Reaction & Commentary
>> WE ARE IN REGULAR TOUCH WITH THESE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS THE AND THOSE ENGAGEMENTS TYPICALLY HAPPEN THROUGH MEMBERS OF OUR SENIOR STAFF, ALSO MEMBERS OF OUR COVID-19 TEAM, GIVEN DR. MARK MURTHY CONVEYED, THIS IS A BIG ISSUE OF MISINFORMATION, SPECIFICALLY ON THE PANDEMIC. WE INCREASED DISINFORMATION RESEARCH AND TRACKING WITHIN THE
SURGEON GENERAL’S OFFICE, WE’RE FLAGGING PROBLEMATIC POSTS THROUGH FACEBOOK THAT SPREADS DISINFORMATION. WE’RE WORKING WITH DOCTORS AND MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS TO CONNECTED MEDICAL EXPERTS WHO ARE POPULAR WITH THEIR AUDIENCES WITH ACCURATE INFORMATION AND BOOST TRUSTED CONTENT. MARIA: THIS COMES JUST ONE MONTH AFTER ANTHONY FAUCI’S E-MAILS SHOWED HE WAS PLOTTING
WITH MARK ZUCKERBERG ON A SO-CALLED INFORMATION HUB TO CENSOR KEY INFORMATION ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF COVID-19 AND THE TREATMENTS FOR COVID, SOMETHING TEXAS SENATOR TED CRUZ TOLD US SUGGESTED COLLUSION AND COULD SET UP FACEBOOK FOR DAMAGES. >> THESE LATEST BREAKTHROUGHS HAVE REAL CONSEQUENCE BECAUSE IT NOW IS CLEAR THAT FACEBOOK WAS
OPERATING AT THE DIRECTION OF AND IN THE DIRECT BENEFIT OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND OPERATING AS THE GOVERNMENT CENSOR UTILIZING THEIR MONOPOLY POSITION TO CENSOR ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENT. MARIA: SENATOR TED CRUZ JOINS ME NOW WITH REACTION TO THE WHITE HOUSE’S BRAZEN CENSORSHIP ADMISSION. A THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
WAS THIS COLLUSION. >> IT WAS UNDOUBTEDLY COLLUSION. IT’S GOOD TO SEE YOU THIS MORNING, MARIA. SINCE THE INTERVIEW YOU AIRED A MINUTE AGO WHERE I LAID OUT THE FAUCI E-MAILS REALLY SHOWED HOW BIG TECH WAS IN BED WITH THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION, WITH THE GOVERNMENT CENSORING ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENT, THERE HAVE
BEEN TWO SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENTS. YOUNUMBER ONE, DONALD TRUMP FILE CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT AGAINST BIG TECH, AGAINST FACEBOOK AND TWIST. HOWIE:TWITTER AND BIG TECH, BASE THE THEORY YOU AND I DISCUSSED, THAT THEY WERE ENGAGED IN CENSORSHIP THAT IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL, THAT IS CONTRARY TO THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND THE THEORY BEHIND PRESIDENT
TRUMP’S LAWSUIT IS EXACTLY THE THEORY YOU AND I DISCUSSED. NOW, THE CHALLENGE HIS LAWSUIT FACES IS THE FOLLOWING. THE FIRST AMENDMENT APPLIES ONLY TO GOVERNMENT ACTION. THE FIRST WORDS OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT ARE CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW AND SO IT APPLIES TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, IT HAS SINCE BEEN INCORPORATED AND
APPLIED AGAINST THE STATE GOVERNMENT AND SO THE ARGUMENT THAT A LOT OF THE TALKING HEADS PUT OUT IMMEDIATELY AFTER PRESIDENT TRUMP FILED HIS LAWSUIT IS THEY SAID, WELL, FACEBOOK IS NOT THE GOVERNMENT. TWITTER IS NOT THE GOVERNMENT SO THIS LAWSUIT WILL GET THROWN OUT. WELL, THE SUPREME COURT HAS LONG
