Verdict with Ted Cruz - TWITTER-PALOOZA： A Deep Dive Into Elon's Bombshell Release

00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.

00:00:02.580 Guaranteed human.

00:00:04.420 There was a big story that broke this week,

00:00:06.800 and it dealt with an important issue.

00:00:09.260 Actual silencing and censoring of conservative voices

00:00:12.400 on Twitter right before major elections.

00:00:15.180 We're gonna do a deep dive on it.

00:00:16.820 I'm Ben Ferguson, and this is Verdict with Ted Cruz.

00:00:20.220 Senator, the internet got broken the other night

00:00:22.620 because of Elon Musk and all that he exposed,

00:00:26.000 and it was a big story, obviously.

00:00:27.660 But before we get to that,

00:00:28.740 there's a guy in Washington, D.C. that looks like you,

00:00:32.380 and it's freaking me out.

00:00:33.940 I think it's freaking a lot of people out,

00:00:36.360 and it's someone you would never expect

00:00:38.740 to be wanting to look like you.

00:00:40.840 His name is Mitt Romney,

00:00:42.520 who has grown a beard for people watching.

00:00:46.180 There it is.

00:00:47.120 I don't know if he lost his razor.

00:00:49.240 I don't know if he's trying to resurrect his career

00:00:51.320 to make people like him,

00:00:52.360 and he saw how much people loved your beard.

00:00:55.440 You got any advice on this one?

00:00:57.040 Well, listen, I think Mitt's beard looks great.

00:01:00.020 He came back from Thanksgiving,

00:01:01.580 and he had white stubble covering his face.

00:01:04.700 It's interesting that his beard is all white.

00:01:07.880 His hair is not all white, but the beard is.

00:01:11.060 And I thought it looked good.

00:01:12.900 And so Mitt and I were laughing on the Senate floor.

00:01:16.700 I welcomed him to the bearded club

00:01:19.880 and said, was glad to have him.

00:01:22.180 I asked him, what's the deal?

00:01:23.660 What's going on?

00:01:24.320 And he said, oh, he just, you know,

00:01:26.600 didn't shave over Thanksgiving

00:01:27.800 and said he was, you know,

00:01:29.020 figured what the heck, keep it.

00:01:31.040 He said Ann thought it looked kind of cute.

00:01:33.380 He liked that.

00:01:34.020 That made him happy.

00:01:34.900 Yeah.

00:01:35.640 He said he's never grown a beard in his life.

00:01:37.800 In his entire life.

00:01:38.740 Like college, grad school,

00:01:41.180 never in his life had a beard.

00:01:43.300 And I did share with him a story.

00:01:46.540 I said, well, you're going to find

00:01:47.880 they're different views depending on the generation.

00:01:50.940 And in particular, young people,

00:01:53.580 20-something, 30-something will love the beard.

00:01:56.780 But there's another generation, 0.96

00:01:58.420 which is typically women in their 70s and 80s 1.00

00:02:01.240 who can't stand it.

00:02:03.220 My grandmother said she didn't like my dad.

00:02:06.540 When my mom and they were dating,

00:02:07.700 she said, I don't like his mustache.

00:02:09.800 He was a police officer.

00:02:11.100 He's hiding something.

00:02:12.240 That's literally what she wasn't joking.

00:02:13.900 She goes, I don't like him.

00:02:14.940 I don't trust him.

00:02:15.640 So my father had a beard in the 70s

00:02:17.600 and he shaved it because a woman at church

00:02:20.780 said she didn't trust men with beards,

00:02:23.500 that they were dishonest.

00:02:24.940 And look, I think that really comes out

00:02:26.380 of the 60s and 70s and the hippies.

00:02:28.120 And there's a generation where they see someone bearded

00:02:30.380 and they think you're a hippie.

00:02:33.440 And a story I told Mitt, I said, look,

00:02:36.000 I was standing actually right where Mitt

00:02:38.120 and I were standing,

00:02:38.880 which is down at the well of the Senate.

00:02:40.840 And I was talking with Mitch McConnell

00:02:43.100 and Dianne Feinstein came up

00:02:45.980 and Dianne looked at Mitch and said,

00:02:48.560 Mitch, when are we going to get Ted 0.94

00:02:52.360 to shave that hideous thing on his face? 0.93

00:02:56.180 And I turned to her, I said, 0.98

00:02:57.680 Dianne, next thing you know,

00:02:59.980 I'm growing a ponytail,

00:03:01.220 I'm getting Birkenstocks

00:03:02.380 and I'm coming after your base.

00:03:04.360 What'd she say?

00:03:06.040 Mitch McConnell cracked up laughing

00:03:08.360 and Dianne looked at me

00:03:10.720 completely confused and befuddled.

00:03:13.540 It just, she did not understand

00:03:15.860 what I was saying.

00:03:16.540 So I told Mitt that

00:03:17.520 and apparently that might've scared him too

00:03:21.040 because the next day he shaved it.

00:03:23.840 The very next day he shaved it.

00:03:26.400 Well, he didn't want to take that kind of heat

00:03:27.980 from Democrats, let's be honest.

00:03:29.420 He wants to be friends with him.

00:03:31.140 He loves the Democratic base.

00:03:32.860 He loves the liberals liking him.

00:03:34.400 Of course he's going to shave the thing.

00:03:35.520 Well, and he said to me, he said,

00:03:36.520 this thing itches, does it really itch?

00:03:38.780 I said, yeah, for a day or two

00:03:40.020 and then it passes.

00:03:41.560 And so I actually went to Mitt that next day

00:03:44.120 and said, Mitt,

00:03:45.500 I want to officially lodge a protest

00:03:48.880 on behalf of all of your grandchildren.

00:03:52.420 Grow it back.

00:03:53.160 That you're denying them

00:03:55.160 a Santa Claus beard right before Christmas.

00:03:58.560 And I think it's wrong.

00:03:59.520 The grandkids are dismayed.

00:04:01.460 I got to ask, your two daughters,

00:04:02.940 when my dad apparently shaved his mustache

00:04:05.980 the only time,

00:04:07.080 we apparently freaked out and cried.

00:04:08.700 I don't remember when we were little kids.

00:04:09.920 Did your daughters like the beard instantly

00:04:11.940 or did they say no, dad?

00:04:13.400 Yeah, my girls are actually not crazy about the beard. 0.87

00:04:16.200 Even now?

00:04:16.800 Even now.

00:04:18.140 I've had it now a couple of years.

00:04:19.600 I like it,

00:04:20.480 but my girls could do without. 1.00

00:04:23.320 Well, if you get confused with Mitt Romney,

00:04:26.380 it's really going to screw with people.

00:04:27.820 He shaved it now,

00:04:28.660 so I think you're safe.

00:04:29.540 You're not going to have to worry

00:04:30.200 about people walking up and going,

00:04:31.180 hey, Cinder, can I get a picture with Mitt?

00:04:33.140 Can I get a picture with you from Utah?

00:04:34.640 I don't think that's going to happen now.

00:04:36.520 It's fair to say Mitt's base and my base are different.

00:04:39.400 Are very different.

00:04:40.360 Yes, very different.

00:04:41.700 I want to get into this serious topic, obviously,

00:04:44.120 and we're going to do a deep dive.

00:04:45.620 So everybody today,

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00:04:56.580 because we're doing an entire show dedicated to what just came out

00:05:01.200 of how much government,

00:05:03.200 and there's two parts of the story.

00:05:04.700 There's government influence in the private sector,

00:05:07.840 and there's a private sector also silencing people

00:05:11.580 that they're told to silence by government officials.

00:05:14.660 And I think it's shocking to see how much collusion there was.

00:05:18.300 And Democrats love the word collusion.

00:05:20.260 They've been obsessed with that word for a long time.

00:05:22.860 You want to talk about real collusion?

00:05:24.240 Elon Musk is showing us there was real direct collusion

00:05:27.420 between the Democratic Party

00:05:29.180 and big tech silencing conservatives.

00:05:32.940 You look at this story,

00:05:34.360 and this is going to be multiple parts they're now saying.

00:05:36.800 So they released some of this information,

00:05:39.040 and I want your overall reaction to it,

00:05:41.540 just how dirty it was behind the scenes at Twitter,

00:05:44.820 to make sure people that were having an influence

00:05:47.020 were silenced with big stories.

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00:06:50.300 Now, Senator, let's get to this.

00:06:52.620 It is shocking what we saw.

00:06:55.020 Your overall reaction

00:06:56.560 as all this information was coming out.

00:06:58.700 Well, it's stunning,

00:06:59.940 and a lot more is coming.

00:07:01.140 So you and I are sitting here

00:07:02.360 at a Sunday afternoon.

00:07:04.260 The first tranche of emails and tweets has come out.

00:07:09.320 Elon Musk has promised a second tranche

00:07:11.680 coming out later today.

00:07:12.740 So we will see what the second tranche holds.

00:07:15.660 But the first one is stunning,

00:07:17.760 and it's a whole Twitter thread.

00:07:20.000 I'd encourage people to read the entire thing,

00:07:22.200 but what we're going to do on this pod

00:07:23.480 is we're going to go through

00:07:24.540 the highlights of what's most important.

00:07:26.800 So let's start.

00:07:27.760 Let's start with the first one.

00:07:29.840 And this one,

00:07:30.960 this is actually, I think, the eighth tweet,

00:07:32.840 but it goes right to the heart of it.

00:07:35.120 And it is an internal email

00:07:37.240 within Twitter

00:07:38.920 that reads,

00:07:40.040 more to review from the Biden team, colon.

