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"Says Mike Johnson's a good man who's trying hard. I personally don't care if he's a good man. That's his take. I don't really care. I also wish certain things were done over the past two months."
"And a lot of us, a lot of reporters, staffers, even members, I heard a lot from, say, I don't know who Mike Johnson is. I don't know much about him. However, he's gone from this kind of obscure. No one really knows who he was. Even members of the House did not really know him personally, went from that and just catapulted to being speaker of the House."
"Mike Johnson has been speaking of the House for not very long, just several months now. He got the job accidentally. And in the time that he's had it, what have his priorities been? Well, there have been two big ones, two issues on which he's willing to call his fellow Republicans into the room and say, you have to do this. The first one is Ukraine funding, and he's done that again and again."
"What does he do? He puts out a thing saying, we'll rescue Speaker Johnson. What? Why did he do that? Because Hakeem Jeffries, the minority leader in the House, wants to be speaker."
"I asked David for speaker. Johnson's lore. So Mike Johnson grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana."
"Like, did he describe what. What his plans actually are? Yeah, Johnson came out and said he doesn't want to change the motion to vacate. He released a statement kind of towards the latter part of yesterday after this rumor had already kind of gone around Capitol Hill twice. He says that there is importance in the idea of perhaps changing the House rules, but they are going to govern under their existing rules, pretty much saying he didn't want to change this rule, at least right now."
"It's part of his career to live forever, which he believes may happen in our lifetime. Seems a little spooky, but also interesting. And we're doing this interview because one of our smartest friends suggested it. You gotta talk to this guy, Brian Johnson. He's genuinely interesting, and he seems to be."
"These are all the things that Brian Johnson is going through. So here we are, this week's guest, Brian Johnson. Mr. Don't die."
"I truly is. He's a very genuine, he's good hearted person with good ideas, but he doesn't know how to fight, you know? So Speaker Johnson. Yeah, Speaker Johnson, you know, he's just, he's a good human. You know, like, if Kevin was very transactional, he bought power and money."
"Mike Johnson, of course, is now no longer just an anonymous backbench member of Congress. He's now the leader. He's now the republican speaker of the House. Page 32 of her book, Liz Cheney describes communications with senior republican staffers on Capitol Hill about the court filing that Mike Johnson in fact led as part of Trump's election challenge, concluding that he might personally have ethical issues as a lawyer, as in with his professional accreditation for having made factual assertions to the court in that brief about things he didn't actually have factual information about. As you know, lots of Trump lawyers have faced professional punishment for lies they told on Trump's behalf after the election."
"That's what Brian Johnson is doing with this business. He's doing everything else, I think actually just cuz because he's a dork and he enjoys the shit. Then it just so happened that he got famous and now he's like, yeah, that's pretty cool. Okay, fine, I'll do that. Know, and I dig that."
"And so after a few months of this, Johnson becomes familiar with him, right? He's like, okay, I know this guy is. He's obviously smart. I'll spend some time with him. But he was also complaining."
"Um, and he puts up amazing numbers. So he has been so at sir Johnson. Come on down. Cause I need. Yeah, he's our."
"He was spending campaign funds on onlyfans and Botox. Yeah, I know. I don't was. Here's what I don't like is this is who we're talking about when there's really serious problems. It's interesting because Mike Johnson, they didn't fall in line behind him."
"Senator, you give me a little bit of hope because I've been wondering about Speaker Johnson. You're saying now that he's cut out of this in the Senate, and that might mean that he's actually a good guy. Yeah. It appears to me that Speaker Johnson, who I met with this morning, has not been in the loop on this at all. It appears to me also that Speaker Johnson knows that this has no realistic hope of going anywhere in the House."
"Oh, a battle beyond the stars. Yes. Yeah, we talked about him in that. Yeah. Somewhere around the house here, I've got a magnet, like a fridge magnet that's got Robert Vaughn on it looking like Polly walnuts from the Sopranos, and he's wearing a suit and he's saying this, whatever, Johnson and Johnson will fight for you."