joining me now to break it all down is missouri senator josh hawley. senator, thank you so much.change what does it mean for you? what will it mean for users of twitter or other social media and what they can share? >> i promise you what it won't mean and the persons whose privacy won't be protected are normal americans who want to express their views, particularly if they have conservative views. i promise that you their privacy won't be respected. they will still get censored. they will still get tracked around. let's remember what twitter does how they make their money. they track us around the web everywhere we go. they collect a dossier on us. they sell our information. they profit off of us. i promise you they are not going to stop doing any of that stuff. and at the end of the day, pete, here's the deal. the last thing america needs is another big tech robber baron who doesn't care anything for free speech that's exactly what twitter is giving us. >> pete: aren't they just saying out loud what we have known all along whether it's critical race theory in the classroom calle

tim, if you'll forgive me for not raising with you the josh hawley projection act of 2021, this is froma today. growing up every story i was told about politics treated the ways and means chairmanship as if it were the height of power and influence. nunes is taking a pass on it to run friend ster for bigots, congress' decline in miniature. is the departure of nunes just further proof of trump's sway over all supplicants, tim? >> it's proof of two things. one, just of the power, single parenting, i have a child upstairs. one is the power of the trump social media, this sort of attack on the big tech outlets, that's number one. and the second thing is it just shows the weakness of the fact that the republican congress, they don't have an agenda. they don't want to do anything. why would you stay in congress. if it's a better job to go run a down market social media company than it is to be the chairman of ways and means, that tells you something about the fact that they don't have an agenda. they don't have any desire to do anything. and so i think this is a story about the decline both o

you just have to remark on the irony of josh hawley, the clip you just played criticizing biden for theat sort of led the charge to object to the electoral college in congress. >> democracy not under assault because of joe biden. it's under assault despite joe biden's messaging and efforts. but every democracy, every western democracy, every democracy in the world right now is under assault and there are major forces pushing that. income inequality, disinformation, ways to abuse social media and the fact that people have frustrations and don't know who to blame. it is harder to pivot fast in democracies than it is with autocracies. there are a lot of these factors. we know all of them. biden's view, this administration's view is you have to talk about them, hold your allies close and try to message the benefits of democracy. the challenge is reaching those internal domestic audiences, including the one in the u.s., that already don't think of it that way and it's very hard. >> this all comes as other foreign policy concerns emerge, what's happening in russia, ukraine, the tensions that

missouri senator josh hawley is here to help answer that question. senator, thanks for being on the show tonight. what is the goal? >> well, i think that the goal is in really is to distract attention on the part of these corporations to distract attention to what they're actually doing to american workers. when it comes to the democrats and these racial equity audits that you were just talking about, will, the goal there is to take over these tech companies and to use them as an arm of the democrat party. these are the most powerful companies in the history of this country, probably in the history of the world and the democrats want to make them arms of their left wing agenda. do you know what? they have already had a lot of success in doing that and now they want to double down. >> will: that actually is the point of my next question, senator. hasn't this already been accomplished in the word audit. the concept of an audit is something used to intimidate. it inspires fear. fear is the tactic through which most of these corporations are being manipu

senator langford and josh hawley, they sent a letter to homeland security claiming you are hiding anlegal migration, people over state, almost 600,000, is that the real number of getaways? >> first of all, thank you for having me on, we've been talking about them for quite some time. the problem with the getaways, there's no way for them to truly know how many there are. many times was reported is 20 plus one there after a group, they say 20 plus, those 20 plus-40, 50, sometimes 60 or close to a hundred. if the agent don't apprehend them promote the only thing that will be written down is 20 getaways so that is the scary part. there's no actual number. at the end, the number reported, the number you see ends up being pretty much just a guess from the agency and the administration and that's where the problem is and it all being caught. the administration has had the open-door policy, allowed the floodgates to be opened so what happens is resources are moved from one area having to process the individuals turning themselves in leaving gaps and that's where you have the getaways coming

josh hawley -- i'm going to write this. it's unrelated. 2024. this is about presidential politics.'s not going to happen. and marco rubio was talking a few nominees. he is not as many. he is blocking spwors to china and spain over communism. that's that. mostly these two guys. all right. i said i would get back to the 140 number. 300 days in office. executive branch senate confirmations. this trend line is going in the wrong direction. 326 for bush. 158 for trump. and 140 for joe biden. why is this important? the government needs to be stacked. we need experts in the jobs. it is worth noting the people joe biden has nominated and is significantly more diverse than any other of the recent presidents. they are more diverse than who donald trump picked. one thing that is fascinating. barack obama, 29% women, 30% nonwhite. joe biden, 50% women, 39% nonwhite. he made it a centerpiece. he has done so. so many of them, particularly as it relates to national security, are being slow walked by ted cruz, josh hawley and marco rubio. this is the permanent chair of the fcc, the first woman to

