hawley: ins the slot. i've said this every time a mass and i sent it to him, this a decision for him. don't ever give him advice and i would not advise them what to do. i will say that i do believe that he runs, and he will be the nominee that it asked he will run, i have no idea whether he should run, leave it up to him.s we will have to seek pretty sweet if he runs, would you run against him. hawley: no. i'm not planning to run either way. i've elections of my own in the state of missouri. and i hope the state of missouri will help me for another six years in the senate. so we will see will get their 2024. cat: and partially that is all the time we have left for our event today and thank you so much for joining us senator reid. hawley: thank you pat, thank you so much predict. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪♪ >> tonight, a book tv, charlie author of the book raging rising another biography and will talk with former congresswoman about her book, arguing that the united states is confronting difficult national security

josh hawley: okay.ng, could i just ask you, when mr. sund says that you told him you needed to run it up the chain of command, to whom were you referring there? sergeant at arms paul irving: senator, i do not recall a phone call at 1:09 when i was on the floor of the house during the electoral college session. my phone records do not reflect a telephone call at that time. and had i received a call at that time, i had everyone with me. i had mr. stenger, leadership. we would have approved it immediately. so i have no recollection of that call. and neither do i have a record of it. sen. josh hawley: you say, i think, that you spoke with mr. sund later at approximately 1:30. is that right? sergeant at arms paul irving: that is correct, after i left the floor, and on that call, he had indicated to me that conditions were deteriorating and that he might be making a request at a later time. sen. josh hawley: okay. did you then say that you needed to run it up the chain of command or words to that effect? serg

hawley: thank you. more broadly, to your knowledge, has the fbi requested or required private companies to submit data to identify individuals who may have been present in the capitol region or engaged in violence on the sixth? ms. sanborn: anything we requested would have been a subpoena so it would be a lawful process. i would have to give you the background of when we'll have asked for that are not. i am not positive of the situation. i am reiterating that it would be from a lawful court order or subpoena. sen. hawley: director wray gave me a similar answer yesterday. he said he did not know of the specifics -- that was his language -- he didn't know if there had been any such requests. he said he would be surprised but he did not know. you are telling me you do not have any additional knowledge of the specifics? ms. sanborn: i am definitely not aware of the situation where we requested it. whether somebody offered it, those are things that i would have to follow-up. any requests would have had to co

we'll talk to missouri republican senator josh hawley about all of this in just a moment. this occurs as vice president biden welcomes german chancellor angela merkel to the white house as the two countries seek to smooth over relations strained under the trump administration. white house correspondent peter doocy begins our coverage tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. >> peter: good evening and fresh out of that press conference with the president and the german chancellor where the president updated what we have been hearing from the administration about why, exactly they think people are taking to the streets chanting chant libenter tad. they were upset about rising covid cases down in cuba. now the president is speaking out about the perils of communism instead p will i don't see socialism as a very useful substitute but that's another story. >> pete: the president at that press event called cuba a failed state. he says if he knew that vaccinations could be delivered directly to the people and not to the communist regime, he would send enough or as m

i have a few more questions, but i see that senator hawley has arrived. if you want to proceed with your questions, or i can ask a few so you can get settled. go right ahead. sen. hawley: thank you so much. thanks for waiting for me. thanks to the witnesses for being here today. i think you are from kansas city, missouri. it is great to have a missouri in here today. i am so grateful for you to be willing to be here and share your story. i am familiar with just a little of your story and i so appreciate you being willing to share it. so many stories of abortion survivors like you i think early speak for themselves. but to have you here and willing to share that is so, so powerful. why do you think -- just speaking from your own experience, why do you think there has been so much controversy around laws that would protect children who are born alive after a failed abortion? we have seen this brought to a vote just in my short time in the u.s. senate, laws who would -- they have been brought to the floor multiple times and not a vote or voted down, blocked

josh hawley: okay. you, when mr. sund says that you told him you needed to run it up the chain of command, to whom were you referring there? sergeant at arms paul irving: senator, i do not recall a phone call at 1:09 when i was on the floor of the house during the electoral college session. my phone records do not reflect a telephone call at that time. and had i received a call at that time, i had everyone with me. i had mr. stenger, leadership. we would have approved it immediately. so i have no recollection of that call. and neither do i have a record of it. sen. josh hawley: you say, i think, that you spoke with mr. sund later at approximately 1:30. is that right? sergeant at arms paul irving: that is correct, after i left the floor, and on that call, he had indicated to me that conditions were deteriorating and that he might be making a request at a later time. sen. josh hawley: okay. did you then say that you needed to run it up the chain of command or words to that effect? sergeant at arms paul ir

