EXCERPT:
MAYORKAS: "That is unequivocally false."
HAWLEY: "It's what the emails show."
MAYORKAS: "It is unequivocally false, senator."
HAWLEY: "You are not pressuring the Big Tech companies to take down accounts? You are not meeting with them to ask them to censor on your behalf?"
MAYORKAS: "That is correct. We are not."
HAWLEY: "Mr. Secretary, it has been established for years in this country, as you very well know, because you're a lawyer, that the federal government may not use private third parties to engage in activities that are unconstitutional. That’s exactly what you and this administration are doing. You are leveraging private companies to carry out censorship on your behalf. It’s dystopian. But worse than that, it’s unconstitutional."
MAYORKAS: "It's also false."