josh hawley's masculine in the initiative. joke if you wish, i am here to tell, you assures i'm sitting here, as sure as you are almost in bed and we will get you there shortly. that is going to be a thing too. >> first of all, from a macro standpoint, so you think about 11 months from now as people are voting, where the pandemic is, and we all hope it's endemic, and not pandemic. where the economy is not statistically where people are feeling a feeling situation. i think that the bills getting pass will understand that the democrats did something. just as importantly how they propose them. the right track, long track, approving, will not be improved through other tactics. other districts will have to run a rates to get 50% of the votes. and my big concern there is that republicans should be running again as we saw in 2020 in virginia. so you are really going to have to put a lot of votes in there. but i think that democrats who are running for the house in the senate, they just need to basically stick to their own knitting. i

at the forefront of a lot of the republican pushback are two senators, josh hawley and ted cruz.s concerns are that he wants to see secretary blinken resign after the afghanistan withdrawal. and ted cruz wants to see sanctions against a natural gas pipeline between russia and germany. they are not objecting to the qualifications of the nominees. i wonder how usual that is in the process. >> that is actually the strongest argument for moving forward is obviously senators have policy concerns, that is the whole reason the senate has the right of advice and consent on nominees. individual holds have always been part of the process. it is this concept of saying nobody is going to be confirmed, that we will not send anyone out, were -- or there are a few people who have been confirmed, but as secretary blinken said the numbers are unprecedentedly low. our argument is not with any specific concerns and we don't get into policy issues, we just think that america needs strong diplomacy and representation overseas and to do that, we can'to fill our ambassadors ship's. no other country doe

without 2098 the bankruptcy bill to use the free market force to force the swamp lobbyist back with josh hawley, john corning, to force down number one of rick scott's desire for the bailout and number two the public service loan forgiveness has a 99% fail rate with conservatives seeks a failure after failure after failure because of the lack of forces. but when i called rick scott's office and told on the directive contract for america part two, i can draw my own name. and apparently you guys know know who i am. >> are gordon we will let you go there. is there anything you want to respond to? >> this is the point. he is talking about a specific issue, student debt and student loan which is an issue and is an important issue. the debt ceiling obscures that in the sense that it becomes its own crisis. the real issue here in the real problem like mine to talk to each other and some of these issues. an extremism on both sides of the party. in thece difference of opinion and consumed at we go back to the debt only have a debt ceiling people are thinking debt, debt, debt, debt. the underlying issue

. >> so margie, why do you think vice president mike pence or josh hawley would go to simon into stir and go through several extra hoops rather than being published by regnery? >> there are -- of course, i don't know. and either case specifically. but there are two obvious reasons that come to mind. one is, hope that they can navigate their way through a very liberal very woke culture that at the big publishing houses that they can navigate their way through. and still be able to get their message out. and the other answer is money. unfortunately, there are, for the biggest celebrity authors, the new york publishers office will still pay a very big advance. and that's not to say that regnery hasn't paid very big advances we have. but in some cases, they will overpay, new york will overpay, for authors because they like the idea of the celebrity on their list. although i think it's changing as well. as we've seen recently, they're a lot of big celebrities, donald trump being number one, big celebrity authors that new york has said they won't publish. so, i think it is -- my belief is i

joe biden is the one who has spent it just frankly into oblivion, missouri republican senator josh hawley and the vast majority of republicans refused to support the effort did not support that agenda. and i'm not going help them pay for senate republican leader mitch mcconnell who brokered the fast track deal earlier this week. set. the crisis is now on democrats to confront that will enable democrats to raise the debt limit at a fixed dollar amount. >> which they will specify raising the debt ceiling allows the government to pay its bills for everything from social security to military salaries treasury secretary janet yellen said in action from congress would have prompted the first default in american history. >> and again, don't expect republicans to join democrats next week to raise the debt ceiling. but with this crisis, seemingly averted, a democrat said they want to now pivot to trying to pass president biden's build back better plan in the senate by christmas for now in washington, raquel martin, back to you in a thank you for that update. recount. >> coming up next on the kron

tech policy reporter and author of the technology to zero to newsletter my guest today senator josh hawley are republican from missouri. senator welcome to the "washington post". >> thank"w you. >> senator i am looking forward to talking to you a a bit about your proposal to break up big tech we want to start the events of january 6. senator, you are the first senator to object to the certification of joe biden's electoral college victory. you're right in your book, to raise an objection to one state for the electoral college certification process. senator, what responsibility do you feel for the cascading events that resulted on january 6? >> i did what he said is going to do on january 6 which was voiced mike and citron's concerns about integrity this is by the way the process i'd used it at the democrats using three or less presidential elections every time a republican has been elected they objected to 11 different states over those presidential elections and the law provides ntfor that. as well as the rules of the house and senate provide during the electoral certification process the

