of supporters who stormed the u. S. Capitol but many have questioned how Companies Like twitter enforces its rules after accounts ran by then Chinese Government in Iran Supreme Leader remain operational despite posting tweets that some consider hateful or full of disinformation. Social media giants are in a tugofwar as both democrats and republicans criticize their actions against the president. Representative Joaquin Castro saying im glad facebook and twitter finally banned donald trump from their platform yet only after he could no longer damage their businesses. And senator ted cruz saying big tech purge censorship and abuse of power is absurd profoundly dangerous if you agree with tech bias iran good trump bad ask yourself what happens when you disagree. Meanwhile social media at parlor engage in showdown with google after the tech giant pulled a socalled free speech app from its place store for allegedly helping to incite riots at the capitol and jon, apple is threatening to take same action against parlor companys ceo says, quote, this is an attack against our basic Civil Liberties and our right to free speech. Jon. Jon Charles Watson in atlanta, thanks. Suspension of his social media accounts have President Trump and allies calling out big tech for censorship. In response the president says hes considering creating his own platform. David spunt is live at the white house for us. Dade. Reporter the president once had 88 million followers on twitter he no longer does his first tweet sent in 2009. But with twitter in the rearview mirror, the word impeachment is now staring the president of the United States in the face one more time. If this happens jon he would be the first president in United States history to be impeached twice. House speak or, nancy pelosi and other it is in the house of representatives are thinking about this measure. It takes just a majority of the house to do so. Our capitol hill sources are hearing an impeachment titled article titled incitement of insurrection introduced as soon as monday Speaker Pelosi is giving the president an ultimatum resign or be impeached shell hold off on impeachment also if the Vice President mike pence fails to invoke the 25th amendment to bring the cabinet onbroord to remove the president from office. White house sources say theres no appetite to invoke 25 9 amendment as President Trump has a week and a half on the job if the house does pass impeachment article the senate would hold another trial. But that may not be until after joe biden becomes the 46th the president stying Speaker Pelosi is pushing forward. Sadly a deranged president of the United States and only a number of days until we can be presented from him. But hes done something so serious that there should be prosecution against him. Reporter White House Deputy press secretary judd deere push back, quote, as President Trump said yesterday this is a time for healing and unity as one nation. A politically motivated impeachment against the president who has done a great job with 12 days remaining in his term will only serve to further divide our great country. In addition jon to impeachment talks Speaker Pelosi says she spoke with general mark milley chairman of the joint chief of staff assured her there are controls several controls in place regarding the Nuclear Launch codes pelosi is worried about the president acting with rage as for President Trump, no twitter hes been known as the twitter president. Hes hired, hes fired hes made official policy, hes even pardoned folks on twitter 11 more days in office if he wants to talk that always sending a statement or perhaps call cameras in front of the nation. Jon. Jon david spunt at the white house, thank you. Meantime president elect joe biden is criticizing calling him incompetent saying it is a good thing President Trump will not attend his inauguration. Biden is also giving more details on what to expect from his first 100 days in office. Hillary vaughn is live in wilmington, delaware, with more. Hillary. Reporter jon president elect biden long said as commander in chief he will not invoke division but start healing in the nation but yesterday biden did not hold back what he thought about President Trump calling him, quote, incompetent and also embarrassment and biden also said that rye yoarts who stormed the capitol last week would be prosecuted by his doj. Yes should be treated as a bunch of thugs white supremacist and antisemimite 16 is not enough these shirts theyre wearing these are bunch of thugs. Thugs. And theyre terrorists domestic terrorists. President elect biden is under pressure from people in his party to back plans to use a 25th amendment to turn President Trump out of office early. But he said yesterday, he would rather wait out the let trump finish to final ten days of his term. If we were six months out, we should move everything to get him out of the office impeaching him again and invoke 25th amendment whatever it took to get him out of office. But i am focused now on us taking control as president and Vice President on the 20th and to get our agenda mooing as quickly as we can. Reporter and part of that agenda now includes a major vaccine update biden yesterday saying all vaccine dose should be made available to everyone now instead of setting aside existing inventory and reserving a sending dose for people who have already received their first. A transition official giving me the flog statement on this, quote, the president elect believes we must accelerate distribution and dose available and believe government should stop holding back supplies to get more shots in americans arms now, and Biden Inauguration plans are not changing. Despite what happened in the capitol last week, and he also does not feel snubbed that President Trump is rsvp and open invitation for pence to attend inauguration and aid to the Vice President told fox hes not made a decision if hell show up and attend. Jon Hillary Vaughn live in wilmington, delaware, for more on House Republicans how they are reacting to push for a second trump impeachments, lets bring in california congressman darrell issa, congressman you might have heard how Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying at the top of the program that President Trump needs to be impeached. Where do you come down on it . Well it was on her lips moment she became speaker and it will be on her mind on 20th of january when the president leaves office. I dont think it is ever been anything other than attack, attack, attack. The question really is with as of monday eight days left before the president leaves office, shouldnt we all be looking appropriately at punishing those who committed terrible crimes, and quite frankly having that transition of government with the Vice President and others in attendance ill be in attendance recognizing that since our founding, these transitions of government have been peacefully done, and all of us who are lengted officials need to show that. There is talk that the speaker might decide to pursue impeachment articles even though a trial in the senate could extend beyond beginning of the Biden Administration if thats the case, whats the point . Reporter well look ive had people with the word impeachment time and time again. I even remember one time they wanted to impeach the irs commissioner. I