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Speaker Johnson and House Republican leaders hold their weekly press briefing.
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00:00Hang out with the speaker, Mr. Speaker.
00:04Take your Gabe to work.
00:10We're in a good mood this morning.
00:11So good morning, everyone.
00:14Let me just start with the mayor of Los Angeles and the governor of California
00:19actually messed around and found out.
00:23They messed around with the lives of Americans
00:26when they made their sanctuary cities safe for illegals.
00:32And they messed around when they also allowed violent protesters
00:36to attack law enforcement agents.
00:40Now they're finding out the hard way what it looks like to actually restore law and order.
00:48President Trump will not let the extreme and violent protesters tear our country apart.
00:57Burning cars, attacking police officers while wearing masks and waving other countries' flags.
01:05This will not be tolerated.
01:08To the Democrats calling these peaceful protests, shame on you.
01:14Do these look like peaceful protests to you?
01:17Looks like a place where you'd send your child, maybe Sunday school?
01:21Is there anyone in this room that can tell me this is what a peaceful protest looks like?
01:28Come on.
01:29We need to start correcting the truth with the other half of the truth
01:33and making the Democrats own.
01:36This is a peaceful protest.
01:39Please.
01:40The Democrats are the ones responsible for this violence and lawlessness.
01:45Democrats have demonized law enforcement agents and ICE agents for years.
01:53They have enabled this unacceptable behavior.
01:58Remember, the Democrats are the ones that demanded that we defund the police.
02:04Well, ladies and gentlemen, this is what you get when you defund the police.
02:07They are the ones who want to abolish ICE.
02:13Well, guess what?
02:15ICE is the one that protects us for, in the Democrats' eyes, these peaceful protests.
02:20ICE agents protect law-abiding American citizens.
02:27Gangs are a threat to our communities.
02:29ICE agents are on the front lines detaining and deporting violent, illegal aliens.
02:36Many of whom, may I remind you, are sex offenders, murderers, human traffickers, and gang members.
02:46But are we really surprised that these are who the Democrats defend?
02:52Of course not.
02:53Democrats continue to defend an alleged human smuggler calling him just a man from Maryland.
03:01But just like the left wants you to believe that this is a typical weekend in Los Angeles.
03:08Nothing to see here, right?
03:10Kind of makes you think for a moment.
03:14Isn't it ironic, think about this, that those protesting the deportations of violent, illegal aliens are actually using violence too?
03:28Kind of interesting, isn't it?
03:29It's almost like they support it.
03:32They burn and spit on the American flag while waving flags of other countries.
03:38Well, if they hate America so much, they are free to leave.
03:45But enough is enough.
03:47The riots in Los Angeles this weekend underscore the need for the Senate to pass the one big, beautiful bill.
03:55ICE needs our help.
03:57They need more resources to deport and detain violent, illegal aliens.
04:04And now I want to turn it over to a gentleman from Colorado who knows this too well, Mr. Gabe Evans.
04:13I'll move the box.
04:15Well, thank you, Chairwoman.
04:21Thank you, Speaker, for grabbing the box there.
04:23Gabe Evans, Colorado's 8th Congressional District.
04:26And I'm here today because of my resolution that passed the House yesterday with broad bipartisan support condemning the anti-Semitic, firebombing, terrorist attack that occurred in Boulder, Colorado, which is about 20 miles away from my house where I live.
04:42I'm here today because 15 people and a dog were burned by an individual with known jihadi-leaning affiliations who is illegally present in the United States and who was denied a firearm purchase when he tried to buy a gun in November of last year.
05:00And so, of course, the very first thing in this situation is our thoughts and our condolences, of course, go out to the victims and to the Jewish community that are suffering from this rising anti-Semitism.
05:13But more than that, we have to ask ourselves, why?
05:17Why is this happening?
05:18Thoughts and condolences aren't enough.
05:20And for me, that's personally very meaningful because of my background.
05:24I spent 12 years in the U.S. Army.
05:26I deployed overseas to a combat zone as part of the global war on terror when my oldest son was five months old.
05:33I didn't get back until he was 18 months old.
05:36I missed every first.
05:38First steps, first words, first Christmas, first birthday.
05:41Then I served another 10 years in law enforcement with the city of Arvada, which is a major suburb just to the west of Denver, immediately south of Boulder, Colorado.