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 raise the objectiof 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 h

joining me now and i'm delighted he's here is missouri senator josh hawley.ator, the left pretense this is all about protecting the democracy but what did you glean from what happened at the suppose it summit today? >> what really stands out to me is that it was one long anti-american tirade by the president of the united states and various members of his administration. he listened to him, they don't like american voting laws, they don't like american history, they want to rewrite our culture and completely change it. this is a guy who doesn't really like american and he's telling the world i'm so sorry for america and the way that it is. if you let us have power long enough we will completely transform the country. meanwhile he's letting china walk all over him. he's letting an actual authoritarian the dictator call the shots. i thought it was embarrassing and sad and it just shows you how out of touch joe biden is and what a failure he is been. >> laura: they are really worried, are they not come about next year. they are freaking out. they see, lie on the

joining me now is a josh hawley of the judiciary committee. if conservatives are let down once again, what do you think? >> i think this is the moment, we have waited 50 years for this, this is the case. that became clear today, we can't wait any longer. this is the time to overrule roe, the court badly damaged its legitimacy back in 1973. if the court really cares about its legitimacy the way the justices were talking about today they will follow the constitution and they will allow the people to start exercising democracy again. i say this is the moment, this is the time and this is the case to do it. >> laura: justice thomas started the questioning off today, this is a question where he hit on the right to privacy whether that is grounded in the constitution, watch. >> in the old days we used to say it was a right to privacy that the court found substantive due process, what are we relying on now? >> when it comes to decisions related to family, marriage, and childbearing, the court has done the analysis and that makes sense because otherwi

twitter are now guessing names like paul gosar, jim jordan, devin nunes, matt gaetz, ted cruz, and josh hawleyn play the home version in the fun new game "clue-less." ( laughter ) ( applause ) these messages-- got a little-- got a little-- there you go. these messages have the ring of unfiltered truth because they're taken from mark meadows' two personal phones. and nothing says "innocent" like a second cell phone. ( laughter ) "i'm sorry, i'm sorry. what's that, honey? you found my second phone in the closet? oh, that's just my backup. 'i love you' phone in case i can't find the first one to tell you how much i was not sleeping with the babysitter last night. hello! i love my wife... who's right here in the room with me right now. good-bye, wrong number!" this whole attempted coup was based on the former president's endless lies about non-existent massive voter fraud. and now the associated press has shown just how big a liar it is. they conducted a review of every potential case of voter fraud in the six battleground states he disputed and found fewer than 475, a number that would have made

. >> chris: josh hawley laying responsibility for the spike in crime across the u.s.benson of fox news radio, julie pace, executive editor for the associated press, and fox news political analyst, juan williams. julie, certain crimes are up dramatically. not nearly at the level they were in the '90s. we've seen these shocking ima images. every time you see them, it's kind of stunning come of organized smash and grabs. how big a problem for president biden and democrats, both in terms of politics and is there anything substantively that they can do about it? >> crime is one of those things that can really overshadow basically any other issue for people. if you don't feel safe, if you don't feel like your family is safe in the community, then there's almost nothing else that matters. from a purely political perspective, there is the statistics and in how people feel. if they feel they are living in an era where crime is increasing, they're going to react at the ballot box. when it comes to actual actions, there are some things the administration is considering in terms

perpetuaing the big lie at the most senior levels of america's government, kevin mccarthy, ted cruz, josh hawley and the reality that donald trump is the front runner for the republican nomination in '24 is a precarious moment and if we're going to be safe and make it through the hour of crisis, there must be accountability for the people that planned that and orchestrated it and ensited it at the top of the ladder, not bottom. >> you're right about gary wickersham. his lawyer said he's a military veteran and that was part of his pleading to the judge about how this man has never done anything wrong in his life until january 6th. so on january 6th, the one year anniversary, nancy pelosi is planning a prayer vigil among other things at the capitol. donald trump is planning to step up to a microphone in florida. >> donald trump is the front runner for the republican nomination in 2024. he controls the national republican party in the state parties and the apparatus of the party and hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars, lock stock and barrel. you have the entirety of the leadership of the r

hopes may have been dashed -- even people who go in opposite directions or on one other issue like josh hawley and mitt romney were talking about child tax credits or child health. so i'd like to think one thing this might do is say okay here's a battle fought before, chapter and verse and here's an argument relevant today. and the concerns are very much the same. and i thought to myself one of the things -- there are many that caused the welfare reform to fail there'd been a couple of so-called income maintenance experiments, one in seattle, one in denver. and they were very small samples. and he said will this accept people to work or help them lie about. that was his phrase, just help them lie about. and those experiments appeared to begin to say and people may sort of lean on the oars a little bit if they have this income backing, income floor. right now and that was an argument, look at those experiments. that was an argument opposing family assistance. today we're in the middle of a huge experiment right now, which is a result of the payments now going out to people every month until the