. >> what's been the role of senator josh hawley, republican from missouri?f the leading forces on the right, for sure. he introduced several pieces of legislation that would change the anti- process antitrust process, one would make it harder for acquisitions or to happen across the board, one breaking up google and amazon and facebook, he has been a big reader of this idea to break up these companies often based on this -- i think it is a dubious proposition raising up facebook, maybe get rid of instagram and what's app, i don't think that would solve a lot of problems with these which is more about it made people get unfairly picked up facebook if it did on instagram, it would matter, they would still be kicked up facebook so it's like a weird solution but that is one thing josh hawley pushes. >> elizabeth, could you talk about some of the antitrust cases filed, amazon, apple, google, facebook? >> right now you've got the ftc suing facebook and the department of justice on google and a bunch of generals both republican and democrat joining in on those. the

my guest is senator josh hawley, senator from missouri. welcome to the washington post. >> hi cat. >> i'm looking at your proposal to break up tech companies in your new book and we want to start with the events of january 6th. senator, you were the first senator to object to the certification of joe biden's electoral college victory. you write in your book, quote, my sin was to raise an objection to one state going the electoral certification process. senator, what responsibility do you feel for the cascading events that resulted on january 6th? >> well, listen, i did what i said i was going to do on january 6th, which was to voice my constituents' concerns about election integrity and this is something the way that the democrats have done in the last three presidential election, every time a republican president has been elected since the year 2000, democrats have objected to 11 different states and the law provides for that, as well as the rules of who us and senate during the electoral certification process for objections and debate, i

my guest today is senator josh hawley, a republican from a missouri. senator, welcome to the "washington post." >> thanks.s. >> i'm looking forward to talking to you a bit about your proposal to break up a big tech companies in your new book, but we want to start today with events of january sticks. senator, you were the first senator to object to the certification of joe biden's electoral college victory. you write in your book, quote, my objection to one state during the electoral college certification process. senator, what responsibility doo you feel for the cascading events that resulted on january sticks? >> will listen, i did what i said is going to do on january 6 which is to voice my constituents concerned about election integrity. this is is something byce the wy the process that he used to do that democrats have used in three of the last presidential elections.ia like every time a republican president has been elected since the year 2000 come democrats objected to 11 different states over those three presidential elections and the law provid

hawley: that will be great. good suggestion. let me change suspects -- subjects and ask you about. >> pylon virtually. sen. hawl what is a reasonable timeey: --do you have a sense about what a reasonable time. it should look like us to mark --- look like? >> we also know the considerable amount of that padded life is consumed --patent like is consumed in the development process. it is certainly not what makes up to the entire time. at the end of the day, many accidents have stated the effective patent life of a pharmaceutical product on the market averages around 12 to 13 years. that is the figure pharmaceutical manufacturers take into account in calculating their exclusivity to get the return on the pharmaceutical product. that will enable them to make a reasonable profit and continue to invest in innovation. sne. hawley: does that take into account the filing of the child patents? mr. levitt: yes, it does. i do have to point out one clarification. these continuation patents do not extend patent life. they make broaden the scop

hawley, i appreciate you being here. i want to touch on something about lowering energy costs and what has happened with hydraulic tracking and how it brought down the cost of natural gas. it lowers costs of heating and cooling. it should make it more economically feasible for low income houses to keep their homes cooler. there are studies out that says there are 17 times more people die from cold than from heat. i also found that because of the lower natural gas costs it is estimated it saves 11,000 americans from dying each winter. i have brought this up many times, pembroke township in illinois, 85% african-american, they do not have a natural gas pipeline. they heat with propane and wood-burning stoves because they cannot afford the utility bills. would you agree that it would be good to get a natural gas pipeline into that township? that is what jesse jackson is trying to do. >> yes. if there are more pipelines running under a city or state, it's not going to hurt anyone. >> i just want to point out that even though

