i believe that he's out there much like josh hawley, are following the ted cruz playbook. issues, even if it doesn't make sense in the home state, even if it doesn't make sense logically. they want to be seen, they want to be heard and they are basically speaking their mind. in ron johnson's case. in cruz and hawley's case it's a bit more complicated than johnson who's speaking his mind. >> with cruz and hawley we know they're running for president, we assume they are. josh hawley made a comment the other day, he was the only senator who voted against a hate crimes act that was supposed to be designed to protect against hate crimes, particularly against asian-americans. he said, it's too broad. my view of it is it's dangerous to simply give the federal government open ended authority to define a whole new class of federal hate crime incidents. christina greer, he was even a standout amongst republicans for taking this position. >> yeah, but, you know, depending on what's going on in his state, that will actually help him in a primary vote. keep in mind, these people are th

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what josh hawley says? >> yes. >> no. and what this shows me, honestly, is how insignificant josh hawley is. and i would rather not spend my time talking about someone who is insignificant, and who does not believe in equity and equality for everyone. obviously, there is an agenda behind what he is doing. he is an insurrectionist supporter and he should be marginalized because he is not in line, it's obvious, and in lockstep with the majority of the american people want. so your overall point is good. we saw something that is bipartisan, which rarely ever happens in washington. i don't want to focus on the one -- say whatever -- who did not go along with that. i think we should leave him to the margins and focus on the positive that happened. josh hawley. who cares? >> stop talking about him. took you, like, five minutes to say. >> well, because, again, we should -- but we should -- we should -- we should focus, in this moment, on the important things that are happening in this country. that is very important. and so, yes

josh hawley did not. and i think this has more to do with the fact that he is staking out, as kind of one man, nobody to the right of me turf. and this is not the first time we've seen this happen in the case of some confirmations, where josh hawley is just staking out this pretty extreme territory. and i guess the bet is that when he runs for president in 2024, one of these issues will be potent and he'll invoke it, probably in a debate against ted cruz. but, yeah, he is a very lonely voice this morning. >> elise jordan, what is the message being sent by his "no" vote here? >> i want to second what matt said about josh hawley going out of his way to really out-cruz ted cruz which is quite something. and you have to really work hard to try to be more loathe than ted cruz, but josh hawley seems to have decided that is his way and his glide path to the republican nomination. i was struck, though, by the bipartisan cooperation and senator susan collins, what she did on the other side of the aisle with senato

josh hawley and mike lee and ted cruz.l-star game out of georgia in protest of that state's new restrictive voting law. again, i think we can all agree, major league baseball has the right to do that. that's core constitutionally protected activity. can put their games where they want and move them for political purposes if they want to. what the first amendment does not allow is for the government to punish them for that speech. don't want a situation with tax code, tax rate 25% but companies that express this political view, it's 30%. can't do that. discrimination by the government using tax code or anything else as punishment or coercion is explicitly not allowed in first amendment jurisprudence for good reason. yet these senators with fancy degrees from fancy law schools, former supreme court clerks, fancy as you get in the law world, are going to make baseball pay. you see, they've just introduced a bill to take away the league's antitrust exemption. which again might be perfectly good thing to do on the merits, i'm n

senator josh hawley. ring a bell?t fist before the attempted coup at the capitol. i wave hello to everybody. it's not a wave. he's the only no vote while 94 other lawmakers said yes. the bill creates a new doj role to expedite reviews of covid-related hate crimes and establishes online reporting for them. right now we have to rely on unofficial numbers and these are probably undercounted. hawley explains the bill turns the federal government into the speech police. let's bring in d. lemon. do you buy it, d. lemon, star of stars? >> do i buy what? what josh hawley says? >> yes. >> no. and what this shows me honestly is how insignificant josh hawley is, and i would rather not spend my time talking about someone who's insignificant and who does not believe in equity and equality for everyone. obviously there's an agenda behind what he's doing. he is an insurrectionist supporter, and he should be marginalized because he is not in line, it's obvious, and in

