josh hawley's efforts they are likely aren't going anywhere. his objections will be debated for a few hours but biden will ultimately be declared the winner. i'm also concerned that this puts republicans in a bad spot because they will either have to dispute a state election result or vote against trump which could mean in 2022 we will see some trump back primary challengers. but he does bring up some alarming points that deserve attention. for example, just months before the general election, the pennsylvania supreme court altered the state election laws arguably changing their role by the federal constitution also points out big tech. >> leland: we don't need to relitigate the election but the idea is two things can be true, there could be some legitimate gripes about how the election was conducted and could also be true that joe biden won the election. this is what ben sasse had to say, and i want to read this. although clever arguments and rhetorical gymnastics in the world won't change the fact that this january 6 effort is designed to dis

overnight outsidsenator josh hawley's home in virginia. protesters from a group called shut down d.c. railed against hawley's plan to object to election results going on his por and using megaphones. >> shame on josh hawley. lisa: on twitter, the republican said he would not be intimidated by threats, vandalism and "leftwing violence". he is part of a group of dozens of house and senate republicans plan to challenge the results tomorrow over unproven allegations of fraud largely fueled by president trump. in dalton, georgia last night he campaigned for the two republican senate candidates and, more often, for overturning the election. >> that was a rigged election, but we are still fighting it. lisa: h he pinne and pressure on his vice president. he explained on twitter that he reject fraudulently chosenr electors." in reality though, while the vice president will preside at

what led to this, and why senator josh hawley says he will not be intimidated. then there's this -- >> the president released that we had a phone call. he wanted to make it public. >> harris: the president's very public feud with georgia's secretary of state, as he urges a high turnout in today's senate runoff. whether the gop has enough to get across the finish line there an retain the majority in the senate. pete hegseth joins us for overtime. there he is live. hi, pete. at heinz, every ketchup starts with our same tomatoes. but not every tomato ends in the same kind of heinz ketchup. because you can't be everyone's favorite ketchup without making a ketchup for everyone. because you can't be everyone's favorite ketchup is now a good time enough, crohn's. for adults with moderate to severe crohn's or ulcerative colitis, stelara® can provide relief, and is the only approved medication to reduce inflammation on and below the surface of the intestine in uc. you, getting on that flight? back off, uc. stelara® may increase your risk of infections, some serious, and

he's the front of this, he and josh hawley. do you think that they'll change what they are doing? >> i can't get inside ted cruz's head. he was a smart kid but obviously he is not exactly lost his mind but decided to put into horrible use and josh hawley. these people has had adequate constitution. they don't give a damn about it. they want power and influence. i would suggest to them if they want any futures of american politics, they better break up and realize the american people do not like anarchy. we can agree for an angry mob entering the capitol and leaving one person dead is beyond unacceptable. they crossed the line and they have to pull back. i can't get inside their heads but if they have any concern for their own future, that's all they care about. if they have any concern for their own future, they better pull back. >> professor tribe, thank you very much. i want to go to wilmington right now, jeff zeleny is out front there. we heard the president-elect biden speaks genuinely and you have some new reporting from the biden's team, what are you learn sng. >> reporter:

look at josh hawley. you know -- >> he's so proud. >> so proud that he would be able to do something that no terrorist organization has been able to do. no foreign power has been able to do since the war of 1812. invade the people's house. lay waste to the people's house, commit insurrection, sedition, treason against the united states of america. josh -- josh, i went to southern state schools. no, put the picture of josh back up there. i went to southern state schools, josh, maybe i'm just stupid, but is that what they really taught you at stanford, how to commit treason, how to encourage insurrection against the united states of america? how to have blood on that fist of yours, josh? this is you, buddy. this is your moment. it was your insurrection. you know the constitution. you went to yale law school. you know exactly what you were doing. you were the one that stirred up this insurrection along with

