senator hawley, you are recognized for your questions. senator hawley thank you very : much, mr.ing here, mr. secretary. i want to talk about the policies that have gotten us to where we are with our effectively open border. but let me first ask you about this, you said as recently as this week that the border is closed, is that still your position today, borders is closed? sec. mayorkas: yes, it is. senator hawley: don't you think you bear any responsibility for the current crisis by telling the world earlier this year that the border was open? your words were, "we are not telling you not to come, we are just telling you that we are putting a system back in place in which you can come." don't you think people took your words at face value then? sec. mayorkas: senator, i have never said that the border is open and i have never -- senator hawley: we are not telling you not to come, how would you parse that? sec. mayorkas: senator, i have never said that the border is open and i have never believed that it should be an open border. we have laws that congress has passed that are law

josh hawley said he used to read pulitzer prize-winning columnist george will religiously.along with ted cruz and donald trump should be forevermore shunned. each will wear a star-- scarlet s as a seditionist. tonight liz cheney and george will who calls them seditionists will say what they can never, ever say. >> the election is over. that is the rule of law. that is our constitutional process. those who refuse to accept the rulings of our courts are at war with the constitution. our duty is clear. every one of us who has sworn the oath must act to prevent the unraveling of our democracy. >> joining our discussion now, claire mccaskill, former democratic senator from missouri and msnbc political analyst, also with us senator glover, professor at princeton university and msnbc contributor. claire, what it must feel like to read his deepest regrets at defeating you through the election campaign with josh hawley. >> danforth revealed by the old republican party in my state, someone who refused to campaign against tom eagleton because they worked together on many issues that w

senator hawley: c.b.p. data says the agency had 178,000 enforcement encounters at the southern boarder in april, the highest in two decades. of that total what percentage were subject to immediate expulsion? secretarty mayorkas: i will get that data to you. don't have that at my disposal this morning. senator hawley: is it 100%? 60%? 20%? do you have any idea? secretarty mayorkas: 100% of families and single adults are subject to expulsion except for those with acute vulnerabilities . we exercise that discretion. however, our ability to actually expel families under c.d.c.'s title 42 authority is limited by, for example, mexico's ability and capacity, i should say, to receive the expelled families. and that is what we are addressing as a result. senator hawley: i think the number is around 60% or so are subject to immediate expulsion. we have a very large percentage of migrants who are permitted entry into the united states and still here. we'll give that question again to you for the record so that you can

george will wrote that josh hawley, ted cruz and donald trump should be forevermore shunned.t as as a sedition is. tonight on the house floor, liz cheney said would josh hawley and the republicans, george will now call sedition is, who support donald trump's big lie can never, ever say. >> the election is over, that is the rule of law, that is our constitutional process. those who refused to accept the ruling of our courts are at war with the constitution. our duty is clear, every one of us who has sworn the oath must act to prevent the unraveling of our democracy. >> joining our discussion now claire mccaskill, former democratic senator and political analysts and professor eddie glaude jr., professor of african study an msnbc contributor. senator, let me start with you and what must feel like to read his deep regrets at doing everything he could to defeat you in your reelection campaigned through the candidacy of josh hawley. >> he revered by the ole republican party, in my state, someone who refused to campaign against tom eagle gym because they work together on many issues

senator hawley let's talk about january 6th. there has been a concerted effort that somehow you were involved to instigate incitement to the insurrection. you are a constitutionalist as you point out, and of course after all these electives come together and cast their vote it goes to thees t archivist and he or she sends it to congress to count where people can raise questions. that is the whole point of theha process and others have done exactly the same thing. explained to the american people without interruption what you did, what you are trying to do and white was constitutional. >> thank you mark. i believe in election integrity, believe we need to have a discussion in this country about election in integrity. to use the big corporations to believe states like georgia or my own where we have voter id. what the democrats want to do with big corporations get rid of election integrity laws and take over the election to centralized that power. i said on january 6th was i think we need to have a debate about election integrity

