January 7, 2025 • 31 mins
Gregg Jarrett, Fox News Legal Analyst and Best-selling author is here to discuss Judge Merchan and the news today on Special Counsel Jack Smith.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
See you're right here for our final news roundup and
information overload.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I do's round up Information overload hour. Here's our toll
free number. It's eight hundred and ninety four one.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Sean.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
If you want to be a part of the program,
if you're just joining US. Federal judge and that would
be Eileen Cannon has now temporarily blocked Jack Smith's attempt
at releasing a report relating to his investigations into Trump's
alleged twenty twenty election interference case. I mean, it really
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is pretty unbelievable that even though these cases have fallen apart,
even though we had a Supreme Court immunity decision, the
fact that he wants to bludgeon Trump on his way
out the door, just like Judge Murshawn wants to label
Donald Trump a convicted felon his way out the door.
I mean, it is law fair at its first. And
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Donald Trump laid into Prosecutor Jack Smith earlier today at
his press conference.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Listen, I mean Jack Smith, that cases all over the place,
people were being subpoened, lives were being ruined, they were
spending everything they had money. We were helping them out,
we had to. They were subpoenaing people from that had
no idea what they were even talking about. That's a
sick group of people, and it reolved to influence the election.
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It was all a fight against a political opponent. We've
never had that in this country. We have had that
in certain countries. We've had that in.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Third tier countries.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
We've had that in Banana republics, but we've never had
that in a place like the United States. I don't
even know if it's been on a small level. I'm
sure it has been on a small level, but this
was the largest level ever. They brought this moron out
of the Hague.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
He's a mean guy.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
He's a mean, nasty guy. His picture was perfect because
you look at his picture, you say that's a bad guy.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Cann said that Smith is temporarily enjoyed from releasing, sharing,
or transmitting the final report or any such drafts of
outside of the Department of Justice. The order remains in
effect until three days after a resolution is announced in
the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit is Friday.
We know that the president on the tenth is scheduled
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to be sentenced that in that ridiculous case in New
York even those statute of limitations had run out. This
novel legal theory Alvin Bragg, as it relates to what
was a legal non disclosure agreement put together by a
lawyer labeled a legal expense. Again, statute of limitations run out,
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and then of course they stack the charges thirty four
to thirty eight, whatever the number will happen to be.
And anyway, the dogmatic refusal last Friday to dismiss this
ridiculous case against Donald Trump and proceed to sentencing is
just another example of the weaponization of justice the country,
and it's got to stop. A lot of people have said, well,
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you know, the Donald Trump's Department of Justice and his
FBI and his intelligence communities, they should act the same way.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I don't believe that's the case.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I think we need equal justice under the law, equal
application of our laws. He can't have a double standard.
And they have done this now to Donald Trump for
nearly nine consecutive years, and it didn't pay off. And
in spite of all of these nefarious efforts. Anyway, our
friend Greg Jarrett is with US best selling author Fox
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News Legal Analysts, Sir, Happy New year, great to have you.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
How are you sir, I'm well, thank you and good
to be with you.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Let's start with Eileen Kannon blocking Jack Smith from releasing
this report. The thing that sticks in my mind about this,
he wants to be able to lay out his case
with no defense at all by the Trump team. He
wants to be able to put out all of the
scurrilous information that he would liked to have brought up
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a trial that he wasn't allowed to bring up a trial,
and just smear and slander Trump one last moment on
the way out the door.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, that's exactly it. But keep in mind, he already
did it. He leaked a lot of allegedly incriminating information
about Trump in court documents that were completely gratuitous right
before the election. And of course it had no impact.
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Nobody really cared because they knew what Jack Smith was doing.
You know, he was one of several components of the
law fair war waged against Donald Trump that backfired spectacularly
the other point, but.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
We didn't know at the time that people were ignoring it.
That's the scary part. They had hoped, they had hoped
it would have an impact. They released it because they
wanted an impact, didn't they.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yes, absolutely. I mean Jack Smith wanted to interfere in
the presidential election. He wanted to throw it in favor
of Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
And that's why, by the way, isn't that against Justice
Department policy.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
To do such?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Oh, it's totally against it. And you know, Merrick Arland
was all in. He didn't care. He you know, let's
do it, let's help Kamala win. And you know it
didn't work because people were wise by that time to
the law fier campaign weaponizing the law, the law, contorting it,
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mangaling evidence for you know, political vengeance and electoral gain,
and they didn't buy into it, and Trump won. The
other point that I think one of the reasons why
Aileen Cannon, the federal judge in Florida, you know, told
Smith you can't, you know, release this report is because
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remember he was illegal, unconstitutionally appointed. So why should an
illegally appointed special counsel release a report? You know that
report is arguably illegal. And that's part of her reasoning here.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
What did you make over the holidays of this report
that Joe Biden was most disappointed with Merrick Garland? I
found that somewhat spectacular to me, and that he was
angry that Garland didn't move faster in terms of getting
a prosecutor to go after Trump and get him on
trial before the election, and was even angrier still that Garland,
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although the DOJ tried their level best to give him
that sweetheart deal in Delaware and make this whole thing
go away, they did try that that he was His
anger and fury against Garland was greater than any other appointment.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Did you see that, Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I did, And it's you know, it's pretty laughable because
Americ Garland was doing Joe Biden's bidding at every turn,
running a protection racket for Hunter Biden, interfering in the case,
offering up a sweetheart deal allowing statute of limitations of
the most serious crimes to expire. So you know, he was,
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you know, Hunter Biden's bff. And at the same time
he did launch a special council at the behest of
Joe Biden. Remember, Biden leaked to the New York Times
that he wanted Trump to be prosecuted, and lickety split,
Garland named Jack Smith's special counsel. And then, of course
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he launched his two criminal cases in Washington and Florida.
