Call them up.
We call them up he didn't want it.
>> And we didn't deliver it.
>> But did you give an offer without vetting it?
>> We got handed an envelope that was post the vice President.
I didn't know.
So we called out the vice president, he didn't want it.
We didn't deliver it.
It's such a non story.
>> Are you gonna ask.
>> That is Senator Ron Johnson who recently came under scrutiny just on
Tuesday after the January 6th committee revealed text messages between his chief
staff, Sean Riley and former Mike Pence assistant Chris Hodgson.
Shortly before storming the US capitol Riley told Hodgson that
the senator before this storm, he didn't personally do it.
That the senator had an alternate slate of electors to personally deliver to
Mike Pence.
But Hodgson told him do not give that to the former vice president.
So this gets into the idea that the actual electors which are the only real electors,
there's no such thing as alternate electors.
They're just random people that the republicans know would somehow say no
Trump won the election.
Ron Johnson is now implicated in that thanks to his Chief of staff.
And so he is running from those questions that right there saying it's just
a non story.
It gets even more embarrassing than that.
Take a look at who he tries to pin the blame on for this entire thing.
>> Do you remember who gave it to you?
>> Who have no it was a staff staff deal.
I mean, apparently had Michigan and Wisconsin, I had no hand in Navan again.
This lasted a couple of minutes in our office, and the episode is over.
And this guy is a total non story.
>> Are you gonna ask your aid about who this person was?
>> We did know literally don't it was a staff to staff somebody from the house.
Some staff intern.
He said we got the Vice President needs this or whatever, you know?
And I wasn't involved.
I don't know what they said, but
somebody from the house delivered to a staff member in my office.
My chief of staff called the Vice President,
hey we got this and the Vice President said don't deliver.
We didn't know.
>> Are you kinda curious about the identity of this person.
Are you curious about the identity of the person you wanna ask about?
>> No, because there's no conspiracy here.
This is a complete non story guys.
Complete non story.
It's a total partisan witch hunt.
And yeah, I was not involved in this at all, you know?
So I don't know why you're even asking the questions.
I was just leave me alone.
And we have no idea.
>> But it was your Chief of Staff who sent this information of
[INAUDIBLE] >> No,
it was my Chief of staff that contact.
He just came from the White House first day on the job.
He called up somebody, he knew in the White in the Vice President's staff.
Hey, we got this, and the Vice President don't deliver tests and we didn't.
>> And does he know who he got this from?
>> The only thing better and less suspicious than one excuse for
something is like 1000.
Okay, why are you talking?
It was an intern, it was an intern for me or for them, I don't know.
Or my Chief of staff or maybe it was their Chief of Staff or
maybe Mike Pence asked for it,
even though it's clear that he wasn't interested in being involved in this.
Also my Chief of Staff just came.
It was his first day.
He hadn't even unpacked his bags.
The sun was in my eyes.
And why are you talking to me?
I didn't have anything to do with this.
JR, it is very embarrassing to try to pin all of this on some intern,
that the intern came up with the scheme to give the alternate electors.
But it is more embarrassing to pretend that you're going to throw an intern
scapegoat under the bus.
But then like when they say, well, so
are you at least gonna identify who this person is?
That is implicating you in a terrible scandal.
They're making you look terrible.
Obviously you would wanna know who they are.
No, I'm not interested in any of that.
It's total non story.
Why are you talking to me go away and he tries to walk even faster.
That is a US Senator right there.
>> Ron Johnson is generally a powerful politician.
He sits on the department of Homeland Security Committee.
And he wants us to believe that there's so many holes in the security system when it
comes to packages and deliveries being sent around from interns to your staff
members to your chief of staff to even you knowing about it.
He wants everyone to believe that he has no part in it.
And for people who wanna believe that there's one more question,
why does he have no part in it?
What else does he have no part in?
Who's running this office?
What are these rogue staff members?
An intern has access to take some fake slate of electors and
had him to the Vice President of the entire United States of America and
hope that he flips this election for that.
Those two particular states based off the information of fake electors that
he gave to him.
>> Yeah. >> This new intern who just
started that day.
Wow, man, this is some serious on the job responsibilities that they give to
their interns as soon as they walk in, they can just flip entire elections.
This is weird how this works.
You know what, if nothing else, this guy is super incompetent.
If we're gonna believe his bs stories and he says no idea what's happen.
>> I look, sometimes I know that the algorithm doesn't incentivize this.
Sometimes I like to leave the most embarrassing part for last.
So you just said that he was incompetent anybody out there.
You want some proof of that.
So trying to walk away really fast and coming up with a bunch of excuses.
Trying to matrix this thing is very embarrassing, but
not quite as embarrassing as one other tactic he tried to use to get out of
answering questions which you'll see right here.
>> The staff was doing with the alternate slates of abductors.
No, you're not, I can see your phone, I can see your screen.
>> Senator can you explain what your [INAUDIBLE] doing?
Does your chief of staff to work for you Senator?
>> Can you explain what happened there?
Why was your chief of staff even offering this to the vice president?
>> So that's hilarious that he was trying to pretend to be on the phone.
But to be clear the reporter caught him.
But the reporter actually didn't have a super solid case.
The reporter said, I can look at your screen, it's not on.
That's true.
But sometimes the screen will automatically turn off while you're on
a call because it's so close to your face, you wouldn't see it anyway.
So he could have implied that the reporter was wrong.
But he made one crucial mistake.
Do you know what it was?
Generally when you end a call you say something, you fool.
He could have been like by that be it.
Instead he just, that's not how calls end.
>> He couldn't do it because obviously he wasn't talking to anyone.
But throughout the whole time, even when he said I'm gonna call,
he wasn't saying anything even if he wants to buy, no one was saying anything.
This was not a conversation.
When you listen to voice messages, what's going on, but
you have to then press a button.
None of that happened, the whole time he was walking and he said,
I can see your phone.
Again he didn't think of course my phone is always dark because he's in a panic, so
he couldn't dispute it.
It was a bit of a, I guess it was a leap for
that reporter to point that out because again, he could have easily debunked that.
But no, he was actually lying.
It's pretty obvious, it's hilarious.
This guy is, it's not a mess.
>> Sometimes you don't want to answer questions or whatever and
you need a strategy to get out of it.
I think for him this was a bad call [LAUGH] As like a reporter,
I don't wanna get like hung up on this story.
But you need something better than just talk, pretend to talk,
come up with something.
He is the worst improv performer ever.
>> Not a smart guy.
>> No, when they're sending him, they're not sending their best or
their most creative or their wittiest.
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