Watch Josh Hawley Fall Flat On His Face As He Questions DHS Secretary

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) kept trying to enactment words successful the Homeland Security Secretary’s mouth, and helium failed.

Josh Hawley tried to propulsion a mendacious narrative.

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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) tried truthful hard to enactment words into DHS Secretary Mayorkas's rima astir the borderline but was changeable down, "Senator, we are not finished successful the execution of our plan. I ne'er suggested otherwise." pic.twitter.com/3DzDYDVcFp

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Hawley said, “I don’t mean to interrupt you. Our clip is truthful limited. I privation to beryllium definite that I understand, 200,000 border encounters implicit 2 straight months, a grounds successful decades for over decades, and you’re telling me this is success? Are you blessed with what’s happening astatine the borderline now?”

Sec. Mayorkas, “Senator, arsenic I said past and I accidental now, we person a plan. We’re executing connected our program and we volition proceed to bash so. “

Hawley kept trying, “But you conscionable testified it is working. I’m trying to understand. Is this success? Are you telling maine that this is successful?”

Mayorkas corrected Hawley,  “Senator, we are not finished in the execution of our plan. I ne'er suggested otherwise. We proceed to bash the enactment that we are required to bash to secure our border. That is an ongoing process and indeed we are executing it. “

Hawley was evidently not listening, “Are you blessed with your progress?”

Mayorkas wrapped him up, “Senator, we request to bash better and we request to bash more and we are committed to doing so and we are doing so.”

The Senate proceeding was astir homeland information threats, but Josh Hawley was trying to propulsion a communicative astir the Biden medication not taking the issues astatine the borderline seriously, and helium wholly failed.

It is hard to judge that Hawley thinks of himself arsenic idiosyncratic who is susceptible of winning the presidency erstwhile helium can’t successfully propulsion a connection astatine a Senate hearing.