. >> just to remind people, josh hawley was the person who also showed solidarity in that famous photoor the rioters, the people who stormed the capitol, during which five people were killed, including a capitol police officer, defecated, i sometimes throw that in for good measure, victor, in the capitol. i mean, that's not where the majority of the republican party is today, is it? how can he say that he represents the majority of the party? >> you're right. the majority the party is not rioting or supportive of the rioting on the capitol, but there's no question there's been an effort at the highest levels of the republican party and in conservative media to whitewash what happened on january 6th. look at ron johnson, who talks about january 6th as if it were a walk in the park and a picnic. in large part because the protesters were not black lives matter activists. there's a wide amount of latitude on the right that's being given to some of these excuses for january 6th that allows josh hawley to be members of the republican party in good standing. that's the element that i think is

yamiche, let me get you in on this because we can scoff at the marjorie taylor greenes and the josh hawleys and the ridiculousness of ted cruz but these numbers say they've got some serious backing. >> it's telling us the big lie is not just surviving, it is thriving. it is thriving in state, in the idea these republicans are able to raise money by trying to delegitimize president biden and also shows this leaning in to seemingly racist tropes, this idea america is now better and will need to focus on the white history on the white part of our country without really acknowledging the contributions of african-americans, of native-americans, of immigrants that somehow is something that is politically driving in our country. that's what this is in some ways is proving. and i think when we look at what's going on in our country i think we have to acknowledge those this deep divide going on where you had a republican party in 2012, 2013 was saying let's take the demographic shifts in america and expand them and try to add more african-americans and latinos into our party. and then say saw presid

where was supposed anti-corporate crusader josh hawley? mask while listening to huey lewis and the news. and by the way, these same republicans who pretend to be pro-worker also pretended to be anti-war during the trump years when they suddenly started decrying endless wars. even as trump was showing off giant posters of all the weapons he was selling to saudi arabia in the oval office like an eighth grader who threw together a history class project at the last minute. "so as you can see during world war ii they use boats, but they also used planes and interestingly, they also used spaceships. blue spacemen. so giving the republicans pretended to suddenly care about ending endless wars during the trump years, you'd think they would have been thrilled when president biden announced that the u.s. would finally withdraw troops from afghanistan by september. 20 years after the war began and it is insane that this has not happened yet the war in afghanistan should have ended a long time ago last time we were in a war this long, it starred alan

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i think josh hawley alluded to it in the previous segment. something when you say that corporations seek to destroy the country. they are willing to see it looted because they see something bigger they are gaining from these riots. that is control over this country. its power and its sinister and it's sick. >> tucker: and of some pakistani liquor store owner is dashed off to think jeff bezos cares western mark know. so put, candace owens. and it difficult year for a lot of people on a personal level but for people who live alone and aren't married, it's been worse than that. very few people getting married has massive effects. why? we had a fascinating conversation with it. a very long one on "tucker carlson tonight." we are going to show you part of it, just ahead. ♪ ♪ so many people are overweight now and asking themselves, "why can't i lose weight?" for most, the reason is insulin resistance, and they don't even know they have it. conventional starvation diets don't address insulin resistance. that's why they don't work. now there's golo.

i think josh hawley alluded to it in the previous segment.ing when you say that corporations seek toh destroy the country. they are willing to see it looted because they see something bigger they are gaining from theseou riots. that is control over this country. its power and its sinister and it's a sick. so put, candace owens. >> tucker: and it difficult year for a lot of people on a personal level but for people who live alone and aren't married, it's been worse than that. very few people getting married has massive effects. why? we. had a fascinating conversation on it. a very long one on "tucker carlson tonight." we are going to show you part of it, just ahead. ♪ ♪ let's get back to talking smack with a side of mac and cheese. before we can safely come together, we need the facts on covid-19 vaccines. to get the facts, visit getvaccineanswers.org so you can make an informed decision when vaccines are availa♪le to you. what would you give for a child you loved, to make their wish come true? to help them fight a critical illness, just imagi

>> what's going on is that josh hawley is trying to plot his political future.ential run. he's been the senator that has voted against more of the biden cabinet nominees than any other senator in the united states senate. he has decided a path to no to anything. seems to be where he thinks he's going to meet with the most political success inside a republican primary, right. and so, being the singular, sole senator to stand even something against -- that has near u unan unanimous support in the senate to stop anti-asian hate, he thinks that will serve him by being a wall of opposition to anything coming from the democrats. >> we'll see if there's anything that he will vote for. thank you for being with us this morning. >>> a pennsylvania republican who wanted to overturn his state's election results said he found a few cases of fraud after all. but here's the thing, they were committed by republicans. >>> plus a veteran tasered by police inside his young daughter's hospital room. we'll have his story coming up. on the navajo nation, our people endure a lot of ch