you have anti-fish show up outside of josh hawley's home, t just threaten him but his wife . so there is serious consideration that lawmakers like congresswoman boebert have to undertake. speak with the supreme court in d.c. say they earned the right to bear and keep arms although not without limits. and recently cities like new york to try to work around that landmark ruling. speak with the city makes it vey inconvenient for a law abiding residents to get a license, to p the gun in the home for self-defense. >> gun rights advocates i've seen similar issues in d.c. and other major cities. in just a basic courtesy, maybe a little bit more expedient with the turnaround in some of these transfers, and particularly as the crime rate is soaring. >> shannon: it is. the special election coverage continues. stay tuned for another live hour of fox "fox news @ night." stick around for the break. robinhood believes now is the time to do money. without the commission fees so you can start investing today, wherever you are - even hanging with your dog. so, what are you waiting for? downlo

hawley. i asked him personally, when we were all in the room together in that locked down room, i said, josh,lease, please reconsider what you're doing here and what it's doing to our country. >> reporter: but hawley refused to back down. >> violence is never warranted. if violence will not be tolerated, this body will act to address the concerns of all americans across the country. we do need an investigation into irregularities, fraud, we do need a way forward together. >> reporter: at least six democratic senators are now calling on hawley and texas senator ted cruz to resign. >> i've called for them to resign. what i'll be looking for in the coming days and weeks is whether they take any accountability. >> reporter: when asked whether senators hawley or ted cruz, who also objected to election certification should resign, president-elect joe biden said -- >> i think they should be just flat beaten the next time they run. i think the american public has a real good, clear look at who they are. >> reporter: hawley and cruz are both up for re-election to the senate in 2024. but they might hav

this is what they write about senator josh hawley. quote, no one other than president donald trump himself is more responsible about wednesday's coup attempt than joshua david hawley, 41-year-old junior senator who put out a fundraising appeal while the siege was underway. it's stunning to read those words in a newspaper, in your newspaper. >> yeah. this has been weird for me. i am old-fashioned and i was taught when you lose an election, you take the high road and you don't spend the next years of your life pointing out the flaws of your opponent who defeated you. i have tried, which is hard for me as you know, with some discipline to avoid direct criticism of josh hawley, but the moment is coming. by the way, that concept appears quaint at this point in time that we would try to have some kind of good manners about political losses in light of what josh hawley is engaged in. he has taken what he knows is a political loss for the president, that he lost the election. josh hawley is a very smart guy. josh hawley is stanford, yale law,

i see what's going on in the senate particularly, people like josh hawley or tom cotton. we have rand paul and ted cruz, marco rubio. i don't see a path for mitch mcconnell to keep control of his caucus going forward. he'll have the same challenges with all of these people jockeying to become the heir apparent to become nominee in 2024. everyone looking out for their own political interests and this is such a different time than we had in 2009. there is no chris dodd or ted kennedy, john mccain, john kerry. those who cared about the senate. those people are gone. left behind, began with the tea party. now morphed into a trumpism we're in right now. there's no controlling it. it's a runaway train, and they're only going to be happy if they burn the entire place down. >> i remember during boehner's days the analogy was, like trying to herd cats, trying get the tea party and gop altogether on one page. zerlina, certainly this next battle is set to take placeness the capitol next week. the president calling for supporters to hold wild protest outside. certainly sparking fear

josh hawley is exceptional in many different ways."g the invasion of the capitol, jack danforth told the "kansas city star" that supporting josh hawley was, "the biggest mistake i've ever made." senator danforth said, "i thought he was special and i did my best to encourage people to support him both for attorney general and later the u.s. senate and it was the biggest mistake i've ever made in my life. but for him the approval of the electoral college votes would have been simply a formality. he made it into something that it was a specific way to express the view that the election was stolen. he was responsible." last week seven democratic senators co-signed a complaint to the senate ethics committee requesting an investigation of senator hawley and senator cruz for their roles in inciting the insurrection at the capitol. in my research today i have not been able to find a previous case of a senator requesting an ethics investigation of another senator. joining us now is former republican senator john danforth of missouri. he served