hawley: i'm glad to hear all about. i'm asking you because according to internalized documents released as part of the litigation ongoing between the divide administration -- the biden administrations new limitations -- including a lien have committed assault crimes, drug crimes, and sex crimes. if you are confirmed to this position, do you plan to facilitate the release of these criminal illegal aliens from ice custody? 69 >> the current guidance being offered would make those a priority. i think those are public safety priorities. i would make sure we are working in accordance with that guidance that would allow for the removal of those individuals. >> what the documents show is that under the current guidance, these aliens who are currently in ice custody could be released. i am asking you if you will facilitate the release. i think you are saying no, but i want to be sure. are you saying you will not facilitate the release of aliens who have created these crimes? >> will you facilitate the reese -- release of aliens

my guest today is senator josh hawley, republican from missouri. senator, welcome to the "washington post." >> thank you. senator, i am looking forward to talking about your proposal to break up the big tech companies in your new book that we wanted to start with the events of january 6th. senator, you were the first senator to object to the certification of joe biden's electoral college victory. you write in your book, quote, to raise an objection to one state during the electoral college certification process. senator, what responsibility do you feel for the cascading events that resulted on january 6th? to voice my constituents concerns about integrity and this is something for the process i used to do that the democrats have used in the three of the last presidential elections every time a president has been elected since the year 2000 they subjected to different states over the presidential elections and the law provides for that as a statute and a rule to the house and senate provides during the electoral certification process for objections

caroline hawley, bbc news. this is bbc news.has been told that a famine in the ethiopian region of tigray is now affecting more than 400,000 people, and that the situation could rapidly deteriorate. brazil's prosecutor general wants to investigate president bolsonaro for failing to act on allegations of corruption in the purchase of coronavirus vaccines. let's go to southern africa now. the government of eswatini says nine people have been killed and over 100 hospitalised following days of anti—government protests. activists want to see an end to king mswati's decades—long rule by decree. protests have now spread across the country's four regions. a nationwide curfew was declared and the internet shut down for extended periods of time. there are unverified reports of protestors being shot dead, all the while the king remains silent and missing. the bbc has been able to obtain exclusive footage from inside africa's last absolute monarchy. this report from shingai nyoka. in the aftermath of violent protests, eswatini's capital is

caroline hawley, bbc news.cusing their attention on electric cars over the coming years, there's now an increased demand for minerals like lithium and tin — both essential components in the production of car batteries. finding them means going underground. 0ur science correspondent rebecca morelle reports from cornwall. heading underground into cornwall�*s south crofty mine, where copper and tin were extracted for hundreds of years. what you can see here is the sheet of mineralisation... work stopped decades ago but these caverns could soon open up again, because, with the growth of renewable energy and electric vehicles, demand for the minerals found here is soaring. anything with an electric connection, a circuit board, whatever, has tin in it. so all of these objectives and uses that we are using to get to this carbon—neutral economy require tin to some degree, and to have that domestic supply on your doorstep, it makes sense to see this mine into production. above ground, too, new methods of mineral extract

but that's one of the things josh hawley has been big at pushing. peter: elizabeth nolan brown, can you talk a little bit about some of the antitrust cases that have been filed? amazon, apple, google, facebook? elizabeth: yeah, right now you've got the ftc doing facebook and you've got the department of justice doing google, and you've got a whole bunch of state attorney generals, republicans and democrats, joining in on those. they kind of center on different things, but a lot of it -- there's been a big house report that lumps in some of these things last year. one of the things they say is that google has a monopoly on search. they say google also has a monopoly on ad sales. they say facebook has a monopoly on social media. i think that a lot of these are not very well supported propositions, too, because if you look at facebook, millions of people are leaving facebook right now, like all the time. you can go to twitter. you can go to youtube. you can go to read it. you can go to new ones rising up, tiktok. you wouldn't have seen the rise of new