about the leaders, the leaders of the proud boys, the oath keepers, and the people in congress like josh hawleye president, all those who fanned the flames of insurrection, then acted surprised when people stormed the capitol. we need accountability. and we also need to educate. a lot of our people in the military just don't understand civics 101 like they need to, they don't understand how the government is suppose to work. they need to have allegiance to the constitution, and not a person or party. and we need to figure out who is in the ranks, who are our future insurrectionists, and root them out and get them out of the service. and we need to conduct strategic planning and war gaming. we need to imagine the unimaginable. a year ago, who would have thought that thousands of people would storm the capitol like they did? we need to think about these kinds of potentialities. physical threats, cyber threats. we need to plan for 2024 now. i can assure you, the bad guys are thinking about ways they failed to pull off what they wanted to do in 2020. how can they do better in 2024? so we need to ta

hopes may have been dashed, that even people who find themselves in the opposite direction like josh hawley and mitt romney, who talk about child tax credits and childcare. and i would like to think that what this might do is to say, okay, here is a battle that was fought. and this chapter has a lot of, it it's relevant today. the arguments are very much similar. and the conservatives are very much the same. i thought to myself, one of the things that caused welfare reform to fail, out of many, was that it had been coupled with so-called income maintenance experiments. when in seattle, one in denver. and there were very small samples. and the question was, as jon erlichman used to put it, well, will this help incentivize people to work or will it help just help them lie about? that was his phrase, lie about. and people may sort of lean on the doors a bit. if they had this backing income floor. and right now, that was an argument. and that was an experiment. it was an argument opposing family systems. today, we are back in the middle of a huge experiment. right now. and that's a result of th

>> well, we've written about josh hawley and roger marshal a lot, the senators from missouri.ife in washington in the early '80s when he was in the senate. he also believed in accomplishment. nobody ever accused bob dole of rhetorical excess. they applauded him and supported him because he got things done, and there are a lot of things left for joe biden to do, as you know, the build back better program, for example. covid remains a challenge across our region and the country. he'll need to work hard and look for accomplishments rather than rhetoric to carry the day if he's to be successful. >> as he arrives today, i believe there's some $7 billion or so set aside that you'll see over the next five years. give us a sense specifically where are you going to see the impact of that money and how are folks in kansas city feeling about it? >> some of it is still to be decided, of course. the president today will visit the bus depot, if you will, erica, a place where kansas city's buses were repaired. kansas city was one of the first major cities in the nation to promote and institu

. >> chris: senator josh hawley laying responsibility squarely on democrats, and it's time now for ouroupment guy benson of fox news radio, julie pace, executive editor for the associated press, and fox news political analyst juan williams. julie, certain crimes are up traumatically. murders are up, although not nearly as the level that they were in the '90s, and we've seen these shocking images. you know, just every time you see them, it's kind of stunning, of these organized smash and grabs, often times in high-end stores. how big a problem for president biden and democrats both in terms of the politics and also is there anything substantively they can do about it? >> well, i think in terms of the politics, you know, crime is one of those things that can really overshadow basically any other issue for people. if you don't feel safe, if you don't feel like your family is safe in a community, there's almost nothing else that matters. so from a purely political perspective, there's the statistics, and then there's how people feel. and if people feel they're living in an era where crime

been dashed, that even people who had gone in somewhat opposite directions on one other issue like josh hawley mitt romney, were talking about child tax credits, about child help. and so i like to think that one thing this might do is to say, okay, here's a battle that was fought before, 50 years ago, here is chapter and verse, a lot of it relevant today. the arguments are very much the same. and the concerns are very much the same. and i thought to myself, one of the things, there are many that caused the welfare reform to fail, was that there had been a couple of so-called income maintenance experiments, one in seattle, one in denver, and they were very small samples. and the question was, as john ehrlichman put it, will this help incent people to work or will this just help them lie about? that was his phrase, just lie about. those experiments appeared to begin to say, eh, people may sort of lean on the oars a little bit if they have this income backing. right now -- that was an argument. look at those experiments. that was an argument opposing family assistance. today we're in the middle o

many of them, particularly as it relates to national security, are being slow walked by ted cruz, josh hawley and marco rubio. this is the permanent chair of the fcc, the first woman to hold this job. she was confirmed, wait for this, confirmed by the senate, 68-31. you don't see that all that often. so there is diversity in who joe biden is nominating and who is being confirmed. hawley and cruz are slow walking this. yes, this person can be the ambassador to whoever. no, we want to have a full hearing, to go full debate in the senate. that slows the process down. i'll go back to where i started, zero ambassadors in africa. zero. huge amounts of national security and state department jobs unfilled, appointed but unfilled. that is a problem for our country. guys? . >> also, chris, overnight, republican congresswoman lauren boebert decided to copy one of her republican colleagues and posted a photo with her children, some of them rather young here, holding what appeared to be semiautomatic rifles in front of their christmas tree. i know she is just trying to troll people who didn't like congres