senator josh hawley, you of course remember this picture. a fist in the air as he greeted trump supporters outside the capitol hours before the deadly insurrection. today hawley defended that gesture. >> when i walked by that particular group of folks were standing there peacefully behind police barricades well off of the plaza. and i waved to them, pumped my fist to them and thanked them for being there. and they had every right to do that. >> of course, let's just be clear. the reason that they were there was because of the lie that trump had put out there that hawley had given air for months. this is the utter nonsense that congresswoman cheney refuses to repeat. and to be clear, she's on the verge of being purged from her post in the republican party despite a 98% perfect rating on republican policies and a 93% rating with voting with president trump. what are the chances she survives? >> she little. it could happen as soon as next week, may 12th. she has very little support within the house republican conference. members that backed her

and josh hawley, wants to run for president of the united states, and josh hawley is positioning himselfident. this is what the president voters want, and all these things are connected. and part of the problem with america today, america is not what it was 20 years, 50 years, 100 years ago, and what is happening now, the republican party is stop america's diversity. stop the empowerment of groups in the country that are a significant part of the country. i will give you a fact. white heterosexual male christians represent 25% of the country. white heterosexual male christians represent 80% of the power levers, politics, the economy. because it's 90 to 80, there i a huge pushback from people like josh hawley, the policing act, all of the things have race at the core. they don't want to drop to 75% in the country. and to me, there is a group of people in the country that don't like the fact that is a country is changed and they want to do everything possible to keep it from changing more, and josh hawley is a leader of that. >> we may not like the answers, but we are deeply indebted to th

we have a great guest, senator josh hawley.ant you to get to know senator holly and he's it has a fantastic book, the tyranny a big tech. it's very important book coming out this coming week and the tyranny a big tech, senator holly thank you for joining us before we get io the book and we will. how would you describe yourself politically? >> thank you for having meat market. great to be with you. i would say of a conservative and that is the easiest description. i'm a constitutional lawyer by background and i was a religious liberty verse a moment lawyer and attorney general of the state of missouri so as prosecutor i have a background in as a prosecutor as well so for all those reasons i believe in our constitution and consider myself a constitutionalist. first and foremost and i consider myself a populist. i think there is a rich, rich tradition that is rooted in our constitution, a saying that it is normal everyday americans who are the best citizens, normal everyday americans who ought to run this country and ought to run

no, josh hawley is not being canceled.cing consequences, something he's familiar with as a father to small children. but he has difficult with being told no, which is strange considering his legislate irv style best described as no, no, no. he's voted no on practically every single biden agenda item since january including non-partisan ones, the bipartisan ones like the anti-hate asian bill that so many of his colleagues voted on. canceled? nay. >> where's my camera? i'm being canceled. where's my makeup. >> canceled, canceled. >> the make up's pretty good. you know that. on television t makeup is pretty good. >>> president biden touting the work of one electric car company. it's raising questions about a potential conflict of interest in his administration. cnn's kristen holmes joins us live with more. explain what's going on. >> reporter: this is interesting. the company we're talking about is prothe area. you might heard about it. president biden did a virtual tour of this one. he also praised the ceo who later spoke at

now hawley tried to defend himself today. take a listen. >> i did what i said i was going do on january the 6th which is to voice my constituents' concerns about election integrity and this is something by the way the process that i used to do that the democrats have used in three of the last presidential elections. >> of course, it's quite different, margaret, from what democrats did in previous electoral protests. right off the top of my head no one thought it was actually going to overturn the election when democrats did it and beyond that, of course, no one was actually killed when the democrats did it. >> yeah. there's that, jake, and josh hawley hasn't changed his tune at all which is so remarkable. didn't change his tune that day when there were several republican senators who planned to vote along with hawley and then after seeing the total destruction and devastation on the capitol, the fact that they had to hide in a hideout room in, a safe room under the capitol, they came to their senses and voted differently. jos