00:07:43.340 And there are a series of five links

00:07:45.120 to different tweets other people have said.

00:07:47.200 And then it says,

00:07:48.160 thanks all.

00:07:48.880 And the response,

00:07:50.360 two words,

00:07:51.540 handle these.

00:07:52.620 And to be clear,

00:07:53.440 this was basically,

00:07:54.280 they went through Twitter

00:07:55.360 the day before

00:07:56.460 or in the last couple of days.

00:07:57.720 They said,

00:07:58.080 hey, these are the tweets

00:07:58.980 that are most damning to us,

00:08:00.500 the Democratic Party.

00:08:01.740 We send them to Twitter,

00:08:03.480 and we want you to get rid of all these, 0.87

00:08:06.120 silence all these people, 0.99

00:08:07.240 shut all these people down.

00:08:08.380 And it was just direct links to tweets.

00:08:10.720 And then it said,

00:08:11.440 handled.

00:08:11.860 There was no pushback.

00:08:13.360 There was no questioning.

00:08:14.740 There was no,

00:08:15.220 we'll take a review.

00:08:16.460 It was,

00:08:17.320 how high you want us to jump at Twitter,

00:08:19.100 we'll take care of your problems.

00:08:20.500 Yeah,

00:08:20.640 this is Twitter acting as an arm

00:08:22.740 for the Biden campaign.

00:08:24.480 Acting as,

00:08:25.640 look,

00:08:26.100 that's almost how you task an employee.

00:08:28.380 Hey,

00:08:28.940 here are five more to take care of.

00:08:30.520 Handle these.

00:08:31.160 Done.

00:08:31.720 Just,

00:08:32.520 that's who we work for.

00:08:33.880 We're carrying it out.

00:08:35.820 And it goes worse.

00:08:37.640 Let's look at the next one.

00:08:39.420 Okay,

00:08:39.700 so this is Elon Musk

00:08:40.920 kind of commenting,

00:08:42.020 giving a meta comment

00:08:43.280 on the entire thread.

00:08:45.160 And he points out,

00:08:46.080 he says,

00:08:46.900 Twitter acting by itself

00:08:48.940 to suppress free speech

00:08:50.260 is not a First Amendment violation,

00:08:53.560 but acting under orders

00:08:54.900 from the government

00:08:55.620 to suppress free speech

00:08:57.220 with no judicial review

00:08:58.620 is.

00:08:59.600 Now,

00:08:59.800 let me explain something

00:09:00.700 that's important.

00:09:02.060 Why is Twitter acting on its own

00:09:03.780 not a violation

00:09:04.420 of the First Amendment?

00:09:05.580 The reason is

00:09:06.340 the First Amendment

00:09:07.020 only applies to government.

00:09:08.380 Actually,

00:09:08.880 as it was written,

00:09:09.780 it only applied

00:09:10.400 to the federal government.

00:09:11.440 The First Amendment

00:09:11.860 begins with,

00:09:12.900 Congress shall make no law.

00:09:14.260 It applied to Congress.

00:09:15.640 Yep.

00:09:15.740 Now,

00:09:16.040 since then,

00:09:16.740 the courts have expanded

00:09:17.740 the First Amendment

00:09:18.500 so it applies

00:09:19.240 to the entirety

00:09:20.240 of the federal government.

00:09:21.140 It applies to state governments.

00:09:22.360 It applies to local governments.

00:09:24.300 But,

00:09:24.860 a private company,

00:09:26.260 Twitter or anybody else,

00:09:28.120 implementing some policy,

00:09:29.640 the First Amendment

00:09:30.280 doesn't govern it.

00:09:31.800 But,

00:09:32.500 as Elon points out,

00:09:33.800 there's a major exception

00:09:35.040 to that,

00:09:36.300 which is,

00:09:37.300 if a private company

00:09:38.700 acts at the behest

00:09:40.000 of the government,

00:09:41.060 if it is censoring

00:09:42.700 because the government

00:09:44.280 is turning it

00:09:47.180 into an instrumentality

00:09:48.900 of censorship,

00:09:50.460 then the First Amendment

00:09:51.360 does apply.

00:09:52.180 And what these tweets show

00:09:53.460 is that's what was happening.

00:09:55.900 And I gotta say,

00:09:56.640 this podcast,

00:09:58.200 we have been explaining

00:09:59.600 this theory

00:10:00.380 of First Amendment liability

00:10:01.700 for three years now.

00:10:03.500 Yeah.

00:10:04.140 We got into it

00:10:05.760 on a deep dive

00:10:07.320 when the emails

00:10:09.100 became public

00:10:09.960 between Dr. Fauci

00:10:11.140 and Mark Zuckerberg

00:10:12.160 at Facebook.

00:10:13.100 And I explained

00:10:14.040 on the Verdict podcast

00:10:15.440 how those emails

00:10:17.400 make Facebook,

00:10:19.360 and their similar communications

00:10:20.360 with Twitter,

00:10:21.640 face very real liability

00:10:23.500 because they're not

00:10:25.120 just acting

00:10:25.820 as private

00:10:26.800 corporate actors,

00:10:28.660 they're acting

00:10:29.420 as an instrumentality

00:10:31.020 of the government.

00:10:31.720 An agent,

00:10:32.380 basically,

00:10:32.880 of the government.

00:10:33.820 If you are one

00:10:34.840 of these individuals,

00:10:35.540 and we've seen a lot

00:10:36.180 of this come out,

00:10:36.660 and I want to do

00:10:37.060 a deep dive into this,

00:10:39.000 is there legal recourse now

00:10:40.840 for the people

00:10:41.760 that clearly were put

00:10:42.840 on these lists?

00:10:43.560 And there's a lot

00:10:44.320 of conservatives

00:10:44.980 that are now

00:10:45.600 on this list

00:10:46.180 that we know of.

00:10:47.860 There's obviously

00:10:48.560 going to be more

00:10:49.160 that we're going to find out

00:10:49.940 about.

00:10:50.060 Where their tweets

00:10:51.200 were silenced,

00:10:52.020 their accounts

00:10:52.460 were silenced,

00:10:53.100 and even shut down.

00:10:54.640 If you are one

00:10:55.760 of those individuals,

00:10:56.960 is there a real chance

00:10:58.600 that you could actually sue

00:11:00.140 because of this

00:11:01.260 and possibly win?

00:11:03.000 Absolutely, yes.

00:11:04.060 Let's go to the next tweet

00:11:05.140 because it actually

00:11:05.960 goes directly

00:11:06.600 to the question

00:11:07.140 you just asked.

00:11:08.920 So,

00:11:09.820 celebrities

00:11:11.080 and unknowns alike

00:11:12.780 could be removed

00:11:14.520 or reviewed

00:11:15.240 at the behest

00:11:15.900 of a political party.

00:11:17.820 And if you go

00:11:18.920 to the attachment here,

00:11:21.000 I grabbed the first one

00:11:22.820 under SI,

00:11:23.520 defer to safety

00:11:24.120 on the high profile,

00:11:24.980 second one.

00:11:26.180 So,

00:11:26.600 the first one,

00:11:27.420 someone who I don't think

00:11:29.020 is well known,

00:11:30.240 but apparently

00:11:30.680 that poor fellow

00:11:31.800 tweeted something

00:11:32.560 that Biden and the DNC

00:11:34.220 didn't like

00:11:34.820 and Twitter promptly

00:11:35.640 squashed him.

00:11:37.060 The second one there

00:11:38.220 is a tweet

00:11:40.380 from James Wood,

00:11:41.280 the actor.

00:11:42.400 And so,

00:11:43.920 the tweet says,

00:11:45.000 or the email says,

00:11:45.980 an additional report

00:11:47.160 from the DNC,

00:11:48.120 and they forward

00:11:48.920 a tweet

00:11:49.900 James Woods sent

00:11:50.940 and Twitter responded

00:11:52.420 by immediately

00:11:53.260 banning James Woods.

00:11:54.940 And he has said,

00:11:55.840 I am going to sue on this.

00:11:57.240 I'm not backing down.

00:11:59.020 Does he have grounds?

00:12:00.000 Because we hear a lot of people

00:12:00.800 say a lot of times

00:12:01.420 they're going to sue.

00:12:02.860 These emails

00:12:03.880 give him what he actually

00:12:05.720 needs for a case

00:12:07.040 is what I've been told

00:12:08.300 from several others

00:12:09.060 who said,

00:12:09.400 hey,

00:12:09.600 this is bad news

00:12:10.680 for the DNC

00:12:11.500 and it's bad news

00:12:13.280 for Twitter in general

00:12:15.260 going backwards.

00:12:16.180 Twitter will get sued.

00:12:17.200 Biden will get sued.

00:12:18.340 The DNC will get sued.

00:12:20.180 James Woods has said

00:12:21.280 on Fox

00:12:21.920 that his career

00:12:22.960 was destroyed

00:12:24.700 by what the DNC

00:12:26.080 was doing.

00:12:26.700 That Twitter acting

00:12:27.780 to ban him

00:12:29.520 ended up hurting

00:12:30.460 his acting career.

00:12:31.460 And so,

00:12:31.740 one of the things

00:12:32.220 you have to prove

00:12:33.120 in a defamation suit

00:12:35.060 is you have to prove

00:12:35.900 damages.

00:12:36.740 Right.

00:12:38.260 I think there's

00:12:39.120 a very real chance

00:12:40.040 someone like James Woods

00:12:41.440 will be able to.