last night watching the debate on the senate floor, watching mitt romney behind josh hawley as josh hawleyas speaking, his eyes were telling. hearing mitt romney give his own speech, it seemed like one senator after another was directly yelling at both josh hawley and ted cruz. i'm going to be curious to see how they're treated during the next session. >> and romney got bipartisan applause. that never happens on the senate floor. >> that's such a good point. it was a powerful speech. >>> after being forced to shelter in place, several house democrats are preparing articles of impeachment against senator trump. joining us now is democratic congresswoman sheila jackson lee of texas. she's on the homeland security committee. congresswoman, you were a vocal supporter of the first round of impeachment. a second impeachment would be unprecedented. he would be the only president to have been impeached twice. >> let me just say this incident yesterday, this catastrophic failure of security, this trump dominated violence clearly calls for a recognition by the american people that donald j. trump ha

because no one has muzzled josh hawley. what happened to josh hawley isn't cancel culture. it's called consequence. you can say whatever you want. you can do whatever you want, but you have to face the consequence for it. and his actions, that's what he's doing. he's paying the consequence. it's not cancel. that's how it works. that's how america works. that's how the first amendment works. say whatever you want, but you've got to pay the price. if you say something stupid or you do something stupid or treasonous, or if you try to overturn a duly elected president. right? an effort to overturn our election, he supported an effort to overturn our election which turned violent and it killed people. he's a victim, oh, my god, he's being canceled, poor baby. do you need a binkie? don't fall for this, people. think about the actions in the capitol. think about what happened. think about the people who died. think about the cops who were beaten by people. think about all of that. and someone is concerned about a book? it turns out that that's hugely unpopular on the free market w

the 11 senators join missouri senator josh hawley and reportedly more than 140 other house republicans, all seeking to overturn the election. the group of senators backing the coup attempt laid out the cause for their efforts in a joint statement -- "the 2020 election featured unprecedented allegations of voter fraud, violations, and lax enforcement of election law, and other voting irregularities. by any measure, the allegations of fraud and irregularities in the 2020 election exceed any in our lifetimes." note the use of the term "allegations of fraud." that's like allegations that i have a full head of hair. there was no actual fraud that exceeded any in our lifetime. there were changes to the ways in which people voted, approved by state legislatures. the main issue is that joe biden won, trump won't accept that, and these republican senators, many of whom want to run for president or just run for re-election, are scared of the power that a post-presidential, maniacal donald trump will hold, or they want to appeal to trump's base. that's it. that's the whole ball game. the senators

we know that josh hawley is going to object to one state, pennsylvania. the question is, are the others going to join in that objection and object in other states, which could really prolong this process? and they're not being completely clear about that yet. so, we are still waiting to hear how big of a role this ted cruz group is going to have. but the reality is, this is exactly what senate majority leader mitch mcconnell had been warning his conference about for several weeks, urging them not to get involved in this process. he did not want this open warfare, especially heading into the georgia elections on tuesday, tomorrow, and looking ahead even to the next election in 2022. you have some of those senators who are joining the ted cruz group who are running for re-election in 2022, like james lankford, senator kennedy as well. and so, they are thinking about their own political futures, but it also puts other republican senators who are also running in 2022, like josh hawley's state teammate, roy blunt, also a member of leadership, who is also facin

this is who josh hawley is. he shouldn't lecture anyone about anything about the process of democracy. josh hawley should resign. that's what he should do. that's what he should do that would help the country most. and hopefully there will be some investigations as to why the capitol police were so completely unprepared when donald trump -- he marketed and said in december that this day was going to be wild. it was wild. there should be investigations. >> joy, let's dip into the end of the remarks from senator romney here. >> -- fairly or not, they'll be remembered for their role in this shameful episode in american history. that will be their legacy. i salute senator lankford and loeffler and braun and daines and i'm sure others, who in the light of today's outrage, have withdrawn their objection. for any who remain insistent on an audit in order to satisfy the many people who believe that the election was stolen, i'd offer this perspective. no congressional audit is ever going to convince these voters, particu

