Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., joins 'Hannity' to discuss the upcoming runoff elections
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Wisconsin in particular
thank you as always
appreciate the update
we turn to another key factor in
the twenty twenty election, and that is
big tech.
Clearly, acting is a protective
shield. Just like the media mob,
the babe tap mob for the Biden
campaign.
You have a leak and cognitively
struggling Joe Biden hiding in
his basement bunker. I call it
the media mob, big tech, candidate
protection program, heard they
protected him, the entire
campaign,
but in a blatant effort to
defeat President Trump in a
tribute to Joe Facebook,
Twitter, other tech giants
actually censored verifiable
claims about Biden and his
family corrupt business
practices. The terms would never
get that consideration and in
the weeks before the election,
Twitter froze the accounts of
prominent Republicans that
shared the story that included
Kaylee in that company blocked
its users from sharing the story
in private messages,
you couldnt even send it
privately.
More recently, Silicon Valley,
lids, who werent run twitter,
have been putting disclaimer on
tweets for many conservatives,
including president Trump,
pointing out that what they are
deciding they believe is right
and wrong, and apparently the
employees of Twitter think they
have a monopoly on truth
by the way sidenote you might
want to switch to parlor
when you go to twitter say here
is my new account on parlor
just an idea
today, during a hearing on
Capitol Hill, Senator Cruz,
Senator Graham a grilled
twitter, the CEO of Twitter to
censor editorialized political
content,
take a look,
they decided and may be for
a good reason. I dont know that
youre articles about Hunter
Biden needed to be flagged
excluded from distribution or
made hard to find
that to me seems like you are
the ultimate editor.
Your answer is always will
once we silence, we can choose
to allow you to speak,
but you are engaged in
publishing decisions freight. Let
me shift to a different topic.
Mister Dorsey!
This does. Voter fraud exist.
I dont know for certain.
Are you an expert in voter
fraud?
No im, not very.
Why, then, is twitter right
now putting purported warnings
on virtually any statement about
voter fraud?
We are simply linking to
broader conversation, so people
have more information per ticket.
No, you put up it fades. It said,
voter fraud of any kind is
exceedingly rare, and the United
States
thats not linking to a broader
conversation, thats taking a
disputed policy position and
youre a publisher when youre
doing that
both Facebook Twitter
enjoyed the legal protections
known as section two hundred and thirty, and that
section virtually protect social
media giants from being held
liable like regular media
companies, because content is
posted by users, not if their
editing it for that status does
not extend to media outlets, who
publish or editorialized
material and Senator Cruz commit.
That is what is happening at
twitter and elsewhere.
Now, according to one
whistleblower complaint, Twitter
did not act alone.
They allege that twitter and
Facebook could all work together
to coordinate their censorship
efforts. So it is time to hold
these powerful tech giants
accountable and may be helped
turn to other venues freight. If
they want to act like members of
the mob in the media, they
should be treated like members
of the mob, and that means no
more liability protection in
section two hundred and thirty, without consequences,
nothing is going to change, and
history will repeat itself over
and over and over again
here, with more on this and my
reaction on the top story, South
Carolina, Senator Lindsey, Graham
lets start with the Secretary
of State of Georgia.
There were others on the call,
and one came to your defense and
said no. That is not what he
said or did at all.
I really dont need anybody
to defend me, because I know what
I did. I appreciate the person
coming forward.
I called the Secretary of State
to have him explain to me how
you verify a the signature on
the meal and ballot not to feel
out legal votes, but to make
sure we have a system in Georgia
that can verify that you are who
you say you are when you vote.
If you show up in person, you
need an id,
you dont need an id to vote by
mail.
If you go through the portal, you
need an id, but when you cook
the blight through the mail, they
have to verify a signature. A
single person does that
it should be bipartisan.
Here is what im begging the
Trump administration and
campaign to do, get some judge
to go, look at the envelopes with
signatures and match them
against the database. So let
somebody that knows what theyre
doing in front of Republicans
and Democrats. So we can verify
that mailing bout voting in
Georgia is not fraudulent.
