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Mike Johnson: “A country that undermines its own foundations and founding…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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House Leadership, Angel Families, and Law Enforcement Applaud Passage of Secure America Act

Published | Video Starts at 28:16

I don't need to recount all the developments Even over the last week for the people in this room, because you cover it minute by minute. But that is the contest that is shaping up. And so we're very sober minded about this. A country that undermines its own foundations and founding principles does not survive. And the founders were very articulate also in their personal letters and their private correspondence and the things they gave down, the advice they gave that echoes down through the generations to you and me as stewards of this grand experiment. (28:16–28:22)

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Asserts that a country cannot survive if it undermines its foundational principles.

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