00:12:42.140 All right,

00:12:42.280 let's go to the next tweet.

00:12:43.540 So,

00:12:44.520 this is shifting

00:12:45.200 into Hunter Biden.

00:12:46.640 So,

00:12:47.020 the Hunter Biden

00:12:47.560 laptop story

00:12:48.400 comes out.

00:12:49.240 It's October

00:12:49.880 of 2020.

00:12:51.360 It's right before

00:12:51.920 the election.

00:12:52.600 The New York Post

00:12:53.420 publishes it.

00:12:54.900 And then,

00:12:56.020 this is reading

00:12:56.720 from this tweet,

00:12:57.620 Twitter took

00:12:58.100 extraordinary steps

00:12:59.260 to suppress the story,

00:13:00.700 the Hunter Biden

00:13:01.180 laptop story.

00:13:02.600 Removing links

00:13:03.440 and posting warnings

00:13:05.580 that it may be

00:13:07.300 unsafe.

00:13:09.180 Reading this story

00:13:10.240 may be unsafe.

00:13:11.140 They even blocked

00:13:13.040 its transmission

00:13:14.040 via direct message.

00:13:17.260 A tool

00:13:18.420 hitherto reserved

00:13:19.940 for extreme cases,

00:13:22.360 e.g.

00:13:22.860 child pornography.

00:13:24.160 So, 0.94

00:13:24.620 they decided

00:13:25.420 we're going to use

00:13:25.980 every tool we can

00:13:27.060 to nuke

00:13:28.360 the Hunter Biden

00:13:29.560 laptop story.

00:13:30.440 In essence,

00:13:31.140 taking the Hunter Biden

00:13:33.420 story

00:13:33.860 and making sure

00:13:35.320 that you couldn't

00:13:35.860 share it

00:13:36.320 as if it was

00:13:37.280 child pornography.

00:13:38.020 They used the same 0.92

00:13:39.160 exact technology

00:13:41.520 and importance

00:13:43.420 within Twitter

00:13:44.420 to say,

00:13:45.260 this story

00:13:46.380 is so damning

00:13:47.360 to Joe Biden,

00:13:48.560 to the Democratic Party,

00:13:50.380 to this presidential election,

00:13:52.360 and obviously Twitter

00:13:53.580 was acting as an agent

00:13:54.520 of the Democratic

00:13:55.040 National Committee

00:13:55.680 and the Joe Biden campaign,

00:13:57.400 that we will treat it

00:13:58.700 like it is

00:13:59.620 child pornography

00:14:00.280 to make sure

00:14:00.820 this story

00:14:01.400 can never get out

00:14:02.400 to the masses.

00:14:03.300 What I think is funny

00:14:04.200 is the use of the word

00:14:05.300 unsafe.

00:14:05.980 Because,

00:14:06.460 you know,

00:14:06.620 you think of unsafe,

00:14:07.760 like reading this

00:14:08.740 may damage you.

00:14:10.200 You know,

00:14:10.540 you think in the

00:14:11.660 online world

00:14:13.120 this has a virus in it.

00:14:14.420 Like there's something

00:14:15.080 unsafe about this.

00:14:16.320 Website's unsafe.

00:14:17.160 You don't want to go there.

00:14:18.760 No, no.

00:14:19.100 What they meant

00:14:19.680 about unsafe

00:14:20.520 is it's not safe

00:14:22.060 for the political fortunes

00:14:23.260 of Joe Biden

00:14:23.820 and the Democrats.

00:14:24.500 That if you read

00:14:25.140 this article,

00:14:26.360 it's going to hurt

00:14:27.260 the candidate we support.

00:14:28.880 All right,

00:14:29.020 let's go to the next one.

00:14:30.280 So how far did they go?

00:14:32.420 White House spokeswoman

00:14:33.440 Kayleigh McEnany

00:14:34.280 was locked out

00:14:35.800 of her account

00:14:36.660 for tweeting

00:14:38.240 about the story,

00:14:39.920 prompting a furious letter

00:14:41.380 from Trump campaign

00:14:42.540 staffer Mike Hahn

00:14:43.840 who seethed,

00:14:45.280 quote,

00:14:46.360 at least pretend

00:14:47.940 to care

00:14:48.520 for the next 20 days.

00:14:50.540 The next 20 days

00:14:51.280 was until the election.

00:14:52.860 And if you look

00:14:53.680 at this email

00:14:54.780 that the campaign

00:14:56.540 staffer sent to Twitter,

00:14:57.800 Kayleigh McEnany

00:14:58.360 has been knocked

00:14:58.960 out of her account

00:14:59.600 for simply talking

00:15:00.640 about the New York Post story.

00:15:02.920 All she did

00:15:03.620 is cite the story

00:15:04.540 and firsthand reporting

00:15:05.720 that has been reported

00:15:06.460 by other outlets.

00:15:07.980 When the story came out,

00:15:08.980 Joe Biden didn't say

00:15:09.880 this is not my son's laptop.

00:15:11.220 Joe Biden didn't say

00:15:11.960 this is false.

00:15:12.720 He didn't say

00:15:13.140 it was fraudulent.

00:15:13.840 He just said, 0.99

00:15:14.280 oh, crap, 0.99

00:15:14.660 this is bad. 0.99

00:15:15.780 Please, no one read it

00:15:16.960 because I don't like

00:15:17.560 the outcome.

00:15:18.140 It makes me look really bad.

00:15:20.000 The email continues.

00:15:21.300 I need an answer immediately

00:15:22.460 on when,

00:15:23.260 how she will be unlocked.

00:15:25.020 I also don't appreciate

00:15:26.300 how nobody on this team

00:15:27.480 called me regarding the news

00:15:29.060 that you'll be censoring

00:15:30.820 news articles.

00:15:31.780 Like I said,

00:15:32.920 at least to pretend

00:15:34.600 to care

00:15:35.480 for the next 20 days.

00:15:37.620 Look,

00:15:38.800 this is the White House

00:15:40.240 press secretary

00:15:41.360 that Twitter bans

00:15:44.680 less than three weeks

00:15:46.400 before a presidential election.

00:15:48.480 Why?

00:15:50.160 Because Joe Biden

00:15:51.460 and the Democrats

00:15:52.220 wanted this story suppressed

00:15:54.880 and the arrogance

00:15:56.280 of we will silence anyone.

00:15:58.680 So now,

00:15:59.920 according to Big Tech,

00:16:01.980 the White House press secretary

00:16:03.740 cannot talk about articles

00:16:05.680 in major newspapers.

00:16:07.500 The New York Post

00:16:08.320 has the fourth largest circulation

00:16:09.760 of any newspaper

00:16:10.880 in the country

00:16:11.580 that,

00:16:12.460 as we now know,

00:16:13.220 are true and accurate

00:16:14.360 news stories

00:16:15.140 but are politically damaging

00:16:17.160 to the side

00:16:18.420 Twitter wants to prevail.

00:16:19.400 If you're Kayleigh McEnany

00:16:21.120 and you see now

00:16:22.900 what was happening

00:16:23.520 behind the scenes,

00:16:25.120 what are her options legally?

00:16:26.840 Can she do anything

00:16:28.040 because she was at the White House?

00:16:29.480 Because that's what I think

00:16:30.440 many Democrats are betting on as well.

00:16:32.540 This was the fog of war.

00:16:34.080 That's what they kept

00:16:34.600 going back to, right?

00:16:35.500 We didn't,

00:16:35.940 we were so concerned

00:16:36.980 about Russian disinformation.

00:16:38.680 That's our get out of jail

00:16:39.880 free card.

00:16:40.860 And we were just trying

00:16:42.480 to protect the integrity

00:16:43.540 of an election.

00:16:44.540 They're going to go back to that.

00:16:45.880 That's their game plan here.

00:16:47.620 And Ben,

00:16:48.040 it's why what Elon Musk

00:16:49.420 is doing is so important

00:16:50.640 because they could maintain

00:16:52.580 that a couple of days ago.

00:16:53.680 They could say,

00:16:54.300 oh, it was fog of war.

00:16:54.980 We were doing it

00:16:55.520 because we thought

00:16:55.940 it might be hacked.

00:16:56.680 We were doing it.

00:16:57.880 What Elon is doing

00:16:59.080 is releasing the goods.

00:17:00.240 And so let's get through

00:17:00.920 a few more of these

00:17:01.720 because it will show

00:17:02.860 that the lefty Twitter defense

00:17:05.880 is just complete BS.

00:17:07.420 So let's get to the next one.

00:17:09.780 You can see the confusion

00:17:11.020 in the following lengthy exchange

00:17:13.260 which ends up

00:17:15.140 including Gaddy

00:17:16.600 and former trust

00:17:18.080 and safety chief

00:17:19.100 Yoel Roth.

00:17:20.840 Com's official

00:17:21.640 Trenton Kennedy writes,

00:17:23.300 quote,

00:17:23.980 I'm struggling to understand

00:17:25.460 the policy basis

00:17:26.560 for marking this as unsafe.

00:17:28.200 And let's read the exchange

00:17:29.880 in close.

00:17:31.520 So this is October 14th, 2020.

00:17:34.400 So just a couple of weeks

00:17:35.180 before the election.

00:17:36.800 New York Post

00:17:37.700 Hunter Biden laptop article,

00:17:39.640 privileged and confidential.

00:17:41.380 Uh-oh,

00:17:41.700 I don't want to get sued.

00:17:42.600 Let me,

00:17:43.040 you put privilege

00:17:43.960 and confidential on something

00:17:45.160 when you're afraid

00:17:45.720 of getting sued.