josh hawley of missouri, saying it could turn the federal government into the speech police, already no it doesn't. tea hate crimes related to covid-19 and gives government more resources to track hate crime. anti-asian hate crimes jumped by 150% in 60 of the largest city. ted cruz vote for this bill. rand paul didn't vote against it, like hawley did. if i was the guy photographed doing this to a bunch of racist, insurrectionists, i would be worried about hate crimes getting passed as well. [ buzzer ] >>> covid-19 is devastating india. now the pressure is mounting for the biden administration to step in and help. that's next. o step in and help. that's next. everybody how liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need? i mean it... uh-oh, sorry... oh... what? i'm an emu! no, buddy! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty. ♪ age is just a number. and mine's unlisted. try boost® high protein with 20 grams of protein for muscle health. versus 16 grams in ensure high protein. boost® high protein also has key nutrients for immune su

it was just a decision by a publisher to say, i don't want to publish josh hawley's book. when dr.ut a few books they yesterday cancel culture, but it was the sues estate saying, there's stuff we are pressured to take out and we're taking it out because the market told us to. do you think the stuff that happened in the last week, delta, coca-cola, other companies, lots of them, 72 black leaders, everybody coming out against this legislation, not just in georgia but anti-voter legislation generally, do you think it moves the needle. >> i think that it does. look, these companies are realizing that there is an embrace of fighting for people's rights in this country. they saw the change in the black lives matter movement. they saw the change in the call for fairness in voting, and they know that the people who -- that black and brown folks, their money is just as green as everyone else's, and they want to ensure they're on the right side of history and the right side of policy on this issue. again, there is a long history of this. martin luther king led boycotts during the civil right

the only person voting against this was republican josh hawley of missouri.bill, broad -- this bill would -- is designed to combat the rise in violence against asian-americans that has occurred amid the coronavirus pandemic. what this bill would do is essentially expedite reviews on the federal level of potential hate crimes as well as provide new guidance about how to deal with these going forward, both bolstered reporting channels to ensure that when these crimes do occur, they are reported accordingly. this came as a result of negotiations that happened on both sides, concerns of -- amid the initial draft of this bill was that any hate crime related to covid-19 must be reported. it was ultimately changed to just asian-americans in general, if they're targeted for hate crimes, this would be essentially moved forward through the appropriate channels in the department of justice. that was enough to get support from both sides of the aisle, but that one senator who i did mention, josh hawley, who opposed this, he did tell our colleague, ted barrett, earlier th

raising his fist in support of the pro trump mob just before that mob invaded the capitol, senator josh hawley took in more than $3 million in donations, marjorie taylor greene she brought in three point $2 million, that is a massive amount in just three months. and, marjorie taylor greene clearly feels emboldened by the support because she is marching -- with a group of her white ring members of congress. it says that it recognizes that america is strengthened by a common respect for uniquely anglo-saxon political tradition. there are some coded language for you here, let's not forget that the university of chicago study showed that the theory that says that minorities are replacing the white population is a primary driver for capital rioters. surprise, surprise, the gop is learning the wrong lesson from the riot. rewarding the bad and punishing for good. just look at georgia's secretary of state, a republican, he refused to go along with trump's election lies and has since been condemned by the state republican party, who removed him up as chair of the georgia election board, apparently, tha

it is from the josh hawley playbook, once again kicking into gear. >> and failing -- chris: what is that? >> it is failing. chris: yes. i'm being silenced by my book. so, yeah, it has to go back to that point of that growing connection between gop leadership and the alt-right. it doesn't even make sense to talk about the alt-right anymore. what are the distinctions we should be paying attention to that we have not heated over -- heeded over the last years. >> i have moved away from the alt-right term. it is a good example of the reason why. you have the diagram between super radicalized trump supporters, hard-core maga, fringe extremists, all drinking from the same well and having the same beliefs and rhetoric across the spectrum. chris: yes, the stop the steal, the people who license the name came out of the tea party movement and were part of that and founded this group, women for america first, which, i should say that part for melissa, but it is, you know,, and so we are looking at a situation where the leadership of the republican party doesn't really have a strong incentive to draw

senator josh hawley, i appreciate your time tonight. while the biden a administration works to take away your gun rights, one state is fighting to protect them. the kansas state senate overwhelmingly passing a bill lowering the legal age to carry concealed firearms from 21 to 18. here to react as former kansas secretary of state chris, thanks for being here. so when you're 18, enjoy the military, you can vote. makes sense to me, but wait -- you know, what can states do? is this the type of measures states are going to need to take to fight back to resist, you might say the anti-second amendment efforts of the biden administration? >> i think that's exactly it, pete and you know, i couldn't be happier to be a kansan because not only did the senate pass it this morning, the house is -- has moved mountains, thanks to speaker ron reichman and the sponsor of the bill, part of the bill in the senate, they are debating it tonight. while your show is going on and it will likely be passed by the house tonight on the very same day that biden is h

