There were two general reactions to the revelation that Josh Hawley was running
for his life.
I think the first is probably the one that maybe you experienced,
which was to laugh at him.
Let's take a look at how the actual room during the committee presentation
responded.
>> [LAUGH] >> Yeah,
Josh Hawley isn't gonna be worried politically about how he comes
out of this.
But knowing that a group of people that you have to work with and
be around are laughing at you, that's gonna hurt a little bit.
Now many people did laugh, but that wasn't everyone's reaction by the way.
I wanna go to a bit of video of Michael fanone one of the cops who was
brutally assaulted on that day.
Here's what he had to say about that video coming out.
>> Well, I mean,
to be completely honest to give you the first thoughts that popped into my mind.
Was Josh Hawley is, and he ran like you see the way that these
guys perform in public and then what they are in reality.
You get a lot of that nonsense up here on Capitol Hill with these
members of Congress that had become like a caricature in the media.
But in reality they have no character, they have no honor,
they have no integrity.
And the way they behave outside of the cameras, is very different.
>> And look, if anyone can throw those words around when it comes to Josh Hawley.
I think the guy who came very close to dying on that day,
who was brutally assaulted, gets to say.
And by the way, the attacks against Michael Fanone have not ended.
We're gonna show you another video in just a second it's up until the present day.
But Brett, what do you think about that?
>> I mean, they are who we thought they were.
All these guys are exactly who we told you they were.
But again, it's gonna be that calculus they're doing everybody's doing calculus
as to what is gonna benefit them in the end.
I think the one main takeaway is looking at people like Fanone and Fetterman.
People, if the right wing has their populist approach,
that's people in Maga hats, you need tatted up blue collar fighters to show up.
And call people like Josh Hawley, a total B word and say when I see you running,
you're gonna keep running and you're gonna run for Senate again, well,
we're gonna run you out of Senate again.
You ran up against Claire McCaskill, who was just never,
ever, once gonna fight for anything visibly.
Not gonna, post against anyone,
just gonna do their little I did a poll and I think I'm gonna be, okay.
No, where are my fighters, everyone needs a fighter and
Josh Hawley most certainly isn't one?
And you can't let him get away with pretending to be one.
>> Exactly, no more running if you did run him out of the Senate,
you might never catch him again actually.
In any event, as I said, Michael Fanone, still getting harassed.
Take a look at this experience he had outside of the Capitol building and
then there's an added little bit of fun sort of at the end.
>> Why were you there January 6th, you were not even on duty.
Why were you there January 6th Michael Fanone?
You're not even on duty right in CNN even now.
Are you a real police officer?
Are you disappointed that you're gonna make men's face years in jail?
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>> Okay, we're gonna
return to Michael Fanone for reasons that I think are abundantly clear.
Now that guy who I assume was a counter protester did
hit the protester with his pole, sort of, I don't know.
Do I watch football now, I feel like I watch football now.
>> No that's basketball, that's a flop.
That's what they call it when you're like, and you flail and
you pretend you took the charge.
My God, that never looks good for you.
Because one either you're faking,
which is obviously the case or be when you fall over a tiny bench,
you are crying like a little Josh Hawley and
flailing like a freak allegedly.
Now I wanna be very clear because hold on, Brett I assume that the sort of person who
would do that would also be extremely litigious.
So let's be very clear,
I'm not asserting anything about whether it was as bad as was depicted.
We're simply debating possibilities and I will leave it to a court of law.
I will say though even if it was a light hit and it could have been hard hit,
maybe the video didn't seem to capture, but it could have been.
Even if it's like don't hit people with pole,
like that's actually coming out of January 6th that was my advice.
Stop hitting people with poles, so if you're a Trump supporter,
stop taking Trump flags and trying to beat cops to death with them,
that would be my advice to you.
But if you're on the other side, don't poke them with poles either,
stop hitting each other America that's my advice.
>> He was just trying to get some room for the guy.
[CROSSTALK] I don't think that was an assault.
That was a guy being like, just let him go in the building and
he's just holding up his sign and the guy following him ran into the sign that's it.
Okay in my opinion, watching it, that's what I think happened.
>> The thing is, I wonder when you see a video like this is there something we're
not seeing, it's kind of a tight crop, it's dark, so like you can't tell?
>> Don't stop, you're very kind John, you're a noble dear heart and
we all love you for it however, let's be honest.
>> That seems nice of you Brett,
you thought that you were stopping me from being kind.
No, I was just going to imply that possibly what's her face?
The congresswoman was there using the strength that it took to absolutely
devastate Michael Tracy.
[LAUGH] Maybe Maxine Waters was out of frame pushing on the pole and that is how
with super Satan strength they were able to knock that guy over the bench.
That is nice of you to assume that I was being nice.
No, I was being condescending there.
>> When I say it's the psychology of the lady saying,
are you a police officer?
That is someone who, this is a theme of modern politics.
People who have nothing going on,
who could fight for real actual change in America.
Instead get their jollies more intensely by buying insane whack
job conspiracy theories and looking at the live concurrent viewership on,
whatever Facebook live Nana's using and when the view count is like eight.
That's why I call it masturbation.
They they get so she is living.
She's getting this weird perverted arousal out of confronting
a guy who almost got beaten to death on camera in front of the world.
>> Yeah. >> Like she knows you're better than
people's eyes.
>> Yeah, you're not wrong but also that woman who was like,
are you a real cop, she could be the next congresswoman.
What is the difference between her and Marjorie Greene two years?
>> And that dynamic is the road to fascism.
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