So you know, Garland was doing everything that Joe Biden
asked him. It's just that all of it failed to succeed,
and so much of it backfired in the case.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Of Judge Marshaw and his desire to move forward with
the sentencing. Now he says he's not going to jail
Donald Trump or in any way have him, you know,
have any type of home confinement. But what I find
so interesting about this that entire case, starting with the
novel legal theory, starting with the statute of limitations that passed,
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starting with the idea that a non disclosure agreement. I
bet if we got into the records of of Alvin
Bragg's office, there are probably numerous non disclosure agreements that
they've never talked about. Probably would have been good evidence
to bring up if Trump was able to get it
in the trial.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
But in that case, beyond the novel.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Legal theory, which we've spent a lot of time analyzing,
the judge held to this eighty million dollar valuation in
one case, and this is angoron of maur A Lago.
In this particular case, you know, we had testimony, for example,
by Hope from the time she was in the White House.
We subsequently had a Supreme Court decision on immunity, and
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that decision should have rendered her testimony. Thus the verdict
in that case moot, and that whole verdict should have
been thrown out. The judge refused to do that. If
this sentencing goes forward on Friday, in a sense, is
maybe there a silver lining in this in that without
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the sentence thing, I'm not sure if President Trump would
be able to get it out of this guy's courtroom
off to the Eleventh Circuit that could weigh in on
the immunity decision and on the witnesses that testified in
the case, like Holepix.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Yeah, look, there is a benefit to being sentenced on Friday.
It allows, under the law, the first opportunity to appeal
all of the mistakes, the reversible errors made at trial
in Shawn's case on the merits. You know, the law
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is kind of quirky here. You are not allowed to
file an appeal until you've been sentenced, and so you know,
there's an advantage here to being sentenced. Now. You know,
Trump wants to clear his name. He's not officially a
convicted felon until sentencing, but doesn't really matter. I mean,
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the media already branded him a convicted felon the moment
the jury vertic came in lasted May. So it's a
practical matter. I mean, who really cares. I think it's
important to get this case overturned, and it will be
I think, easily overturned. It'll take time, but there were
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so many mistakes in this case. It was a sham trial,
a convoluted incoherent legal theory, utterly absurd, rife with reversible
errors by the judge. You know, Trump's due process rights
were shredded on almost a daily basis. This wasn't a
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fair trial. It was a farce. And I think higher
courts will eventually make mince meat out of the decision
and it'll get tossed out.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Okay, would that be the likely the Eleventh Circuit that
I believe would have the first crack at it.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
You know, I'm not optimistic that the New York Appellate
system will reverse Mershan. They they're liberal.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I did reverse. They did reverse in Goron quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yeah, but not entirely. So we'll have to wait and see.
I'm not terribly optimistic. I think eventually it'll be the
Federal courts because there were federal constitutional issues involved, not
the least of which was immunity, but also do process violations.
And I think the federal courts are more reliable once
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it gets to them. I think they'll give a spanking
to Judge Juan Mrshan.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
All right, quick break.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
More with our friend Greg Jarrett, Fox News Legal analyst,
best selling author. Your calls coming up on the other side,
eight hundred and nine to four one, Sean. If you
want to be a part of the program as we continue,
let me continue now. We're reacting to the possible sentencing
that may take place on Friday in the case Alvin
Bragg Judge Juan Mershawn in New York Eileen Cannon's ruling
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that Jack Smith cannot release his quote final report until
it is reviewed by a higher court. Greg Jarrett, Fox
News Legal Analyst, best selling authors with us, what do
you think? Attorney what's his name? Mike Davis gave an
interview and he said, I would say this to Judge
Juan Mrshawn, you better lawyer up because what you're doing
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is a very serious civil rights felony under eighteen USC.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Two forty one. What's your reaction to that.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
He's absolutely correct, and I've mentioned this before on several
occasions on your program. Two forty one is very important.
It makes it a crime to engage in a conspiracy
to violate somebody's constitutional rights, and running for office as
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Trump did is certainly a constitutional right. So, as I
wrote in my column over the weekend, it's incumbent upon
the incoming Department of Justice Pambondi, if advised and consented
by the US Centers, open a comprehensive investigation into the
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whole lawfare campaign that Special Counsel Jack Smith, Onnie Willis
in Georgia, Dais and Bragg, even Letitia James brought almost
simultaneously and only after Trump announced his bid for election.
That was not a coincidence, Sean. There is reason to
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believe and some evidence that there was coordination among all
of them with President Joe Biden's White House and or
with Attorney General Merrick Garland's DOJ maybe both.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
We saw a lot of trips by a lot of
people involved in these cases from Georgia on down, Yeah,
that were headed to the Biden Whitehouse during that.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Time, And if laws were broken, prosecutors should be exposed
and held accountable for weaponizing the justice system in One
of the ways to do it, as you appropriately point out,
is you know two forty one under the criminal codes
conspiracy to deprive Trump of his constitutional rights?
Speaker 3 (14:58):
You see? Do you really see that as impossible reality?
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:01):
I do.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I absolutely do, and I'll be writing a column about
it very soon.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Well, we appreciate your time. Happy New Year, my friend,
Greg Jarrett. Thank you for being with us as always. Sure, Brandy,
you're a fine girl. That Have you made any after
your time off? By the way, how was your vacation?
I'm gonna ask you yet, Oh it was great.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
How was yours?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
It's oh great. Any time off for me is a
good time. Anytime with family is a good time.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Agreed.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Did you do anything special or did you just have
some hopefully you had some downtime.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
Had I had a massive epiphany about the song? Brandy?