that would be people like senators josh hawley, in mike lee and ted cruz.ht have seen the news earlier this month that major league baseball, again, private business, decided to move its all-star game out of georgia in protest of that states new restrictive voting law. again, i think you can all agree, major league baseball has the right to do that. that is core constitutionally productive activity. they can put their games where they want to, and they can move games for political purposes if they want to. now what the first amendment does not, allow is for the government to punish them for that speech. think about it. we don't want a situation where we had a tax code that was say corporate tax rate 25% in companies that expressed this certain political view, we will make it 30%. you can't do that. that's discrimination by the government using the tax code or regulation or anything else as punishment for coercion for protective political activity, is explicitly not allowed in first amendment for good reason. and yet senators josh holiday and ted cruz and mi

that's why republican senator josh hawley of missouri deserves all of my attention for tonight's 60-second ♪ ♪i've got the brains you've got the looks♪ ♪let's make lots of money♪ ♪you've got the brawn♪ ♪i've got the brains♪ ♪let's make lots of♪ ♪uh uh uh♪ ♪oohhh there's a lot of opportunities♪ with allstate, drivers who switched saved over $700. saving is easy when you're in good hands. allstate click or call to switch today. ♪ you get a call from a friend ♪ allstate ♪ to remind you ♪ ♪ that you're not alone ♪ ♪ and you know deep down inside ♪ ♪ it's gonna be all right ♪ ♪ all right ♪ >>> it's time now for what i call the 60 second rant. >>> a bill to combat anti-asian hate crimes is about to become law. covid-19 hate crimes act cleared the senate last week in a 94-1 vote. you heard that correctly. one senator voted against the act. josh hawley of missouri, saying it could turn the federal government into the speech police, gives government sweeping authority to decide what counts as hate speech. no it doesn't. it gives state and law enforcement more resources to track hate crimes. remembe

i mean, occasionally -- >> stephen: you work with josh hawley. >> i did in what turned out to be veryle. and hawley and i did work on that. but i do have to tell you that i find it increasingly difficult to work with people who are literally 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 dfferences 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 thatoe heinightma pla well, i think frr 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 t

the sole no vote came from republican senator josh hawley, saying he thought it raised big free speechi'm just curious, what's your reaction to this no vote? not even willing to vote against hate crimes. >> well, it seems josh hawley likes to stand out sometimes. he certainly did on january 6th, or his response to the election. so i think there may be more of that than anything else. had i still been in the senate, i would have been with my colleagues who voted for this. i think it's more a case of wanting to stand out, frankly. >> fascinating new profile of republican congresswoman liz cheney in "the new york times" magazine detailing a tense gop conference meeting after her vote to impeach then president trump. she was reportedly piled on by a number of congressmen, ralph norman of south carolina reportedly told her he didn't like her attitude. john rutherford of florida accusing her of not being a, quote, team player. and then mike kelley from pennsylvania reportedly said, quote, you look up into the stands and see your girlfriend on the opposition side. that's one hell of a tough t

the company, however, did cancel a book by senator josh hawley because of his protests over the 2020 book by one of the officers involved in the taylor shooting. one expert says changes in publishing reflect a wider cultural divide. >> people are in -- sort of the information, the narratives that you absorb are dictated by the ideology that you adhere to. while i think the petition is a legitimate exercise in free expression, i hope that the publisher stands firm. >> in march, tweeting against the cancel culture after facebook banned an ad for a novel he endorsed. >> lauren, thank you. the man who commanded u.s. and nato troops in afghanistan says the united states will regret its decision to leave. retired general, david petrakis tells fox america will regret the decision and soon. >> you can recognize that this war is not ending. what is ending is our involvement in it. i fear that a couple of years from now, we are going to look back and we are going to remember that whenever there are ungoverned spaces in the muslim world, extremists fill them. >> he says al qaeda and the united

nobody likes ted cruz, nobody trusts josh hawley.n for student council president 12 times. and donald trump didn't have that. i see these other people trying, but i don't think any of them will be effective against joe biden, who i still believe will be the democratic candidate in 2024. >> and katty, i know you've got a question for ed louis. but i just can't help it since jason brought up josh hawley's name and ted cruz's name. it fits in wonderfully with ed piece piece today talking about how these republican populists rail against wall street, but protect a low capital gains tax rate. they rail against corporate interests, but are fighting, of course, to make sure that no corporate taxes go up. and you go down the line and look at josh hawley, who i read yesterday, his father was a banker. he, you know, went to yale. then he went to stanford. then he clerked for the supreme court for the chief justice of the supreme court. you could say the same thing about princeton boy ted cruz, harvard boy ted cruz. these guys playing the role