caroline hawley, bbc news. this is bbc news. source the minerals needed to make batteries for electric cars. china marked its first day of rule in hong kong with a series of spectacular celebrations. a huge firework display was held in the former colony. the chinese president jiang zemin said unification was the start of a new era for hong kong. the world's first clone has been produced of an adult mammal. scientists in scotland have produced a sheep called dolly that was cloned in a laboratory using a cell from another sheep. for the first time in 20 years, russian and american spacecraft have docked in orbit _ at the start of a new era of cooperation in space. i cheering and applause challenger powered past the bishop rock lighthouse at almost 50 knots, shattering the record that had stood for 34 years, and there was no hiding the sheer elation of richard branson and his crew. this is bbc world news. iam i am lewis vaughanjones. the headlines: the un security council has been told that a famine in the ethiopian region of tigra

caroline hawley, bbc news. they progressed from their quarterfinals. == after they progressed from their quarterfinals. -- spain and italy- — on paper, it was the tie of the tournament. belgium against italy, and it didn't disappoint, as italy roared into a 2—0 lead. nicolo barella's wasn't bad, but lorenzo insigne's was something else. they were giving the world's top—ranked team the runaround, butjust before the break belgium were back in it — a penalty coolly converted by romolu lukaku. ——a penalty coolly converted by romelu lukaku. and come the second half, he really should have equalised. how on earth did that stay out? how on earth did this? as twice belgium went agonisingly close. but this was to be italy's night. a 2—1 win for them and they will take some beating. they'll now face spain in the semifinals, but only after some scare against switzerland. jordi alba's deflected shot put spain ahead, but after the break xherdan shaqiri levelled things up. despite having a man sent off, switzerland clung on f

ap then senator hawley. if there are nir other senators, please let us know. >> thanks investigate, madam chair. mr. lazarus, i want it follow up on the question that you were asked a few minutes ago by senator blumenthal. tell me, are you concerned about amazon and google copying ideas and i am impairing competitors, and we've heard allegations regarding between apple and tile, for instance. tell me about your concerns with that. >> well, thank you for the question. so two sets of concerns. one is that in the certification process that we have to go through with both of those companies, they often extract information we think is irrelevant to the technical questions for voice assistance on their products. they learn about our product road map. they sometimes ask for sales forecasts and that sort of thing and causes us great concern that what they're looking at is what would be a nice product that they might make themselves and then we get into the cycle of cross-subsidizization that senator hawley and i wer

caroline hawley, bbc news.i, where rescuers who continue to search through the rubble of a collapsed apartment block may soon have to contend with a hurricane. under a new plan, teams are working for now through only three of nine grids marked in the ruins of the i2—floor building. authorities are eager to make as much progress as possible before the expected arrival of hurricane elsa this weekend. sophie long sent us this update from miami. well, the search and rescue operation is now in day nine, after it had to be paused for some 15 hours on thursday. that was largely due to fears that the remaining part of the building still left standing could fall. that remains a major area of concern when it comes to the safety of the rescue workers, who are continuing now their painstaking task of sifting through the rubble, and it seems they are now considering a controlled demolition of that remaining part of the building. now, in the latest update we've had from the mayor of miami—dade county, she informed us that, s

my guestst today senator josh hawley a republican from missouri. senator, welcome to the "washington post". >> thank you. >> senator i am looking forward to talking to a bit about your proposal to break up big tech companies in your new book. but we wanted to start to have 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 your book, my sin was to raise an objection to one state currently electoral college certification process. senator, what responsibility do you feel for the cascading events that resulted on january 6? >> listen, i did what i said i was going to join january the sixth which is to voice my constituent concerns about election integrity. this is something by the way the process i used to do that democrats have using three ofia the last presidential elections. in fact every time a republican president has been elected since the year 2000 democrats have objected to 11 different states of those three presidential election of the law provides