hear it. I see it. It is a blunt tool to be used only when all others have failed and since the 20th of january is a very exact tool that will transition peacefully our government, it is absurd to try to use it. If nancy pelosi wants to score plel points with her base, i understand that. But for those of us who are going to be responsible for these next two, four, six years, it is important that we begin coming together and getting things done. That includes overseeing what went wrong. How so many people were able to penetrate the bairpiers how people died. Thats very local to us. And even to one of my constituents because one the people who died the husband reached out to me hes asked me to make sure that justice for his wife for ashley. But lets just remember congress has one obligation which is to legislate and then to oversee that legislation. Our job is not to constantly decide who is supposed to be president. The fact is, we are going transition in a few days. Nancy pelosi should be moving toward that. Shes got a big job ahead of her. Hopefully shell be begin legislating instead of simply hating the president. Jon we want to talk about capitol security especially about loss of your constituent Ashley Babbitt in a moment before that, it is not just nancy pelosi who is talking about impeachment some of your fellow republicans are as well including adam of illinois, and senator ben sasse, listen. The president is and the president must now relinquish control voluntary or involuntary. The house if they come together and have a process we will consider whatever articles they might move. I believe the president has disregardrd his oath of office what he did was wicked. Jon so not necessarily a vow to vote for impeachment from senator but consider it is this a a snowball that is growing on capitol hill . The impeachment idea . Well im going to quote a more thoughtful legislator incoming president elect joe biden who say hes focused on the transition. He said just a few minutes ago, i saw you know, he said if there were six months left he would consider all optionings. Theres eight days left as of monday. And the Vice President in this case is showing the appropriate wisdom of his years that the president is on his way out. And for if were going heal our nation were not going to do it by having another round of impeachment well into midnight on the 19th of january. So for my colleagues in both parties, lets move on. Lets cool together. Lets do what we need to do. Quite frankly, lets begin giving President Joe Biden the opportunity to lead that wasnt given to the for the four years of donald trump. I was there for the inaugural i saw that the fact that he wasnt accepted four years ago. I dont plan on repeating that. Im going give President Biden an opportunity to keep his Campaign Promises and lead from the middle. Jon we talk about security in the house. And again your constituent Ashley Babbitt is one of those who was killed. Is there going to be an investigation, how confident are you that we will get to the bottom of what led to this lack of security . We cant bring back Ashley Babbitt or the Law Enforcement our 12year veteran who died or any of the others. What we can do is find out why the perimeter around the white house was about twice as steep as it was around the peoples house around congress. We can find out why there wasnt there werent more police there. Why they werent able to respond quicker what we can learn from our mistake so lives lost will not be repeated ever again. Jon you mentioned that the president has about eight days left in his term as of monday. A number of social media platforms have decided to silence the president. Twitter, facebook, google, spotify, instagram, others are banning or restricting President Trump. Give us your take on that. Is that useful is it deserved . You know, theyve banned a lot of people, Rick Grinnell and others have found themselves shut off temporarily or permanently ive been taken down on one occasion the fact is this that is the equivalent of book turning when you start turning off peoples ability to make speech and i appreciate if somee is making drew hate speech or pornography we want some censorship but anything other than that, the fact is that First Amendment envisions that that speech which we disagree with most is the constitutional scall scholar or aclu we have to stand up for that. This censorship on a partisan basis has to stop. Glon so, i mean, as the president after that rally on wednesday and everything that took place theres been a considerable effort on the part of big tech to just shut him down. Youre saying that thats misguided that twitter in your view should open up the president s account once again . Look, if they want to look another each and every one of his tweets, hes only one man he only has one tweet at a time. I can understand where they might want to take special precautions and ask is this going to incite something. Thats fine. Im not telling him not to evaluate as appropriate as perhaps they should be doing on a less bias says sis. But to shut down the president of the United States means that theyll be shutting down the senator risch shutting down congressman issa, because they dont like what we have to say. The fact is, im going to continue to say things to my 290,000 twitter followers, and i know that twitter and the people that are monitoring it dont like what i have to say. And i know currently, they are more likely to shut me down or to sensor one of my tweets than they are a liberal or for that matter as you said earlier, iran, or some of the other evils around the world. Jon thats the double standard that many complain about. California congressman darrell issa, goods to have you on. Thank you. Thank you. Jon california governor facing growing recall effort as cases of coronavirus surge in the golden state. The details on that push, next. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Nicoreyou get advice like smoking is hard. Try hypnosis. Or. Quit cold turkey. Kidding me . instead, start small. With nicorette. Which can lead to something big. Start stopping with nicorette keeping your oysters growing while keeping your business growing has you swamped. you need to hire i need indeed indeed you do. 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Experts predict that soon one in ten people there will have tested positive for virus. Meanwhile cdc reports says reports of a new u. S. Coronavirus mutation are inaccurate doctor Deborah Burks of the White House Coronavirus task force reportedly speculated about such a home grown variant not to be confused with the new strain originally found in the u. K. Which has turned up in at least three u. S. States. California governor gavin newsom releasing a new 22 billion dollar budget plan as that state faces a massive surge in covid19 cases. And businesses struggle under strict pandemic restrictions. Christina coleman is live in los angeles with more. Christina. Reporter hi, jon, we are after that recall effort against govan gavin newsom theres about nine weeks left to collect signatures to trigger a special election, and organizers are confident that they can do this former mayor san diego mayor, kevin recently joined this recall effort. Take a listen. 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