there is a financial reward to begin with for people like senators ted cruz and josh hawley who pushed the lie that led to the insurrection. those two senators raised huge sums in the first three months of the year. senator cruz brought in a whopping $3.6 million to his senate reelection committee while senator hawley took in another 3 million. this money is their reward for lying to the american people and attempting to overturn democratic election to bring to an end 240 years of peaceful transfer of power. so they had done that and the short-term gain has been money to help them pursue more power. again, it's logical. even supposedly fringe figures georgia marjorie taylor greene in the trump face mask are cleaning up. she raised a staggering $3.2 million. that's because the base likes the lie and they financially reward people that carry the lie. in fact, one of the first pillars of the deeply nativist america first caucus, that greene is now looking to launch with some of her colleagues is a range of lies about supposed election fraud and a promise of substantive investigations into

. >>> missouri senator josh hawley unveiled a bill strengthening antitrust laws and curbing the growingerica's biggest firms especially tech companies. the measure bans all mergers and acquisitions of companies with the market cap of more than $100 billion. nearly 150 companies including apple, amazon and pfizer could have an eye a market cap above that amount. all of those companies could be restricted from hawley's bill and restricted and requiring competitors. >>> meantime, nike wants your used kicks so the company can resell them. it's all part of nike refurbished, depending on their condition, shoes within 60 days of purchase will either be sold or stored on shelves or recycled into nike grind materials. it's nike's move for zero cmmitment and reduce its carbon footprint. >>> and a robot may soon deliver your pizza from domino's. the new futuristic service is in being tested in houston right now. users can place a pre-paid order with an r 2 autonomous delivery vehicle. once it arrives, customers can retrieve their food by entering a pin on the r2 touch screen. the move comes as com

discrimination against asian americans. 94 senators backed the proposals — only one, republican josh hawley — the measures will now be put before the house of representatives. here's senate majority leader, chuck schumer. passing this bill should send a message to the country that should be all too obvious by now. hate crimes will not be tolerated, and federal law enforcement will do everything in its power to detect, deter and if necessary prosecute crimes to the full extent of the law. al north american corresponded david willis has more. a survey conducted in the last few weeks found that about a third of asian—americans lived in fear of being attacked and 80% thought that the violence against them as a group was increasing. indeed, a group which monitors these sorts of things said it had received close to 3,800 complaint over the course of the last year, basically over the course of the pandemic. largely it's verbal attacks, if you like, but there have been some physical assaults and even some deaths. some activists blame this in part, at least, on the rhetoric of the former president d

allies in that particular wing of the republican party that might be represented by, say, senators josh hawley movement in america. look, the whole conversation hangs together. the thing that mr cruz and mr hawley and mr trump have in common is the big lie that they told together about the outcome of the american election. and so long as you have a big lie functioning in your society, you do have a problem for your democracy. what mr hawley and mr cruz are now doing is fighting for the inheritance of that big lie. they want to be the people who tell the americans that the white americans, the republicans, that they're the victims, that they're the ones whose votes are being stolen and so forth. so, yes, so long as we have that big lie in the system, there's going to be a problem, right? and so part of your question about the actuality, the answer would be there has to be serious investigation of what happened in the us from november of last year through january of this year. there has to be some kind of commission which lays that down — notjust for future historians, but for citizens and for j

discrimination against asian americans. 94 senators backed the proposals — only one, republican josh hawleyemic — the measures will now be put before the house of representatives. here's senate majority leader, chuck schumer. passing this bill should send a message to the country that should be all too obvious by now. hate crimes will not be tolerated and federal law enforcement will do everything in its power to detect, deter and if necessary prosecute crimes to the full extent of the law. let's get more from our north america correspondent david willis who's in los angeles. why the need for this legislation?— why the need for this leaislation? , ., , , legislation? lewis, a survey conducted _ legislation? lewis, a survey conducted in _ legislation? lewis, a survey conducted in the _ legislation? lewis, a survey conducted in the last few i legislation? lewis, a survey - conducted in the last few weeks found that about a third of asian—americans lived in fear of being attacked and 80%. the violence against them as a group was increasing. a group which monitors these things said it had recei