josh hawley did this. josh hawley has the blood of officer sicknick in part on his soul.has the five deaths that happened in the capitol that day were in part because he was out there raising the fist and cheering the mob. he was out there leading the charge in donald trump's efforts to disenfranchise tens of millions of african-american voters. to strike down their votes by taking up these lawsuits that have been dismissed and turning them into policy. he was trying to disenfranchise african-americans. he has a lot of weight on his soul. unfortunately, he doesn't seem to have one. a man of honor at this point would have realized he made a terrible mistake. a man of dignity and integrity would have said to himself, i went too far. this was unconstitutional. this was outrageous. this was destructive and i will leave public life. josh hawley has no such characteristics about him. he is ruthlessly ambitious. he wants to be president so much, he'll burn down anything in his way including the country if he gets the chance. so we'll keep our eye on josh. and i think the pressur

now josh hawley plans to join with several house members who want to object to at least one state.s noted that pennsylvania might be that state. once that happens, then both the house and the senate have to break from their joint session go into their respective chambers, debate for two hours and then hold a vote on each individual objection. what these senators are saying is that they will vote for hawley's objection when that vote occurs. they're not saying necessarily they're going to bring their own objections. each individual state objection takes another two hours. this could be quite the circus on wednesday. could be quite the long event. but i want to read briefly from their statement. they are essentially saying that what they want is congress to immediately appoint electoral commission with full fact-finding authority to conduct this emergency ten-day audit. we don't expect that's going to happen especially gchb the fact democrats control the house. but they go to on say, we intend to vote on january 6th to redress the electors from disputed states. unless and until the e

josh hawley made a huge mistake.tifying the election, he lost in the senate i think 93-7, and then people said there is josh hawley outside giving the power sign throwing up his fists to people who are invading the capital and so he's not so popular with a lot of fellow republicans. i think the truth is now he's just trying to change the subject to cancel culture to get away from people talking about his bad politics and i don't think he's going to get a pass on this from anybody who thinks a second to look at the whole story. >> greg: you can't lose your speech because you happen to have a wrong opinion. didn't you write a book about this? what was it called? >> juan: yes, muzzled, but what i'm saying, this guy was not being muzzled if he's on the front page of "the new york post" and was taken up by a conservative publisher. >> greg: you did the same thing, you wrote a book about being muzzled, you're criticizing him for the same thing you did. >> juan: if you put me on the front page of the paper every day, i had

late thursday, he tweeted support for missouri senator josh hawley, who plans to object when congressss votes. mcconnell called hawley out. but hawley wasn't dialed in. kaitlan collins has the latest for you. >> reporter: sources say trump is almost singularly focused on a plot by republican allies to disrupt certification of joe biden's win next week, which democrats are dismissing as absurd. >> they have got to choose here. it's real simple. there is only two choices. you choose democracy of the constitution or you choose the big-lying trump. it's as simple as that. >> reporter: josh hawley, the first to challenge the election results which will force the senate to debate his claim before affirming biden's win but he may not be the last. >> this is the one opportunity that i have as united states senator, this process, right here, my one opportunity to stand up and say something and that's exactly what i am going to do. >> reporter: senator ben sasse said he won't participate in the stunt by follellow republicans urged others to rreject this dangerous ploy. if you make big claims, y

first republican josh hawley would object. now we're hearing 140 others will do the same.us is this even if it's just a delay tactic? >> well, you're right that it is going to delay the outcome, but it's not going to change it. but it does set a very dangerous precedent for our democracy. you hear about contested elections happening in newer democracies in ukraine or in mali or in ivory coast. you don't really hear about it happening in an established democracy like the u.s. now, in newer democracies where you have weaker democratic institutions and where democratic norms haven't been established yet, these types of things can happen. but it's unheard of in the u.s. because we have a commitment to democracy. we wouldn't have ever thought of this happening in 2008 or 2012 when obama won because he was running against mitt romney and john mccain. but it appears there is a very different type of republican now. the party is almost mutated into something that is unrecognizable and it really seems to be attacking democratic norms. i find it to be highly dangerous because at the