00:17:46.620 Really?

00:17:46.900 And you're saying

00:17:47.600 this email

00:17:48.380 will really hurt us

00:17:49.980 and cause us to lose

00:17:50.880 if we get sued.

00:17:52.380 Our teams continue

00:17:53.660 to investigate

00:17:54.380 the origins

00:17:55.080 of the material

00:17:55.880 included in the reporting.

00:17:57.660 Trenton Kennedy

00:17:58.360 is the comms official.

00:18:00.340 I'm struggling

00:18:01.020 to understand

00:18:02.020 the policy basis

00:18:03.280 for marking this

00:18:04.180 as unsafe.

00:18:05.120 No kidding.

00:18:05.820 And I think

00:18:07.640 the best

00:18:08.380 explainability argument,

00:18:10.360 okay,

00:18:10.600 we've got to figure out

00:18:11.200 a way to explain it.

00:18:12.280 We banned it

00:18:13.080 because it hurts Biden.

00:18:14.080 That's not a good answer.

00:18:15.100 So I think

00:18:16.080 the best explainability argument

00:18:17.700 for this externally.

00:18:20.020 Not internally,

00:18:21.120 externally.

00:18:21.840 Internally,

00:18:22.280 we know exactly

00:18:22.980 what we're doing.

00:18:23.460 But externally,

00:18:24.060 we've got to figure out

00:18:24.740 something to say.

00:18:25.920 Would be that

00:18:26.820 we're waiting

00:18:27.480 to understand

00:18:28.700 if this story

00:18:30.360 is the result

00:18:30.980 of hacked materials.

00:18:31.880 we'll face

00:18:33.300 hard questions

00:18:34.160 if we don't have

00:18:35.000 some kind

00:18:35.800 of solid reasoning

00:18:37.460 for marking

00:18:38.740 the link unsafe.

00:18:40.860 And Katie Roseborough

00:18:42.160 comes and says,

00:18:43.780 will we mark

00:18:44.460 similar stories

00:18:45.260 as unsafe?

00:18:45.960 And she points out

00:18:46.920 that the Senate

00:18:48.740 Homeland Security

00:18:49.560 Committee

00:18:50.100 was investigating

00:18:51.180 the hard drive

00:18:51.800 in the laptop.

00:18:53.320 No answer to that.

00:18:54.400 Let's go to the next one.

00:18:56.040 By this point,

00:18:57.600 everyone knew

00:18:58.640 this was EFT.

00:18:59.880 Yeah.

00:19:00.300 And they didn't

00:19:01.160 abbreviate EFT.

00:19:02.680 Said one

00:19:03.480 former employee.

00:19:06.000 But the response

00:19:06.960 was essentially

00:19:07.920 to err on the side

00:19:09.600 of continuing to err.

00:19:12.060 Now, let's look

00:19:12.720 at the exchange

00:19:13.680 back and forth.

00:19:14.640 And to be clear,

00:19:15.040 this means

00:19:15.400 let's just run out

00:19:16.240 the clock.

00:19:16.940 Close to election day.

00:19:18.580 If we can just

00:19:19.960 run out the clock here

00:19:21.480 until the election,

00:19:23.640 by default,

00:19:24.580 if we win,

00:19:25.080 we're good.

00:19:25.660 We succeeded

00:19:26.460 in our goal,

00:19:27.500 which was to make sure

00:19:28.540 that Joe Biden

00:19:29.160 won the election

00:19:29.840 and Donald Trump

00:19:30.760 lost the election

00:19:31.620 and other Republicans

00:19:32.920 lose in the process

00:19:33.860 that are down ticket.

00:19:35.100 We just got to be smart

00:19:37.100 for 20 days,

00:19:38.560 19 days,

00:19:39.480 18 days.

00:19:40.240 We're on a countdown clock,

00:19:41.360 guys.

00:19:41.620 We can pull this off

00:19:42.580 for our team.

00:19:43.480 That's exactly right.

00:19:44.900 And they know

00:19:46.260 what they're doing

00:19:47.400 is political.

00:19:48.360 It's utterly transparent.

00:19:50.120 Look,

00:19:50.360 they're going back and forth.

00:19:51.280 Yoel Roth,

00:19:52.020 who was one of the senior

00:19:52.780 officials at Twitter,

00:19:54.360 the policy basis

00:19:56.000 is hacked materials.

00:19:57.460 Though,

00:19:58.780 as discussed,

00:20:00.160 this is an emerging

00:20:01.320 situation where the facts

00:20:02.700 remain unclear.

00:20:03.680 In other words,

00:20:04.440 we don't know

00:20:05.000 that this is hacked.

00:20:05.980 We're just making this up.

00:20:07.440 By the way,

00:20:07.740 it wasn't.

00:20:08.720 But they didn't know

00:20:10.160 it was.

00:20:10.580 Now,

00:20:10.760 here's the most

00:20:12.460 revealing sentence

00:20:13.560 of all of this.

00:20:15.860 Given the severe,

00:20:17.900 severe as in all caps,

00:20:19.700 risks here

00:20:20.560 and lessons

00:20:22.460 of 2016,

00:20:24.240 we're erring

00:20:26.420 on the side

00:20:27.240 of including

00:20:27.820 a warning

00:20:28.440 and preventing

00:20:30.460 this content

00:20:31.640 from being amplified.

00:20:33.660 Now,

00:20:34.180 what were the lessons

00:20:35.180 of 2016?

00:20:36.520 I'm trying to remember

00:20:37.560 and go back to 2016.

00:20:39.640 Well,

00:20:40.220 there was this guy

00:20:40.900 named Donald J. Trump

00:20:41.940 who won.

00:20:42.840 Yeah.

00:20:43.600 And the severe risks here

00:20:45.580 is Donald Trump

00:20:46.620 winning again. 0.99

00:20:47.440 Holy crap. 0.99

00:20:48.280 If people read 0.95

00:20:49.400 what Hunter Biden

00:20:50.240 and Joe Biden

00:20:50.900 were doing,

00:20:51.480 if they read

00:20:52.200 the corruption,

00:20:53.520 they're not going

00:20:54.120 to vote for that guy,

00:20:55.300 which means

00:20:55.940 the guy we hate

00:20:56.980 will get reelected.

00:20:59.280 They're admitting

00:21:00.120 here's what's the risk.

00:21:01.420 The risk is Trump wins.

00:21:03.840 So we're going to...

00:21:04.360 Not a story.

00:21:05.140 Nothing connected

00:21:05.920 to Hillary Clinton

00:21:06.500 back in the day.

00:21:07.340 They're literally saying

00:21:08.420 the risk is

00:21:09.260 Donald Trump wins

00:21:10.220 another four-year term.

00:21:12.200 That's exactly right.

00:21:13.360 All right,

00:21:13.520 let's go to the next tweet.

00:21:15.300 All right.

00:21:16.260 So the former

00:21:17.180 vice president

00:21:18.320 of global communications,

00:21:20.060 a guy named

00:21:20.280 Brandon Borman,

00:21:21.300 asks,

00:21:22.200 can we truthfully claim

00:21:24.600 that this is part

00:21:26.320 of the policy?

00:21:27.040 And let's pull up

00:21:28.440 the full context.

00:21:30.200 Brandon Borman knew.

00:21:31.640 To Ian's point,

00:21:33.420 can we truthfully claim

00:21:34.960 that this is part

00:21:35.640 of the policy?

00:21:36.420 I.e.,

00:21:37.340 as part of our approach

00:21:38.800 in addressing

00:21:39.360 potentially hacked materials,

00:21:41.180 we are limiting visibility

00:21:42.860 of related stories

00:21:43.900 on Twitter

00:21:44.400 while our investigation

00:21:45.520 is ongoing.

00:21:46.900 Now,

00:21:47.280 this is a brief moment

00:21:48.340 of,

00:21:48.960 okay,

00:21:49.160 we're lying.

00:21:50.340 Everyone knows

00:21:50.980 we're lying.

00:21:51.560 But do we have

00:21:52.980 any fig leaf

00:21:53.760 to pretend

00:21:54.500 that we're following

00:21:56.200 a policy

00:21:56.880 and we're not

00:21:57.840 simply doing

00:21:58.500 the behest

00:21:59.080 of Joe Biden

00:22:00.040 and the Democrats?

00:22:00.360 Is this almost

00:22:01.060 like a conspiracy

00:22:03.060 to commit fraud?

00:22:05.160 Where if you,

00:22:06.120 the way that they're talking...

00:22:07.160 I agree with every word

00:22:07.860 you said

00:22:08.260 except for the word

00:22:09.000 almost.

00:22:09.980 It is.

00:22:10.900 Conspiracy to commit fraud.

00:22:12.200 This is a conspiracy

00:22:13.440 to defraud

00:22:15.040 the American people,

00:22:16.160 to defraud

00:22:16.640 the American voters,

00:22:17.720 to defraud democracy.

00:22:19.440 This is,

00:22:20.140 to use the term

00:22:21.060 that Donald Trump likes,

00:22:22.260 this is rigging

00:22:22.820 an election.

00:22:24.040 This is,

00:22:24.560 this is conspiring...

00:22:25.760 Hold on,

00:22:25.980 I want you to say that again

00:22:26.900 because it's a very important

00:22:27.940 point that you just set.

00:22:30.340 This is evidence

00:22:31.680 of rigging an election.