05:50I've responded as both a National Guardsman and as a police officer to previous tragedies in Boulder, Colorado.
05:58And so for me to now wake up on June 1st and see this tragic event that's happened, of course, thoughts and condolences.
06:06But we have to do more.
06:07We have to ask the question, why does this continue to happen?
06:12We've already gone over the facts of the case here.
06:14An illegal, an individually legally present in the United States overstayed two separate visas with known public statements prior to his admission into the United States,
06:26sympathizing with an organization with jihadist-leaning tendencies at a time of heightened anti-Semitism,
06:33goes and he tries to buy a gun last November, is denied, and that doesn't pop up on anyone's radar?
06:40There's no ability to intervene or inaddict or at least figure out what's going on here, put this to a little bit more scrutiny?
06:47As a cop and a soldier for 22 years, I know that we should be doing that.
06:51That was literally the point of the 9-11 Commission after the September 11th terrorist attacks,
06:57which says that to be able to identify and intervene before terrorism occurs in the United States,
07:03federal, state, and local law enforcement need to be able to share information.
07:08We need to have all of the pieces of the puzzle together.
07:11And when some of those reside with local law enforcement, state officials, and federal authorities,
07:15if they cannot share that information, then we're trying to put together a puzzle without all of the pieces,
07:22and that makes it difficult to be able to identify and intervene before these attacks happen.
07:28And unfortunately, in my Colorado, which is a sanctuary state that prohibits, at times,
07:34state and local law enforcement from being able to work with federal authorities,
07:37I can't help but wonder if this attack might have been prevented had the Colorado Bureau of Investigation,
07:44which is who does the background checks for firearm purchases in Colorado,
07:47had they been able to flag that for one of the multiple different entities that have been set up
07:52to share that information and prevent something like this from happening.
07:57So that is the point of the resolution that I brought last night,
08:00which, I would remind everyone, passed with broad bipartisan support.
08:05It's been said that this is politicizing a tragedy.
08:09Blatantly false.
08:10This is a tragedy that occurred because of failed politics.
08:14And so thoughts and condolences are important, but they are not enough.
08:18And so the same way I did for 22 years in the military and law enforcement,
08:21seeking solutions, elevating the conversations that make our communities safe,
08:27that is the point of the resolution last night.
08:29And to be personally attacked by the minority leader of the other party for elevating that conversation
08:35when 75 of his own members stood with me, that is the politicization of a tragedy.
08:43And so from the bottom of my heart to the Jewish community, we stand with you.
08:48From the bottom of my heart to Americans and to Coloradans who right now are suffering
08:53from the second most dangerous state in the country, we are focused on solutions
08:58to prevent things like this from happening again.
09:02And to my Democrat colleagues, including Representative Neguse,
09:06who stood with me and voted for this resolution last night, thank you.
09:11Thank you for helping to elevate this conversation that is focused on solutions
09:17to make sure that we keep our communities safe and that we in no uncertain terms condemn
09:23anti-Semitic attacks and that we thank the law enforcement officials who are working so tirelessly
09:30to keep us safe from all of the bad folks that are out there and that do have malicious intent
09:36to cause harm to Americans, to Coloradans, and unfortunately to the Jewish community.
09:40Thank you so much.
09:41Thank you, Gabe.
09:49There's a theme this morning.
09:51Rocks thrown at law enforcement.
09:54Cars and American flags set on fire.
09:56Fireworks thrown into the streets.
09:59Foreign flags waving proudly above our own.
10:02We are witnessing mayhem, chaos, and disorder in the streets of Los Angeles.
10:08All because the Trump administration is enforcing federal immigration law and protecting Californians
10:15where the previous administration and their local leaders have repeatedly failed.
10:20The violence against ICE officers can also clearly be attributed to the delusional, inflammatory rhetoric
10:27spawned by the left.
10:29Timmy Walls, who recently called immigration authorities, quote, the modern-day Gestapo.
10:41With taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal aliens and inflammatory rhetoric for law enforcement,
10:47Walls has turned my home state of Minnesota into a sanctuary state.
10:52And this week, he's going to answer to Congress for his failures.
10:56As Walls testifies before the House Oversight Committee on Thursday,
11:00House Republicans are working to mitigate the disastrous consequences of mass illegal immigration
11:06and the policies of people like Tim Walls who encourage it.