RECOGNIZED A LINE OF CASES THAT WHEN GOVERNMENT USES A PRIVATE COMPANY AS A TOOL, AS AN ARM TO IMPLEMENT A GOVERNMENT POLICY, AND IN THIS INSTANCE WHEN GOVERNMENT EXPLICITLY ASKS A PRIVATE MONOPOLY CENSOR THE FOLLOWING SPEECH THAT WE DISAGREE WITH, THAT THAT PRIVATE COMPANY CAN BE TREATED AS A
STATE ACTOR AND I’VE GOT TO SAY, WATCHING JEN PSAKI THIS WEEK, IT IS AMAZING. I KIND OF WONDER IF JEN PSAKI IS ON THE PAYROLL OF DONALD TRUMP BECAUSE HER PRESS CONFERENCE STRENGTHENED PRESIDENT TRUMP’S LAWSUIT AGAINST BIG TECH. IT MAKES CLEAR THAT EVERYTHING WE THOUGHT ABOUT THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION, ABOUT THEIR
WILLINGNESS TO TRAMPLE ON FREE SPEECH, TO TRAMPLE ON THE CONSTITUTION, TO USE GOVERNMENT POWER TO SILENCE YOU, EVERYTHING WE FEARED THEY MIGHT DO, THEY ARE DOING AND WORSE AND I THINK PRESIDENT TRUMP’S LAWSUIT GOT MUCH, MUCH STRONGER THIS WEEK. MARIA: YEAH. I MEAN, WE’RE GOING TO TALK WITH
MARK LEVIN COMING UP IN THE PROGRAM AND A HE SAID PSAKI’S ADMISSION MAKES DONALD TRUMP’S LAWSUIT A SLAM DUNK AND SHE SHOULD BE A DEFENDANT, SHE SHOULD TESTIFY IN THAT SUIT. >> LET ME GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE TO UNDERSTAND IT. IMAGE I’M IF THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION WENT TO A PRIVATE
PARAMILITARY ORGANIZATION AND SAID WE’RE GOING TO ASK YOU TO KNOCK DOWN PEOPLE’S DOORS AND TAKE THEIR GUNS. AND WE’RE GOING TO ASK YOU TO DO THIS EXPLICITLY AND THEN WE’RE ALSO GOING TO PASS A LAW TO IMMUNIZE YOU SO IF THE PRIVATE ORGANIZATION KICKS DOWN YOUR FRONT DOOR, TAKES YOUR FIREARMS,
WE’RE GOING TO GIVE YOU IMMUNITY FROM CIVIL LIABILITY. NOBODY IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD ARGUE THAT PRIVATE ORGANIZATION BEHAVING ESSENTIALLY AS STORMTROOPERS, TRYING TO CONFISCATE GUNS, NOBODY WOULD ARGUE THAT THAT’S NOT STATE ACTION, THAT THAT DOESN’T VIOLATE THE SECOND AMENDMENT. WHAT THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS DOING WITH FACEBOOK, TWITTER AND
GOOGLE IS THE SAME THING. THEY’RE GOING TO MONOPOLIES AND SAYING YOU ARE OUR TOOL TO CENSOR VIEWS WE DISAGREE WITH AND BY THE WAY, WHAT’S LUDICROUS, IS THEY’VE BEEN CENSORING VIEWS THAT WE NOW KNOW ARE TRUE. MARIA: EXACTLY. >> FOR MONTHS THEY WERE MARIA: WELCOME BACK. MARIA: WELCOME BACK.
WE ARE BACK WITH TEXAS SENATOR TED CRUZ. SENATOR, WE WERE JUST GOING THROUGH ALL OF THE CENSORSHIP THAT WE HAVE BEEN SEEING. IT’S REALLY DISTURBING TO ME THAT FACEBOOK AND ALL THESE OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES ARE CENSORING INFORMATION THAT’S ACTUALLY TRUE. THEY REALLY ARE LETTING DOWN THE AMERICAN PEOPLE RIGHT BEFORE THE
ELECTION, CENSORING THE HUNTER BIDEN STORY, BANNING THE NEW YORK POST FROM TWITTER AND THEN GOING ON TO CENSOR EARLY TREATMENTS OF COVID. WE HAD ON SENATOR RON JOHNSON AND DR. PIERRE COREY WHO WENT THROUGH THINGS LIKE IVERMECTIN WHICH WAS OFF PATENT, NOBODY WAS MAKING ANY MONEY ON IT BECAUSE
IT’S OFF PATENT BUT IT ACTUALLY COULD HAVE BEEN A VERY IMPORTANT TREATMENT FOR EARLY DAYS OF COVID. THEY TOOK ALL OF THOSE POSTS DOWN, THEY WOULDN’T ALLOW YOU TO TALK ABOUT HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE. THIS IS NOT JUST CENSORSHIP FOR POLITICS. THEY’RE ACTUALLY LETTING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DOWN IN SO MANY WAYS. WHY?
