U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley made U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland cry at a committee hearing.
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No, U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley didn’t make U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland cry in committee hearing
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- Video footage from this Senate Judiciary Committee hearing shows that U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., didn’t make U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland cry.
On March 1, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee during a hearing about oversight of the Justice Department.
Among the committee members to question Garland was Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., who — in his own words — "grilled" Garland. But he didn’t make him cry, as a recent Facebook post claims.
"WATCH: Josh Hawley makes Garland CRIES loud at hearing with SH0.CKING reveal over ‘Trump’s r.aid," reads an oddly punctuated and grammatically incorrect March 6 Facebook post caption.
A video clip of the hearing in the Facebook post is wrongly labeled "March 5, 2023."
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In the original video, which interested viewers can watch in full on C-SPAN’s website, Garland neither weeps nor shouts, depending on your interpretation of the word "cry."
Rather, Hawley asks Garland about a March 1 Washington Post article that described months of disputes between FBI agents and prosecutors over how to best recover classified documents from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.
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Early in the clip in the Facebook post, Hawley’s time to speak expires, and the attorney general is then questioned by Sens. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.
Neither of these senators made Garland cry, either.
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Facebook post, March 6, 2023
Josh Hawley, Hawley Grills Garland for DOJ Attacks on People of Faith, Mar-a-Lago Raid, March 1, 2023
The Washington Post, Showdown before the raid: FBI agents and prosecutors argued over Trump, March 1, 2023
C-SPAN, Justice Department Oversight Hearing, March 1, 2023
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