. >> host: what's been the role of senator josh hawley, republican from missouri?> guest: he's been one of the leading forces of this on the right virtual. he's introduced introduced several pieces of legislation that would change changet process. one of them would make it harder for mergers and acquisitions to happen across the board. one of them would be breaking up google and amazon and facebook. he's really been a big leader of the psyche that we need to break up these companies, to come often based on this, i think it's a dubious proposition that breaking up facebook, making get rid of instagram and whatsapp. i do think that would solve a lot of the problems that conservatives have but would be more about basic people get -- trump got kicked off facebook. those people would still be kicked off facebook. it's sort of weird solution but that is a sort of thing josh hawley has been big at pushing. >> host: elizabeth nolan brown, could you talk a little bit about some the antitrust cases that have been filed,, amazon, apple, google, facebook? >> guest: yeah. right

caroline hawley, bbc news.fter the pilots reported engine trouble. both pilots were rescued, but one is said to be in a critical condition in hospital. we have the results of the first two quarterfinals of euro 2020. spain beat switzerland on penalties, and italy beat belgium. andy swiss watched the action. 0n on paper, it was the tire of the tournament. belgium against italy and didn't disappoint, as italy and didn't disappoint, as italy roared into a 2—0 lead. the first one wasn't bad, but this one was something else. they were giving the world's top—ranked team the runaround, butjust before the break belgium were back in it, the penalty could be converted by romolo cargo. come the second half, he really should have equalised. how unearthly don't stay out? how on earth did this, as twice belgium went agonisingly close. this was to be italy's nice —— night. a 2—1 win for them and they will take some beating. they will now face spain in the semi—final, but only after a scare. despite having a man sent, switzerl

my guest today is senator josh hawley, republican from missouri.enator, welcome to the "washington post." >> thank you. senator, i am looking forward to talking about your proposal to break up the big tech companies in your new book that we wanted to start with the events of january 6th. senator, you were the first senator to object to the certification of joe biden's electoral college victory. you write in your book,

thank you, senator hawley? >> if i could follow up on that same point, could we talk about the next unit. have you sold that to consumers at below cost, below the cost it takes to manufacture? >> i do not know the answer to that because we do not break down the profitability byproduct area but i am happy to have the team follow-up i just don't have the numbers. >> but youo know that they exist. you know whether or not you have at any point sold the product at below the cost to make it? >> i do not know but i am happy to follow-up with you. >> i would like to see that number. indeed alexa had been sold at below cost and i would be shocked if they haven't and i would like to come back to the point that mr. lazarus made which is let me just ask the question senator lee asked you if you indeed had sold the unit at a price below cost to customers and have done that in order to undercut a competitor, that is anticompetitive conduct would you agree? >> as i said i don't know whether we sold the devices. what i can say

you saw josh hawley how frustrated he is with the homeland security secretary yesterday.is. does she get any rest? frank. she really is dominating that border problem she discount know where it is. steve: we was wearing a mask you a. rachel: she kisses her husband with a mask. brian: everyone does their own thing, i was going to add this. dr. scott gottlieb said yesterday we're about three weeks behind the british. the british have turned the corner on this variant already if everything is past is prologue. we are turning the corner on the variant. if you are vaccinated you are not going to get this seriously not going to be hospitalized and mild symptoms. brian: alter our lives and affect business because you know liberal mayors are going to jump on that guidance because they like having that control. they like telling people do this and i will fine you. governor cuomo military out basically finding businesses if they don't go by his guidelines. look for him to get behind the mike phone in the next couple of days. steve: we showed you a couple of days ago the city of poo

senator hawley. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman, and thank you, mr. secretary, for being here. i want to review your record in office and record of this administration today. since february the first full month of the biden administration there been 822,629 illegal crossing attempts encountered by cbp at the southwest border. everything about of your tenure we've seen over 100,000 illegal crossing attempts. every single month in your illegal crossing attempts have increased your wii fit a 20 year record for illegal entries. we hit that last month that we've had a surge of young children across the border placing his children in incredible danger and in the light of harm on a single day in march we had 6000 children sitting in cbp custody and including hhs's delete we now have 15,000 migrant children currently in federal custody. in april a number of deportations carried out fell to the lowest monthly level on record. enter your arrest i set the client about .500 arrest per month down from 10,000 arrests per month under the previous administration. "washington post" and other ne