Actually so, I would say it was actually a very
special vacation.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Well, please do share. I'm dying to hear it. I've
been trying to connvince you that your interpretation was wrong
for a while.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
I tell you what, I have seen the light and
I am now on the Hannity bandwagon. You are right.
You've been writing all along on this song without a doubt.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Is this your new year New Year's resolution?
Speaker 6 (15:54):
This was my New Year's resolution. I'm like, I need
to do a deep dive. I need to put this
bad boy to bed. Brandy, You're gonna lay down. You're
never getting back up again. This is it, right, very clear.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Brandy.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
You're a fine girl, a fine if you would be,
that's right, fine girl. But my life and if I
love and my lady is the sea meaning not you.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
That's right, you are cool.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
But but you thought originally that Brandy represented the sea,
which would have contradicted the lyrics, and then you thought
that Brandy might have something to do with the liquor.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
Brandy, I did you know? I think I was getting
a little too deep in the weeds there. You know,
I was having a little bit of a Van Gole
moment with this song. I don't think that's what it
was at all. I think it just is what it
is on phase value, and I was like, you know what,
I'm just gonna take it for what it is. They're
telling me what it is. This is what it is,
and that's that.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
I think you might have spent a lot of time
with your pastor over the holiday, because this is a
whole new Linda or.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
I spent a lot of time with Brandy and realize
it's just not that great.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Probably looked up as we did, looking Glass that sings
the song Brandy, and it was really about a woman
named Randy. They just changed the name of the wood
woman according to the author of the song, and anyway
it had to do with that relationship.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
Well, I'll tell you what. I had A little Brandy
had a little like I got a little drunk. I
saw the light. I now know it's it's a lady,
and we're moving on.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
At least you're not drinking the moonshine that people keep.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Definitely not. I threw that out over the holiday. I
was like, I can't do this anymore.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
You did not throw it out.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
My hands are God. I'm like, I can't look at
it anymore.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
What about the rope the team? If you're having a moment,
they forget about it. That moonshine.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
I ruled the roost. I left the vodka. I got
rid of the moonshine.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
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with Mark Halpern early in the program today, and the
media is never gonna learn, and I think as a result,
Americans are going to continue to tune them out. I
think Americans are fed up with being lied to. I mean,
they lied about Joe's cognitive decline, they lied about the borders,
they lied about the economy, They lie about Donald Trump.
You know, nobody in the media ever ever had a
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critical thought as it relates to all the weaponization of
our Justice department, all the law fair used against Donald Trump.
They never questioned a phony evaluation of mar A Lago
at eighteen million dollars when it's worth a billion plus dollars.
And any realtor in Palm Beach, Florida will tell you
that's the case. But of course the judge in that
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case would not let the testimony of real estate experts
to be brought into that a civil case. And it's
the same thing yesterday. I mean, Sonny Houston over at
that hit hard hitting news show, The View comparing January
sixth to the Holocaust.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
You can't make it up.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
I say no, you don't move on because January sixth
was an atrocity. It was one of the worst moments
in American guests. And when you think about the worst
moments in American history, you know, like World War II,
things that happened, like the Holocaust, chattel slavery, we need
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to never forget because past becomes prologue if.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
You forget any race.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Can we remind people that the Holocaust carried out by
Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler in Europe killed tens of millions
of people, six million Jews, roughly twenty million military personnel,
forty million civilians dying during World War Two? And is
that the comparison? You're going to invoke Nazi mass murder
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of the Jewish people and others and compare that to
January sixth, and live in the past if that's where
they want to live, and that's where fake Jake Tapper
was apparently yesterday too, and if they want to if
they want to live. They ran on this, They ran
on this, They lost on this. They ran hard on
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January sixth, on insurrection and Trump's a Nazi and a
fascist and a racist and all the other cliches that
they use every election season.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
It didn't work.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
One person more to the left, our old friend Heraldo
said it would be right for Trump to pardon most
January six ers. And then the question was did these
punishments of years and years in prison or was it
appropriate for the crimes committed. You know, look at this
guy that killed two people in the New York City
subway system over the last weekend. I mean, this guy
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had been at eighty seven prior arrests and was still
walking the streets. One other thing I want to get
to that I think has a very profound impact. And
some of you may think this is purely political, but
there's a deeper history here that I want to go into,
and that is the announcement of Mark Zuckerberg. First of all,
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that he brought in Dana White to be among three
new board members of Meta, that platform formerly known as Facebook.
And I will tell you that there is no doubt
that this has been a process.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
This is not about.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Long before Donald Trump won the election, they had made
a lot of changes at Meta. And I'm not saying
all of them are perfect, and I'm not saying any
I'm not telling any of you to trust it. And
I mean I'm a I'm a trust but verify guy.
But this is what he went into in great specificity,
in detail today that they're changing their filters to reduce censorship.
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Now there's certain things that they're going to have to censor.
And inasmuch as you can't have people on any platform
making making threats of violence or physical harm to other people,
I mean, it becomes a fine line if people are,
you know, so outwardly virulently racist, anti semitic, and they're
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you know, some people are more subtle and some people
overt and each platform will have their own standards, but
this is what Zuckerberg said will be the standard of Facebook.
By the fact checking will be ended and they'll be
more inclusive in terms of content, and they're changing their
filters to reduce the censorship, and they're bringing back civic content.
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And Facebook is moving trust and safety moderation teams out
of California to Texas, and they're going to work with
Trump to push back on government around the world going
after him, after American companies and pushing for more censorship.
In other words, it sounds like he's fighting for free speech.
Speaker 7 (23:43):
But listen, first, we're going to get rid of fact
checkers and replace them with community notes similar to X.