. >> tim, i will see your shamelessness and ambition, and raise you one josh hawley.did a live interview today with the washington post on his book of all things, and senator hawley, he raised clenched fist fame and was asked about that gesture among other things. we will play that and talk about it on the other side. >> when i walked by that particular group of folks who were standing there peacefully behind police barricades well off of the plaza, and i wave to them, give them the thumbs, up pumped my fist to them, and thank them for being there. they had every right to do that. >> after what's happened, do you regret that at all? >> no. because i don't know which of those protesters, if any of, them those demonstrators participated in the criminal riot. >> so tim, apparently the protesters were set up along the lines of the department of justice. there was a criminal division and a simple division. he was gesturing with a raised fist to the civil division. do you buy it? >> no. the unctuousness and audacity to shamelessness for josh hawley, he is so greasy and so p

senator hawley was one of the main instigators of what happened january 6th. in rejecting, it's possible that riot might not have happened. certainly what a lot of republican senators think. the day after the attack you said you were open to censures or expelling hawley. take a listen. >> i'm deeply concerned, and -- i don't think they fully understand how misguided and how irresponsible their actions have been. and so i think we should look it. >> i understand your job is to work across the aisle and accomplish things for the american people, but do you have any misgivings about working with josh hawley? >> no. but i do believe that the purpose of this january 6th commission was to give us the facts about whether we should have proceeded -- >> he voted against it. >> i know. but that's why, again, back to the first question. i don't think the republican party is acting in good faith to govern and to bring forward what the american people want done. we should have that january 6th commission, and the fact we only had six republicans vote for it shows the lack

. >> josh hawley, on the other hand, the gop senator from missouri, had aligned himself very firmly with the opposite view of when it comes to the larger anti-trust debate. you, senator, seem to be somewhere in the middle of them which is a wild place to be. what are your guiding principles for how you approach anti-trust? >> i have to tell you, the first person that's interviewed me that actually gets this, hawley-lee dichotomy. >> it's crazy. >> i know. thank you for bringing it up. let me start with mike lee. he and i are good friends. i was so glad he joined me on this app store. we did the whole thing together. we went after apple. and they wouldn't give us a witness. we're questioning google about why someone called to intimidate, get this, match.com, the day before the hearing, to clearly try to get them not to testify. so we have disagreements on a few major issues. one of them is i think bork has done great damage to this standard of anti-trust. but once again, it's an example. i find common ground where i can find it. on josh hawley, i have not read his book yet, i know he is i

senator hawley says it turns the government into the speech police. mean what kind of speech does he want to be able to have? go on and finish your statement, but i just wanted to put that out. that's what he said. it turns the federal government into the speech police. >> yeah. well, this is exactly what we're seeing. you know, when we passed a symbolic resolution condemning bigotry last year in congress, the leader of the republican members, kevin mccarthy, said that no one in america was talking about anti-asian bigotry in this country. and so whether it's him, whether it's josh hawley trying to rewrite history, not really being responsive to their constituents' concerns, whether it's the january 6th commission to find out the truth and to protect people who work in the capitol, we have seen that they're just trying to erase and rewrite their own history. >> it's really interesting. do you think this bill got wrapped into the gop strategy of turning everything into a culture war? >> well, i don't know. look, i just know that the community has been

josh hawley isn't stupid but he apparently thinks we are.er prep school valedictorian, stanford undergrad, yale law school. his bona fide put him square in the defeat intellectual republican sweet spot, but then along came trump, and senator hawley, he of the clenched fist apparently always yearned for the image of a rough and tough missouri and who is in it for the little guy unless they happen to be capitol police officers, and whatever trump says. criticize the senator for anything from his role in the insurrection to the falsehoods that critics say they have found in his books and you are guilty of cancellation. the problem is, he gave his true self away just a few years back when he wrote his first book which was on teddy roosevelt. it was proof that he was capable of writing a serious book as he was taught to at stanford and yale law school before he discovered the book of trump. that is our broadcast on this friday night and for this week with our thanks for being here with us, have a good weekend unless you have other plans. happy mo

josh hawley isn't stupid but he apparently thinks we are.s squarely in the elite republican sweet spot and then came along donald trump and josh hawley with clinched fist wanted an image for those in it for the little guy until they're capitol police officers and whatever trump says. criticize the senator for anything from his role in the ins recollection to the falsehoods that critics say they have found in his book and you are galt of cancelation. he gave the true self away when he wrote his first book which was on teddy roosevelt and it was proof he is capable of writing a serious book before he discovered the book of trump. that is our broadcast on this friday night and for this week. with our thanks for being here with us have a good weekend unless you have other plans why happy >> thanks for joining us this hour happy friday night. 1918, two years before american women were granted the right to vote, the women of texas were granted the right to vote in state primary elections. didn't happen until two years later for the whole country b