. >>> republican senator josh hawley trying to distance himself from insurrectionists who stormed thet week, at the same time defending his role objecting to joe biden victory raising his trump in solidarity with pro-trump protesters gathering outside the capitol before the riot. but today he insisted he was right to challenge the election results even after the violence saying, and i quote, some wonderful everied why i stuck with my objection following the violence at the capitol. the reason is simple. i will not bow to a lawless mob or allow criminals to drown out the legitimate concerns of my constituents let's discuss with political commentary ator jennings and amanda carpenter. sounds like he might have been talking about the people gathered there who were drowning out the voice of the people. this is all very odd to me. help me understand, amanda, seems like president trump is the only one worried about his legacy and future tonight. >> yeah, josh hawley is trying to rewrite history saying he wasn't beauxing down to the mob, he was doing their bidding, he was their guy in the se

look at him, arm raised, josh hawley. that's who they decided -- when you look at the faces of the people who went into the capitol, that's who he stood with yesterday. and i'm just not sure where they go from here. >> well, i hope they're ostracized within the party. they made a choice, which was to side with this insurrection and with this mob and with this president and with this big lie. i was discussing this last night and my question is the same this morning, which is who is josh hawley to question the wisdom of the supreme court, which didn't look at the cases in pennsylvania, didn't take them because they didn't find them to be meritorious at all for them to get involved. there were 60-plus challenges, allegations made, they were all dismissed by the courts. republican-appointed judges, democratic-appointed judges. who is he to question the wisdom of those courts. someone who knows better, who weaponized his excellent education as a lawyer, who was a clerk on the supreme court, who engaged in the lie that somehow

josh hawley was not on the call which made for an awkward silence, mcconnell tried a couple times to reach out to him for that answer. what was interesting is what happened when hawley didn't answer. one of the people that did was pat toomey, a pennsylvania republican, one of the states josh hawley pointed to as his genesis for moving through the objection, thinking there's irregularities there. pat toomey laid out a detailed retort, making clear he believed the pennsylvania electoral slate was valid, election was valid, joe biden was the president-elect. there's a lot of back and forth inside the republican conference now, underscoring the difficulty republicans are facing either embracing reality or what to do with soon to be ex-president trump. >> my advice to you, phil mattingly, get lots of sleep, grab lots of coffee for wednesday since you said it will be a long day. thanks for joining us, though. >> thanks. >>> vice president mike pence has rejected a last ditch effort by republicans to get him to overturn president-elect joe biden's victory. the vice president asking a federal

ted cruz and josh hawley is well, people are saying there's fraud going on. or people are saying there's something nefarious happening. the reason they 'doing that is because they know there's no evidence of the claims. as rick said, i don't know if the president knows or not. i don't think he cares what the truth is, he wants to win at the end of the day. >> it's his job to know. >> and he has the access to all the information to find out. >> as we've said. as you have pointed out at many points and many different issues throughout his presidency, he has access to this information on all different fronts and chooses not to look at it. >> politico is reporting, rick, that after the georgia call the president joined another call with officials from four other battleground states the way politico puts it is to talk about allegations of voter fraud in the presidential election. i'm curious, if the president is jumping on other calls, maybe with ledgislatorlegislators, no of states, but regardless he's jumping on calls saturday with other states pushing the same

well, josh hawley and ted cruz, you participated in rendering us under.ll over this. now you don't get to step back and say, you know, joe biden, you need to, you know, make this better by doing it the way we want to do it, solve it the way we want you to solve it. that's not how this is going to work. the realities that were just outlined by joe and the rev are one thing. the other piece of this that i think is going to be very, very important is that now this country has to reconcile itself that we have this thing called domestic terrorists and we need to start calling it such and labeling it as such and identifying those individuals who participate as domestic terrorists. the kkk, white nationalists, neo-nazis, proud boys. let's go down the list and call it like they are. we sugar coat it and we whitewash it. i use that deliberately because it's about whiteness. it's about white supremacy and you don't want that stained. well, it's stained. it is stained with the blood of five dead americans. it's stained with broken glass and marked up walls in the un

