Luna: This, ladies and gentlemen, is joint action between the federal government and a private company to censor and violate the First Amendment. This is also known as 'joint state actors'. It's highly illegal. You are all engaged in this action, and I want you to know you will all be held accountable.
Luna: If you don't think this is important to your constituents and the American people, from those saying this is a pointless hearing, I suggest you find other jobs.
Bush: Republicans are holding this hearing because of their ridiculous, politically motivated obsession with Hunter Biden.
Roth: I don't recall specific contact from the CIA.
Burlison: Do you still believe that the Hunter Biden laptop is not real?
Roth: Sir, I never held that belief.
Burlison: Do you believe the story is Russian disinformation?
Roth: No sir. I didn't then, and I don't now.
Baker probably told them. kek
Roth: For the final, I believe year and a half of my tenure at twitter, Ms. Gadde was my direct supervisor.
Jordan: Did you ever tell the FBI that they had no legitimate interest in enforcement of twitter's policies?
Baker [long pause]: I don't recall ever having such a conversation with the FBI.
Jordan: Did you think there was a problem with the FBI sending you a list of names and accounts and saying, hey these violate your policies?
Baker: I was always concerned that the FBI adhere to the constitutional laws of the United States…had I thought that they were doing something unlawful, I would have taken appropriate steps to address it.
Chairman Comer: We apologize for the electricity going out. That's never happened in my six years in congress.
Raskin: Thank you to the witnesses..I hope you don't feel as bad about the day as you seem to look right now.
[they are petrified of being prosecuted]
Raskin: We have members who are actually threatening witnesses with arrest and prosecution for clearly imaginary offenses, or at least offenses that makes sense in their minds, but I don't quite know what they would be.
Raskin: There is no state action here. There is an attempt to, perhaps jerry-rig some state action, by claiming it was really the FBI that committed whatever offense that was there.
Chairman Comer [to Raskin]: You've come through quite the transition; at the beginning of the hearing, you, as well as many of your colleagues, said this was a conspiracy theory. After listering to the witnesses, you say it was a simple mistake they made, in suppressing the laptop story.