one senator, josh hawley, and his justification simply just don't add up.go the united states secretary general said he welcomed the news. we'll have live reporting of what went into it. and new reporting only on cnn about the trump justice department targeting a cnn journalist, and we have new information about whether or not booster shots will be needed for people who got the covid vaccine. first we begin with republican lawmakers and their pursuit of herd immunity from the facts of january 6th. gop senators voicing objections to the bill the house sent them to set up a bipartisan 9/11 style commission to investigate. as for house republican leader kevin mccarthy who have gone so far as to lobby senators about the bill, he spoke out today, and because he's known to be about as hard to read a flashing neon sign, his answers to reporters are fascinating. for background, remember his republicans colleagues have been telling cnn he's

. >> tim, i will see your shamelessness and ambition and raise you one josh hawley.hington post" on his book of all things. senator hawley, he of raised clemplged fist fame was asked about that gesture among other things. we'll play it and talk about it on the other side. >> when i walked by that particular group of folks were standing there peacefully behind police barricades, well off the plaza. i waved to them, gave them the thumbs up, thanked them for being. there they have every right to do that. >> after what happened, do you regret it at all? >> no. because i don't know which demonstrators participated in the criminal riot. >> so tim, apparently the protesters were set up along the lines of the department of justice. there was a criminal division and a civil division. he was gesturing with aiesraed fist to the civil division. do you buy it? >> no. i'll add unctious he is so greasy and phoney. you know this. everyone who was there was advancing this line that the election was stolen, that josh hawley perm trade, even though he knows better. he is guilty and the

kevin mccarthy or josh hawley or whoever it is, what's his name, matt gaetz, or whatever.they say it. are they just a mirror of the voters? maybe the voters are saying it and they're just a reflection of it, meaning the leaders? sarah? or just a giant feedback loop. >> yeah, it's an excellent question. it's a symbiotic relationship. the voters demand more intensity from their elected officials. some of them are angry about the election and think it was stolen. so the elected officials start saying it's stolen, which means more people believe that there is credibility to the allegations that it was stolen. it kind of feeds off of each other. so it's exactly right. so there is this feedback that is toxifying the republican information in the political stream making it less of a political party and more of a cult. >> let me add. >> go ahead, brendan. i was going to say, what do you think? >> i think it's important to appreciate that donald trump changed the way a lot of republican elected officials think. they've learned lessons from him that i think they're all trying to tak

and josh hawley, and the rest of the proinsurrectionists are sticking with party. that leaves new a stark and dark place. they say, well, joe biden is spending too much on infrastructure. >> who? who? name names. >> look, we just had john bain boehner on his book tour, people in the trump cabinet that should have been speaking out. the kasich, even the bush family, frankly. why can't some of them just be for joe biden? if you have insurrection on one side, maybe spending too much to my taste on the other side, i just -- it's frustrating to see a lot of them saying, well, i'm just going to take a pass on that. >> claire, i share tim's feeling. i think we know the folks who have been out publicly, this wasn't a choice between a democratic candidate who might spend more, and a republican. this was a choice between a lying, corrupt, it turned into an insurrectionist and a patriot. i want to read you more. i saved this piece from new reporting in "the washington post." the piece goes on to describe, i think for the first time an interact, you have caused this, senator m

support of 63 republicans, including one senator, josh hawley of missouri. hawley is supposed to be a legal scholar, and he says the bill turns the federal government into the speech police. that, it gives government sweeping authority to decide what counts as offensive speech. and then, monitor it. the problem is, they only do that after you hit someone because they were asian. thank you for watching. "don lemon tonight" starts right now. >> you know, a lot to say about that. someone, from where you grew up, and that is, queens, congresswoman grace ming, who introduced this bill. the president ended up signing. she is on this show, a little bit later and i think she has a few, choice words for josh hawley. >> there are two criticisms that don't make sense. one, it's not thought police. it's, you hit me, because i'm asian, and said things to that effect. the idea of a hate-crime bill is not new. and the issue of saying, well, just deal with it in the punishment. don't punish the speech. we, as a society, made a determination that, when you hit someone becaus

