{"id":1567160,"date":"2022-07-22T22:49:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T02:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1567160"},"modified":"2022-07-22T22:49:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T02:49:26","slug":"exclusive-sen-josh-hawley-responds-to-jan-6-criticism-i-dont-regret-anything-i-did-that-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-sen-josh-hawley-responds-to-jan-6-criticism-i-dont-regret-anything-i-did-that-day\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Josh Hawley Responds to Jan. 6 Criticism: \u2018I Don\u2019t Regret Anything I Did That Day\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-sen-josh-hawley-responds-to-jan-6-criticism-i-dont-regret-anything-i-did-that-day%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1567160&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Sen Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said he does not regret anything he did on Jan. 6, 2021, in response to criticism he has received from politicians and media on the political left for persisting with his plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mkt_morningbrief\/sen-kelly-loeffler-other-gop-lawmakers-drop-plans-to-object-after-us-capitol-protest_3647120.html\">challenge the electoral votes<\/a> during the Senate session on that day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I did was stand up for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-election-integrity\">election integrity<\/a>, and also for the voters of my state,\u201d Hawley said on Epoch TV\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/c-crossroads\">Crossroads<\/a>\u201d program on July 22. \u201cI think leading a debate on the floor of the Senate about election integrity is what the Senate is there for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign paid an operative with ties to Russia to lie to the FBI and to obtain a warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to surveil the Trump campaign and his associates, Hawley explained, noting that the Democrats \u201chave pioneered this\u201d and that Clinton, \u201cto this day, says that the election was stolen from her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But when people inquire and press for answers regarding the 2020 election, Hawley noted, they are labeled \u201ca threat to democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople\u2019s confidence in our elections is absolutely vital to a free and open, well-functioning democracy,\u201d Hawley said, adding that he objected\u00a0to Pennsylvania\u2019s Electoral College results in January 2021 because Pennsylvania changed the rules of the election during the election. \u201cThat\u2019s wrong, and I hope it never happens again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hawley said that he does not regret that he filed his objection to the certification of electoral votes and participated in the debate on election integrity when he returned to Capitol on Jan. 6 after its evacuation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of the people, the overwhelming majority of folks who went to Washington, D.C., and even [those] who were near the Capitol grounds, were there peacefully, Hawley said. \u201cI don\u2019t regret at all saluting the folks who were<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said he does not regret anything he did on Jan. 6, 2021, in response to criticism he has received from politicians and media on the political left for persisting with his plans to challenge the electoral votes during the Senate session on that day. \u201cWhat I did was stand up for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":540,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1567160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/540"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1567160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1567160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1567160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1567160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}