IS THIS THE COMMUNIST PARTY INFLUENCE? >> WELL, LISTEN, YOU’RE EXACTLY RIGHT, THAT THE CENSORSHIP HAS BEEN OVER AND OVER AGAIN, SILENCING THINGS THAT ARE TRUE. THEY BANNED, FOR EXAMPLE, ANY ARRESTINGARGUMENTS THAT THE CORO ORIGINATED IN A CHINESE GOVERNMENT LAB IN WUHAN, CHINA. IT NOW APPEARS THE OVERWHELMING WEIGHT OF THE EVIDENCE SUGGESTS
THAT’S IN FACT WHERE IT ORIGINATED, IN A CHINESE GOVERNMENT LAB. YOU MENTIONED THE NEW YORK POST. AS YOU KNOW, I DO A POD COST EVERY WEEK CALLED VERDICT WITH TED CRUZ. I JUST FILMED THE PODCAST ABOUT AN HOUR AGO WHERE I SAT DOWN WITH THE EDITOR OF THE EDITORIAL
PAGE OF THE NEW YORK POST AND WE TALKED ABOUT THEIR STORY IN THE FALL OF 2020 ABOUT HUNTER BIDEN’S LAPTOP. THEY BROKE THAT STORY AND BIG TECH SILENCED IT, TOOK IT DOWN, AND WE NOW KNOW THAT STORY WAS TRUE. YOU COVERED IT AT THE TOP OF YOUR SHOW, HOW THAT STORY WAS TRUE.
AND I’VE GOT TO TELL YOU THE NEW YORK POSTED TORE Y’ALL PAGE HE’D — POST EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR TOLD ME WHEN HE TRIED TO DIRECT MESSAGE THE STORY TO OTHER PEOPLE, PEOPLE WERE ASKING WHAT’S THE STORY, BIG TECH WOULD BLOCK HIS DIRECT MESSAGES BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO SILENCE A STORY.
THE ONLY JUST AT JUSTIFICATION F SILENCING THE STORY IS THAT IT HURT JOE BIDEN AND HELPED DONALD TRUMP AND BIG TECH WAS BEHAVING AS THE PARTISAN ENFORCERS TO TRY TO SKEW AN ELECTION AND THEY DID IN FACT SKEW AN ELECTION AND THEY’RE CONTINUING NOW TO CENSOR INFORMATION IF IT DISAGREES WITH
THE OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT LINE. I GOT TO SAY, IT’S THE SAME THING YOU SEE HAPPENING IN A COMMUNIST COUNTRY LIKE CHINA AND A COMMUNIST COUNTRY LIKE CUBA WHERE IF THERE ARE FACTS THAT ARE CONTRARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OR THOUGH DOCKS-CAR OR DOCKSY, — ORTHODOXY, THEY PREVENT YOU FROM SHARING THE FACTS.
THEY’RE DOING THE SAME THING IN THE UNITED STATES. IT’S A FRIGHTENING THREAT NOT JUST FOR FREE SPEECH BUT FOR THE ABILITY FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO LEARN THE TRUTH ON A HOST OF ISSUES. MARIA: I WANT TO GET TO CUBA. I KNOW YOU’VE WITNESSED THE EFFECTS OF THE COMMUNIST REGIME
FIRSTHAND WITH YOUR FATHER AND AUNT. FIRST ON CHINA. JOE BIDEN SAYS HE’S THE ONE LEADER THAT KNOWS XI JINPING BEST ON THE WORLD STAGE AND THAT XI JINPING TRULY BELIEVES HE’S GOING TO ACQUIRE AMERICA AND OVERTAKE AMERICA WITHIN 15 YEARS. I MEAN, THEY’RE FOLLOWING OUR POLITICAL DEBATES. THEY’RE PILING ON.