i think josh hawley and. >> i though that there will be some repugss.e rest of us. >>> she has han p shon american constituents back home in plochlt that he himself will have to deal with. let's talkmemoir, the emotions domging out the she lived long enough to let her be drawers. the brief version of her life story, how she came to this country and just enough to make them want to buy the book and read the story. >> my mother was a very courageous risk taker who changed my life when she escaped from a horrible marriage to my father, who i never got to know. she put a lot of distance between us so we could have a chance at a better life. that is her heart of fire. >> what do you want people to take away from the story of this woman who was powered to get out of a bad situation. part as the new world she chose and found in the midst of her family, a united states significant for pill would say she just worked really hard and we had no social security jags and to make a better life for us, enit's truly the so many emigrants. i hope that what a lot of peopl

josh hawley, ted cruz, none have the charisma or reputation of donald trump.is not uncommon for the last president from the party to be the party leader. he is disgraced and hated with a large chunk of the population. i don't know why republicans keep going to the same well. i don't think they have a lot of ideas. we saw that last fall. they literally had no party platform other than reaffirming their loyalty to donald trump. they will stick with it as long as they can. what they can't accomplish in the ballot box, trump is the number one way to get it done. >> you have a message with the group that you work with. i want to play just a little bit of it. >> lindsey graham, ron johnson. they are go to mar-a-lago to kiss donald trump's ring. to pledge their loyalty to a man that insighted a mob against the capitol and tried to cancel our democracy and turned the republican party to the immorality party. >> bill, who is your audience here? tell whaus something like that might be able to accomplish. >> i hope it remains a reminder to everyone that it is still trump

big tech, what does josh hawley want to do.n branded products on amazon marketplace and also banned amazon from simultaneously owning a large truck and operating cloud computing services that many online companies use and they continue to run it so they can decide who could get on the actual platform itself, it will allow individuals and companies to sue amazon or google for violating these rules josh hawley introducing legislation that made headlines and he wants to be on mergers and companies that are worth $100 billion and he argues woke companies like google and amazon have been coddled by washington politicians for years, what this retroactively take back and they break up facebook in the instagram and whatsapp, probably not but acquisitions in the future i think that would be what they're looking for. >> it would be difficult to undo. thank you very much indeed, the actor matthew mcconaughey is think about running for office, how well he would he do if he got into politics. we have a very surprising new poll on that. we w

only josh hawley voted against it. >> it is. it was so important as the community continues to be the target of these crimes and incidents that the senate condemned these. it's important to be recognized. >> you have fought on all kinds of discrimination. now there is negotiation to get the george floyd policing bill. it has been sitting there for a year. what is your hope that tim scott and others might join you. >> i hope that the discussions that are going on between tim scott and cory booker will emerge with something in the way we need to go. if tim can be brought to agreement with cory, then i'm hopeful the rest of the caucus will go along. the original bill i thought was way too weak. >> another of your passions has been to fight against sexual assault including in the military. a pentagon panel just recommended something long fight by the military, that the commander should not oversee these investigations and prosecutions, that it should be outside the chain of command with outside prosecutors. do you think yo

a cfp® professional ♪♪ >>> welcome back missouri senator josh hawley unveiling a plan to ban all acquisitionsan a billion dollars. it got us thinking what if the bill passed a decade ago what would the current landscape look like? what deals would be wiped off the table. yesterday's microsoft nuance deal dead, not to mention github, linkedin amazon would be hungry to acquire others it might be music to senator hawley's ears when he hears a apple's purchase of dr. dre. intuit couldn't buy anything, shopify couldn't buy anything. deidre, it is a lot of stuff. >> i mean there would be a lot of deals off the table, but what occurs to me is it is not necessarily yahoo or american startups waiting in the wings to do these deals it is chinese companies. we have seen alibaba be so active on the mna front, not just in america but mostly outside of america you wonder if it would have shifted the balance of power, which is already so tenuous between chinese and american or chinese and western tech >> really quickly, guys, crowd source we asked what's the best argument for or against coinbase jan wrote i

but just as i guess people like marjorie taylor greene and josh hawley have been able to raise moneyknow, really succumbing to the trumpism that still seems to dominate the party. >> and that record fundraising haul is interesting because what it does do is suggest to those establishment republicans who have not gone along with the big lie and there are some, they are few, but there are some, that there might be a different center of gravity growing in the republican party. >> absolutely. and, look, this is the thing we hope for. the republican party has to do some reckoning this year. you have caitlyn jenner running for governor of california. you have got liz cheney being a female voice in the republican party demanding a more moderate approach, not going along with this kind of definite right wing turn of white supremacy. the republican party is going to have to figure out what they think about women in leadership and this is a party that's anti-woman unless the women in the party parrot the most misogynist kinds of policy. liz cheney seems to be, you know, taking a different rout