our correspondent caroline hawley looks at what sparked this deadly confrontation.r: a city of ancient sacred sites, a flashpoints. jerusalem is the center of the israeli-palestinian conflict and has always had the capacity to spark violence. with depressing familiarity, it has yet again. what's behind this latest escalation? pension has been mounting for weeks -- tension has been mounting for weeks. there was a threat dozens of families would be evicted from their homes just out side the old city in favor of jewish settlers. there have also been clashes between israeli police and palestinians, angry about restrictions gathering at the entrance to the old city at sunset. then on the last weekend of ramadan came clashes at a mosque, where is larry lee security forces said palestinians were throwing stones. monday, israel accused worshipers preparing to attack a hardliners and troops stormed into the holy compound. hamas, which rules the gaza strip, is now pertaining itself as the protector of jerusalem, the defender of muslim worshipers. it has called the barrages of

hawley of missouri was the sole exception. the senator who gave thumbs up to the insurrectionists. that bill is the companion to representative meng's legislation, and she's instructed my office she wants to see this adopted as soon as possible. we would have brought her bill to the floor, but she said, no, let's do the senate bill, because it can move more quickly. but she deserves full credit for bringing this issue forward. i commend her for her tireless efforts to stand up against hate targeting in the asian american community. and in every other community. indivisible. one nation. together as the nation's representatives, we must make it absolutely clear that racism and intolerance have no home here in america. very frankly, the people will not parce it. they'll interpret -- parse it. they'll interpret it those against hate and those who thought this bill wasn't perfect in saying that we're against hate. so i urge my colleagues to join in sending that message with strong bipartisan vote on both of these measures. let us reject hate and remind asian american brothers and sister

here to explain more, missouri senator, josh hawley. you have been through a lot.ur book. it was actually the same publisher that s originally planned to publish your book. they are the ones tryingth to silence vice president pence's book. heard about that as well. >> yeah, this is a pattern, sean, where you look at these corporate, these big woke corporations at simon & schuster's, the publisher you are referring to, who canceled my book. under pressure to cancel a lot more conservative. the left is not going to rest until theyoo get every major corporation in america to do their bidding. big tech is the worst. big tech has more power than any monopoly in our history. the left wants to use the monopoly power to censor our shut i us down, to run our government. we can't let it happen. >> sean: you know, counsel -- cancel culture is nothing nw to me or to any conservative radio talk show host. in all 33 years of me being on the radio, i've had to deal with this. 25 years, believe it or not here at fox, i've had to deal with us. d people that want to shut you down, s

senator josh hawley, he weighs in next. straight ahead.: and breaking tonight, we are learning more about president trump's new communications platform from the desk of donald j. trump. the announcement, he just of facebook's decision tomorrow about whether to reinstate the pages of president trump who was sponsored by the platform earlier this year. it is just one of many acts of tech tyranny in recent months, like how twitter censored "the new york post" story about hunter biden's laptop before the election and falsely claimed it was obtained by hacking. get this. speaking for mr. zero experience hunter biden, apparently he is doubling down on failure because after his memoir, "beautiful things" flopped in sales. he sold 10,000 his first week. hunter says he is writing a sequel. may be in this book you can explain how you inked a deal after deal with ukraine, oligarchs and because asked on, russia, china, and shopping sprees. maybe you could tell us where that experience of yours got us. or did you have any qualifications whatsoever on a

but shamefully, without the support of 63 republicans, including one senator, josh hawley of missouria legal scholar, and he says the bill turns the federal government into the speech police, that it gives governments sweeping authority to decide what counts as offensive speech and then monitor it. the problem is they only do that after you hit someone because they were asian. thank you for watching. "don lemon tonight" starts right now. >> you know who has a lot to say than? someone from where you grew up, and that is queens, congresswoman grace meng who introduced this bill the president ended up signing. she is on the show a little bit layer, and i think she has a few choice words for josh hawley. >> there were two criticisms that don't make sense. one, it's not thought police. it's you hit me because i'm asian and said things to that effect. the idea of a hate crime bill is not new. and the issue of saying well, just deal with it in the punishment. don't punish the speech. we as a society made a determination that when you hit someone because of who or what they are, it