00:22:33.520 Now,

00:22:33.940 it's not rigging

00:22:35.020 an election

00:22:35.580 in the sense

00:22:36.420 of Venezuela

00:22:38.020 hacking into

00:22:39.340 voting machines.

00:22:40.480 Right.

00:22:41.220 But it is rigging

00:22:42.100 an election

00:22:42.680 in the sense

00:22:43.520 of big tech

00:22:45.340 billionaires

00:22:46.400 at the behest

00:22:48.320 of one of the two parties

00:22:49.880 silencing

00:22:51.640 and censoring

00:22:53.140 and blocking 0.52

00:22:54.080 truthful reporting

00:22:56.180 about facts

00:22:58.360 that would change

00:23:00.160 how people vote.

00:23:01.800 So,

00:23:02.060 then there's an issue...

00:23:02.880 By the way,

00:23:03.300 you know,

00:23:03.480 you know who does this?

00:23:05.280 Putin does this.

00:23:06.660 You know who else does this?

00:23:08.380 China.

00:23:08.600 She does this.

00:23:09.240 This is how dictators behave.

00:23:12.060 If we have facts

00:23:12.960 you don't want to see,

00:23:14.300 right now,

00:23:15.160 Communist China

00:23:15.960 is stopping the protesters

00:23:17.380 from communicating

00:23:19.000 exactly the same way

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00:23:22.180 at the behest

00:23:22.720 of the Biden White House.

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00:25:31.640 Let's keep going

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00:25:33.180 Okay, now this is

00:25:33.820 a very interesting one.

00:25:35.540 To which former

00:25:36.280 Deputy General Counsel

00:25:37.680 Jim Baker

00:25:38.360 again seeks to advise

00:25:39.900 staying the non-course

00:25:41.740 because, quote,

00:25:42.680 caution is warranted.

00:25:44.280 Let's pull up

00:25:44.760 exactly what Baker said.

00:25:46.460 Jim Baker knew

00:25:47.300 privileged and confidential.

00:25:48.600 Notice the lawyer

00:25:49.160 sticks privilege

00:25:49.760 and confidential. 0.98

00:25:51.040 That's, oh crap, 0.82

00:25:52.040 this is a document 0.96

00:25:52.820 that would be really bad

00:25:53.720 if anyone sees.

00:25:55.320 By the way,

00:25:55.800 the thing that has

00:25:56.380 totally screwed them all

00:25:57.380 is Elon Musk

00:25:58.920 bought the company

00:25:59.620 and so you can always

00:26:01.160 waive privilege.

00:26:01.860 The fact that Elon Musk

00:26:02.760 decided to release it,

00:26:03.860 it's Twitter that has

00:26:04.760 the privilege.

00:26:05.540 Yeah.

00:26:05.800 So in litigation...

00:26:06.940 Not the individual.

00:26:07.720 Right.

00:26:08.760 Because Twitter

00:26:09.480 is the client.

00:26:10.220 So attorney-client privilege,

00:26:12.900 the client owns

00:26:14.220 and possesses it.

00:26:15.140 The client can waive

00:26:16.160 attorney-client privilege.

00:26:17.220 So when Jim Baker

00:26:18.760 typed this,

00:26:20.880 he figured,

00:26:21.540 well, Jack Dorsey

00:26:22.260 owns Twitter,

00:26:22.860 so Twitter will never

00:26:23.580 name this privilege.

00:26:24.640 And the relevance of this

00:26:25.840 is if you had a lawsuit

00:26:26.880 and the other side

00:26:28.980 filed for discovery

00:26:30.120 and tried to get

00:26:30.940 this email...

00:26:32.500 Anything that's labeled

00:26:33.640 privilege and confidential

00:26:34.640 off the record

00:26:35.640 at that point

00:26:36.180 or a lot of it,

00:26:36.880 you'd have an argument.

00:26:37.540 You would have an argument

00:26:38.500 in front of the court

00:26:39.340 about whether it was

00:26:40.160 in fact privilege,

00:26:41.340 whether it was

00:26:41.820 attorney-client privilege,

00:26:43.120 whether it was advice

00:26:43.920 being given to the client,

00:26:45.240 and there are ways

00:26:45.820 to waive that privilege,

00:26:46.840 but the simplest one

00:26:47.760 is for the client

00:26:48.400 to say,

00:26:48.960 I waive it,

00:26:49.760 which is what

00:26:50.380 Elon Musk has done

00:26:51.380 by releasing it.

00:26:52.420 So let's see

00:26:52.920 what Jim Baker says.

00:26:54.520 I support the conclusion

00:26:55.740 that we need more facts

00:26:56.960 to assess

00:26:57.580 whether the materials

00:26:59.100 were hacked.

00:26:59.620 In other words,

00:26:59.980 he's admitting

00:27:00.460 we don't know

00:27:00.880 if they were hacked or not.

00:27:02.440 At this stage, however,

00:27:04.440 it is reasonable

00:27:06.020 for us to assume

00:27:07.160 that they may have been

00:27:08.280 and that caution

00:27:10.280 is warranted.

00:27:11.020 By the way,

00:27:11.580 the Biden campaign

00:27:12.360 wasn't saying

00:27:12.820 they were hacked.

00:27:13.280 Never once

00:27:14.480 they say

00:27:14.900 the laptop

00:27:15.380 wasn't true.

00:27:16.160 Never once

00:27:16.740 the campaign

00:27:17.160 say that it was inaccurate.

00:27:19.340 Never once

00:27:20.020 they come out

00:27:20.500 and condemn it

00:27:21.140 or say anything

00:27:22.020 negative about it.

00:27:22.680 They were silenced

00:27:23.420 because they understood

00:27:24.100 that they couldn't

00:27:25.220 say that.

00:27:26.620 The email continues.

00:27:28.920 There are some facts

00:27:29.900 that indicate

00:27:30.600 that the materials

00:27:31.540 may have been hacked,

00:27:33.000 while there are others

00:27:34.100 indicating that

00:27:34.860 the computer

00:27:35.380 was either abandoned

00:27:36.440 and or the owner

00:27:37.960 consented to allow

00:27:39.100 the repair shop

00:27:39.980 to access it

00:27:40.880 for at least

00:27:42.200 some purposes.

00:27:43.220 We simply need

00:27:44.180 more information.

00:27:45.960 Now,

00:27:47.020 who is Jim Baker?

00:27:48.940 He was the general

00:27:49.680 counsel of Twitter.

00:27:50.680 Do you know what he did

00:27:51.440 before that?

00:27:52.300 What was his job

00:27:52.900 before that?

00:27:53.760 He was the general

00:27:54.460 counsel of the FBI

00:27:55.300 who, by the way...

00:27:57.280 Let everyone just

00:27:58.260 take a moment

00:27:58.700 to digest that.

00:27:59.620 That's a really big deal.

00:28:01.080 The FBI general counsel

00:28:03.080 who was...

00:28:03.660 Which is not a little job.

00:28:04.780 Explain how big

00:28:05.740 of a job that is

00:28:06.320 the FBI.

00:28:06.460 It's a huge job

00:28:07.680 in the FBI

00:28:08.340 and Jim Baker

00:28:09.220 was intimately involved

00:28:10.860 in much of the abuse

00:28:12.320 of power we saw

00:28:13.420 at the FBI.

00:28:14.820 He then runs over

00:28:16.320 and is at Twitter

00:28:18.060 doing the same thing,

00:28:19.380 continuing.

00:28:20.040 And one of the things

00:28:20.740 that comes out

00:28:21.400 in this thread

00:28:22.060 is how much

00:28:23.760 of a continuous web

00:28:25.280 it is

00:28:25.660 from the deep state

00:28:26.600 at the FBI

00:28:27.360 to big tech

00:28:29.560 and Twitter

00:28:30.100 which is willingly

00:28:31.060 part of the FBI's

00:28:32.680 effort to silence

00:28:34.220 dissent

00:28:34.940 from those

00:28:36.580 they disagree with.

00:28:37.640 It really is stunning

00:28:38.760 that it's literally

00:28:39.420 the same people.

00:28:41.320 Can I hit pause

00:28:42.440 on Twitter for a second?

00:28:43.880 And again,

00:28:44.860 I know that you don't know

00:28:45.860 but I think we can speculate

00:28:46.860 at this point.

00:28:48.160 If this was going on

00:28:49.640 at Twitter,

00:28:50.540 is there any

00:28:51.640 ounce

00:28:53.080 of your thought process

00:28:55.020 that thinks

00:28:55.480 that somehow

00:28:55.980 other big tech companies

00:28:57.180 like Facebook

00:28:57.780 were not doing

00:28:58.580 the exact same thing,

00:29:00.400 getting the exact

00:29:01.080 same emails,

00:29:02.560 having the exact

00:29:03.520 same communications

00:29:04.540 that we're now

00:29:05.220 seeing revealed

00:29:05.720 by Elon Musk?

00:29:06.580 They all were

00:29:07.880 and the mothership

00:29:08.700 is Google.

00:29:09.660 Google and they

00:29:10.420 own YouTube.

00:29:11.960 Google is the biggest

00:29:12.960 and the most powerful.

00:29:14.460 Twitter was the most brazen.

00:29:16.200 Like Dorsey was just

00:29:17.520 screw it all. 0.94

00:29:19.960 We're leftists 0.97

00:29:20.980 and we're proud.

00:29:22.980 But we know

00:29:23.800 Facebook was doing this.

00:29:25.020 They did the same thing

00:29:25.880 on the Hunter Biden story.

00:29:27.220 And Google is where

00:29:28.660 you have the biggest impact.