ted cruz, josh hawley. and the reality that donald trump, is the former republican nomination of 20, four we are it's a very precarious moment. and if we are going to be safe from this. if we are going to make it through this hour, there must be accountability, for the people who plan, this who orchestrated it, and incited. at the top of the letter. not at the bottom rung of the ladder. >> steve you are right about gary, his lawyer did say in court today, that he is a military veteran. and that was part of his pleading to the judge. this man is never done anything wrong in his, life until january six. on january six, the one year anniversary, nancy pelosi is planning a prayer vigil among other things at the capitol. donald trump is planning to step up to a microphone in florida. donald trump is the front runner for the republican nomination in 2024. he controls the national republican party and the state party and the apparatus of the party. also hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars livestock in bar

i remember specifically josh hawley asked, was there anything -- well, could you have switched to manualthe ceo said, well, we were lucky we had some capabilities and we were able to do something along those lines. but the more important point he raised was that neither colonial nor other companies today have the expertise to go fully manual in case of a cyberattack of various kinds, because the people who have those skills, as the c.e.o. said in the senate hearing, they are either retired or dead. i think, let's utilize the ones who are still among us and how about if companies went out and found -- still have their names on their employee rolls -- they brought them back in as a force of contingency experts who would be able to take over in case of a cyberattack and switch operations that can be switched to manual, to the extent the equipment still has that manual switch. there would be able to operate that equipment and keep operations going, so that the company did not face the horrible choice of paying or going dark. they had a couple of older employees who knew how to operate manual

it and you're right, josh hawley saying that he was going to object to the election mainly because ofthese changes to the law, which had already been adjudicated. and then ted cruz came around and flagged similar claims saying that we just need time to review these things. they were trying to come up to a way to both appeal to donald trump's. saying that the donald trump votes were stolen. by then, they would say that there were legal issues where they have strong concerns. and it trickles all the way down. just last night, on fox news, you saw someone making these claims actually was stolen because donald trump's text message system was shut down by these major mobile carriers. which there was an accident that happened in july of next year. but the fact that they have to come up with these ideas for how this actually occurred that led to not have to buy into these conspiracies. >> which gets you back to the legitimacy of. it which is one jordan comes out today saying that he passed this idea that mike pence could lunar laterally invalidate these electoral votes. at some level, what i

people like jim jordan and people like josh hawley and ted cruz and marjorie taylor greene, they continuerepublican leadership allows them to do so because they don't have a problem with what they're doing ultimately. if they did, they'd have done something about it. so the mainstreaming of these very dangerous, extremist type of characters, codifying them into the dna of the republican party means that going forward, there is no bringing that together. one of the things i always say is as much as i want this country to heal, i can't get along with someone who looks at me and sees me as a virus. who calls me the kung flu. who sees me as inferior because i'm from somewhere different from they are or i look different than they do. that's what we're up against right now. >> kurt, juanita, as always, thank you. >>> coming up, fact checking a fox news attack on president biden. who's the real grinch? we have the tapes. who's the real grinch? we have the tapes. sh e world how liberty mutual customizes their car insurance. ow! i'm ok! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. libe

the people out there -- the josh hawleys, the donald trumps, the people that fanned the flames of inventioncted surprised when it happened. you have people like lindsey graham, a great american that i served with in iraq twice who has somehow lost his mind and decided that -- that -- that -- and believes this big lie. we have got to hold people accountable. but the other thing that we advocate in our op-ed is that we need to educate soldiers and sailors and airmen and marines on civics 101. you need to understand the difference between allegiance to the constitution, and allegiance to a -- a -- a -- a cult-like figure, like -- like donald trump. we cannot let that happen. we signed an oath to the constitution, not to a person. we need to gather intelligence about the people within our midsts. we need to find out next -- the next generation of insurrectionists out there and we need get them out of the army. and i believe the military took a step in that direction today with this new policy in which they are making it very difficult to become an active member in an extreme group which is real

missouri's junior senator, josh hawley, and all of missouri's republican house members voted againsterved two tours of duty. he's a democratic candidate running for the senate seat that will be vacated by retiring senator roy blunt. thanks for joining us tonight. >> it's great to be back. i really enjoy it. >> one thing you and senator blunt agree on is the need for the infrastructure law that joe biden was explaining to your state today. >> yeah, we absolutely need to invest here in america, and you know it's been -- it's one of the themes of my campaign. we have talked about it before, but, you know, i have been overseas, i have been in iraq and afghanistan. i watched us spend $6.4 trillion over there for basically nothing. and then to see everyone just squabble over every single nickel that we're talking about spending here was pretty painful for me. you know, most of us joined the service to serve the communities we grew up in and for many of us, we went overseas, watched us spend all of this money over there, and when we came home, the communities we signed up to serve were wors