Starting in the US, after Trump first got elected in
twenty sixteen, the legacy media wrote NonStop about how misinformation
was a threat to democracy. We tried in good faith
to address those concerns without becoming the arbiters of truth,
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but the fact checkers have just been too politically biased
and have destroyed more trust than they've created, especially in
the US. So over the next couple of months, we're
going to phase in a more comprehensive community notes system. Second,
we're going to simplify our content policies and get rid
of a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and
gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse.
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What started as a movement to be more inclusive has
increasingly been used to shut down opinions and shut out
people with different ideas, and it's gone too far. So
I want to make sure that people can share their
beliefs and experiences on our platforms. Third, we're changing how
we enforce our policies to reduce the mistakes that account
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for the vast majority of censorship on our platforms. We
used to have filters that scanned for any policy violation. Now,
we're going to focus those filters on tackling illegal and
severity violations, and for lower severity violations, we're going to
rely on someone reporting an issue before we take action.
The problem is that the filters make mistakes and they
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take down a lot of content that they shouldn't, So
by dialing them back, we're going to dramatically reduce the
amount of censorship on our platforms. We're also going to
tune our content filters to require much higher confidence before
taking down content. The reality is that this is a
trade off. It means we're going to catch less bad stuff,
but will also reduce the number of innocent people's posts
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and accounts that we accidentally take down. Fourth, we're bringing
back civic content. For a while, the community asked to
see less politics because it was making people stressed, so
we stopped recommending these posts. But it feels like we're
in a new era now and we're starting to get
feedback that people want to see this content again, So
we're going to start phasing this back into Facebook, Instagram,
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and threads while working to keep the communities friendly and positive. Fifth,
we're going to move our trust and safety and content
moderation teams out of California, and our US based content
review is going to be based in Texas. As we
work to promote free expression. I think that will help
us build trust to do this work in places where
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there is less concern about the bias of our teams. Finally,
we're going to work with President Trump to push back
on governments around the world. They're going after American companies
and pushing to censor more. The US has the strongest
constitutional protections for free expression in the world. Europe has
an ever increasing number of laws institutionalizing censorship and making
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it difficult to build anything innovative there. Latin American countries
have secret courts that can order companies to quietly take
things down. China has sensored of apps from even working
in the country. The only way that we can push
back on this global trend is with the support of
the US government, And that's why it's been so difficult
over the past four years. Years when even the US
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government has pushed for censorship by going after US and
other American companies, it has emboldened other governments to go
even further. But now we have the opportunity to restore
free expression and I am excited to take it.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Now, what's interesting about this? Some of you are going
to say, yeah, well, he's just afraid Donald Trump became president,
and and in Washington they've been they've been going after him,
et cetera. Let me take you back to the letter
that Zuckerberg wrote to Jim Jordan and the House Judiciary Committee.
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And I thought it was I thought I thought at
the time it was very very interesting. And this goes back,
I don't know, a year, two years ago whenever he
sent this this this letter to Jim Jordan, and I
talked to Jim Jordan about it, and Jim Jordan had
multiple conversations with the top leaders at META about what
had happened with the Biden administration. And in this letter
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by Zuckerberg himself, he admitted that his company was wrong.
He said he regret that they were not more outspoken
about the Biden administration pressuring Facebook at the time that
they were wrong not more outspoken about it. Then they
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ended up giving into that pressure, making choices with the
benefit of hindsight new information that they wouldn't make today.
I strongly think we should not compromise our content standards
due to pressure from any administration and either direction. We're
ready to push back if something like this ever happens again.
And then that goes to the fifty one. For example,
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I think the most underreported story is the Hunter Biden
laptop story. Weren't even allowed to share it on most
social media. Now think about that. That was a very
real laptop, and the FBI knew it was a very
real laptop by March of twenty twenty, and they were
out there. They knew the story or he would break
because Bob Costello, Rudy Giuliani's attorney at the time, had
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a copy of it, and they knew he had a
copy of it, so they knew it would leak. And
in the months leading up to the twenty twenty election,
the FBI met with all the social media companies and
warn them they may be victims of a Russian disinformation
campaign and it may be about Joe and Hunter and Barisma.
The New York Post story breaks weeks before the twenty
twenty election. Zuckerberg Facebook, to their credit, Twitter, to their
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credit at the time, asked the fbis this the Russian
disinformation you were warning us about? And even though the
FBI had validated the authenticity of that laptop. They refused
to tell them the truth. And meanwhile, they had prebunked
the laptop knowing what was in it, knowing it would
come out. Now, that is a manipulation and politicizing the
(29:49):
premier law enforcement agency in the entire world. This is
the type of thing that Cash Bettel is going to
have to clean out. This is what will have to
be removed from our intelligence community and it probably is
going to mean and this is why we have to
get rid of weaponization. And this is where people are
going to have to change their thinking and their mindset
(30:11):
as it comes to all of these issues. But I
give them credit because this is not what we heard today.
Has been a long time coming. There has been a
lead up to this, and there's a history to this
and my conversations with Jordan, Jim Jordan convinced me that
this series about being a free speech content platform. Let's see,
time will tell and it's going to wrap things up
(30:32):
for today. Don Junior back from Greenland. He'll tell us
all about his trip Steve Whitkoff, who is the Special
Envoy to the Middle East. We'll talk about Donald Trump saying,
well hamas better release the hostages or there will be
hell to pay. We'll get an update on that situation
the jack Smith ruling by Eileen Cannon. He can't release
(30:53):
the report. We'll check in with Dersh and Greg. Jarrett
also writes previous Ronnie Jackson and Tom Cotton nine Eastern
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See you're right here for our final news roundup and
information overload.
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free number. It's eight hundred and ninety four one.