00:29:30.360 And so

00:29:30.660 I guarantee you

00:29:32.080 Google and Facebook

00:29:32.960 are both looking at this

00:29:34.120 going, 0.96

00:29:34.620 oh crap, 0.99

00:29:35.160 oh crap, 1.00

00:29:36.180 you're airing 1.00

00:29:36.660 dirty laundry.

00:29:37.440 Don't talk about this

00:29:38.280 in public.

00:29:39.080 First rule of Fight Club

00:29:40.160 is you don't talk

00:29:40.840 about Fight Club.

00:29:42.520 This,

00:29:43.540 for all of big tech

00:29:45.260 and the abuse of power,

00:29:46.760 this is pulling back

00:29:47.560 the curtain.

00:29:47.960 Let's go to the next one.

00:29:49.420 Although several sources

00:29:50.660 recalled hearing

00:29:51.480 about a quote

00:29:52.160 general warning

00:29:53.280 from federal law enforcement

00:29:54.600 that summer

00:29:55.660 about possible

00:29:56.660 foreign hacks,

00:29:58.380 there's no evidence

00:29:59.220 that I've seen

00:30:00.000 of any government

00:30:01.940 involvement

00:30:02.460 in the laptop story.

00:30:03.640 In fact,

00:30:04.680 that might have been

00:30:05.920 the problem.

00:30:06.660 Let's go on to the next one.

00:30:08.720 Quote,

00:30:09.740 they just freelanced it.

00:30:12.160 End quote.

00:30:13.120 Is how one former employee

00:30:14.940 characterized the decision.

00:30:16.900 Quote,

00:30:17.960 hacking was the excuse,

00:30:20.140 but within a few hours

00:30:21.240 pretty much

00:30:21.760 everyone realized

00:30:23.320 that wasn't going to hold.

00:30:25.820 But no one had the guts

00:30:28.020 to reverse it.

00:30:29.880 Now stop and think about that.

00:30:31.120 Like they made up

00:30:32.020 this hacking thing.

00:30:33.740 That was the alibi.

00:30:35.040 Nobody was claiming it.

00:30:37.060 Including the candidate,

00:30:38.120 including Hunter Biden.

00:30:39.520 Right.

00:30:39.960 If Hunter Biden

00:30:40.640 came forward

00:30:41.160 and said,

00:30:41.440 this is not my laptop.

00:30:42.760 Okay,

00:30:43.020 that might be something.

00:30:44.180 If Hunter Biden

00:30:44.660 had come forward

00:30:45.100 and said,

00:30:45.460 my laptop was hacked,

00:30:46.800 you might at least

00:30:47.420 have something.

00:30:47.960 None of that happened.

00:30:49.120 Twitter just made it up. 0.98

00:30:50.720 Oh crap, 0.98

00:30:51.220 bad stuff for Joe Biden. 0.99

00:30:52.400 I know it's hacked.

00:30:53.880 But within hours,

00:30:54.940 let me read again

00:30:55.640 the quote

00:30:56.120 from one former employee.

00:30:57.340 Within hours,

00:30:57.960 pretty much everyone realized

00:30:59.300 that wasn't going to hold.

00:31:00.460 But no one had the guts

00:31:01.920 to reverse it.

00:31:02.560 So they knew they were lying,

00:31:03.780 but they thought

00:31:04.160 they'd never get caught.

00:31:05.420 Next tweet.

00:31:07.040 All right.

00:31:07.700 An amazing subplot

00:31:09.400 of the Twitter

00:31:10.660 slash Hunter Biden

00:31:11.720 laptop affair

00:31:12.660 was how much was done

00:31:14.780 without the knowledge

00:31:15.760 of CEO Jack Dorsey

00:31:17.160 and how long it took

00:31:19.400 for the situation

00:31:20.440 to get un-effed.

00:31:22.460 Yeah.

00:31:22.760 Again,

00:31:23.200 they didn't abbreviate effed,

00:31:24.720 but we're,

00:31:25.560 this is a child-friendly show,

00:31:27.260 so we're doing so.

00:31:28.500 As one ex-employee put it,

00:31:30.120 even after Dorsey

00:31:32.900 jumped in.

00:31:34.880 So,

00:31:35.940 listen,

00:31:36.620 I don't exonerate Dorsey

00:31:37.780 in this.

00:31:39.340 He created a culture

00:31:40.900 where he put in place

00:31:43.020 decision makers

00:31:44.340 who were hard partisans,

00:31:47.580 who hated Donald Trump,

00:31:49.620 who wanted Biden to win,

00:31:51.620 and were willing

00:31:52.220 to do anything.

00:31:53.220 We're willing to lie.

00:31:54.340 We're willing to act

00:31:55.740 at the behest

00:31:56.400 of the Biden campaign.

00:31:57.580 Remember the exchange

00:31:59.220 at the beginning.

00:31:59.800 Handled it.

00:32:00.280 Handled it.

00:32:00.760 Yeah.

00:32:01.140 They viewed themselves

00:32:02.620 as we have an obligation.

00:32:05.320 What's the obligation?

00:32:07.200 Learn from the,

00:32:08.540 quote,

00:32:08.640 lessons of 2016

00:32:10.340 and make sure

00:32:11.980 it doesn't happen again.

00:32:13.100 There's been a lot

00:32:13.880 of reporting

00:32:14.420 saying Jack Dorsey,

00:32:15.940 as it's mentioned there,

00:32:17.040 knew nothing.

00:32:18.240 Was that on purpose

00:32:19.240 by these employees,

00:32:20.300 or do you think

00:32:20.760 maybe he said,

00:32:21.620 leave me out of it

00:32:22.660 so I have the ability,

00:32:24.120 you know,

00:32:24.400 denyability,

00:32:25.200 or do you think

00:32:26.280 they just knew

00:32:26.960 their marching orders

00:32:27.620 so well,

00:32:28.160 we can do this

00:32:29.100 and this is normal

00:32:30.040 act of business for us,

00:32:31.440 we're just going

00:32:31.920 to keep doing it.

00:32:32.480 We don't need to call him

00:32:33.280 because this is what

00:32:34.040 we've been doing

00:32:34.540 for all these other stories

00:32:35.800 possibly.

00:32:36.460 You know,

00:32:36.840 some combination.

00:32:38.140 Who knows?

00:32:38.780 Who knows where he was?

00:32:39.980 Who knows what he was doing?

00:32:41.140 Who knows what his state

00:32:41.900 of mind was

00:32:42.800 at the time this was happening?

00:32:44.320 I don't know any of that.

00:32:45.940 Because you've actually

00:32:46.960 questioned Dorsey.

00:32:48.220 I have questioned Dorsey.

00:32:49.320 And it got pretty intense

00:32:50.960 when you were questioning him.

00:32:52.180 We have gotten into it

00:32:53.900 on this topic

00:32:55.280 and in a subsequent verdict

00:32:56.500 we'll pull up

00:32:57.380 and go back to Dorsey's

00:32:58.960 testimony before Congress

00:33:00.660 in light of this exchange.

00:33:02.180 That will be

00:33:03.160 one of the podcasts

00:33:04.580 coming up.

00:33:05.380 Let's finish going

00:33:06.180 through this thread.

00:33:07.540 All right,

00:33:07.740 now here's an interesting thing.

00:33:08.880 I'm just going to read this.

00:33:10.620 In one humorous exchange

00:33:11.980 on day one,

00:33:12.900 Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna

00:33:14.500 reaches out to Gaddy

00:33:15.720 to gently suggest

00:33:17.440 she hop on the phone 0.99

00:33:18.360 to talk about

00:33:19.340 the quote

00:33:19.920 backlash re-speech.

00:33:22.780 Khanna was the only 1.00

00:33:24.680 Democratic official

00:33:25.960 I could find

00:33:26.760 in the files

00:33:27.420 who expressed concern.

00:33:29.520 And let's look

00:33:29.900 at his email.

00:33:31.620 Ro Khanna wrote,

00:33:33.080 generating a huge

00:33:34.700 backlash on Hill

00:33:36.280 re-speech.

00:33:38.300 Happy to chat

00:33:39.020 if you're up for it.

00:33:39.900 Best Ro.

00:33:40.900 So,

00:33:41.920 number one,

00:33:42.620 this Democrat Congressman

00:33:43.780 is on a first name basis

00:33:45.180 with these high

00:33:46.500 muckety mucks 0.58

00:33:47.080 at Twitter.

00:33:48.980 Sends him this email.

00:33:50.600 To his credit,

00:33:51.700 look,

00:33:51.980 I don't know Ro Khanna.

00:33:54.680 My understanding is...

00:33:55.680 But at least he understood

00:33:56.160 this is a bad road

00:33:57.260 to go down.

00:33:57.860 He's a left-wing Democrat,

00:33:59.340 but apparently

00:33:59.840 he's one of the very few

00:34:01.420 liberals

00:34:02.200 who actually

00:34:03.020 is a real liberal

00:34:03.880 in that they believe

00:34:04.580 in free speech.

00:34:05.700 But,

00:34:06.140 let's do the next one.

00:34:08.180 Twitter files

00:34:08.960 continued,

00:34:09.580 quote,

00:34:10.080 the First Amendment

00:34:11.760 isn't absolute.

00:34:13.280 Szabo's letter

00:34:14.040 contains chilling passages

00:34:15.580 relaying

00:34:16.340 Democratic lawmakers'

00:34:18.060 attitudes.