we haven't accounted for the leaders, the people out there -- the josh hawleys, the donald trumps, theurrection and then toad stood back and act surprised when it happened. >> i mean, this brings it back to scott perry and even the trump press con tference. i mean, how do you prevent another attack from happening if people aren't held accountable for the first? >> i know, that was a stunning interview, kate. i mean, you know, he was begging people. saying, look, look right before your very eyes. what is occurring. and what is occurring domestically. and, you know, the question is how do you protect the country? and when you have this kind of misinformation floating around, um, and donald trump is out there still singing the same old, same old the election was rigged because he can't admit that he lost an election. and riling up the base. i think it becomes more and more dangerous. and i think that's what he was saying to you last night, and it was sort of a kree decor. you know, we can't -- we can't sit back and watch this happen again because democracy is at stake here. >> yeah. congr

there was a more, let's say gentlemanly arm of the big lie and that was pioneered by josh hawley of missouri and ted cruz of texas. they were sort of wink, wink, nudge, nudge. they weren't saying the ghost of hugo chavez changed your votes in fulton county. no, what they claim was that the states were wrong to expand access to voting in the midst of a once in a century pandemic and that measures enacted to keep voters safe from a wildly infectious disease for which there was no vaccine like increased absentee voting and they were improper and in fact unconstitutional efforts to steal the election from donald trump. that was the pretext. the more sophisticated version they dressed up the big lie on which they hung their objections, electoral vote and their votes for what was effectively a coup. the same goal as peter navarro and lynn wood and sydney powell and donald trump. they're all marching in line. they just have different articulation. now we get one of most honest articulations and that comes courtesy of kentucky senator rand paul. yesterday he tweeted this endorsement from a piece of

i wish i was joking, but here's missouri senator josh hawley, earlier this week, talking about what hereal problems plaguing america today. >> can we be surprised that after years of being told that they are the problem. that their manhood is the problem. more and more men are withdrawing into the enclave of idleness and pornography and video games. >> seth: honestly, when you call it an enclave it sounds pretty sophisticated. [ laughter ] "mother, if you need me, i shall be withdrawing into my enclave to peruse pornography and dabble with video games." [ laughter ] "jeeves, fetch me my slippers and a box of the good tissues. there are a lot of reasons for the election results this week some of them within democrats' control, others not. what democrats can control is delivering on their promises and passing popular straightforward policies that improve people's lives in concrete ways meanwhile, republicans seem to think our main problem is teenagers looking at so much porn, they have -- >> calluses on their hands [ laughter ] >> seth: we're going to have a conversation we'll be right b

but at the forefront of the republican pushback are josh hawley of missouri and ted cruz of texas.ncerns are he wants to see secretary blimpgen resign after the afghanistan withdrawal, and cruz's concern is he wants to see sanctions against a natural gas pipeline between russia and germany. they're not objecting to the qualifications of the nominees, though, and i wonder how usual that is in the process. >> well, that's actually the strongest argument for moving forward is obviously senators have policy concerns, that's the wholeeason the senate has the right of advice and consent on nominees. so individual concerns, individual holds have always been part of the process. it's this concept of saying nobody's going to be confirmed that we're not going to send anyone out or in a few cases we have senators, spouses, a few people have been confirmed but as secretary blimpen said in his statement the numbers are unperes tentedly low, and our argument is not with any specific concerns, and we don't get into policy issues, we just think america needs strong diplomacy and representation ove

joe biden is the one who has spent it just frankly into oblivion, missouri republican senator josh hawley and the vast majority of republicans refused to support the effort did not support that agenda. and i'm not going help them pay for senate republican leader mitch mcconnell who brokered the fast track deal earlier this week set the crisis is now on democrats to confront that will enable democrats to raise the debt limit at a fixed dollar amount. >> which they will specify raising the debt ceiling allows the government to pay its bills for everything from social security to military salaries treasury secretary janet yellen said in action from congress would have prompted the first default in american history. >> and again, don't expect republicans to help democrats raise the debt ceiling come next week. >> but democrats say with this now is all they can now focus on trying to pass president biden's build back better plan in the senate by christmas for now in washington, raquel martin, back to you guys. all right. thank you very much help time now is 05:22am. and in the sports world, th

he's more of a josh hawley than a method man, which may explain why he created a fake log cabin set foresday, he talked to nigel farage about british prime minister boris johnson's bout with covid. >> getting covid emasculated him. it changed him. it feminized him. it weakened him as a man. the virus itself -- this is true -- does tend to take away the life force in some people, i notice. i mean it does feminize people. no one ever says that, but it's true. >> okay, let's unpack your woman hatin' for just a bit. it's like textbook misogyny, this baseline retro variation where weak equates to female even though women, through a long, painful, and awe inspiring process are how lives are created and the reason the human race forges on. it is women who are the life force, not weak-chinned blokes who ditch their bow ties for fake log cabins. but this isn't just about ridiculous people saying ridiculous things. people believe what these not so bright winners are saying, and not just in red states. here's jordan cleper of the daily show, talking to anti-vaxxers in of all places, los angeles. >

