Magazine under scrutiny for magazine under scrutiny for publishing this op ed, essentially threatening any company for the magazines editor writing minute, be known to the business world, hire any of trumps telephone bliss and of trumps. Telephone bliss and Forbes will assume everything your company talks about is a live. We will scrutinize double check, investigate with the same skepticism. We would approach a Trump tweet wants to ensure the worlds biggest media brand approaches you as a potential funnel of disinformation. The guys name is on the door. The chairman and ceo of Forbes joins us now from his living room. How are you

Steve, wise Forbes investigating any company that hires people who worked for the administration? Unlike twitter, media, giant and big tech companies? We believe in diversity of believe in diversity of opinion. That is an opinion from our chief content officer. He has his opinion. I have my opinion heres my opinion. This is reminiscent of what we had in the 1950s during the Mccarthy era. With the blacklists. There are other dark periods in american dark periods in american history. People can express opinions, they value those diverse opinions. I think that shows strength, not weakness. He is using the resources of the worlds biggest media brand

to follow those people wherever they go. If you hire one of these people, we will investigate you. We will investigate you. This is an opinion piece, one of many diverse opinions we have at Forbes. It is wanting to go after people who dont to the truth, but do wrong things and in those go back to the kind of your we had in 1950s with blacklists and the like one thing we do going forward. One thing we do going forward is try to tap down temperatures. This country has enormous challenges and enormous challenges and enormous opportunities, but we get these moments where passions go to wait levels, we had it after world war, I thousands were arrested and deported without proper procedure, proper procedure. We saw what happened to

Japanese in California after the attack by Imperial Japan on Pearl Harbor, a shameful period of our history 1950s. We have to avoid that today, people wants to give their opinions what people did fine, but in terms of working in the future. In terms of pursuing your careers, you go right ahead. We have diversity of opinion, and that is an example of it, and I wish you could see that in universities, mass media and in universities, mass media and big tech. This is an example of it. Brian sounds like a not so subtle threat against private businesses. You hire one of these trump people and we will investigate you, shouldnt the marketplace. Shouldnt private companies decide who they hire if they hire somebody Sean Spicer shouldnt, they decide who they put on their team. Of course, they can decide who they put on their team. Brian and Forbes will look at that

in terms of a person expressing an opinion. That is an opinion he has his opinion. I have my opinion. That is diversity in terms of a Hollywood blacklist and the like. That is not going to be practiced today and shouldnt of been practiced in the 1950s, and we need this diverse city where people put it out there. He wants to go after people, he may want to do that. I dont others have opinions, and that is the diversity we need more of not less. We put it out there. Other organizations try to cover it up. We dont it is all out there. Diverse opinions got to defend the free amendment. Brian sounds like you are on different pages, but what you are talking about is we are at a transition point in our

company. Our country and Joe Biden talks about so many members of Congress. Talking about bringing the country to gather and uniting, and you have this guy saying we should unite what happened last week was terrible at the same time, dont ever let these people work. These people work in terms of cancel culture. He said in his op ed that hes against cancel culture im against cancel culture, Brian isnt, that what this is you have this kind of debate. Moving forward. You will see people speak up in the early 1970s. We had a moment like this with Richard Nixon Gerald. Ford became president against intense opposition a day, or he gave a pardon to Nixon to try to get the country to move forward.

We need people to tap things down. So if somebody wants to say something fine and we have an open debate about it, I made my position clear not going to have a return to the 1950s. What happened after world 1950s? What happened after World WAR I or Pearl Harbor not going to happen in the heat of the moment. People are angry and this is an example of it. They are outraged by what happened last week, which was unconscionable, but now we have to make sure we get together and move forward and allow diverse opinion everywhere, not just at Forbes Brian thanks for coming on and.