HAWLEY JUST SPOKE ON THE SENATE FLOOR, HE IS THE LEADING SENATOR IN THE ELECTION RESULT.
>> THIS IS THE APPROPRIATE PLACE FOR THESE CONCERNS TO BE RAISED WHICH IS WHY HAVE RAISED THEM HERE TODAY AND I HOPE THAT THIS BODY WILL NOT MISS THE OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE AFFIRMATIVE
ACTION TO ADDRESS THE CONCERNS OF SO MANY MILLIONS OF AMERICANS.
LARA: LARA: MICHEAL MAHONEY JOINS US LIVE AND MICHAEL, JOSH HAWLEY SPOKE PRIMARILY OF PENNSYLVANIA HAVING A PROBLEM WITH THE PROCEDURE THERE, WHAT A NIGHT.
MICHAE WHAT A DAY, IN FACT 30 SECONDS AGO THE FIRST OF THE CHALLENGES WAS BROUGHT UP FOR A ROLLCALL CALL IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE AND JOSH HAWLEY HAS EXPECTED -- IS EXPECTED TO
SUPPORT THAT OBJECTION AND THAT WILL GO DOWN TO DEFEAT, BUT HE DID VOTE IN SUPPORT OF IT.
MISSOURI SENATOR ROY BLUNT DID NOT, WE WERE WAITING ON THE ROLLCALL TO GET TO ROGER MARSHALL AND JERRY MORAN FROM KANSAS, BUT JOSH HAWLEY WAS THE VERY FIRST SENATOR TO COME OUT
AND JOIN A NUMBER OF HOUSE REPUBLICANS IN RAISING A FORMAL OBJECTION TO ACCEPTING THE CERTIFICATION OF JOE BIDEN’S ELECTORAL COLLEGE VICTORY.
THAT IS WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT TODAY WHEN IT STARTED AT NOON CENTRAL TIME IN KANSAS CITY AND WAS INTERRUPTED BY THE CHAOS IN SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE HAVE JUST NOT SEEN SINCE LITERALLY THE
BRITISH INVADED WASHINGTON.
EVEN AT THE HEIGHT OF THE VIETNAM WAR WHEN THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE PROTESTING IN WASHINGTON AND SOME OF THEM VERY AGGRESSIVE, VERY VIOLENT PROTESTS, THERE WAS
NEVER AN ASSAULT ON THE CAPITAL LIKE THE ONE THAT WAS SEEN TODAY.
THIS IS THE DATE IT WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY AND SOME FOLKS ARE BRENT -- BLAMING JOSH HAWLEY AND OTHER OBJECTORS AND IN PARTICULAR, PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR INSTIGATING THE PROBLEMS BECAUSE
THEY ENCOURAGE THEM TO COME AND ENCOURAGED THEM TO MAKE A SHOW.
LARA: YOU SAY THAT WE HAVE NOT SEEN THIS IN OUR LIFETIME AND IT MAKES METHINK OF KANSAS SENATOR ROGER MARSHALL, NEWLY ELECTED TAKING OVER FOR PAT ROBERTS WHO SPENT DECADES AND DECADES IN
WASHINGTON AND HE, TOO, STOOD UP TONIGHT AND WAS STILL IN OBJECTION OF CERTIFYING THE ELECTION.
MICHAEL: IN FACT WE SAW A PREVIEW OF HIS SPEECH TO THE OTHER DAY WHEN I TALK TO HIM ABOUT THIS, AS YOU KNOW, HE IS A MEDICAL DOCTOR AND HE COMPARED THE SITUATION WITH THE
IRREGULARITIES AND ALLEGATIONS THAT HAVE NOT BEEN PROVEN BUT THE ONES I HAVE BEEN SPOKEN ABOUT AND HE SAID IT WAS A LOT LIKE TRYING TO TREAT A VERY SICK PATIENT THAT HE WOULD HAVE AND
THAT YOU HAD TO ASSESS THE SITUATION, HE HAD TO LOOK FOR SYMPTOMS AND DIAGNOSE AND TREAT THE PROBLEMS.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT ROGER MARSHALL SAID TODAY WAS THERE OUGHT TO BE AN ELECTORAL REVIEW COMMISSION TO LOOK AT THE IRREGULARITIES THAT SOME PEOPLE CLAIM IN THIS.
HERE IS PART OF HIS REMARKS DURING THAT DEBATE EARLIER THIS EVENING.
>> VIOLENCE AND MOB RULE WITH -- WHICH OCCURRED AT THE CAPITOL AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY THE PAST YEAR ARE UNACCEPTABLE AND I CONDEMN THEM AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL.
LIKE ALL OF US I AM THANKFUL FOR THE HEROIC LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS WHO WORKED FEVERISHLY TO RESTORE ORDERS THAT WE GET BACK TO THE ELECTORAL CERTIFICATION PROCESS.
MICHAEL: THAT IS WHAT HE IS ADVOCATING, IT WILL NOT HAPPEN AND CERTAINLY NOT BETWEEN NOW AND TWO WEEKS FROM NOW WHEN JOE BIDEN IS INAUGURATED.
THERE IS THIS CALL FOR SOME SORT O ELECTORAL REVIEW, IT IS NOT GOING ANYWHERE IN THE SESSIONS AND DEBATES TONIGHT AND NOW WITH A DEMOCRATIC SENATE AS WELL AS A DEMOCRATIC HOUSE, IT PROBABLY
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