see mitt romney, who's been very outspoken against these objections, sort of shooting lasers at josh hawley during that speech, from behind him. very frustrated that this happened here, at all, today. in part, because of hawley kind of coming out, at the very beginning, and saying he would raise these objections on the pennsylvania case. but you heard him say his argument. this is sort of, you know, the last, best opportunity to have this discussion but it seemed he was willing to have it here very briefly, in what's supposed to be a debate about arizona. >> yeah. thi i think so. i write it down. i'll just say a word about pennsylvania in lieu of later. which i interpreted as him saying i am going to say my piece about pennsylvania, but maybe not mount that objection that he had planned to make. let's go to chuck todd of "meet the press." chuck, you speak washington fluently, as well. how did you interpret that? >> yes. no, i caught the same thing. and it's like, okay. and again, we have been watching this. notice who's been speaking on the republican side. we've not -- you know, remember,

people going to josh hawley's house, spray paint on mitch mcconnell's door, nancy pelosi's door, and we've been tracking the escalation of the spirit look at what you have now. you have protesters the capitol building and quite an incredible act that i think, revolt is not a word that can be used year. >> dana: i want to jump in

>>> yesterday we reported on missouri senator josh hawley's voting record in the new congress. senator hawley's office reached out to let me know i overstated the senator's political career in the missouri house when he criticized others for using their jobs as stepping-stones. correcting that. hawley was not an elected official before running for attorney general and criticized others for using their be jobs as stepping-stones. >>> and what rural america needs to do to get vaccines to people who need them. inship cases, minivans. and president biden getting tough on russia in his first week in office. roll the tape how vladimir putin has gotten along with the last five presidents.

capitol, the loews hotel chain has canceled a plan fundraiser in florida for missouri senator josh hawleyex hogan live with more on that. >> close canceling this event in florida next month saying it will no longer take place at his hotel, the chain saying it is horrifying in a post-anyone who helped incite violence at the capital, clashes online with supporters thanking the chain for canceling, josh hawley's event critics calling in easy weight to alienate more customers. earlier this month hallmark asked senator hawley and senator roger marshall to get back employee donations. publishing company simon & schuster voiding a book deal with purity and big tech, holly writing this is the left looking to cancel anything that they do not approve of, i will fight to cancel culture with everything that i have. of course this is the latest so-called cancel culture example, colin kaepernick faced harsh criticism for kneeling during the national anthem and boycott nike for featuring him in a commercial or demands to avoid chick-fil-a for a history of donating to charities with anti-lgbtq stances or

you know, i am all for the scrutiny that josh hawley and ted cruz are going to get for objecting. want to write a rule on the senate. number one, all of the people that told us to vote for donald trump twice. are you sorry for what happened? when it comes to the senate, do not overlook what happened in georgia and how the entire senate establishment was in on stoking the big lie. the big lie that dan orlovsky and david perd -- kelly loeffle perdue campaigned on. kelly loeffler said she was going to object. until the second those two senators lost their races, the entire senate establishment was okay with that as a campaign tactic. he is trying to say he voted to overturn the election. but he knows the fraud allegations are a lie. trump lost 60 court cases. why can't he just admit to making a mistake. >> are you suggesting in modern politics anybody admits they had bad judgment? for him to do that would be a novel item and i agree it would would be the right thing to do. >> okay. after what happened on wednesday. yeah. go on, i'm sorry. >> yeah. everybody had a perfect chance to ge

republicans like senators josh hawley of missouri, ron johnson of wisconsin and ted cruz of texas or mo brooks of alabama, matt gaetz of florida or even elise stefanic of new york. don't assume it can't happen. because at the grassroots level, republicans continue to be radicalized. what if instead of raffensperger, someone like representative marjorie taylor greene had been in charge of counting georgia's votes? this time, the system worked. we may not be so lucky the next time around. one in oregon suggesting that the capitol attack was a false flag to embarrass donald trump. that's an official statement from a republican party. so as you say, this is far from subsiding now that donald trump left office. it seems to be getting worse. .

