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Mike Johnson: “We just need five Democrats in the Senate to join and do the…”

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

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Speaker Johnson Joins Squawk Box on CNBC

Published | Video Starts at 15:17

As soon as that's over, you think that there is an impetus or a way to kind of break this by next week? I think you've got at least We just need five Democrats in the Senate to join and do the right thing with the majority of the Senate that's already there to reopen the government. And then we will have all these debates and I can't wait to have all these debates with all these folks on all these issues. That's the way the system works. (15:17–15:26)

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Asserts that five Democrats joining the majority in the Senate could reopen the government.

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