“Netflix Is Playing With FIRE” - Hawley GOES NUCLEAR On Netflix CEO Over Trans Content For Kids
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🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley grill Netflix and Warner executives over a proposed $72B streaming merger, sparking debate on media bias, children’s content, market power, and FTC approval. The PBD Podcast panel breaks down politics, entertainment, and the future of streaming wars.
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| 0:15.1 | So Netflix, Warner, defend proposed deal in Senate hearing. |
| 0:20.7 | This is a Wall Street Journal story. |
| 0:22.7 | It got nasty, very quick. |
| 0:25.0 | Rob, if you want to go to the Josh Hawley clip before we go to the Ted Cruz one, |
| 0:30.1 | COSio Ted Sarandis defended the streaming companies planned $72 billion acquisition |
| 0:35.5 | of Warner Brothers and HBO Max at a Senate hearing Tuesday that occasionally grew contentious. |
| 0:41.7 | The best part of this that I want you to watch is here with Josh Hawley. |
| 0:46.9 | Josh Hawley pushes both of these guys, and they couldn't answer a couple of the questions he asked. |
| 0:53.1 | Go ahead, Rob. |
| 0:54.7 | That's so much of Netflix content for children promotes a transgender ideology, |
| 1:02.0 | almost half of your content for child. I'm talking about minor children now. I'm not talking |
| 1:06.3 | about teenagers. Minor children promotes a transgender ideology agenda. I was just looking at the data here |
| 1:13.6 | from your various series. And what concerns me is just two days ago, a jury in New York |
| 1:21.1 | awarded a former transitioner $2 million because she said that her psychologists and others pressured her into, |
| 1:30.1 | they pushed on her an ideology that proved to be extremely detrimental. |
| 1:34.6 | I'm sure you know that in the UK, the National Health Service in the UK has said |
| 1:39.2 | that they're not going to perform transgender surgeries or any longer so-called gender |
| 1:44.0 | affirming care for minors, |
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