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Sean.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
If you want to be a part of the program,
if you're just joining US. Federal judge and that would
be Eileen Cannon has now temporarily blocked Jack Smith's attempt
at releasing a report relating to his investigations into Trump's
alleged twenty twenty election interference case. I mean, it really
(00:34):
is pretty unbelievable that even though these cases have fallen apart,
even though we had a Supreme Court immunity decision, the
fact that he wants to bludgeon Trump on his way
out the door, just like Judge Murshawn wants to label
Donald Trump a convicted felon his way out the door.
I mean, it is law fair at its first. And
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Donald Trump laid into Prosecutor Jack Smith earlier today at
his press conference.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Listen, I mean Jack Smith, that cases all over the place,
people were being subpoened, lives were being ruined, they were
spending everything they had money. We were helping them out,
we had to. They were subpoenaing people from that had
no idea what they were even talking about. That's a
sick group of people, and it reolved to influence the election.
(01:23):
It was all a fight against a political opponent. We've
never had that in this country. We have had that
in certain countries. We've had that in.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Third tier countries.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
We've had that in Banana republics, but we've never had
that in a place like the United States. I don't
even know if it's been on a small level. I'm
sure it has been on a small level, but this
was the largest level ever. They brought this moron out
of the Hague.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
He's a mean guy.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
He's a mean, nasty guy. His picture was perfect because
you look at his picture, you say that's a bad guy.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Cann said that Smith is temporarily enjoyed from releasing, sharing,
or transmitting the final report or any such drafts of
outside of the Department of Justice. The order remains in
effect until three days after a resolution is announced in
the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit is Friday.
We know that the president on the tenth is scheduled
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to be sentenced that in that ridiculous case in New
York even those statute of limitations had run out. This
novel legal theory Alvin Bragg, as it relates to what
was a legal non disclosure agreement put together by a
lawyer labeled a legal expense. Again, statute of limitations run out,
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and then of course they stack the charges thirty four
to thirty eight, whatever the number will happen to be.
And anyway, the dogmatic refusal last Friday to dismiss this
ridiculous case against Donald Trump and proceed to sentencing is
just another example of the weaponization of justice the country,
and it's got to stop. A lot of people have said, well,
(03:04):
you know, the Donald Trump's Department of Justice and his
FBI and his intelligence communities, they should act the same way.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I don't believe that's the case.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I think we need equal justice under the law, equal
application of our laws. He can't have a double standard.
And they have done this now to Donald Trump for
nearly nine consecutive years, and it didn't pay off. And
in spite of all of these nefarious efforts. Anyway, our
friend Greg Jarrett is with US best selling author Fox
(03:34):
News Legal Analysts, Sir, Happy New year, great to have you.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
How are you sir, I'm well, thank you and good
to be with you.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Let's start with Eileen Kannon blocking Jack Smith from releasing
this report. The thing that sticks in my mind about this,
he wants to be able to lay out his case
with no defense at all by the Trump team. He
wants to be able to put out all of the
scurrilous information that he would liked to have brought up
(04:01):
a trial that he wasn't allowed to bring up a trial,
and just smear and slander Trump one last moment on
the way out the door.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, that's exactly it. But keep in mind, he already
did it. He leaked a lot of allegedly incriminating information
about Trump in court documents that were completely gratuitous right
before the election. And of course it had no impact.
(04:31):
Nobody really cared because they knew what Jack Smith was doing.
You know, he was one of several components of the
law fair war waged against Donald Trump that backfired spectacularly
the other point, but.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
We didn't know at the time that people were ignoring it.
That's the scary part. They had hoped, they had hoped
it would have an impact. They released it because they
wanted an impact, didn't they.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yes, absolutely. I mean Jack Smith wanted to interfere in
the presidential election. He wanted to throw it in favor
of Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
And that's why, by the way, isn't that against Justice
Department policy.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
To do such?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Oh, it's totally against it. And you know, Merrick Arland
was all in. He didn't care. He you know, let's
do it, let's help Kamala win. And you know it
didn't work because people were wise by that time to
the law fier campaign weaponizing the law, the law, contorting it,
(05:36):
mangaling evidence for you know, political vengeance and electoral gain,
and they didn't buy into it, and Trump won. The
other point that I think one of the reasons why
Aileen Cannon, the federal judge in Florida, you know, told
Smith you can't, you know, release this report is because
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remember he was illegal, unconstitutionally appointed. So why should an
illegally appointed special counsel release a report? You know that
report is arguably illegal. And that's part of her reasoning here.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
What did you make over the holidays of this report
that Joe Biden was most disappointed with Merrick Garland? I
found that somewhat spectacular to me, and that he was
angry that Garland didn't move faster in terms of getting
a prosecutor to go after Trump and get him on
trial before the election, and was even angrier still that Garland,
(06:42):
although the DOJ tried their level best to give him
that sweetheart deal in Delaware and make this whole thing
go away, they did try that that he was His
anger and fury against Garland was greater than any other appointment.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Did you see that, Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I did, And it's you know, it's pretty laughable because
Americ Garland was doing Joe Biden's bidding at every turn,
running a protection racket for Hunter Biden, interfering in the case,
offering up a sweetheart deal allowing statute of limitations of
the most serious crimes to expire. So you know, he was,
(07:24):
you know, Hunter Biden's bff. And at the same time
he did launch a special council at the behest of
Joe Biden. Remember, Biden leaked to the New York Times
that he wanted Trump to be prosecuted, and lickety split,
Garland named Jack Smith's special counsel. And then, of course
(07:45):
he launched his two criminal cases in Washington and Florida.
