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Mike Johnson: “Charlie was about current policy, current squabbles, current…”

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

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Speaker Johnson Joins the KEEL Am Morning Show with Mike & McCarty

Published | Video Starts at 10:00

And he was trying to reach these young men. He was. And he did it as well as anyone ever has because he knew how to speak directly to that. And you know, look, Charlie was about current policy, current squabbles, current debates. But more than that, he was about the permanent things. And that's another distinction I've been trying to make with everybody. We get wrapped around the axle on these temporal issues, but as the apostle Paul said in the New Testament, we focus on the eternal, not the temporal. (10:00–10:08)

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Asserts that Charlie Kirk focused on both current policy issues and more enduring principles.

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