joining me now missouri senator josh hawley. senator, thanks for being here.ing someone's text messages than reading someone's private mail? >> it's not any different, pete. and you know, i have to say listening to this it sounds like something out of beijing. we know that the communist chinese party has built this surveillance state and now it sounds like joe biden to the united states of america. getting into our phones now. it's bad enough that they use social media to censor us to spy on us, to shut down speech. but now private text messages. i mean, what's going to happen next? are they going to take away our phones? are they going to tell verizon or at&t or whomever to shut down people's cell service if they text things that the government doesn't like? this is insane. it is unamerican. it's probably unconstitutional. >> pete: that's what i wanted to ask you. how is it not unconstitutional considering any number of the amendments and the bill of rights that the government could do this? there has got to be an avenue to challenge this or is this something

missouri senator josh hawley says democrats are sending mixed messages and it could back fire. people will say whoa. >> so you're telling me the vaccines are really effective will and i'm not going to get one. so i think this is a mistake. but speaker pelosi wednesday is standing by. new rules to say that wearing a mask is not based on science. i think if it is not. >> and even after a meeting with the capitol physician leader mccarthy said he stands by his initial position. that will be dyed administration will be taking things a step for tomorrow will be requiring all federal employees to either get vaccinated or undergo regular testing. for now in washington. raquel martin, back to you. >> all right, raquel coming up after the break, a shocking shakeup in oakland today which players now on their way to miami. and getting ready to go back to school already. yeah. well, it's time to start shopping for supplies why you might run into some shortages as you're checking off your school supply list. yeah. but you may have more money in your pocket for that school shopping when gas

hawley: hey everyone, josh hawley hear from the state of missouri.hank you for inviting me to be part of this event and part of this conference. is great to be with you. i know many of you, most of you, i think, are college students and this is not been an easy time to be a conservative on america's college campuses. it was not that easy when i was doing it -- let's not count the years, you know, a number of years ago. and i know it has gotten even harder and i bet this last year has been particularly challenging committee even depressing for all of you -- many of you and i want to encourage you that what you are doing is worth doing taking a stand is worth it. you can make a difference for the future of our country. i would go further than that and say you are vital to making a difference for the juror of the country. few want to see our country change, our country be put back on track, our country live up to what we can be -- the greatness of our people, if you want to see that reflected in our country and our government, we need you now more than

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missouri senator josh hawley says democrats are sending mixed messages and it could back fire. people will say whoa. >> so you're telling me the vaccines are really effective will and i'm not going to get one. so i think this is a mistake. but speaker pelosi wednesday is standing by. new rules to say that wearing a mask is not based on science. i think if it is not. >> but even after today's meeting with the capitol physician leader mccarthy said his positions still stands now. tomorrow. we'll see biden administration take things a step further will be requiring all federal employees to either get vaccinated or get tested regularly for now in washington, raquel martin, back to you. all right, raquel, so we see what's going on in the house. what action news the senate taking on mask said to try to protect its members. >> well, unlike the house bill instead be having a recommendation to wear mask and that is definitely call the frustration for house republicans who say that's confusing and isn't fair. you know, they share one building half the building will have a mandate to wear

as senator hawley said, a former prosecutor in the hearing said, quote, with when we have service member and women who have had serious crimes against them, felony crimes as addressed in this bill, it is absolutely imperative that justice is done of these men and women is done for them, that the procedures and standards they can expect are uniform and predictable. and that trained military prosecutors make the final call as to whether or not these cases will go forward to prosecution and the reason for this is we want the evidence to be weighed by a prosecutor, an individual, the man or the woman, who is going to be presenting this to a jury, to a judge in the system, that's a predictable system. i think it is one that both defendants and victims can support because the rules are uniform. it's across the board. it's analogous to our civilian system but still, of course, stays within the military system of justice. end of quote. many of our colleagues brought renewed attention to the need for military justice after the tragic murder of specialist vanessa guilliam, her case shows us that a

missouri senator josh hawley says democrats are sending mixed messages and it could back fire.> so you're telling me the vaccines are really effective will and i'm not going to get one. so i think this is a mistake. but speaker pelosi wednesday is standing by. new rules