So you know, Garland was doing everything that Joe Biden
asked him. It's just that all of it failed to succeed,
and so much of it backfired in the case.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Of Judge Marshaw and his desire to move forward with
the sentencing. Now he says he's not going to jail
Donald Trump or in any way have him, you know,
have any type of home confinement. But what I find
so interesting about this that entire case, starting with the
novel legal theory, starting with the statute of limitations that passed,
(08:22):
starting with the idea that a non disclosure agreement. I
bet if we got into the records of of Alvin
Bragg's office, there are probably numerous non disclosure agreements that
they've never talked about. Probably would have been good evidence
to bring up if Trump was able to get it
in the trial.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
But in that case, beyond the novel.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Legal theory, which we've spent a lot of time analyzing,
the judge held to this eighty million dollar valuation in
one case, and this is angoron of maur A Lago.
In this particular case, you know, we had testimony, for example,
by Hope from the time she was in the White House.
We subsequently had a Supreme Court decision on immunity, and
(09:08):
that decision should have rendered her testimony. Thus the verdict
in that case moot, and that whole verdict should have
been thrown out. The judge refused to do that. If
this sentencing goes forward on Friday, in a sense, is
maybe there a silver lining in this in that without
(09:29):
the sentence thing, I'm not sure if President Trump would
be able to get it out of this guy's courtroom
off to the Eleventh Circuit that could weigh in on
the immunity decision and on the witnesses that testified in
the case, like Holepix.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Yeah, look, there is a benefit to being sentenced on Friday.
It allows, under the law, the first opportunity to appeal
all of the mistakes, the reversible errors made at trial
in Shawn's case on the merits. You know, the law
(10:06):
is kind of quirky here. You are not allowed to
file an appeal until you've been sentenced, and so you know,
there's an advantage here to being sentenced. Now. You know,
Trump wants to clear his name. He's not officially a
convicted felon until sentencing, but doesn't really matter. I mean,
(10:26):
the media already branded him a convicted felon the moment
the jury vertic came in lasted May. So it's a
practical matter. I mean, who really cares. I think it's
important to get this case overturned, and it will be
I think, easily overturned. It'll take time, but there were
(10:47):
so many mistakes in this case. It was a sham trial,
a convoluted incoherent legal theory, utterly absurd, rife with reversible
errors by the judge. You know, Trump's due process rights
were shredded on almost a daily basis. This wasn't a
(11:08):
fair trial. It was a farce. And I think higher
courts will eventually make mince meat out of the decision
and it'll get tossed out.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Okay, would that be the likely the Eleventh Circuit that
I believe would have the first crack at it.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
You know, I'm not optimistic that the New York Appellate
system will reverse Mershan. They they're liberal.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I did reverse. They did reverse in Goron quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yeah, but not entirely. So we'll have to wait and see.
I'm not terribly optimistic. I think eventually it'll be the
Federal courts because there were federal constitutional issues involved, not
the least of which was immunity, but also do process violations.
And I think the federal courts are more reliable once
(12:07):
it gets to them. I think they'll give a spanking
to Judge Juan Mrshan.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
All right, quick break.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
More with our friend Greg Jarrett, Fox News Legal analyst,
best selling author. Your calls coming up on the other side,
eight hundred and nine to four one, Sean. If you
want to be a part of the program as we continue,
let me continue now. We're reacting to the possible sentencing
that may take place on Friday in the case Alvin
Bragg Judge Juan Mershawn in New York Eileen Cannon's ruling
(12:36):
that Jack Smith cannot release his quote final report until
it is reviewed by a higher court. Greg Jarrett, Fox
News Legal Analyst, best selling authors with us, what do
you think? Attorney what's his name? Mike Davis gave an
interview and he said, I would say this to Judge
Juan Mrshawn, you better lawyer up because what you're doing
(13:02):
is a very serious civil rights felony under eighteen USC.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Two forty one. What's your reaction to that.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
He's absolutely correct, and I've mentioned this before on several
occasions on your program. Two forty one is very important.
It makes it a crime to engage in a conspiracy
to violate somebody's constitutional rights, and running for office as
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Trump did is certainly a constitutional right. So, as I
wrote in my column over the weekend, it's incumbent upon
the incoming Department of Justice Pambondi, if advised and consented
by the US Centers, open a comprehensive investigation into the
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whole lawfare campaign that Special Counsel Jack Smith, Onnie Willis
in Georgia, Dais and Bragg, even Letitia James brought almost
simultaneously and only after Trump announced his bid for election.
That was not a coincidence, Sean. There is reason to
(14:13):
believe and some evidence that there was coordination among all
of them with President Joe Biden's White House and or
with Attorney General Merrick Garland's DOJ maybe both.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
We saw a lot of trips by a lot of
people involved in these cases from Georgia on down, Yeah,
that were headed to the Biden Whitehouse during that.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Time, And if laws were broken, prosecutors should be exposed
and held accountable for weaponizing the justice system in One
of the ways to do it, as you appropriately point out,
is you know two forty one under the criminal codes
conspiracy to deprive Trump of his constitutional rights?
Speaker 3 (14:58):
You see? Do you really see that as impossible reality?
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:01):
I do.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I absolutely do, and I'll be writing a column about
it very soon.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Well, we appreciate your time. Happy New Year, my friend,
Greg Jarrett. Thank you for being with us as always. Sure, Brandy,
you're a fine girl. That Have you made any after
your time off? By the way, how was your vacation?
I'm gonna ask you yet, Oh it was great.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
How was yours?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
It's oh great. Any time off for me is a
good time. Anytime with family is a good time.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Agreed.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Did you do anything special or did you just have
some hopefully you had some downtime.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
Had I had a massive epiphany about the song? Brandy?