When you have a single person,
verifying the signature, its
not bipartisan
thats, not the way to do it.
Thats. What I was talking about,
Stacy Ingrahams is calling for
every liberal in the country to
move to Georgia shes bragging
about having six hundred thousand people
ready to vote by mail. But what
im begging Georgia to do is
make sure if somebody votes by
mail, you have a bipartisan
process to verify the signature
we dont just leave it up to one
person in the election office.
You talked with the Secretary
of state. The governor can call
the legislature back. They
havent done that it.
What is the reason why why
would you have two separate
systems on signatures, and why
is that? Okay,
and how do you find two thousand six hundred votes
yesterday and another two thousand seven hundred votes
today?
Okay, your state got it right on
election night,
Florida did Ohio. Did all these
other states do
just Pennsylvania, Michigan,
Nevada, interesting states that
we are worried about.
All I can say is on election
night votes came out of nowhere
for Biden
that showed up late in the night
on election night for Biden
weeks later were finding votes
for trump.
All I can say is I sit on your
show that voting by mail would
be the end of the Republican
Party if we dont have a system
to verify signatures.
All im asking for is that
Georgia have a bipartisan group
to verify the signature on mail
ballots, not leave it up to a
single individual.
If you had an audit of all the
signatures on envelopes in
Georgia, and you had people that
know what they are doing, I bet
the rejection rate would be more
than zero point three percent.
If we dont get a better system
when it comes to voting by mail
thats, the end of the Republican
Party,
Stacy Abrams is trying to take
over the election system in
Georgia fight back
by the way you had more
money thrown at you from people
outside of South Carolina Rosie
Odonnell, Barbra Streisand. We
talked a lot about it.
People in South Carolina were an
influence.
Now all the money from Hollywood
now telling people to move there,
which would be voter
fraud
and all this money is going to
be pouring into Georgia
now, both of those races matter.
I am concerned that people come
out looking at the show and a
governor and secretary of State
that have no urgency about it.
They didnt get it right. This
time.
I think the Secretary of State
owes everybody in the country
and answer why we have two thousand seven hundred new
ballots today, two thousand six hundred yesterday.
Why dont they check the
standards. Why wouldnt they do
that to ensure integrity and
competence in our election.
All I can say is Georgia goes.
The nation goes.
Democrats are calling for people
to move into Georgia for the
express purpose of winning these
two Senate seats.
Nobody ask people for California
to move into South Carolina.
Stacy Abrams is calling for
people to move to Georgia to tip
the balance of power in the U Dot S
Senate
because of the arena in Georgia.
I would push back because were
going to change the Supreme
Court from conservative to
liberal or going to do away
with the electoral college,
but that thirty days before the
election they can votes and then,
when the votes over, they can
move out
thats. What theyre telling
people to do
literally,
please, for God, sake, look at
changing Georgia law to
neutralize what Stevie Stacy
Abrams is trying to Dupree Chee
is going to send in hundreds of
thousands of mail in ballots for
it all and asking is to have a
bipartisan group of people
verify the signature, not a
single person
when it comes to moving to
Georgia, have allowed the you
cant have been for the purpose
of taking and then move out.
You have a chance to change the
law change it.
You had twitter facebook.
They have the most power in
the history of mankind. They can
all conspire to tell us what we
can see.
They can mold how we think
they have no legal liability.
They can take down your content,
they can label what you say is
fraudulent.
You cant still sue them.
You have no recourse as an
individual when it comes to them.
Censoring your content at the
end of the day, section two hundred and thirty is
being abused
its now time to make them like
every other media organization.
When you make editorial
decisions, you become an editor.
If Fox NEWS had something
against me or put somebody on
television that slanders me, I
could not only see the
individual but Fox NEWS
in the world of social media. Had
there is no accountability.
There is no legal liability and
theres no government regulation,
its the wild wild West, and we
need to fix it because it will
destroy conservatism. If we dont
get this right,
it was the media mob, big
tech, candidate protection
program and they never asked the
questions and they got Biden in
the bunker.
This race January, 5th, allots.
Transcript generated on 2020-11-18.