hawley: let me ask about the child protection safety act. you stated that the law includes a new mandatory condition of electronic monitoring for all persons charged with child sexual abuse or pornography crimes including register as a sexual offender under the appropriate attitude. in your presentation you noted a number of district court had found this unconstitutional as due to a process -- a commandment, due process clause, i want to ask about this since you are advocating -- making these arguments as defense counsel. do you believe the adam walsh safety and protection act is unconstitutional on eighth amendment grounds? judge jackson: i cannot remember that presentation or anything that i said in that presentation, if confirmed as a judge i am bound by the statutes of this body, i would be called upon to apply them to the facts of any case that is before the seventh circuit. sen. hawley: i wanted to ask the same question about the statute being unconstitutional on the fifth amendment grounds or separation of powers grounds. is your answ

and hawley and i did work on that.ally trying to undermine our democracy through big lies, and their friends back in texas and georgia and all over this country are trying to deny people the right to vote. you know, we can have our differences of opinion, but if it's just outrageous and unacceptable for people to be undermining democracy and trying to deny people the right to vote. >> stephen: now, you started a new job since last we spoke. you're the chairman of the budget committee, and that was the most terrifying thing that the senators across the aisle could imagine. how is their nightmare playing out? >> well, i think from their perspective, it is a nightmare. we passed in the american rescue plan what i think is one of the most consequential pieces of legislation for working families that this country has seen in a very long time. we're right now going to go after some of their billionaire friends and demand that they start paying their fair share of taxes. these are guys who deny, in many cases, the reality of

reporter and author of the technology later the technology lit up in my guest today is senators josh hawley a republican from missouri. senator welcome to the "washington post." >> thank you. >> senator i'm looking forward to talking to you a bit about your proposal to break up big tech companies in your new book but we want to start with events at january 6. senator you were the first senator to object to the certification of joe biden's electoral college victory writing your book quote my -- was to raise the objection of one state during the certification process. senator what responsibility do you feel for the cascading events that resulted on january january 6? >> listen i did what i said i was going to do on jenner's six was to voice my concerns about election integrity misses something by the way the process that i used to do that the democrats have used in three of the last presidential elections and in fact every time a republican president is elected since the year 2000 democrats have -- over those presidential elections or the law provides for that as well as the rules of the hous

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caroline hawley, bbc news. public inquiry into the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. borisjohnson said it would start next spring and would put the state's actions "under the microscope". the labour leader, sir keir starmer, welcomed the inquiry but said it should begin as soon as possible. 0ur deputy political editor, vicki young, reports. after more than a year of covid trauma, what are the lessons the country must learn? the uk now has one of the highest covid death rates in the world. why weren't we better prepared for a pandemic? were the right decisions made at the right time... you must stay at home. ..to protect the most vulnerable? and why did some things go better than others? when you get the call, get the jab. will lessons be learned ? today we are a step closer to learning some answers. amid such tragedy, the state has an obligation to examine its actions as rigorously and candidly as possible, and to learn every lesson for the future, which is why i've always said that when the ti

caroline hawley, bbc news.bsite. the prime minister has announced a full independent public inquiry into the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. borisjohnson said it would start next spring and would put the state's actions under the microscope. the labour leader, sir keir starmer, welcomed the inquiry but said it should begin as soon as possible. 0ur deputy political editor, vicki young, reports. after more than a year of covid trauma, what are the lessons the country must learn? the uk now has one of the highest covid death rates in the world. why weren't we better prepared for a pandemic? were the right decisions made at the right time... you must stay at home. ..to protect the most vulnerable? and why did some things go better than others? when you get the call, get the jab. will lessons be learned ? today we are a step closer to learning some answers. amid such tragedy, the state has an obligation to examine its actions as rigorously and candidly as possible, and to learn every lesson for th