11:11We need to support our ICE agents and law enforcement officers on the ground with the tools they need
11:19to carry out their vital mission.
11:22That is why we must get the one big, beautiful bill across the finish line.
11:27Our bill includes funding for 10,000 more ICE officers and HSI criminal investigators
11:33to protect our communities and at least 1 million deportations of illegal aliens annually.
11:40The time is now to restore law and order, enforce our nation's immigration laws,
11:45and hold leaders who are not leading that refuse to lead, I should say, to do so and be accountable.
11:53With that, I turn it over to our leader.
11:59Thank you, Whip.
12:01And anybody who watched these just inflammatory scenes roll out in Los Angeles over the weekend
12:09and see one more example why we need to pass the one big, beautiful bill
12:13and why we need to get it to President Trump's desk as soon as possible.
12:18One of the many great provisions in this bill that we came together to pass through the House
12:22are provisions that allow our ICE agents and our Border Patrol agents to get more resources,
12:29to get more support, hiring more Border Patrol agents and more ICE agents.
12:34Frankly, it's one of the reasons that every single Democrat voted no on the bill
12:38because they want open borders.
12:40They want the chaos and the mayhem that comes with sanctuary cities and sanctuary states
12:46that we've been standing up against.
12:47They had the opportunity to join us, and they deliberately chose to vote no
12:53because they want higher taxes, they want open borders,
12:57they want to close off our energy resources, all the things that were in that bill.
13:02And so we're going to continue moving forward.
13:04The Senate is doing their work now, and I'm confident the Senate is going to move through quickly
13:09to get that bill through the Senate, ultimately back to the House for any minor changes,
13:14and then to the President's desk so that we can hire those additional Border Patrol agents,
13:20hire those additional ICE agents to keep Americans safe.
13:24And by the way, if you're a citizen of the state of California,
13:27while your governor is failing you miserably, at least we have a President in Donald Trump
13:32who is willing to say that he will step up and try to protect those same people,
13:38law-abiding people who are sick and tired of the lawlessness.
13:41They are disgusted by a foreign flag being waved in an American city
13:47and their governor defending the people that are actually burning down the city,
13:52trying to call it a peaceful protest.
13:54Don't insult the intelligency of the American people.
13:57They see what's happening. They know why it's happening.
14:00The far-left Democrat Party wants open borders.
14:04There was an election run on this.
14:06The American people said enough is enough.
14:08We want secure borders, and that's why they sent Donald Trump and a Republican House and Senate to Washington.
14:14And we're going to keep fighting for those families who are sick and tired of what they're seeing in cities like Los Angeles
14:20and other lawless cities in America.
14:24So we're going to deliver on our promise.
14:26One more really positive thing that came out just a few days ago, the White House's Office of Management and Budget did their assessment on the House's version of the one big, beautiful bill
14:35and confirmed what we knew, that with the economic growth you'll get, with the job creation, the increased wages for families,
14:44we will end up seeing about a trillion and a half dollar reduction in the national deficit over the next 10 years.
14:52Trillion and a half dollar reduction.
14:54Because of the growth we'll get from this bill, because workers will have more money in their pockets when the government doesn't have a $4.5 trillion tax increase
15:03that every Democrat voted to impose upon them.
15:07Waiters and waitresses at all of your local restaurants will have more money in their pockets because of no taxes on tips.
15:13Your blue-collar workers who go to work and sometimes have the opportunity to work overtime and maybe wonder if they should do it because of all the taxes that they'll end up paying
15:23on that overtime to be away from their family will no longer have to worry about paying taxes on overtime.
15:31And that's going to spur investment.
15:32It's going to spur more job creation and it's going to spur more money in the pockets of those blue-collar workers.
15:39So that's going to be another really big important aspect.
15:43So that OMB report coming out really underscores one more reason why this bill is so important to the people of the United States.
15:50And then, of course, this week we're taking up the rescissions package.
15:54Thursday we will vote on that.
15:56We've been answering questions from our members.
15:58But our members are ready to go lock in some of those DOGE cuts.
16:01DOGE identified waste, fraud, and abuse in so many areas of the federal government.
16:06This is a start.
16:07It's a good start.
16:08It's an important first step, and we're going to take it on Thursday.
16:12With that, our leader who is getting us through all of these challenges, making it look easy, Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson.
