Senator Josh Hawley

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Morning Wire · Inside the UFC Terror Plot & The Iran Deal's 60-Day Clock | 6.19.26 · 19 Jun 2026 podcast

I think it's probably a violation of their labor contracts.

And for a sport that gets billions of dollars in handouts effectively from the federal government because they're exempt from the federal antitrust laws, I think it is a gross abuse of power and they ought to explain themselves.

Well, number one, they need to knock it off.

I mean, they need to quit persecuting these players.

They need to apologize to these players and they need to stop it.

Number two, they need to respond to me and tell the country why it is they think they have grounds to do this.

I wanna see all of the rules that have governed all of their political messaging for the last six years, where they've been forcing players to adopt and espouse explicitly political messages.

I wanna know all of the rules that have governed that.

I wanna know what the rules are now that they say prevent Bible verses, for heaven's sake, from being quoted.

And I want to know why they think that they can use their federal antitrust exemption in this way.

And I can tell you, if I don't get answers, and if the commissioner goes forward with disciplining so-called and fining these players, I'm going to ask him to come to Congress, take an oath, and explain himself to the country.

Well, it seems like they're particularly bad about targeting people of faith.

This isn't the only team that has done this.

The Washington Nationals got caught excluding a Catholic player

for being too Catholic, for being too Christian, deliberately excluding him from promotional materials.

I mean, this seems to be a problem at the management level in baseball.

I say again, it probably violates the labor contract they have with the players.

I think it certainly violates the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and they need to quit it.

They need to quit using the power that the federal government has effectively given them.

in order to persecute people of faith, who, by the way, make up, I would suspect, most of their fan base.

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