Actually so, I would say it was actually a very
special vacation.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Well, please do share. I'm dying to hear it. I've
been trying to connvince you that your interpretation was wrong
for a while.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
I tell you what, I have seen the light and
I am now on the Hannity bandwagon. You are right.
You've been writing all along on this song without a doubt.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Is this your new year New Year's resolution?
Speaker 6 (15:54):
This was my New Year's resolution. I'm like, I need
to do a deep dive. I need to put this
bad boy to bed. Brandy, You're gonna lay down. You're
never getting back up again. This is it, right, very clear.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Brandy.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
You're a fine girl, a fine if you would be,
that's right, fine girl. But my life and if I
love and my lady is the sea meaning not you.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
That's right, you are cool.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
But but you thought originally that Brandy represented the sea,
which would have contradicted the lyrics, and then you thought
that Brandy might have something to do with the liquor.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
Brandy, I did you know? I think I was getting
a little too deep in the weeds there. You know,
I was having a little bit of a Van Gole
moment with this song. I don't think that's what it
was at all. I think it just is what it
is on phase value, and I was like, you know what,
I'm just gonna take it for what it is. They're
telling me what it is. This is what it is,
and that's that.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
I think you might have spent a lot of time
with your pastor over the holiday, because this is a
whole new Linda or.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
I spent a lot of time with Brandy and realize
it's just not that great.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Probably looked up as we did, looking Glass that sings
the song Brandy, and it was really about a woman
named Randy. They just changed the name of the wood
woman according to the author of the song, and anyway
it had to do with that relationship.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
Well, I'll tell you what. I had A little Brandy
had a little like I got a little drunk. I
saw the light. I now know it's it's a lady,
and we're moving on.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
At least you're not drinking the moonshine that people keep.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Definitely not. I threw that out over the holiday. I
was like, I can't do this anymore.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
You did not throw it out.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
My hands are God. I'm like, I can't look at
it anymore.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
What about the rope the team? If you're having a moment,
they forget about it. That moonshine.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
I ruled the roost. I left the vodka. I got
rid of the moonshine.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
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with Mark Halpern early in the program today, and the
media is never gonna learn, and I think as a result,
Americans are going to continue to tune them out. I
think Americans are fed up with being lied to. I mean,
they lied about Joe's cognitive decline, they lied about the borders,
they lied about the economy, They lie about Donald Trump.
You know, nobody in the media ever ever had a
(19:11):
critical thought as it relates to all the weaponization of
our Justice department, all the law fair used against Donald Trump.
They never questioned a phony evaluation of mar A Lago
at eighteen million dollars when it's worth a billion plus dollars.
And any realtor in Palm Beach, Florida will tell you
that's the case. But of course the judge in that
(19:33):
case would not let the testimony of real estate experts
to be brought into that a civil case. And it's
the same thing yesterday. I mean, Sonny Houston over at
that hit hard hitting news show, The View comparing January
sixth to the Holocaust.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
You can't make it up.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
I say no, you don't move on because January sixth
was an atrocity. It was one of the worst moments
in American guests. And when you think about the worst
moments in American history, you know, like World War II,
things that happened, like the Holocaust, chattel slavery, we need
(20:15):
to never forget because past becomes prologue if.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
You forget any race.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Can we remind people that the Holocaust carried out by
Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler in Europe killed tens of millions
of people, six million Jews, roughly twenty million military personnel,
forty million civilians dying during World War Two? And is
that the comparison? You're going to invoke Nazi mass murder
(20:43):
of the Jewish people and others and compare that to
January sixth, and live in the past if that's where
they want to live, and that's where fake Jake Tapper
was apparently yesterday too, and if they want to if
they want to live. They ran on this, They ran
on this, They lost on this. They ran hard on
(21:06):
January sixth, on insurrection and Trump's a Nazi and a
fascist and a racist and all the other cliches that
they use every election season.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
It didn't work.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
One person more to the left, our old friend Heraldo
said it would be right for Trump to pardon most
January six ers. And then the question was did these
punishments of years and years in prison or was it
appropriate for the crimes committed. You know, look at this
guy that killed two people in the New York City
subway system over the last weekend. I mean, this guy
(21:39):
had been at eighty seven prior arrests and was still
walking the streets. One other thing I want to get
to that I think has a very profound impact. And
some of you may think this is purely political, but
there's a deeper history here that I want to go into,
and that is the announcement of Mark Zuckerberg. First of all,
(22:01):
that he brought in Dana White to be among three
new board members of Meta, that platform formerly known as Facebook.
And I will tell you that there is no doubt
that this has been a process.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
This is not about.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Long before Donald Trump won the election, they had made
a lot of changes at Meta. And I'm not saying
all of them are perfect, and I'm not saying any
I'm not telling any of you to trust it. And
I mean I'm a I'm a trust but verify guy.
But this is what he went into in great specificity,
in detail today that they're changing their filters to reduce censorship.
(22:39):
Now there's certain things that they're going to have to censor.
And inasmuch as you can't have people on any platform
making making threats of violence or physical harm to other people,
I mean, it becomes a fine line if people are,
you know, so outwardly virulently racist, anti semitic, and they're
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you know, some people are more subtle and some people
overt and each platform will have their own standards, but
this is what Zuckerberg said will be the standard of Facebook.
By the fact checking will be ended and they'll be
more inclusive in terms of content, and they're changing their
filters to reduce the censorship, and they're bringing back civic content.
(23:24):
And Facebook is moving trust and safety moderation teams out
of California to Texas, and they're going to work with
Trump to push back on government around the world going
after him, after American companies and pushing for more censorship.
In other words, it sounds like he's fighting for free speech.
Speaker 7 (23:43):
But listen, first, we're going to get rid of fact
checkers and replace them with community notes similar to X.
