The editorial board of the Kansas City Star deemed Sen. Josh Hawley to be a national laughingstock and suggested that he fears what his emails and texts reveal about the 1/6 attack. "We realize Hawley’s conscience won’t make him suddenly do the right thing and tell the Jan. 6 committee what he knew and when he knew it. But as GOP Rep. Liz Cheney said Thursday while announcing more public hearings to come: “Doors have opened, new subpoenas have been issued, and the dam has begun to break. … We have considerably more to do.” The 1/6 Committee has attracted a larger audience and penetrated deeper into the national discourse than Republicans could have feared. With one brief segment of a hearing, the Committee turned Josh Hawley into a joke and more importantly exposed him as a fraud whose talk about masculinity is political branding that he hoped to ride to the White House.