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Mike Johnson: “The president has the existing authority under federal law…”

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Face the Nation full interview

Published January 7, 2024 | Video Starts at 01:41

These are policy choices that created this chaos, and it is thus policy choices that could change it. And that's what policy choices do you think need to be changed? Well, it's actually pretty simple. I mean, The president has the existing authority under federal law to stem the flow here. I mean, if you instituted, reinstituted the remain in Mexico policy, for example, it was estimated by the people who were in charge here that that would stem the flow by maybe 70%. (01:41–01:47)

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“It's like more than $1.5 billion a year.”
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“If you instituted, reinstituted the remain in Mexico policy, for example, it was estimated by the people who were in charge here that that…”
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Face the Nation full interview | Uploaded January 7, 2024 | 01:46-01:57
“On his first day in office, President Biden came in and issued executive orders that began this chaos.”
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Face the Nation full interview | Uploaded January 7, 2024 | 02:01-02:07
“He [President Zelensky] could get the additional funding as late as February.”
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Face the Nation full interview | Uploaded January 7, 2024 | 02:38-18:52
“He [Joe Biden] lied about it, the American people, at least 16 times on record, his understanding or involvement in all these things.”
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Face the Nation full interview | Uploaded January 7, 2024 | 02:38-27:51
“Remember, the number is over 7 million illegal encounters at the border just since President Biden took office.”
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Face the Nation full interview | Uploaded January 7, 2024 | 03:49-03:57
“Almost 2 million known gotaways.”
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Face the Nation full interview | Uploaded January 7, 2024 | 03:56-03:59
“Over 300 people on the terrorist watch list that have been apprehended.”
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Face the Nation full interview | Uploaded January 7, 2024 | 04:04-04:09
“They estimate that 60 to 70% of the people who have come across are single adult males.”
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Face the Nation full interview | Uploaded January 7, 2024 | 05:47-05:53
“We've been asking Alexander, Secretary Mayorkas since he took office to enforce the law, to do his job, and he's done exactly the opposite.”
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Face the Nation full interview | Uploaded January 7, 2024 | 06:23-06:32
“I believe he [President Biden] has been an abject failure as the commander in chief of our country.”
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Face the Nation full interview | Uploaded January 7, 2024 | 07:02-24:48
“Secretary Mayorkas is not a good faith negotiating partner. He is unwilling to enforce existing federal law.”
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Face the Nation full interview | Uploaded January 7, 2024 | 07:29-07:35
“He's lied to Congress repeatedly. He's lied to me personally under oath.”
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Face the Nation full interview | Uploaded January 7, 2024 | 07:37-07:43
“He stood in front of my committee on multiple occasions and insisted that the border is closed and secure when everyone in America knows…”
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Face the Nation full interview | Uploaded January 7, 2024 | 07:42-07:51
“Secretary Mayorkas has been to the border. He's talked to the same officials that we have. He knows that this border is not secure.”
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Face the Nation full interview | Uploaded January 7, 2024 | 08:05-08:11
“It's an impossible situation that's been created by the secretary of their department.”
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Face the Nation full interview | Uploaded January 7, 2024 | 08:21-08:27
“Insisting upon the provisions of HR2, which is our legislation that we passed more than seven months ago.”
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Face the Nation full interview | Uploaded January 7, 2024 | 08:53-08:59
“Provisions of HR2 include reforming that broken parole system, reforming the broken asylum process.”
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Face the Nation full interview | Uploaded January 7, 2024 | 09:21-09:29
“If you don't end catch and release as a policy, if you don't reinstitute, remain in Mexico, if you only fix asylum or parole and not these…”
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Face the Nation full interview | Uploaded January 7, 2024 | 09:48-09:59
“Throwing more money at the broken system will not do that all.”
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Face the Nation full interview | Uploaded January 7, 2024 | 10:32-10:36
“Border Patrol needs the necessary resources to do its job, but they can't do the job that they're hired to do unless you change the policy…”
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“If you don't have a border, which effectively we do not have right now, you don't have sovereignty as a country.”
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Face the Nation full interview | Uploaded January 7, 2024 | 15:17-15:23
“I've always said Vladimir Putin needed to be defeated.”
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Face the Nation full interview | Uploaded January 7, 2024 | 16:57-17:00
“I voted against one of the tranches of Ukraine spending to send a message to the White House.”
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“The White House has not been forthcoming with those answers [regarding Ukraine strategy].”
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“We must secure the US Border before we secure anyone else's.”
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Face the Nation full interview | Uploaded January 7, 2024 | 19:15-19:19
“I think he [Donald Trump] will be the nominee, and I think he's going to win the election and be the next president of the United States.”
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“The Constitution was clearly violated in the 2020 election. It's Article 2, Section 1.”
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Face the Nation full interview | Uploaded January 7, 2024 | 21:43-21:49
“Many states changed their election laws in ways that violated that plain language [of the Constitution].”
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Face the Nation full interview | Uploaded January 7, 2024 | 24:01-24:09
“What happened in many states by changing the election laws without ratification by the state legislatures is a violation of the…”
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Face the Nation full interview | Uploaded January 7, 2024 | 24:01-24:09
“The White House has suddenly refused to turn over documents that have been requested.”
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Face the Nation full interview | Uploaded January 7, 2024 | 26:24-26:29
“You have more than $20 million that has been moved to the Biden family through many of their shell companies and LLCs.”
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Face the Nation full interview | Uploaded January 7, 2024 | 27:19-27:28
“A lot of that money came from foreign adversaries, including China and Russia and Kazakhstan.”
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Face the Nation full interview | Uploaded January 7, 2024 | 27:29-27:35
“Joe Biden discussed Hunter Biden's business dealings at least 22 times with his associates from these foreign countries.”
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“Congress has a responsibility to find the fire if it exists, and that's what they're doing right now, very carefully.”
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