We saw what happened with this vote
and we saw your amendment go down.
We saw your all your frustration.
But Mike Johnson, so is today
the day you're going to call for the vote
seeking his ouster?
I'm actually going to let my colleagues
go home
and hear from their constituents,
because I think people
have been too obsessed
with with voting for foreign wars
and the murder industry
here in America
to actually understand
how angry Americans are
when you have the strongest,
loudest voices
in Republican
and the Republican movement
and grassroots
furious
calling for Mike Johnson to be vacated.
The people here, my
my colleagues have not heard the message.
So I'm looking forward
for them to go home On hearing,
hearing from the folks back at home.
But this is the sell
out of America today.
We had members of Congress
in there waving the Ukrainian flag
on the United States House
of Representative of the floor
while we're doing
nothing to secure our border.
I think every American in this country
should be furious.
It's who's going to vote
for these people.
How how can you vote for these people?
They don't serve our country.
Republicans deserve a vote
on a motion to vacate eventually.
I just don't think you were listening
very well.
You said your constituents.
But would you like to
I mean, given what you said,
do Republicans deserve
to be in the majority?
That's up to the
people,
because this is the third betrayal
by Mike Johnson.
He he delivered a two part omnibus,
funded the Department of Justice
91 federal indictments
against President Trump, funded the FBI.
That raided Mar a Lago,
gave him a brand new FBI building,
funded Joe Biden's open border policies
that are killing Americans
every single day.
Then he
then he reauthorized Pfizer
that spied on American citizens,
spied on President Trump's campaign,
and he voted against the warrant
requirement,
that same warrant requirement
that he was for six months ago.
And then he did this
bullshit in here on the House floor.
Foreign war package
that does nothing for America.
I it's it's it's unbelievable.
I'm thankful
that America gets to see who this man is.
I'm thankful that America gets to see
who the people that voted for this is,
because this is the only way
it's going to change.
People have to see the truth.
Why is this fight against
Russia not worth it?
Based on what you man, why is this fight
said?
Are you waiting to see
if there will be more support
in your conference
before calling a motion to make it?
There is more support. It's growing.
I've said from the beginning I'm
going to be responsible with this.
I support my majority.
I support the majority next time
I do not support Mike Johnson.
He's already a lame duck.
If we had the vote today
in our conference,
he would not be speaker today.
He's already a lame duck.
He can't raise money.
Everyone knows that.
We know we can't win
the majority next year
without raising money.
He can't be speaker.
He doesn't have the vote.
This is a process that just happened.
I'm going to talk today.
I'm going to raise this with Donald Trump
and the Russians and with it.
What are you waiting for
to drop this motion?
This was the last big legislative
push before September,
something
that you were going
against for months now.
What are you waiting for
on triggering this motion?
You know, there's some people that are
that are rash and irresponsible
and do things like what happened
last time. I'm not that person.
I didn't come here to Congress
to to actually hurt
our institution and hurt our majority.
I'm handling this the right way.
And so I'm allowing the process
to happen.
The American people
are going to have their way.
Our voters are going to make
their voices heard to my colleagues
and the party.
And like I said, the vote was held today.
Mike Johnson is a lame duck.
Are you are you
He's done.
You can talk to Trump about this.
Are you going to bring this to Trump?
Are you going to bring it up to Trump?
President Trump watches the news.
I'm sure he knows what's going on.
He says
Ukrainian Congressman,
do you think President Trump
could have been clear?
He was not very clear about the bill
regarding Ukraine funding.
Please act like it could show how and why
this might.
You really think about that?
You think President Trump
put him in here?
I think I think he's
okay.
I'm sure you're still with me, Fred.
So that was yeah.
So, look,
I mean,
there are a couple of takeaways from this
and that if we want to
move over this way a little bit
so we can reposition ourselves,
get out of the melee.
So this was
one thing where now we just learned
she's not moving forward.
The motion to vacate today,
that was important.
That means that Mike Johnson's job,
which we've been reporting,
has been on the line
because she has been leading
the charge and tried to oust him.
She can
she's not going to go ahead
with this today.
They're going back home
for a weeklong recess.
She believes Republican voters
will come after you.
Because now let's
listen to House Speaker. Johnson.