Starting in the US, after Trump first got elected in
twenty sixteen, the legacy media wrote NonStop about how misinformation
was a threat to democracy. We tried in good faith
to address those concerns without becoming the arbiters of truth,
(24:05):
but the fact checkers have just been too politically biased
and have destroyed more trust than they've created, especially in
the US. So over the next couple of months, we're
going to phase in a more comprehensive community notes system. Second,
we're going to simplify our content policies and get rid
of a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and
gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse.
(24:28):
What started as a movement to be more inclusive has
increasingly been used to shut down opinions and shut out
people with different ideas, and it's gone too far. So
I want to make sure that people can share their
beliefs and experiences on our platforms. Third, we're changing how
we enforce our policies to reduce the mistakes that account
(24:49):
for the vast majority of censorship on our platforms. We
used to have filters that scanned for any policy violation. Now,
we're going to focus those filters on tackling illegal and
severity violations, and for lower severity violations, we're going to
rely on someone reporting an issue before we take action.
The problem is that the filters make mistakes and they
(25:10):
take down a lot of content that they shouldn't, So
by dialing them back, we're going to dramatically reduce the
amount of censorship on our platforms. We're also going to
tune our content filters to require much higher confidence before
taking down content. The reality is that this is a
trade off. It means we're going to catch less bad stuff,
but will also reduce the number of innocent people's posts
(25:33):
and accounts that we accidentally take down. Fourth, we're bringing
back civic content. For a while, the community asked to
see less politics because it was making people stressed, so
we stopped recommending these posts. But it feels like we're
in a new era now and we're starting to get
feedback that people want to see this content again, So
we're going to start phasing this back into Facebook, Instagram,
(25:56):
and threads while working to keep the communities friendly and positive. Fifth,
we're going to move our trust and safety and content
moderation teams out of California, and our US based content
review is going to be based in Texas. As we
work to promote free expression. I think that will help
us build trust to do this work in places where
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there is less concern about the bias of our teams. Finally,
we're going to work with President Trump to push back
on governments around the world. They're going after American companies
and pushing to censor more. The US has the strongest
constitutional protections for free expression in the world. Europe has
an ever increasing number of laws institutionalizing censorship and making
(26:39):
it difficult to build anything innovative there. Latin American countries
have secret courts that can order companies to quietly take
things down. China has sensored of apps from even working
in the country. The only way that we can push
back on this global trend is with the support of
the US government, And that's why it's been so difficult
over the past four years. Years when even the US
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government has pushed for censorship by going after US and
other American companies, it has emboldened other governments to go
even further. But now we have the opportunity to restore
free expression and I am excited to take it.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Now, what's interesting about this? Some of you are going
to say, yeah, well, he's just afraid Donald Trump became president,
and and in Washington they've been they've been going after him,
et cetera. Let me take you back to the letter
that Zuckerberg wrote to Jim Jordan and the House Judiciary Committee.
(27:38):
And I thought it was I thought I thought at
the time it was very very interesting. And this goes back,
I don't know, a year, two years ago whenever he
sent this this this letter to Jim Jordan, and I
talked to Jim Jordan about it, and Jim Jordan had
multiple conversations with the top leaders at META about what
had happened with the Biden administration. And in this letter
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by Zuckerberg himself, he admitted that his company was wrong.
He said he regret that they were not more outspoken
about the Biden administration pressuring Facebook at the time that
they were wrong not more outspoken about it. Then they
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ended up giving into that pressure, making choices with the
benefit of hindsight new information that they wouldn't make today.
I strongly think we should not compromise our content standards
due to pressure from any administration and either direction. We're
ready to push back if something like this ever happens again.
And then that goes to the fifty one. For example,
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I think the most underreported story is the Hunter Biden
laptop story. Weren't even allowed to share it on most
social media. Now think about that. That was a very
real laptop, and the FBI knew it was a very
real laptop by March of twenty twenty, and they were
out there. They knew the story or he would break
because Bob Costello, Rudy Giuliani's attorney at the time, had
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a copy of it, and they knew he had a
copy of it, so they knew it would leak. And
in the months leading up to the twenty twenty election,
the FBI met with all the social media companies and
warn them they may be victims of a Russian disinformation
campaign and it may be about Joe and Hunter and Barisma.
The New York Post story breaks weeks before the twenty
twenty election. Zuckerberg Facebook, to their credit, Twitter, to their
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credit at the time, asked the fbis this the Russian
disinformation you were warning us about? And even though the
FBI had validated the authenticity of that laptop. They refused
to tell them the truth. And meanwhile, they had prebunked
the laptop knowing what was in it, knowing it would
come out. Now, that is a manipulation and politicizing the
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premier law enforcement agency in the entire world. This is
the type of thing that Cash Bettel is going to
have to clean out. This is what will have to
be removed from our intelligence community and it probably is
going to mean and this is why we have to
get rid of weaponization. And this is where people are
going to have to change their thinking and their mindset
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as it comes to all of these issues. But I
give them credit because this is not what we heard today.
Has been a long time coming. There has been a
lead up to this, and there's a history to this
and my conversations with Jordan, Jim Jordan convinced me that
this series about being a free speech content platform. Let's see,
time will tell and it's going to wrap things up
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for today. Don Junior back from Greenland. He'll tell us
all about his trip Steve Whitkoff, who is the Special
Envoy to the Middle East. We'll talk about Donald Trump saying,
well hamas better release the hostages or there will be
hell to pay. We'll get an update on that situation
the jack Smith ruling by Eileen Cannon. He can't release
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the report. We'll check in with Dersh and Greg. Jarrett
also writes previous Ronnie Jackson and Tom Cotton nine Eastern
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