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Mike Johnson: “I came to Congress in 2017. I was elected in 2016, which is…”

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

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Inside Washington with Speaker Mike Johnson and Pastor Greg Laurie

Published | Video Starts at 03:46

Everybody started calling me, you need to run for Congress. I said, I just got to the state legislature. But so I came to Congress in 2017. I was elected in 2016, which is the same year that President Trump came to Washington. And it's been a pretty wild ride for the last eight years. Yes. And you actually communicate with the President quite a bit, don't you? All the time, yes. (03:46–03:52)

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