As we all know
and we saw had a disturbance
here on the House floor just a bit ago.
I just want to say simply what
I think most people around the country
understand and agree.
We should only wave one flag
on on the House floor.
And I think we know which flag that is.
I said these are not normal times.
They're not.
The world is is destabilized
and it's a tinderbox.
It's a it's a dangerous time.
Three of our primary adversaries, Russia
and Iran and China, are working together
and they're being
aggressors around the globe.
And they're a global threat
to our prosperity and our security.
Their advanced threatens
their free world,
and it demands American leadership.
If we turn our backs right now,
the consequences could be devastating.
So this afternoon, the House acted
and we sent over to the Senate,
and it will be transmitted shortly
our supplemental national
Security legislation.
And make no mistake,
this is not a blank check
like the Senate supplemental bill was.
This is very different.
Instead of taking the past
path of least resistance
and bringing up the Senate supplemental
on the House floor,
or just allowing a discharge petition
to pursue which come forward,
which would have had the same
same outcome, we gave our members
a voice.
We gave them a chance.
We gave them
a better process and
ultimately a much better
policy.
Unlike the Senate's blank check,
the House
legislation has a number
of very important features.
It provides for greater
accountability over Ukraine aid.
It forces an endgame strategy
for the Ukraine war
and includes a loan instrument
of this foreign aid to Ukraine
and the repo act
to ensure
that Russian assets
pay for part of the bill.
And unlike the Senate's bill,
the loan system itself
is a House innovation
and allows for much needed insight.
Now, remember that
80% of the Ukraine funding
will go to the replenishment
of American weapons and stocks
and our facilities and our operations.
It also includes tough measures
and sanctions
on Iran and Russia and China,
which most of the American
people understand
is a necessity
and a very important thing.
Our process, in the end
ensured that each member
was able
to consider
the individual supplemental elements
on their own merits,
which is exactly how
the House is supposed to work.
I know there are critics
of the legislation.
I understand that
it is not a perfect piece of legislation.
We're not ensured that
in a time of divided government
and in a time
where
there are lots of different opinions.
But there is no question whatsoever
that the House
has made many strong improvements
to the Senate bill.
And the product that we sent over
there is much better this package.
I will note,
because it's very important,
also includes
national security priorities
and many of them.
But it is the only way
that we could have gotten Democrats
to support aid to Israel.
And that's a fact.
There is a lot of misinformation
out there about the bill.
And I just want to make one point
about one issue
that has been drawing a lot of attention
and that is creating of this
funding go to Hamas or to
terrorist organizations or what have you.
And we put safeguards in the legislation
to ensure that UNWRA is not funded.
The UN agency
that included
terrorists who participated
in the October 7th
attack on Israel.
We've also have language
that prevents it
from doing any of the funding
going to Hamas or any other bad actors.
That's a very important element
of oversight.
Congress takes the oversight
very seriously
and we will continue
to keep an eye on every dollar
that we are using
and invest in at this time.
I've said it very simply.
I'll say it once again.
It's an old military adage,
but we would rather send bullets
to the conflict overseas
than our own boys, our troops.
And I think this is an important moment,
an important opportunity
to make that decision.
We allowed the House to do that,
and I expect the Senate
will make the same decision.
One or two questions.
What is your.
Message to those being asked
to resign, release entries about that?
And do you plan to if it's brought?
No, listen,
I as I've said
many times,
I don't walk around this building
being worried about a motion to vacate.
I have to do my job, which we did.
I've done here
what I believe to be the right thing,
and that is to allow
the House to work its will.
And as I've said,
you do the right thing
and you let the chips
fall where they may.
I will continue.
To do that.
You've made a brave the brave step,
but at the same time.
It took too long for Ukraine and maybe
too long.
Why you decided to do it right now?
Listen,
the house had a lot of important work
to do here.
We had to get the government funded
in our appropriations process.
We had to reauthorize
the Foreign Intelligence
surveillance Act.
We had a lot of important measures
that had to be done.
And we got to
this as quickly as we could.
This is an important matter.
I think it's timely.
I think you've heard from leaders
around the world,
including in Ukraine, that this is
this has been done on a timely basis
and the House
had to have the time to deliberate
and do this in the right manner.
I think we
did our work here,
and I think history will judge.
It will. Be.