Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) sat down with Fox News’s Sean Hannity to discuss the mass shootings in Maine, same-sex marriage and President Biden.
House Speaker Rep. Mike Johnson speaks to reporters after a meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Capitol Hill on Thursday. House Speaker Mike Johnson gave his first national television interview since winning the speaker’s gavel, sitting down for an hour with Fox News’s Sean Hannity.
Johnson opened his interview by offering condolences to the victims of the mass shooting Wednesday night in Lewiston, Maine, which“The end of the day, it’s — the problem is the human heart,” Johnson said. “It’s not guns, it’s not the weapons. At the end of the day, we have to protect the right of the citizens to protect themselves and that’s the Second Amendment, and that’s why our party stands so strongly for that.
Later, Johnson seemed to criticize the fact that “five justices on the Supreme Court changed” the definition of marriage — a clip that was thenThough Johnson has recently voted against additional aid for Ukraine, in his interview he suggested he would be open to sending more funding to the Eastern European country as it continues fending off a Russian invasion — as long as it was in a separate package from aid to Israel.
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