16:23Thank you, Leader Scalise and this great team.
16:25Thanks to Gabe Evans for his leadership and helping out this week and taking care of business in Colorado.
16:32It's really an interesting time in America and in American politics.
16:35Republicans are governing well, and we are delivering on our promises, and we are bringing solutions, and we're working around the clock every day to make sure that that is delivered for the people as we promised them last year on the campaign trail.
16:47Meanwhile, Democrats are engaging in the applause of destruction of cities and all sorts of chaos.
16:53The contrast is so clear, and everybody can see it, and we had all the Republicans gathered together for our weekly meeting here just in the last hour, and we showed them poll after poll after poll that confirms what we all know intuitively.
17:06The American people see who is doing the job, and they are losing their tolerance for the nonsense by the Democratic Party, and you can't make this stuff up.
17:15We talked a lot this morning about what's happening in Los Angeles because it is such a great exhibit to show what is happening.
17:22A picture is worth 10,000 words, of course.
17:24You know, while the rioters have been burning police cars and looting storefronts and physically assaulting law enforcement officers, it's important to remember how we got to this point, to this level of chaos, because this didn't happen overnight.
17:37Four quick points to make us all remember.
17:39You know, we're in a busy news cycle, and people sometimes forget the facts, but the Biden administration welcomed maybe as many as 20 million illegal aliens across that border and into our country in a four-year period.
17:52Sanctuary states like California rolled out the welcome mat.
17:56They embraced it.
17:57They offered aliens protection from federal law enforcement.
18:01Think of it.
18:01They're on the wrong side of the law, and they provided them with health care and housing and taxpayer-funded benefits.
18:06It's truly almost unbelievable, incredible, what these Democrat leaders of these cities and states have done.
18:12President Trump delivered on an ironclad mandate from the American people, and just as we said throughout the entire Biden administration disaster,
18:20the law always allowed the president to stop it, and President Trump did it with bold, visionary leadership.
18:26He stopped the invasion of our country, and he engaged in the largest mass deportation effort in U.S. history.
18:32We're in the midst of that right now.
18:34Rioters acting on the words of politicians like AOC and Hakeem Jeffries are trying to stop this effort by burning storefronts and endangering the lives of patriotic law enforcement officers.
18:47The contrast could not be any more clear.
18:50Time and time again, innocent, hardworking Americans have been harmed by the failed leadership of Democrat governors like Gavin Newsom.
18:57President Trump was absolutely right to send in the National Guard and to clean up for the governor's failures.
19:03You know, Gavin Newsom's been in this effort for the last several months to try to reinvent himself, to rebrand himself, okay?
19:08It's pretty difficult to do when your state is a safe haven to violent, criminal, illegal aliens, and you're the one at the helm.
19:18You can't hide this stuff.
19:20The president of the United States has a responsibility to maintain law and order, particularly when the lives and livelihoods of federal law enforcement officers are threatened.
19:27What we're doing there with the federal forces is we are protecting federal buildings and property and personnel, and the president is showing strong leadership in doing so.
19:38Because, you know, it's those men and women, the federal law enforcement officers, who deserve our support right now.
19:43And the one big, beautiful bill, by the way, as Leader Scalise noted, delivers much-needed reinforcements.
19:47In this bill, we have funding to hire a minimum of 10,000 new ICE agents.
19:54We're going to provide a $10,000 bonus to Border Patrol and ICE agents on the front lines.
20:00We're going to include $45 billion to expand ICE detention capacity and $14.4 billion for air and ground transport to carry out at least 1 million deportations every single year.
20:11We'll have to do that for quite some time because they let so many people in.
20:14And we're starting with the dangerous illegal aliens, and that is exactly who the rioters and the politicians in California are trying to protect, and it's incredible.
20:24While Republicans are supporting the men and women of ICE through the one big, beautiful bill, Democrats are fighting for those illegal aliens and against law enforcement agents.
20:32They're defending the violent anti-ICE protesters in L.A.
20:35They visited a violent MS-13 gang member and human trafficker in El Salvador.
20:40They charged an ICE facility and clashed with ICE officers.
20:44That was members of the House of Representatives doing that.
20:48They're advocating for people to dox ICE agents and making them targets for threats from radicals.
20:54And they're calling for the elimination of ICE.