my guest today is senator josh hawley a republican from missouri.lcome to the "washington post". thank you. >> host: center i'm looking for to talking to a bet about your proposal to break up big tech companies in your new book. but we wanted to start today with the events of january 6. senator, you were the first senator to object to the certification of joe biden's electoral college victory. you write in youryo book quote, to raise an objection to one state with the electoral certification process. senator what responsibility do you feel for the cascading events that resulted on january 6? >> will listen i do it i said i was going to do agenda with the sixth which was to voice my constituents concerned about election integrity. this is something by the way the process i used to do that, theha democrats have using three of the last presidential elections pretty packed every time a republican president has been elected. since they are 2008 have ejected to 11 different states over those three presidential elections in the law provides for that. the l

but shamefully, without the support of 63 republicans, including one senator, josh hawley of missourieech police. that, it gives government sweeping authority to decide what counts as offensive speech. and then, monitor it. the problem is, they only do that after you hit someone because they were asian. thank you for watching. "don lemon tonight" starts right now. >> you know, a lot to say about that. someone, from where you grew up, and that is, queens, congresswoman grace ming, who introduced this bill. the president ended up signing. she is on this show, a little bit later and i think she has a few, choice words for josh hawley. >> there are two criticisms that don't make sense. one, it's not thought police. it's, you hit me, because i'm asian, and said things to that effect. the idea of a hate-crime bill is not new. and the issue of saying,

is the distinction between say, donald trump on that day and senator hawley on that day. might argue that senator hawley helped provoke an insurrection at the capitol by challenging the electoral college vote. however, there is an official procedure that senator hawley was working within when he did that. and it might have been encouraging to people, but he was working in at a prescribed, official procedure and he did that. >> right. he was in fact, exercising his role as a member of congress. however, this disgustingly he was doing it. and there was calls in the constitution that and a big clause that says for any speech may come to the floor of congress for exercising your official duties. you can't be questioned in and they are the place. there is no such provision for the president. there is however, a judicially created immunity. the court recognized and elaborated on it in the case of nixon versus fitzgerald. but it said it was part of the separation of powers, that you don't hold the president responsible in the article three judiciary for his carrying out his arti

even mitt romney was apparently so furious at hawley on the day of the insurrection, he screamed at hawleyused this." now i know there is one school of thought that you have to be a real [ bleep ] heel to get someone as calm as mitt romney to yell at you, but i'm also willing to bet that off camera, my man mitt, does a lot of yelling. and i bet he is strong too, like real strong. i bet if you and your crew of neighborhood toughs surrounded him on the bus and said stuff like, "what's the matter, milk breath you don't like how loud we are?" i bet he would say, "i don't want trouble, boys." but i bet the next time the bus goes through the dark tunnel, all you hear are punches and grunts when it emerges it's just five kids in a pile, and i bet it's just mitt repomading his hair. and when he gets off at a stop he says to the driver, "i was never here." that's what i bet. call your bookie anyway, only liz cheney will face consequences simply for living a reality and criticizing trump's big lie that the election was stolen. which i have to say is a little surprising, coming from a party that clai

here's caroline hawley. it is an explosion of violence on a scale not seen here for years.es on the gaza strip this morning. israel says it is targeting the homes and offices of leaders of the militant group hamas, but the un's middle east peace envoy says the cost of peace in gaza that was devastating and being paid by ordinary people. the air strikes followed an overnight barrage of rockets from the gaza strip. they came one after the other after the other. israel says that in the past 38 hours, palestinian militants have fired more than 1,000 rocket and mortar shells. many were intercepted by israel's air defence system known as iron dome. but it couldn't cope with them all. here they are heading into tel aviv, israel's commercial capital, in a dead full tit—for—tat that is escalating despite international appeals for calm. many israelis spent the night in bomb shelters, but a 50—year—old woman was killed when one of the rockets hit a building. two people, a father and daughter, were also killed in the mixed jewish—arab city of lod, a state of emergency has been declared

