- With more on this is Vice President

of the Media Research Center, Dan Gainor.

Dan, good to see you, my friend.

- Good to see you as well,

especially on such an importantday for a Congressional.

- Oh my, you aren't kidding.

Well, do you expectanything to come out of

these hearings besides talk?

Would we actually seegovernment action taken

against these social media companies?

- Well, I think we'redefinitely heading that route.

Both left and right wantto take some action.

They don't agree onwhat, but they do agree

that something must be done.

They're concerned aboutprivacy, they're concerned about

the size of the companies, but the left

is certainly not concernedthat conservatives

are being censored orrestricted in any way.

- Should the issues ofsocial media censorship,

for instance, Lila Rose,

I mean I can't believe the censorship

they've undergone, against conservatives

and whether these companiesare economic monopolies.

Should that be linked?

- Well, it's a reasonable question.

Can people compete in,

can a company like Gab, which tries to be

a free speech operation, or Apollo

or any of these other new startups,

really compete against companies

that are the largest andmost powerful companies

in human history?

- Well all of thesecompanies continue to be

even more brazen in theircensorship of conservatives.

Do you think that they thinkthat they're untouchable?

- Well I think it's escalating,because at its core,

maybe not always at the executive level,

but a lot of theemployees, they are trying

to un-do what happened in 2016.

Donald Trump, and beforehim, Barack Obama,

won on the backs of social media.

Donald Trump is a powerfulsocial media force,

and the left, particularly in these

Silicon Valley companies,is trying to prevent him

from doing in 2020 what he did in 2016.

- Dan, what do you make ofPeter Thiel's allegations

that Google senior management has been

"thoroughly infiltratedby Chinese intelligence"?

- Well, I mean it's scaryhow much these companies

will work with nations that are our foes

and not work with us.

This is very much sortof the globalist vision.

We're going to hire employeesfrom around the world,

many of whom are not necessarilyloyal to the United States,

and you know, that's alwaysbeen seen as a good in tech,

but once you have these tech companies

starting to work with defense departments,

and in China Google will say,

"Well, we don't work with theChinese defense department,"

but if you work with onebranch of Chinese government,

or a lot of their businesses,

you're really working with theChinese defense department,

and that's just the truth.

- Well, if we indeed havesocial media monopolies,

any suggestions for whatthe government should do?

- Well, one of the firstthings for government to do

is to look into how much these companies

are involved in our elections.

That's the FEC.

That's something thatcould already be done

without Congressional approval.

All these top tech companies got involved

in the 2018 electiontrying to get the vote out.

Did they do so fairly?

That's a big question,especially in the case of Google,

where some Google employeeswere trying to promote

getting the Hispanicvote out in key states

to boost Hillary Clinton in 2016.

That's something we need to know

going into the 2020 election.

- Well, Dan, we'll haveto leave it there for now,

but we look forward to youcoming back on the show soon.

Thanks so much for your insights.

- So do I.