00:34:18.860 They want

00:34:19.420 more

00:34:20.360 moderation

00:34:21.560 and as for

00:34:22.340 the Bill of Rights,

00:34:23.120 it's, quote,

00:34:23.680 not absolute.

00:34:24.460 Let's read the whole thing here.

00:34:26.340 The Democrats,

00:34:27.160 meanwhile,

00:34:27.620 complained

00:34:28.060 that the companies 1.00

00:34:28.920 are inept. 0.99

00:34:30.040 They let conservatives 1.00

00:34:31.340 muddy the water

00:34:32.120 and make the Biden campaign

00:34:34.080 look corrupt

00:34:34.800 even though

00:34:35.220 Biden is innocent.

00:34:36.760 They link this

00:34:37.600 to Hillary Clinton's

00:34:38.440 email scandal.

00:34:39.280 She did nothing wrong,

00:34:40.800 but the press

00:34:41.820 wouldn't let the story go.

00:34:43.760 It became a scandal

00:34:44.740 far out of proportion.

00:34:46.460 In their mind,

00:34:47.260 social media

00:34:47.780 is doing the same thing.

00:34:48.820 It doesn't moderate

00:34:49.620 enough harmful content

00:34:51.500 so that when it does,

00:34:53.060 like it did yesterday,

00:34:54.080 it becomes a story.

00:34:55.420 If the companies

00:34:56.460 moderated more,

00:34:58.200 if they censored more,

00:34:59.960 conservatives

00:35:00.460 wouldn't even think

00:35:01.700 to use social media

00:35:03.120 for disinformation,

00:35:04.620 misinformation,

00:35:04.800 or otherwise,

00:35:05.960 and it continues,

00:35:06.660 the Democrats

00:35:07.240 were in agreement.

00:35:08.860 Social media

00:35:09.560 needs to moderate more

00:35:11.560 because they're

00:35:13.200 corrupting democracy

00:35:14.620 and making all,

00:35:16.340 quote,

00:35:16.420 truth relative.

00:35:19.060 When pushed

00:35:19.920 on how the government

00:35:20.760 might insist on that,

00:35:23.900 consistent with

00:35:24.740 the First Amendment,

00:35:25.620 they demurred.

00:35:26.760 Quote,

00:35:27.700 the First Amendment

00:35:28.860 isn't absolute.

00:35:30.260 Now,

00:35:30.880 this guy is a consultant

00:35:32.180 or a lobbyist.

00:35:33.140 I'm not sure

00:35:33.480 what he does exactly,

00:35:34.340 but it's some guy

00:35:35.060 on Capitol Hill

00:35:36.540 who's talking to

00:35:37.720 a whole bunch

00:35:38.240 of Democrat lawmakers

00:35:39.700 right in the middle

00:35:40.460 of this.

00:35:41.320 And he's reporting back

00:35:42.580 that, hey,

00:35:42.920 when I talk to the Democrats,

00:35:44.840 other than Ro Khanna,

00:35:46.280 none of them are unhappy

00:35:47.300 at you censoring this story,

00:35:49.020 but they are unhappy

00:35:50.860 you're not censoring more.

00:35:52.100 The request from Democrats

00:35:53.580 is censor more.

00:35:56.980 In fact,

00:35:57.840 censor so much

00:35:59.200 that conservatives

00:36:00.880 won't even be able

00:36:01.480 to tell you're censoring it

00:36:02.560 because you just

00:36:03.000 silence everything.

00:36:04.460 And that's what they did.

00:36:05.700 Everything was fact-checked.

00:36:07.020 We saw,

00:36:07.660 look,

00:36:08.240 I was at CNN

00:36:09.180 at the time

00:36:09.700 when this was happening

00:36:10.340 as a conservative commentator

00:36:11.560 fighting the tough fight there.

00:36:13.420 We had to deal

00:36:14.280 with media matters

00:36:15.240 and we had to deal

00:36:16.260 with all of the things

00:36:17.280 we were sharing

00:36:18.100 being silenced.

00:36:19.040 And it happened

00:36:19.920 instantaneous.

00:36:21.360 Yep.

00:36:21.700 And now you have to wonder

00:36:23.000 if you're not paranoid,

00:36:24.980 you're just dealing

00:36:25.780 with probably the reality

00:36:26.760 that they said,

00:36:27.380 hey,

00:36:27.900 these conservatives

00:36:28.760 that are on TV,

00:36:29.700 we want to shut them down.

00:36:31.100 These conservatives,

00:36:31.980 we need to start

00:36:32.500 nailing them

00:36:33.080 and silencing them

00:36:33.920 and making sure

00:36:34.360 their distribution's gone.

00:36:35.760 And clearly

00:36:36.440 from those early texts,

00:36:38.040 it was anything

00:36:38.800 that went viral.

00:36:39.760 You didn't have to be famous.

00:36:41.660 You didn't have to have

00:36:42.280 a blue check mark.

00:36:43.220 And notice

00:36:43.620 the Democrat congressmen

00:36:45.040 are complaining about,

00:36:46.400 quote,

00:36:46.520 truth.

00:36:47.240 Right.

00:36:48.240 The Hunter laptop

00:36:49.280 was true.

00:36:50.880 And they knew it was true.

00:36:51.940 And,

00:36:52.420 well,

00:36:53.280 they knew at least

00:36:54.020 that the Biden campaign

00:36:54.880 wasn't denying it.

00:36:55.780 They didn't care.

00:36:57.060 Their definition of truth

00:36:58.600 is anything

00:36:59.780 that politically

00:37:00.500 benefits Democrats,

00:37:01.860 their definition

00:37:03.180 of false,

00:37:04.260 is anything

00:37:04.840 that politically

00:37:05.420 hurts Democrats.

00:37:06.260 All right,

00:37:06.400 let's move to the next one.

00:37:08.180 All right,

00:37:08.440 so this is a very interesting,

00:37:09.720 this is not part

00:37:10.400 of the Twitter thread,

00:37:11.240 but to understand,

00:37:12.640 you asked what are

00:37:13.420 the consequences

00:37:14.080 going to be.

00:37:14.540 Yeah.

00:37:15.020 So this is a tweet

00:37:16.100 from Sean Cooksey.

00:37:17.100 Sean Cooksey

00:37:17.700 is a commissioner

00:37:18.780 on the FEC,

00:37:20.360 the Federal Elections Commission.

00:37:22.080 I know Sean well.

00:37:23.080 Sean used to be a lawyer

00:37:24.220 on my staff

00:37:25.000 in the Senate office

00:37:25.760 before he got appointed

00:37:27.080 and confirmed

00:37:27.640 to the FEC.

00:37:28.600 Here's what Sean Cooksey

00:37:29.960 tweets out.

00:37:31.420 Here's what Twitter

00:37:32.360 told the FEC

00:37:33.620 in its response

00:37:35.060 to a complaint

00:37:35.900 about this event.

00:37:37.360 Quote,

00:37:38.840 Twitter did not receive

00:37:40.000 a request

00:37:40.600 from the Biden campaign

00:37:41.780 to review,

00:37:43.120 much less restrict,

00:37:45.100 the New York Post articles.

00:37:46.720 And go to the next one.

00:37:48.420 Nor did decision makers

00:37:49.860 at Twitter,

00:37:51.320 or to the best

00:37:52.140 of the company's knowledge,

00:37:53.780 anyone authorized

00:37:54.860 to act on Twitter's behalf,

00:37:56.560 even communicate

00:37:57.400 with the Biden campaign

00:37:58.760 regarding Twitter's decision

00:38:00.820 to enforce

00:38:01.480 its content moderation policies

00:38:03.360 with respect

00:38:04.520 to the New York Post articles.

00:38:06.700 You want to talk

00:38:07.480 about very real consequences.

00:38:10.000 It appears

00:38:10.980 that Twitter lied

00:38:15.220 to the Federal Election Commission,

00:38:16.620 and I will point out,

00:38:17.480 so I've got here

00:38:18.640 in my hand

00:38:19.560 their actual response.

00:38:21.440 It's a lengthy response

00:38:22.700 where they make

00:38:23.220 those statements,

00:38:23.900 but they attach

00:38:24.660 at the back

00:38:26.000 of

00:38:26.520 their response

00:38:29.340 two sworn affidavits,

00:38:31.420 one from Yoel Roth,

00:38:33.440 who's one of the senior officials

00:38:35.060 deeply implicated in this,

00:38:37.300 where he says,

00:38:39.060 here are a couple of things

00:38:39.980 in his sworn affidavit.

00:38:40.980 As a matter of practice,

00:38:42.500 neither I nor the other members

00:38:43.700 of the Site Integrity team

00:38:44.760 communicate directly

00:38:45.600 with persons outside Twitter

00:38:46.880 that report content

00:38:48.200 for violating Twitter's policies.

00:38:49.780 That's a lie.

00:38:50.520 We know that.

00:38:51.540 Although he does say then,

00:38:53.280 since 2018,

00:38:54.420 I've had regular meetings

00:38:55.480 with the Office

00:38:56.080 of the Director

00:38:56.620 of National Intelligence,

00:38:58.180 the Department

00:38:58.620 of Homeland Security,

00:38:59.820 the FBI,

00:39:00.900 and industry peers

00:39:02.240 regarding election security.

00:39:04.580 And then he goes on,

00:39:06.160 he says,

00:39:07.520 Twitter's trust

00:39:08.740 and safety leadership

00:39:09.740 determined that

00:39:10.600 the New York Post articles

00:39:11.860 violated the distribution

00:39:13.700 of hacked materials policy

00:39:15.520 and the private information policy

00:39:17.520 and instructed

00:39:18.220 the Site Integrity team

00:39:19.500 to execute enforcement

00:39:21.100 of those policies.

