Senator Josh Hawley also had to flee.
Earlier that afternoon before the joint session started,
he walked across the east front of the capitol.
As you can see in this photo, he raised his fist
in solidarity with the protesters already amassing at the security gates.
We spoke with the capitol police officer who was out there at the time.
She told us that Senator Hawley's jester riled up the crowd.
Later that day, Senator Hawley fled after those protesters he helped to rile up,
storm the capitol.
See for yourself.
>> That is Josh Hawley just trying to keep up with the crowd is he flees
the inevitable unavoidable consequence of supporting the increase of
political violence in America.
It's No!
It's coming for you.
You could have never seen this coming.
So there he was being a big alpha, a big brave guy running away.
And as soon as that video came out around the country, around the world,
everybody had a nice hearty chuckle about it.
It turns out though it wasn't just us watching outside of the capitol.
Inside the capitol they found it pretty funny as well.
Take a look.
>> [LAUGH]
>> It's objectively funny and we need that in America in 2022.
Now it's not stripped off context, funny.
He's terrified for his life and he should be terrified for his life.
A mob of murderous, insane people are storming the building.
What makes it funny of course, is the fist and all the comments afterward.
He's a tough guy.
He's on their side.
He's a regular.
God, no.
And look, he doesn't seem to care about this.
We're gonna get to his response earlier today, being mocked across the internet.
He's at least implying that it hasn't really affected him.
But I don't know Jake was calling this an instant classic in our last segment.
And I really hope that this sticks to him
as much as the photo of Ted Cruz phone baking sticks to Ted Cruz.
There's certain things like that that they never should get out of your brain.
>> Yeah, so Jamie Raskin was asked about this.
And they said, well, it's CNN by the way, not Fox News.
Is it is fair to Josh Hawley to have run this tape?
Was it really necessary?
It depress is hilarious.
They're the only ones who defend lying politicians.
You're supposed to challenge them.
The only time that they challenge a politician is they're asking
Representative Raskin, were you being too mean to Senator Hawley?
And I love Raskin's response he was something to be effective.
I do it every time.
>> [LAUGH] >> So, attaboy, is a progressively strong.
So and there's a good reason, substantive reason to do it.
Which is that, look, to me, there's two layers to it.
I know that the democrats only intended one layer, okay, at most.
The first layer is almost all politicians are liars.
It's all optics, okay?
So the story that I love the most is Fred Thompson.
He was a literal actor and then he ran for
Senate in Tennessee as a Republican and one.
And he had this gimmick.
He had this red pickup truck that he would do for campaign stops.
And all the press covered, Fred Thompson when he goes back to Tennessee,
he might be a Hollywood actor, but he gets in that red pickup truck.
Then I read a story afterwards, that it turns out and
of course it was from a progressive outlet.
He, Fred Thompson would drive a limo to the red pickup truck,
use it on the campaign stops and then drive a limo back to his house.
Of course he wouldn't drive it.
Somebody else would drive him in the limo.
Why did the press go along with the optics of the red pickup truck?
Why didn't they all write, this guy's an obvious goddamn liar,
driving to the pickup truck in a limo.
Isn't that an interesting story?
Of course, it's a funny story.
It's an interesting story.
Makes her a good headline.
No, we love lying politicians.
We're gonna protect them at all costs, right?
So that's why they never tell you what's behind the curtain.
All they ever show you is Josh Hawley [INAUDIBLE] so strong, right?
And then they never show you in private, right?
But that's what a politician is, 98% of them.
They're loser servants of a donor class.
I mean, they're all constitutionally weak, not just the democrats.
Because look at what Trump did due to the republicans.
He created a beta bus filled with betas of like trouble, do anything [INAUDIBLE].
Are your boots cleaning up?
Are they cleaning up? Why?
Because they were already trained by the donors.
I give you money and then you do as you're told bitch.
And then the politicians like, yes sir, absolutely sir.
Josh Hawley is pretending to be a populist.
You think he doesn't lick to his donors boots?
[LAUGH] of course he does.
That's why he's like this in public and in the [INAUDIBLE], okay?
Now that's the layer the democrats did not intend because that also implicates them.
The layer I think in a good day, they did intend,
is that, so you guys all pretend to be mega.
You all pretend to be with the Trump supporters in public.
But, and right now you're saying Trump didn't do anything wrong.
These writers didn't do anything wrong.
They were just tourists, man.
They're just stopping by and you got too.
We're gonna go shopping and now you all, you're patriots, right?
But what did you actually think of them?
You were so scared, you ran for your life.
That's the real Josh Hawley.
>> Yeah, he's a total fraud.
I've talked a lot elsewhere about how he's just the worst example of a hollow
populist who can speak to the rhetoric, but does nothing to follow through on it.
And unfortunately he's duped a lot of people,
including some on the left into thinking, this guy understands class issues.
No, he's a fraud through and through.
Also I got to remind you,
he wrote a book about how we have a masculinity problem in this country.
>> [LAUGH] he did.