new this morning, senator josh hawley who infamously tried to overturn the election even after the capitolction. he reported more than $3 million in the first quarter. he's far from the only law maker to raise huge amounts of totals for doing everything but law making. john avalon here with a reality check. >> reporter: the sickness in our politics is the result of a introduced up infrastructure, conspiracy theories with fame and cash. it's not just my opinion. it's the former gop speaker john boehner, what he has to say about the chaos caucus. they didn't want legislative victories, they wanted crusades and built up their own power base thanks, to outraged driven fundraising cash. as if on queue, we learned that qanon mass shooting demyer marjorie taylor green says she raised $2.3 million despite being stripped from her committee assignments. we reported 100,000 donors represent .03% of americans. it shows crazy as a constituency. she's a symptom of the trend of politician as professional troll. take matt gaetz involved in serious sex trafficking allegations. he denies it. we all know the

the company did cancel a book by senator josh hawley because of his protests over the 2020 election resultspped plans to distribute a book by one of the officers involved in the breonna taylor shooting. one industry experts as changes in publishing reflect a wider divide. >> the information, the narrative the you absorb is dictated by the ideology would hereto. the petition is a legitimate exercise of free expression, i hope the publisher simon & schuster stands firm. >> in march he tweeted against the cancel culture after facebook banned ad for a novel he endorsed. >> kristin: lauren green, thank you. "the seattle times" reportedly canceling the phrase "officer involved shootings" and the word inmate from usage and its publication. let's bring in the author of "woke inc." let's bring our viewers up to speed, what we are talking about is how staffers at "the seattle times" were sent an internal email told that eight phrases were banned from print. i want to give the viewer is an example and get your take. here's one. it says "do not use the phrase. it's not always delivering justice." legal

senator josh hawley was the first senator to announce he challenged the results.er the fist pump out the capitol there. he raised $3 million. it was $43 million of the last election cycle. he's raking money over this. marjorie taylor greene also overturned the election taken in more than $3 million. these numbers are incredible. money talk, what is it telling you do you think? >> i guess there is a small market of hard core political activists who support some soft those extremist political tactic. the bottom line is the overwhelming majority of americans just want good decent government were horrified ied be event of january 6th and the threat i imposed to the transfer of power. for all och the noise and the sound and the fury of partisan politics, the most important thing i want folks to recognize that we are making huge progress against this virus. we were able to pass that stimulus bill and i want to take this opportunity to encourage everybody to go and get this covid-19 vaccine. i have been vaccinated and my wife who's a doctor that's vaccinated. it is the m

things, there a party coming from the foundation of -- there is no explanation rooted in fact for josh hawleyief package or i'm sure they will find a reason to be against infrastructure, which is actually going to be a thing i'm told by secretary buttigieg under this administration. so i am not here to debate whether it is part of a continuum but it is now not rooted-- look, president biden had a really different view about post war iraq. he believed in separating the countries. and there was a debate between democrats and republicans. i think right now republicans, i'm not sure they would acknowledge that a war took place in iraq or americans died in iraq. they are so far from the truth that you can no longer have a conversation with them about how to solve anything because they don't agree on what the problems are, and that terrifies me. >> stephen: how do you think-- do you think the republicans have a chance to get out from underneath the shadows of donald trump because there are bets being laid in various parts of the republican party as to what the future is going to be and where the po

what we're hearing out of josh hawley, companies with a market cap of more than $100 million wouldn'tat all because they're woke i mean coinbase is about to bump up against that perhaps on its first day and there are companies like amd, snap, already, they wouldn't be able to grow by m&a, it seems like it could potentially outside of free market capitalism, crush some innovation in this country if you put that kind of shackle on companies i wonder, what economically is happening in the gop right now >> you know, wyou're 100% right on that. i don't think i thought i was going to say something where republicans are starting to push back on big business i never thought we would be talking about things like this look back into 2017, 2016, where donald trump and republicans worked, you know, hand in hand with many big businesses and ceos to push this tax cut that we're now debating right now with joe biden's infrastructure plan they worked well together for years and they were allies really, what seems to have pushed this over the edge on the republican side particularly the republican bus

allowing post on their platform showing the personal home address of public officials like senator josh hawleyitch mcconnell and allowing on their platform abusive rulers from countries like afghanistan of politicians from afghanistan, iraq and latin america to harass opponents and mislead people in their countries. these guys are allowing that on their platform but sensory the other stuff, how do you square that? >> you don't, the supreme leader of iran treats out anti-semitic tweets on a regular basis, he is perfectly fine, we are seeing a convergence of two different troubling trends media bias and big tech censorship come americans are concerned about both the january poll that showed 56% of americans believe journalists and reporters are purposely trying to mislead people by saying things they know are false or exaggeration that is the majority of americans believe the media intentionally feed some false information and then the poll showed 73% of americans believe that they intentionally censor political viewpoint they find objectionable. this is the convergence of two things with the me