00:39:22.180 We know from these

00:39:22.700 internal discussions,

00:39:23.760 no, they didn't determine

00:39:24.720 it violated the hacked policies.

00:39:26.300 They pulled that

00:39:27.460 out of their rear end

00:39:28.380 and then realized, 0.99

00:39:29.460 oh crap,

00:39:29.840 there's no evidence for us, 0.99

00:39:30.780 no basis for us,

00:39:31.780 but, well,

00:39:32.600 let's just stick to it.

00:39:34.160 Run out the clock

00:39:35.040 until election day.

00:39:36.560 And Roth's

00:39:37.480 sworn affidavit,

00:39:39.560 the final two paragraphs

00:39:40.760 I want to read for you.

00:39:42.700 I did not receive

00:39:43.380 any communications from

00:39:44.560 or have any communications

00:39:45.600 with representatives

00:39:46.560 for Biden for president,

00:39:48.340 the Democratic National Committee,

00:39:49.580 or any of their agents

00:39:50.520 regarding the New York Post article

00:39:51.840 before Twitter implemented

00:39:52.940 the enforcement actions

00:39:54.160 on October 14, 2020.

00:39:56.040 Final paragraph of the affidavit.

00:39:58.040 To the best of my knowledge,

00:39:59.220 no Twitter employees

00:40:00.100 received any communications

00:40:01.240 from or had any communications

00:40:02.400 with representatives

00:40:03.560 of Biden for president,

00:40:04.680 the Democratic National Committee,

00:40:05.760 or any of their agents

00:40:06.420 regarding the New York Post

00:40:07.340 article before Twitter

00:40:08.620 implemented the enforcement actions

00:40:10.060 on October 14, 2020.

00:40:12.220 There's a second sworn affidavit

00:40:13.860 from Lauren Culberson,

00:40:16.940 who was the head

00:40:18.000 of U.S. public policy

00:40:19.280 and she likewise,

00:40:21.500 she says that she's

00:40:24.800 the point person

00:40:25.600 for office holders,

00:40:26.800 election officials,

00:40:27.520 candidates,

00:40:27.940 campaigns,

00:40:28.340 and party committees,

00:40:29.240 and she says that

00:40:30.380 the public policy team

00:40:31.680 receives requests

00:40:32.560 from persons for tweets

00:40:33.780 to be reviewed

00:40:34.480 for compliance

00:40:35.460 with Twitter's policy

00:40:36.560 and we forward

00:40:38.140 those requests

00:40:38.920 to review content

00:40:39.840 to enforcement agents,

00:40:40.860 including members

00:40:41.940 of the trust and safety teams.

00:40:43.400 So she's the portal

00:40:44.480 to send the request on

00:40:46.180 and then she has

00:40:47.320 the final two things.

00:40:48.420 I didn't receive

00:40:48.900 any communications

00:40:49.520 with Biden.

00:40:50.260 To the best of my knowledge,

00:40:51.360 no one else received

00:40:52.040 communications with Biden.

00:40:53.020 And they're sworn affidavits.

00:40:54.780 So that changes things.

00:40:56.840 These two individuals

00:40:57.720 who signed their name

00:40:58.680 to sworn affidavits,

00:40:59.960 if they don't have lawyers,

00:41:01.700 they need to call a lawyer.

00:41:03.020 They need to call a lawyer

00:41:04.020 right now

00:41:04.780 because they are facing

00:41:06.500 potential civil liability,

00:41:08.100 potential criminal liability.

00:41:09.800 And I'll point out

00:41:10.820 on top of that,

00:41:12.200 Twitter faces liability,

00:41:13.760 but you know who else

00:41:14.380 faces liability?

00:41:16.100 The Biden campaign

00:41:17.540 and the DNC.

00:41:19.320 Really?

00:41:19.760 So they could be sued

00:41:21.260 and it could be legitimate.

00:41:23.520 Well, look,

00:41:24.300 the basis of the complaint

00:41:25.780 that Twitter lied

00:41:26.780 to the FEC about

00:41:27.900 was that Twitter

00:41:30.240 blocking the Hunter Biden story

00:41:33.360 was an in-kind campaign

00:41:35.300 contribution

00:41:36.140 to Biden for president.

00:41:38.860 And so their whole defense is,

00:41:40.040 no, no, no,

00:41:40.280 we just did this

00:41:40.980 based on our

00:41:41.480 hacked materials policy.

00:41:42.700 It wasn't about Biden at all.

00:41:45.780 We now know

00:41:46.560 that's a total lie.

00:41:47.560 And I'll tell you

00:41:47.940 what's interesting.

00:41:49.160 The next tranche of materials

00:41:50.600 is dropping

00:41:51.660 any minute now.

00:41:53.320 Which means

00:41:54.120 we know what Wednesday's show

00:41:55.180 is going to be about.

00:41:56.020 Yep.

00:41:56.260 We're going to keep doing

00:41:57.260 a deep dive into this.

00:41:58.820 I will say this

00:41:59.820 to everyone

00:42:00.680 that is listening

00:42:01.440 and watching us.

00:42:02.860 Wednesday morning,

00:42:03.860 we will continue

00:42:04.760 part two of this.

00:42:05.980 We will go through it

00:42:07.120 for you

00:42:07.580 so you understand

00:42:08.060 what's happening.

00:42:09.000 We do want you

00:42:09.860 to get in the fight

00:42:10.460 and the game.

00:42:11.240 Make sure you hit

00:42:12.000 that forward button,

00:42:12.980 the share button,

00:42:13.800 share the video,

00:42:15.080 the audio file

00:42:15.860 with all your family

00:42:16.600 and friends.

00:42:17.340 Senator Cruz

00:42:17.760 is going to keep

00:42:18.420 going deep

00:42:19.300 into this

00:42:19.840 on Wednesday morning.

00:42:21.220 We do this podcast

00:42:22.380 Monday,

00:42:23.400 Wednesdays,

00:42:23.980 and Fridays.

00:42:24.860 I have a feeling

00:42:25.620 all this week

00:42:26.640 it's going to be

00:42:27.520 on this.

00:42:28.520 So if you miss

00:42:29.700 an episode,

00:42:30.560 make sure you go back

00:42:31.660 and listen to it.

00:42:32.780 As this keeps coming out

00:42:34.080 and I have a feeling,

00:42:35.140 Senator,

00:42:35.340 and I think you'll

00:42:35.860 agree with me,

00:42:36.880 what they're doing

00:42:37.780 at Twitter right now

00:42:38.880 is they're saying

00:42:39.480 this is who we were

00:42:40.740 and we're not going

00:42:42.120 to be this moving forward

00:42:43.000 and we're not going

00:42:43.960 to pull back from this.

00:42:45.500 We're going to keep 0.99

00:42:46.280 unloading this information

00:42:47.560 in a way.

00:42:48.720 And it was clear,

00:42:49.780 Elon Musk said,

00:42:50.620 this is basically

00:42:51.500 just the beginning.

00:42:52.540 Now I would assume

00:42:53.140 he's seen everything,

00:42:54.360 which means there's

00:42:54.980 a lot more to this

00:42:55.920 and it gets worse

00:42:57.020 than what we've even seen.

00:42:58.700 So stay with us all week.

00:43:00.320 It's going to be

00:43:00.980 very interesting

00:43:01.820 to see what this means.

00:43:03.320 I'm going to make

00:43:03.920 a prediction.

00:43:04.900 I think this is going

00:43:05.820 to bring a lot of pain

00:43:06.900 to Facebook at some point.

00:43:08.560 Absolutely.

00:43:09.000 And I think what

00:43:09.840 it's also seeing now

00:43:11.020 is this is...

00:43:12.100 The worrying you're hearing

00:43:13.120 is document shredders

00:43:14.400 at Facebook and Google

00:43:15.820 and YouTube

00:43:16.360 that they're shredding

00:43:17.580 things like crazy

00:43:18.540 because they're worried

00:43:19.700 what's coming next.

00:43:20.500 Well, and if there's anything

00:43:21.480 you can connect

00:43:22.540 these two dots with

00:43:23.560 is what they were doing

00:43:25.540 with the laptop

00:43:26.300 and the way they dealt

00:43:27.620 with these things

00:43:28.220 is exactly the same way

00:43:29.820 that they were dealing

00:43:30.920 with Dr. Fauci

00:43:32.200 and anything he wanted

00:43:34.040 to be silenced

00:43:35.120 with COVID-19.

00:43:36.660 And if you look at

00:43:37.760 how different

00:43:38.340 those stories are,

00:43:39.260 one was, quote,

00:43:40.160 fake hack material,

00:43:41.140 the other one was

00:43:41.740 just a government saying

00:43:42.700 we want the narrative

00:43:43.860 to be what it is,

00:43:44.980 I think these stories

00:43:46.060 are going to be intertwined

00:43:46.980 in a way like we never

00:43:47.880 could have imagined.

00:43:49.000 Stay with us all week long.

00:43:50.440 We'll see you back

00:43:51.140 Wednesday morning.

00:43:52.320 Hit that share button,

00:43:53.240 write a five-star review.

00:43:54.400 Center, this has been fun.

00:43:55.880 Wednesday morning,

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Verdict with Ted Cruz - December 05, 2022

TWITTER-PALOOZA： A Deep Dive Into Elon's Bombshell Release

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