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group of senate democrats filed an ethics complaint calling for a probe into republican senators josh hawley how the senators objections to the electoral college votes may have contributed to inciting the violent capitol riot. yesterday hawley released a statement that called the complaint a flagrant abuse of the senate ethics process and an attempt to exact partisan revenge. >> that is so hilarious says the man who actually led an insurrection against the united states of america and tried to undermine the u.s. constitution. >> a spokesperson for ted cruz accused the democrats of playing political games by filing frivolous he ethics complaints. hawley and cruz both voted to reject electoral votes even after the violence at the capitol disrupted the counting process. not to like, you know, go into it and get angry all over again, but it's very hard to forget what happened at the capitol. it's very hard to separate ted cruz and josh hawley and president trump from what happened at the capitol. if there is anything that has happened the past four years that needs to be reconciled it's what hap

>> bret: one of the senators leading the charge, josh hawley joins us now. senator, thank you for the time. >and you hear us, senator? >> yes, i can. >> bret: got you. what's the ultimate goal? you talked a little bit differently about senator cruz has. what are you trying to overturn the election as it stands now? to keep president trump in the white house as of january 20th? >> when i'm trying to do, bret, raise concerns that my constituents have all over missouri. i've heard from people like i never heard before. over the last month about the election, they have major, major concerns about the integrity, the fairness of the election, they expect me to stand up and e those concerns. it's the only form i have to do it. this is a form the constitution and the statutes provide and they want action, an investigation into the irregularities. they want new election laws to make sure that elections are

kelly loeffler to object to georgia and missouri josh hawley for pennsylvania.chosen by nancy pelosi. one of the leading republican challengers in the house offered this argument earlier. >> this is about defending the constitution. the founders placed this ultimate authority with the united states congress. today we should do our duty because we know that five states, some of the five key states critical in this election changed their election law in an unconstitutional fashion. >> we expect mitch mcconnell to express his concerns about republicans contesting the electoral college results. among them the challenge could put senate republicans in 2022 in a tough spot. >> this is a momentous moment in history. i hope those fellow senators will realize that they don't want to be on the wrong side of history. they want to respect the american people. >> it is not entirely clear how long this process will go but there are likely to be some fireworks. sandra. >> sandra: we're told the motorcade is on the move from the white house to the rally where the president is s

josh hawley and ted cruz are united states senators. donald trump was the president. at some point how and when does the republican party or something that used to be the republican party that you were once a member of cleave itself in which jews in space sent a laser to florida to make way for high-speed rail? >> let's play it out. kevin mccarthy who is every bit as responsin as hawley are for the incitements to violence for the telling of the big lie. where is the minority leader of the house? he is in mar-a-lago with his leader donald trump pledging his loyalty? they put a woman, marjorie taylor-greene who is utterly insane. they put her on the education committee. she denies the parkland and the newtown shootings. a member of congress denies the

ousting of josh hawley, congressman scott fitzgerald and ron johnson. so i think that the spread is now like wild fire and nobody should be surprised that the democrats will jump right on this. i do want to say something about the capitol hill police because having been live on the air, we couldn't see what was inside, some let the rioters and others fought valiantly and one lost his life and we should never forget that. howie: i was talking about the planning. clarence, it was only last sunday after our show the washington post released the audio, media freakout where the president calling georgia republican secretary of state, i just need to find 11,780 votes. my question is are the media rooting for a second impeachment of the senate although senate conviction would be unlikely? clarence: the responsible media did not root anything. maybe you're talking about the

chance -- >> josh hawley says he'll join a handful of house republicans, objecting to certifying the electoral college slates. let me ask you, his colleague, republican senator ben sasse heavily criticized senator hawl hawley's decision says, o n facebook, when we talk in private i haven't heard a single congressional republican allege that the election results were fraudulent, not one. two questions for you. is senator sasse a monday on an island here, or do other republicans feel that way. what's been the reaction inside the white house to the moves by senator hawley and also the criticism by people like senator sasse? >> we've heard of a couple other senators, for example, maine's susan collins who says she'll certify the election results in favor of president-elect joe biden, cementing his victory in november. we've heard from texas senator

