This isn't the first time that Sen. Josh Hawley has unloaded on Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas, and mistook him for a political football to kick around. The Homeland Security Secretary was asked about Nejwa Ali from the DHS, who was hired in 2019. She has expressed pro-Hamas sentiments online, including writing, "F*ck Israel." She was hired in 2019 under the Trump administration, though.

Mayorkas explained that the woman had been placed on leave but said anything beyond that was part of an "ongoing personnel matter," and he couldn't discuss it.

"Frankly, Mr. Secretary, I think that your performance is despicable," the pro-insurrectionist Missouri Senator said. "And I think the fact that you are not willing to provide answers to this committee is absolutely atrocious."

"Mr. Chairman, may I?" Mayorkas asked.

"Like, if you'd like to have a minute to respond, you are welcome to," the chairman said.

"I would, and I'm not sure I'll limit it to 60 seconds," Mayorkas said.

Then all hell broke loose.

"Number one, what I found despicable is the implication that this language, tremendously odious, actually could be emblematic of the sentiments of the 260,000 men and women of the Department of Homeland Security," Mayorkas said.

"Number two, Senator Hawley takes an adversarial approach to me in this question," he continued. "And perhaps he doesn't know my own background."

"Perhaps he does not know that I am the child of a Holocaust survivor," he said. "Perhaps he does not know that my mother lost almost all her family at the hands of the Nazis. And so I find his adversarial tone to be entirely misplaced."

"I find it to be disrespectful of me and my heritage," he added. "And I do not expect an apology, but I did want to say what I just articulated."

Hawley asked to respond, but it was not allowed. Frankly, I'm impressed that Hawley didn't run out of the room. He's good at that, at least.