senator hawley joins us tonight. center, thank you so much for joining us.against us. >> yeah, that is exactly right, talk up your things for having me on. this is a great example of how the government, big governmentnt run by the left is partnering up with big tech to try to trample on the first amendment. and that is the whole point here. of course the left can't use government directly to spine americans without a warrant.ho although i will point out that they did lie repeatedly to the pfizer court to try to get warrants and wiretaps on trumped donald trump and others at least on trump associates. now they are going beyond that. why even bother with the court when you can get big tech to actually do the spying for you and report back to the government.ey i mean, this is why these companies should not be allowed to have the power that they do, and at the end of the day, tucker, this is why. we need to break them up. >> tucker: so the question of who is going to be targeted, who is the new al qaeda, who are the american citizens who arek going to be treated

. >> we talked about josh hawley earlier, another republican senator, who talked about why he voted, and he said, i'm voicing the concerns of my constituents. the reason they had concerns is because trump lied to his constituents about the election. so if josh hawley would have been a leader, he would explain that the president of the united states and leader of his party had lied to them. voicing the concerns is voicing the concern of the president who who lied to him. >> this is kevin mccarthy, what he is saying about liz cheney. >> i have heard from members, c concerned about her ability to carry out the message. we need to be working as one if we're able to win the majority. remember, majorities are not given, they are earned. that is about the message going forward. >> what message is he talking about? does the party have a message? >> the message is whatever trump wants it to be. really, liz cheney has not changed a word about what shihab sayin said about the insurrection. the only thing she sanged, and kevin mccarthy, he is a leader in name only, and the way it's going, i mean

todd: senator josh hawley's proposal to end sill valley's -- silicon valley's outsize influence.>>> that's not what i want. >> you said you want me to do the dishes. >> i want you to want to do the dishes. >> why would i want to do dishes? why. >> that's my whole point. ashley: women sound off on what bothers them most about their husbands. those most annoying habits, i'm sure i know what they are, those are coming up. todd: that was my weekend. ♪ you drive me crazy and i can't help myself. why? why take a chance? why risk a mistake? why say something? we all have reasons why we choose to ignore the things that give us pause. that seem out of place. that don't feel right. the word “why” can either paralyze us or empower us to stand up and protect what we love. so, if you see something, why do you say something? i seesay for my family. i seesay for my family. i seesay for my friends. i seesay for my friends. i seesay so that they are safe. we seesay for each other. i seesay because all of this matters. we all have something worth protecting. a “why” that unifies this community we

senator josh hawley of missouri and mike rowe of indiana. >> i think it is time we force the intelligencemunity to declassify what they know about the origins of covid-19. i think the american people deserve to see that intelligence. why should we take joe biden's word for it. and we ought to be able to see for ourselves. >> josh hawley on "tucker carlson tonight," rand paul demanded anthony fauci be "fired for confiscating the troop about u.s. planning funding into for urology for emergence of covid-19." the broadcasting network, "people who who supported funding wuhan institute be relieved of their responsibilities." dr. dr. fauci should go. he said he couldn't say for sure that u.s. dollars didn't fund the lab in wuhan and a story that continues to evolve each and every day, shannon. >> shannon: the same thing dr. collins told me a week or so ago that they never intended to approve for that. they couldn't be sure it had not been used that way. kevin, excellent reporting as always, thank you. >> thank you. >> shannon: tennessee senator marsha blackburn calling on the biden administratio

that's josh hawley. i'm going to play for you what he said about the 1/6 commission, specifically its scope. what it should look into. >> certainly ought to include the second assault that killed a capitol police officer and i think probably include the riots on other federal properties and on federal agents. >> bunch of questions stem from that. one, is he still taken seriously in those hallways? two, what is he referring to as second attack on the capitol? and three, does he want to rope blm protests into the scope of the 1/6 commission? >> three parts there, josh hawley is a man on his own island when it comes to congress, doesn't have a lot of friends, hasn't made any since january 6th and frankly before that. when it comes to republicans though, he's not alone on this issue. they have a long time been trying to force the january 6th commission to not just focus on the january 6th insurrection, what happened in terms of people invading the capitol. they want it to be blm, any other attacks. i believe