The video of Sen. Josh Hawley was not shown to the committee.
The panel said that he had raised his fist to the crowd in order torile them up.
When the video of Hawley was played, the audience laughed.
A video shows attendees of Thursday's January 6 committee hearing laughing when they were shown footage of Sen. Josh Hawley fleeing the Capitol during the insurrection.
Elaine Luria, a Democrat on the committee, said that hours before fleeing, Hawley was seen raising his fist in solidarity with the protesters, and that a Capitol police officer told the panel that the gesture "riled up the crowd."
Luria said that Senator Hawley fled after the protesters invaded the Capitol. "Look for yourself"
The footage of Hawley running across a hallway and down a flight of stairs was never before seen.
—The New York Times (@nytimes) July 22, 2022
The audience laughed as the clip was played from inside the January 6 hearing room.
—Dan Przygoda (@dprzygoda) July 22, 2022
Michael Fanone, the former DC police officer who was attacked by rioters, told JC Whittington after Thursday's hearing that the first thought that came to his mind after the video played was: "Josh Hawley is a bitch." He ran really fast.
He said that the true character of the man was shown by his raised fist.
There was an eruption of laughter in the room over the video.
I don't fault people for finding it funny, but that pisses me off. The man is a clown. You can see how these guys perform in public, and then what they are actually doing.
Fanone told the network that he thought he ran like a traitor.
He said that like many people in Trump world, he performs when he is in front of a camera.
During the riot, Fanone was shot with a stun gun several times, dragged down several steps, and beaten with a flag pole, and he suffered a heart attack, according to prosecutors.
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