20:57Don't forget what ICE stands for.
20:59People get caught up in the acronyms or lost in the acronyms.
21:01The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, okay, it is to enforce federal law.
21:08It is to enforce a secure border, and the Democrats want to defund that.
21:13Just let that settle on you a bit.
21:16They're even trying to hide it.
21:17And they're not even trying to hide it, okay?
21:18They're openly advocating for illegals instead of American citizens.
21:22I don't know.
21:22We could talk about this all morning, and we have.
21:24Let me move on.
21:25With regard to the business in the House this week, the House will vote to approve the White House's request to claw back $9.4 billion in wasteful spending.
21:33$8.3 billion of that is wasteful foreign aid with all the atrocities that Doge uncovered in USAID.
21:40And $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
21:43That's PBS NPR.
21:45These are common sense cuts, and I think every member of this body should support it.
21:48It's a critical step in restoring fiscal sanity and beginning to turn the tides of removing fraud, waste, and abuse from our government.
21:56Have you checked the public opinion polls?
21:57That's what the American people want, and they demand and deserve.
22:00And we're going to do it.
22:02I read some of the greatest hits last week out of this, but I just want to list a few more examples, okay?
22:06Last week he gave you some of the real high-level, high-number amounts.
22:09But these are lower dollars, but they matter.
22:11Listen to this, $33,000 we're going to cut, that was being used for, quote, being LGBT in the Caribbean.
22:19No kidding.
22:19American taxpayers are funding that.
22:21$8,000 for promoting vegan food in Zambia.
22:25$67,000 for feeding insect powder to kids in Madagascar.
22:31You'll notice these aren't particularly expensive examples of wasteful spending,
22:34but compared to these other massive categories of government bloat,
22:38but I list those because it's an illustration here.
22:41Every dollar matters.
22:43We are serious about this.
22:44The Republican Party is doing everything we can to be careful stewards of the precious treasure of the people.
22:51The Democrats want to waste it and send it to their NGO pet projects and just all this crazy stuff.
22:57We're not going to fund our transgender operas in Peru anymore.
23:00Once we found that out, we had a responsibility to go stop it, and we will.
23:05This rescission package is a critical step, and it's one of many.
23:08There will be several of these that will come from the White House and work together with the administration to cut out all the fraud, waste, and abuse.
23:15We're fighting a multi-front war against the deficit.
23:18Don't get lost in this, okay?
23:19This is a multi-step process.
23:21I've tried to explain on all the interviews I've done over the last couple of weeks.
23:25The one big, beautiful bill is going to reduce spending by over $1.6 trillion, as has been noted this morning.
23:31The rescission package will rescind $9.4 billion in wasteful spending, the first of many of those.
23:37The annual appropriations process will allow Republicans to further codify doge cuts and spend less money and be careful stewards of each dime.
23:46And the revenues found from the President's tariff agenda will also reduce the deficit by $2.8 trillion over 10 years.
23:51This is real money, and we're going to turn that aircraft carrier.
23:54You don't turn it on a dime.
23:55You've all heard me say you can't make deficits and debt that's pure overnight, but we're at it, and we're going to continue this step-by-step process to get our fiscal house in order and do right by the taxpayers.
24:07We're chipping away at it every day, and the rescission's vote on Thursday is an important signal.
24:11House Republicans are serious about getting our fiscal house in order, and we'll do that.
24:15All right, let me take a few questions.
24:16Front row.
24:16Speaker Johnson, the President said possibly in jest that if he were Tom Homan, he would arrest Gavin Newsom.
24:22Do you believe that Newsom should face consequences in a legal way?
24:28Look, that's not my lane.
24:29I'm not going to give you legal analysis on whether Gavin Newsom should be arrested, but he ought to be tarred and feathered, I'll say that.
24:35I mean, look, he's standing in the way of the administration and the carrying out of federal law, right?
24:42He is applauding the bad guys and standing in the way of the good guys.
24:47He is trying to – he's a participant, an accomplice in our federal law enforcement agents being not just disrespected but assaulted.
24:56This is a serious problem, and the governor is now filing a lawsuit against the president.
25:01What a joke.
25:01Do your job, man.
25:02That's what I tell Gavin Newsom.
25:04Do your job.
25:04Stop working on your rebranding and be a governor.
25:08Stand up for the rule of law.