DO THE PROGRESSIVES UNDERSTAND THE DANGEROUS SITUATION THEY’RE PUTTING THIS COUNTRY IN, THAT THE CCP HAS GOALS, THEY’RE BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE, THEIR CIVIL MILITARY FUSION. THEY WANT TO OVERTAKE THE UNITED STATES. IS THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION ENABLING IS WITH ALL OF THIS CENSORSHIP? >> UNFORTUNATELY, THEY ARE. AND ONE OF THE SAD REALITIES
TODAY IS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS STRUCTURALLY PRO-CHINA. THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY TODAY IS FUNDED BY — THEIR BIGGEST FUNDERS ARE BIG TECH AND BIG TECH IS IN BED WITH THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS. AMONG THE BIGGEST FUNDERS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY ARE THE GIANT CORPORATIONS AND MANY OF THE GIANT CORPORATIONS, THE FORTUNE
50 AND FORTUNE 100 ARE IN BED WITH THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS AND YOU LOOK AT THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION, JUST SIX MONTHS INTO IT, JOE BIDEN NAMED AS HIS UN AMBASSADOR AN INDIVIDUAL WHO LAST YEAR GAVE A PAID SPEECH FOR A CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE. PAID FOR BY THE CHINESE COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT, PRAISING THE CHINESE COMMUNIST
GOVERNMENT, JUST A COUPLE MONTHS IN THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION REVERSED THE STATE DEPARTMENT POLICY AND THEY NOW BAN TAIWAN, ANY TAIWANESE OFFICIAL FROM DISPLAYING A TAIWANESE MILITARY UNIFORM OR FLAG ON U.S. GOVERNMENT PROPERTY. WHY? BECAUSE IT OFFENDS THE COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT OVERLORDS IN CHINA. AND I’VE GOT TO TELL YOU, WE
REALLY SAW JUST HOW PRO-CHINA TODAY’S DEMOCRATS ARE IN THE SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE WHERE WE WERE DEBATING JOE BIDEN’S GREEN NEW DEAL EXECUTIVE ORDER. I INTRODUCED AN AMENDMENT THAT SAID YOU CAN’T BILEK TRICK CARS FROM THE REGION IN CHINA WHERE THE UYGHURS ARE BEING HELD IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS, ARE BEING
TORTURED AND MURDERED, YOU CAN’T BILEK TRICK CARS THAT WERE — BUY ELECTRIC CARS THAT WERE MADE WITH CHINESE SLAVE LABOR AND EVERY SENATE DEMOCRAT ON THE COMMITTEE VOTED NO BECAUSE THEY’RE MUCH MORE COMMITTED TO THE RADICAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGENDA THAN THEY ARE TO NOT FUNDING SLAVE LABOR FROM THE CHINESE COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT.
MARIA: UNBELIEVABLE. YOU’VE GOT A LOT OF PEOPLE BEHIND YOU. I KNOW YOU’RE SPEAKING AT THE TURNING POINT USA SUMMIT THIS AFTERNOON. WE’LL BE COVERING IT ON FOX NATION. WE LOOK FORWARD TO THE COMMENTS. REAL QUICK ON YOUR COLLEAGUES IN TEXAS BLOWING OFF THEIR WORK, GETTING ON A FLIGHT SO THEY
DON’T GIVE THE REPUBLICANS A QUORUM WITH THEIR NEW VOTING LAWS IN TEXAS. NOW WE UNDERSTAND SOME OF THEM HAVE COVID. REAL QUICK ON THAT. >> LISTEN, WHAT THEY’RE DOING IS A POLITICAL STUNT. I THINK IT IS SAD JUST HOW MUCH TODAY’S DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS DECIDED THAT VOTER FRAUD IS
INTEGRAL TO HELPING THEM TRY TO WIN ELECTIONS. THIS POLITICAL STUNT IS GOING TO FAIL. IT IS — THERE IS CLEAR LEGAL AUTHORITY UNDER THE TEXAS CONSTITUTION TO ARREST LEGISLATORS WHO FLEE THE STATE, TRYING TO DEFEAT A QUORUM. THE GOVERNOR RIGHTLY SAID HE’LL CALL SPECIAL SESSION AFTER SPECIAL SESSION.
THESE GUYS WILL COME BACK TO TEXAS, THEY’RE GET ARRESTED, PUT ON THE FLOOR OF THE LEGISLATURE AND I BELIEVE THE LEGISLATURE WILL DO ITS JOB AND PASS COMMON SENSE ELECTION INTEGRITY LAWS. MARIA: SENATOR, THANK YOU SO
