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Mike Johnson: “The President famously said, why don't you all just give the…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 05:43

And it was set to be an ambush about the Ukraine issue, which was not even a necessary conversation. At the end of that, the middle of it, The President famously said, why don't you all just give the speaker and I a little bit of time together? And it occurred to me they did not want that to happen. Now, we all. We all know why he's not on his A game. I don't know. (05:43–05:48)

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