>> well, he has concerns about people in his own caucus, josh hawley, ted cruz and others. by the way, mitch mcconnell had the opportunity to vote to convict. he walked away from that. he had the opportunity to join us and have a bicameral, bipartisan investigation in the january 6th. he walked away from that. all those people sending messages to the president, it is maddening to me. i sat in that chamber. i didn't send messages to mark meadows. i didn't send messages to the president. i sent a text message to my wife telling her good-bye because i didn't think reinforcements were coming and we ultimately because of the grace of god and the cops who fought like hell for us saved us. we were able to get out. that day could be repeated and that's why this is so important. >> congressman eric swalwell, nice it see you. have a happy holiday. >> you too. >>> this morning the national institutes of health is expected to release the latest data on the vaccine efficacy against the omicron coronavirus variant. this is happening as both new york and california are reinstating mask ma

joe biden is the one who has spent it just frankly into oblivion, missouri republican senator josh hawleyt majority of republicans refused to support the effort did not support that agenda. and i'm not going help them pay for senate republican leader mitch mcconnell who brokered the fast track deal earlier this week set the crisis is now on democrats to confront that will enable democrats to raise the debt limit at a fixed dollar amount. >> which they will specify raising the debt ceiling allows the government to pay its bills for everything from social security to military salaries treasury secretary janet yellen said in action from congress would have prompted the first default in american history. >> and again, don't expect republicans to help democrats raise the debt ceiling come next week. but with this crisis, seemingly averted, democrats say they can now focus on trying to pass president biden's roughly 2 trillion dollar build back better plan by christmas for now in washington. raquel martin, back to you. all right. thank you, raquel. >> it's 6.22. and this morning the sports worl

oz and two nut jobs in ohio to support the republican caucus, and i'll do what i can for josh hawleyhis is nothing more than an admission from mitch mcconnell who knows what donald trump did was wrong, he knows the events of january 6th were violent, they were wrong, they nearly toppled our democracy. but in the face of all that, mitch mcconnell's not leading. what he is saying is i'm glad house democrats are. >> i mean, you know, he's playing politics with democracy, with what this country was built on, with people's lives. lives were lost that day. that's just what's amazing. and we all know that people play politics all the time. david jolly, i'm sure you played a lot of politics when you were in washington, d.c. nonetheless, these are people's lives. we look ahead to the next election and to the election after that, and you wonder what's going to go down at that point. people are scared right now about this country and where we're headed. with that, jesse, i want to read the text messages that we heard from liz cheney. "we are under siege here at the capitol," all text messages t

the new senior senator from missouri were believe josh hawley.thing from certification of the 2020 electors to support for the infrastructure legislation recently passed by the senate. senator, does this reflect an ideological shift on some of the biggest issues that is good for the g.o.p.? >> senator blunt: well, i think when you look at the future of our party, the future of our party is to focus on the things that we have done well in recent years. obviously border security, regulatory policy, tax policy would be at the top of that list, and once again our friends, the democrats, are helping americans figure out the difference in us and them, what we were doing in the previous four years with producing great economic results, even the battle against covid produced five major bipartisan bills. i think the way that voters reacted just last month in the elections in new jersey and virginia show that there is a real resurgence of people rethinking the difference in the two parties and i think a republican party is going to do very well in that dis

missouri's junior senator josh hawley and all of missouri's republican house members voted against then who served two tours of duty in afghanistan, is now a democratic candidate for senate in missouri. running for that senate seat that will be vacated by retiring republican senator roy blunt. thank you very much for joining us, we really appreciate it. >> hey, thanks for having me. it's great to be back, i really enjoy it. >> well it sounds like one thing you and senator ones agree on is the need for this infrastructure law that joe biden was explaining to your state today. >> yeah, we absolutely need to invest here in america. it has been one of the themes in my campaign, we have talked about it before, but i have been overseas, i have been in iraq and afghanistan. i watch to spend 6.4 trillion dollars there was -- everyone squabble over every single nickel that we are talking about spending here it was pretty painful for me. most of us joined the service to serve the we grew up in and we went overseas watch to spend all this money over there and when we came home, those communities