mitch mcconnell and josh hawley. that was over politics.ow they're showing up at the homes of city officials in los angeles including the mayor. in sacramento, seattle, portland. now we're seeing that the police officer charged in the shooting, they had to put concrete barriers and wire fencing around her home because of rioters potentially showing up. i mean that is a new level. we have, you know, and you have rashida tlaib, progressive democrat saying get rid of cops. this is going on too. what do you say to that? >> i think the hard truth is that dr. martin luther king said it best, darkness cannot drive out darkness. only light can do that. you cannot be somebody who says we need to bring down the temperature, we need to find ways to work together and then encourage the lesser angels of the human spirit in times of shared american grief. so we have to remember that people like bobby kennedy, who stood out there in the aftermath of the killing of dr. martin luther king, jr., imploring people to trust the process, imploring people to work

the people who are the supposed heir apparents of donald trump, josh hawley, ted cruz, desantis, nonetation of donald trump. it's not uncommon for the last president from that party to be the party leader. the problem is, he's hated, disgraced, and loathed by a large part of the population. so i don't know why republicans keep going to the same well. but i don't think they have a lot of ideas. and we saw that last fall. they literally had no party platform other than reaffirming their loyalty to donald trump. >> you have a message for them, bill, with this group you work with called the republican accountability project. this new ad you have out. i want to play a little bit of it. >> lindsey graham, marco rubio, kevin mccarthy, ron johnson. what are they doing this weekend? they're going to mar-a-lago to kiss donald trump's ring. pledge their loyalty to a man who tried to cancel our democracy. turning the republican party to the immorality party. >> bill, are there still people who don't have a firm enough idea about trump? what can something like this be able to accomplish? >> i thin

money talks to republican candidates, and when they see someone like marjorie taylor greene or josh hawleyn primary voters who determine who is in charge of this -- of the republican party, are on the side of giuliani and trump. they want more of it and they're going to be rewarding the people who propagate these falsehoods. >> robert gibbs, i am sure that that is the accurate view in the grassroots on the republican side, but there is no way the establishment republicans, and i think you put mitch mcconnell in that category, can survive if they're choked off of a supply of corporate donations. there's just not enough whack-a-doo money. there is truly not enough dark money to sustain one of the two political parties, and i think that with what betsy has asserted, if that's where all the heat is, josh hawley's raised fist and marjorie taylor greene, they're going to become so noncommercial, they won't be able to raise a cent from any corporation in good standing with sort of a reasonable center. >> well, and i think that's why you've seen these ceos speak out and why, quite frankly, that sp

brian: missouri senator josh hawley introducing a bill to bust up big tech.cians for years. this treatment has allowed them to amass a colossal amount of power no kidding that they use to censor political opinions that they don't agree with or shut out competitors like the hunter biden story and like the black lives matter story. it's past time to bust up big tech companies, restore competition and give power back to the american consumers. what do you think? swamy is with us now author of the book "woke inc." he joins us now to being are a. vivek. i know you agree with josh hawley is it too late. >> his heart is in the right place. give him credit. one of the first senators talking about big tech as an issue when very few other senators were. here is the issue with antitrust law it's not quite the right approach in my opinion. the real problem isn't silicon monopoly on products it's its monopoly on ideas. that's the scariest monopoly of all. even if we break up companies we will have smaller tech companies each of which switch from identical monopoly to cart

josh hawley and ted cruz of texas who led the challenge to biden's victory each brought in more than3 million. congresswoman marjorie taylor green who referred to january 6th as a 1776 moment before the riot raised $200,000. madison cawthorn has pulled in more than $1 million. and joining me now, former defense secretary under president obama. you also served as a senator from nebraska on the republican side for more than a decade. as somebody who warned about this rhetoric over the election results you talked about this and then watched the riot unfold like the rest of us. what is your reaction to these republican lawmakers propheting over these lies, the big lie, that got people killed? >> well, jim, i am disgusted, like i think many people in this country are and should be. the continued facebook ri indication for base crude political interests of lying and misleading the american public about the election, about so much, is wrong. i think what it will ultimately do, i think what it's doing is dividing the republican party. you are seeing that happen with trump and the republican