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Mike Johnson: “It's the first time in history that a president's address to…”

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 17:26

And I was at Al Green, Representative Al Green, and he wasn't stopping. You took him in. I had to. You had to. There's a time to every purpose under heaven. Okay. It's the first time in history that a president's address to Congress has been interrupted and that we shouldn't. We can't tolerate that. We can't allow it. So I was concerned that a number of our Democrat colleagues had planned similar protests. So I had to throw the book at him. (17:26–17:34)

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Asserts that a president's address to Congress was interrupted for the first time in history.

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