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Mike Johnson: “Everybody understood the context of that conversation. It…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 01:58

And so he is one that's highly respected in that room. And even when you disagree with some of the play calls, they can't dispute anything he said. And look, Everybody understood the context of that conversation. It was obviously supposed to be off the record because we're in the skiff and it was highly classified. But there were a lot of things said back and forth that you should not, you should not be running with as headlines as if it's some sort of new U.S. policy. (01:58–02:06)

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Asserts that the conversation in the Gang of Eight meeting was off the record and highly classified.

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