steve: here is senator from the great state of missouri, josh hawley talking about how those tech giantserican workers and when it comes to the democrats and these racial equity audits the two were just talking about, the goal there is to just take over over the tech companies and use them as an arm of the democratic party. these are the most powerful companies in the history of this country probably in the history of the world and the democrats want to make them arms of their left wing agenda. they've already had a lot of success in doing that and now they want to double down. lawrence: so the progressives have control of the majority of the media with exclusion of fox and online websites. they have control of all of the tech companies basically, so where can people get their information besides fox and you've gotta ask yourself, is that part of the plan? ainsley: if you go on social media and you look at some ads or if you get information, verify it, make sure it's real, because what you're seeing is what they want you to see. i prefer to go on just get information but i read other art

republican senator josh hawley of missouri weighed in on confirmation. >> she has got a record of noten we should. >> during her run for d.a., rollins pledged to not prosecute those charged with lower-level misdemeanors including trespassing, shoplifting and certain drug charges. after taking office she followed through, publishing her default to nonprosecution policy. she had her backers boldly highlight recent boston crime data showing violent crime as well as things like larceny are down. recent data from the boston police department shows that homicides in boston declined by nearly a third in the first nine months of 2021. that drop, a drop of nearly a third in homicides, stands in stark contrast with nationwide crime statistics. >> in january rollins was visibly upset in an exchange with the local news crew that wanted to question her about a woman who accused rollins of abuse of power related to a traffic dispute. >> as a black woman in this moment in this country, you're going to put my house on the screen? >> no, ma'am. we are approaching to ask you a question. >> get away fro

including having ted cruz on the inside and josh hawley who were going to extent the debate over alltside the capitol. it was not going to succeed but it was a real plan to stay in power using threats, violence, using multiple levers of government. and i think that peter navarro saying that out loud, you know s something that should be used to remind those, you know, who are going to want to down play this, you for example as we look ahead to the mid terms and next election. >> i agree with tim on how this will be covered and perceived on the right, and the permission structure is real, and none of us living in fact-based america should ever underestimate its power, it's sort of mind altering and speech altering impact of peter navarro is exhibit a of that. but the fact remains that we have learned in the last seven days that the 1/6 committee is looking at two specific areas of crime. one is fraudulent -- wire fraud using the lie to raise money. and the other is this -- this obstruction of an official proceeding. not only did peter navarro confess to that one but he complicated this

kyle rittenhouse and positive posts about him and also, some republican lawmakers like senator josh hawleytives on that platform. neil? neil: you know, hillary, when you chase these people down and one of my favorite moments here it looks like if she could have run into a wall and through it if she could, to avoid you, but it's very clear her language, certainly is anti-fox, i get that and all, but those are strong opinions of hers that they cannot be interpreted at something that would make her a questionable overseeer of all these media. reporter: yeah, and neil what i think was interesting is we talked to lawmakers out of the hearing and she said a lot of negative things directly about news organizations, the very ones that she be in charge of regulating, she promises she'll recuse herself, if an outside committee decides that she has biases but then the question is, well what's left in the job description if you have to recuse yourself from all of these agencies when that's part of, a big part of your job, is to oversee matters related to those. neil: i thought she was looking for a tr

>> josh hawley. >> he's very wordy. >> i said real man don't even noticed there is a war on masculinity. these guys that put their masculinity -- look at him. >> careful. they put their masculinity in a lock box for donald trump. there is another body part i want to use it. >> joe. >> something about a blind trust, right? >> yeah. >> exactly. >> exactly. >> the tests. >> anyway. >> there you go. jonathan lemire, you wanted to add something. >> nothing about that. >> certainly a usual strategy. there is a serious point here, the trump's pressure and intimidation and the doctor you just mentioned hey, you should not get on the plane. that same white house physician lied to reporters. i was apart of the news conference pressing him and he flat out lied to the press. the american public of the president of the united states at that moment was at the hospital and seriously ill. so it's the consequences here are significant and beyond. >> who pay those salaries. they owe american people, they owe us the truth. >> they keep on lying. >> remember there was a doctor there actually a respected do

and we've heard from senator josh hawley on things like manhood, big bird, whatever it might be.> it's based on the idea that there's a culture in sort of coastal cities that is not the real american culture and it's trying to take away church, manhood. donald trump doesn't have to talk about manhood. hawley is trying to fake it so he has to talk about it. but he understands the issues that resonate. and i think what was interesting to me was, you know, the culture wars, trump was a culture war, not a policy president. what was interesting to me about what's emerging on the right, and this is true of rubio, is we need to move beyond the culture wars. the argument is we on the right don't control the media, the universities, the corporations, we only have a shot at controlling the state and we have to use state power to enforce some sort of basic american rule and that's why there's such great fervor or the authoritarian who uses state power to ban the media and transgender in schools and other things. what struck me is they want to move beyond the culture war things, which they c