>> He's a big, we need to increase our masculinity in America guy.
So that did add another layer to this that I found really hilarious.
Because for people in that school of thought, and
I'm not saying I agree with this, but they think that traits like fear and
cowardice are inherently feminine values.
Where you need to exhibit courage and strength and bravery and fearlessness.
And things that just generally are not healthy to be taken on unilaterally
without any sort of balance.
And here you have a perfect example of who he actually is.
So he's just running one grift after another.
Whether it's his populism, whether it's his masculinity BS,
the guy is just a total fraud and this was just perfect example of that.
One thing though,
it had nothing to do with what they were talking about last night.
>> [LAUGH] >> The whole focus last night was [LAUGH]
Trump's inaction.
And then all of a sudden they're like, hey, by the way, check out this clip.
And I think that was just to take a swipe at him because he was selling much of that
fist bump even into this year.
He, I think he tried to sell it, he posted a link today.
But I think it was really just kind of a middle finger to him because he was
one of the worst offenders in trying to hype this up.
>> Yeah I would honestly love to see a little mash up of you do the surveillance
shot of all of them, cowering when the door is about to be breached.
You identify an individual and
then you show what he has said about the ride ever since.
And then you go to the next because they're all strong as soon as
they're not worried that they're gonna be torn limb from limb.
I'm gonna get ready to go ahead to graphic 2.
Because I just wanna mention one other thing,
I mentioned this on the damage before but I just, I think it's, it bugs me so much.
Do sure let's go to that.
So he's been revealed to be an an absolute hypocrite obviously.
He was terrified of being killed.
He has been revealed, tough, strong guy.
God no, little kissy face.
I've been outed as a liar and a hypocrite.
And he gets to just do a kissy face and then move on.
And I don't know maybe this is him attempting to post through it.
Maybe this is him realizing that the right isn't gonna care at all, I don't know.
But it makes me think about when AOC was talking about her fears from January 6.
When she was terrified that she was going to be murdered or
raped by these insane people who have been trained by Fox News on a daily basis for
literally years to hate and fear her while at the same time lusting after her.
And you see that in all of their commentators on the right.
When she talked about that, the entire right wing media sphere went insane.
How dare she lie making herself a victim, pretending that she was scared?
They mock her to this day over that.
Nancy Mace was doing that too.
But for Josh Hawley, he's literally on tape running for his life and he gets to
just put it up an emoji and then he goes back to being a good strong conservative.
The double standard there is amazing.
>> Yeah, I'm gonna give the last word to the members here.
Madam Rochelle says,
if I ever need an exercise regimen I just imagine Josh Hawley running.
If he can do it so can I.
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Be part of the show or hit the join button below on YouTube.
I am [INAUDIBLE].
This is Liz Cheney's shooting someone in the face moment.
>> [LAUGH] >> Okay, it's so true right?
And I realized even before I read that comment, but
I love doing the show with the members.
I know why they did that thing to Josh Hawley.
And Liz Cheney earlier said in last night, Kevin McCarthy was scared, right?
That jumped out at me because democrats would never say that, right?
And I was like, Liz Cheney and
progressive Jamie Raskin, no wonder the committee is strong, right?
If it was Pelosi and Biden running it, the entire time they'd be like, I'm so
sorry, Donald Trump we have to do this [LAUGH].
>> [LAUGH] >> So
the January 6th hearings has been wonderfully strong.
Including in releasing this.
Whether it was pertinent to last night or not.
And I'll leave you with this because we can't show it because of
copyright reasons.
But you should spend a good 30 minutes watching Josh Hawley in that
clip with different songs put to it.
Okay, chariots of fire was immediate.
One that jumped out of everybody, but there's a lot of other songs.
>> I saw Kate Bush running up that hill.
>> Yeah >> That was good.
I think he's gonna get out of that dream.
>> Yeah, rocky [SOUND].
>> [LAUGH] >> [LAUGH]
okay, I don't make me say it [LAUGH].
>> Wouldn't it be amazing though if how Mighty Ducks will come out and then kids
get into hockey or karate kid comes out and kids want to do martial arts.
What if this actually leads to people getting into more cardio?
He should actually license this.
Make some money off an app.
A Cuda 5K over the course of a couple of weeks, it gets you in shape.
I think that would be a good thing for America.
>> I like it, I'm gonna adopt it from now on.
I'm gonna tell my wife when I'm going out for a jog, I'm just going out for
a quick Hawley, I'll be right back.
>> [LAUGH] >> [LAUGH]
>> Don't get mad at us center,
we're Just joshing around.
>> By the way, I don't give a damn if you get mad at us [LAUGH] I've had it all.
>> What is he gonna do?
Come at us, we raise 150 cowards, God.
>> [LAUGH] >> Anyway-
>> What is it, you'll away from us?
>> I don't know. I almost feel a little bit bad just
because he probably, like everyone else has laughed at Ted Cruz this whole time.
And now he's Ted Cruz.
>> That's awesome.
Are you kidding me?
I love it. They're all Ted Cruz.