. >> brennan: josh hawley was on the other side of that. do you think he was complicit, along with the five other senators who continue to promulgate this lie, that there could be a change to the outcome of the election on wednesday? >> well, i only have one vote in the senate, which is my vote. i did, the day senator hawley announced he would be contesting those electoral votes, announced tht i would not be. when senator cruz said he had a plan to put back in place a commission like the one formed in 1877, i said that wouldn't happen. i wasn't interested then or now in spending a lot of time on things that can't happen. just like the impeachment of the president to remove him from office clearly is not going to happen between now and the last day he is in office. >> brennan: so you don't believe he has committed

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josh hawley and ted cruz are patriots, they saw something was wrong, they said something about it, we made our objections and t now wehi have an obligation to make sure we run clean elections in the future because it is still my belief, the people who actually showed up and voted, among the people who had identification tied to their ballot, donald trump won this election in a landslide and it is a travesty the government did not uphold that victory. now we have got to clean up this process and democrats trying to kick us out of congress certainly isn't a step intoto the right direction. >> sean: last word matt schlapp, that's up to state legislatures, isn't at? they need to get working now. >> that's exactly right. elections are governed by states and what we saw with the judges in these states is they didn't have the courage to do their job and it's now time for these republican legislatures in states like pennsylvania to stop going along with the stacey i

ultimately defeated and replaced by josh hawley and everyone is getting a sense of how he's using that power differently was discussing this in our coverage today and the hypocrisy of some of the leading republicans. >> i think they're -- many say what, me, i did that? look at kevin mccarthy, he stood in the rotunda and said to president biden and vice president harris, i'm very proud of you, really? that's weird. it seems like to me about ten minutes ago you were saying they didn't even win. >> as they say in the business, oh, snap. you are a frequent guest with us on "the beat" but you're staying up late. good it see you, sir. >> good to see you, ari. how are you? >> i mentioned some of your experience in putting on big political events and worked specifically on the conventions which have some overlap with inaugurals. first of all, what did president biden need to do today in your view and how did he do? >> well, today was an absolutely

overniutght,de senator josh hawley's home in virginia, protesters from a group called shutdown d.c. railed against hawley's plan to object to election results, going on his porch and using megaphones. >> shame on essh hawley. >>jardins: on twitter, hawley said he would not be intimidated by threats, vandalism and "left-wing violence." a group of dozens of house and senate republicans plan to challenge the results tomorrow over uron allegations of fraud largely fueled by presidp.ent tr in dalton, georgia last night he campa republican senate candidates, and more often, for overturning the election. >> this was a rigged election, but we're still fight.s >> djardins: mr. trump pinned pressure, on his vice president. >> and i hope mike pence comes through fous, i have to tell you. >> desjardins: mr. trump explained on twitter that he thinks pence has "thjepower to t fraudulently chosen electors." in reality, while the vice

senators ted cruz and josh hawley, who are really spearheading this, joe. >> monica, we're hearing not just from the president, but some of his aides are out defending this effort. what has been their line of messag messaging? >> yeah, and the vice president, most notably, is also now backing this republican effort. of course, mike pence is the one who in a ceremonial role will be presiding over this joint session of congress on wednesday, that normally would be a mere formality, but now is expected to be quite an intense political sideshow and circus, in many ways. we're also hearing, though, from the white house trade adviser, peter navarro, who made some pointedly false claims last night on fox news. take a listen. >> i would not be surprised to see a special counsel on this. and vice president pence, he has the authority to give that ten-day window to do what needs