25:09He's not doing that.
25:10So I don't know what the ultimate measure will be there, but I know that in the interim time, the president of the United States is showing real leadership, and we're not going to allow L.A. to burn.
25:19We've seen this movie before, right?
25:20This thing gets out of hand real quickly, especially in a big city like that, and if local and state officials are unwilling or unable to do their job, the president of the United States will do his, and we support that fully.
25:31Yes, ma'am, in the middle.
25:32What is the administration's response to the next president, Sean Baum's refusal to condemn the riots in L.A., and does this affect President Trump's relationship with Sean Baum?
25:42I don't know.
25:42You have to ask the White House that.
25:44I mean, I've got to handle our affairs over here.
25:46Yes, ma'am.
25:47Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
25:48What is your reaction to Congresswoman Maxine Waters repeatedly saying that there has been no violence in the L.A. riots, and do you believe that different laws are making them safe by not talking about what's really going on?
26:02Clearly, the Democrats are making a mistake by taking the wrong side here, and I'm just going to, in my southern gentlemanly way, say bless her heart to Maxine Waters.
26:11I don't even know how to comment on Maxine Waters anymore.
26:14It's madness.
26:15I'm going to be charitable and leave it right there.
26:17Yes, sir.
26:18Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
26:19So new reporting suggests that no tax on tips and no tax on overtime could be scaled back from the one big beautiful bill if they aren't viewed as pro-pro.
26:26Have you talked to some senators that are skeptical of that, like Senator Johnson?
26:30And you said before that there isn't a plan B, but if that does come back to the House without these provisions, is it time to go back to the drawing board?
26:38Well, look, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime are big promises the President made to the people, and we all echoed that on the campaign trail.
26:44I've talked to my good friend, Senator Ron Johnson, multiple times, most recently, I think it was last night or the night before last, it was on Sunday, because he was on some shows and I was on some shows and we were comparing notes.
26:58And I told him, look, we all agree with our Senate colleagues who believe we need to cut more and more government waste, fraud, abuse, obviously.
27:06But I told him, reminded him of the reality of the delicate balance we have in the House and the fact that we have a very broad caucus and we have, you know, get 170 additional personalities to deal with than they do in the Senate.
27:17And it takes a while to meet this equilibrium point.
27:20So, look, I think the promise on no tax on tips, no tax on overtime is very important to the President.
27:25It's very important to hardworking Americans.
27:26What we're so proud of, of our reconciliation bill, is that it is truly geared and written for middle and lower class earning Americans, hardworking Americans who are trying to feed their families and make ends meet.
27:40They are the ones that are going to benefit from this bill.
27:43The Republican Party is the party of the working class, and we are demonstrating that with our legislation.
27:47And no tax on tips, no tax on overtime.
27:49For some people, they may not think that's a big thing.
27:52But for hardworking folks, a lot of them, millions and millions of Americans, that is a big thing to them.
27:58And I think it's an important promise for us to keep.
28:00Last question.
28:01Good, Mr. Speaker.
28:02Switching gears a bit.
28:03The thing that happens a lot, it's going to be marked up in the Judiciary Committee.
28:09Can you bring it to the floor and the importance for the Republican Party and the leadership of bringing this to it?
28:14Yeah, look, it's a big commitment of ours.
28:17I applaud Chairman Jim Jordan and the Judiciary.
28:19He always does a great job handling that.
28:21It's a big priority.
28:22We have to protect free speech.
28:25We've got to protect what are actual peaceful protests.
28:30And we've got to stand for our core principles.
28:32I think all that's wrapped up in that legislation, and I expect it will go well.
28:35And I expect it will pass it through the House when it comes through commitment.
28:38So one last question.
28:39Just going back to the other president.
28:41Yes.
28:41Is there a red line for congressional elections running because of the use of the executive party to save the voting?
28:48Is there a situation, say, if he built the inspection act that would correct the federal law enforcement to arrest Republicans that would make Congress step in?
28:58Look, I'm not going to engage in hypotheticals, but I've said very clearly.
29:02I was sitting next to the president of the White House yesterday when some of these questions were asked.
29:05He is fully within his authority right now to do what he is doing, and we have to maintain order.
29:12It's the number one job.
29:13Think of it, Bill.
29:13The number one job of government is to protect the citizenry from foreign threats and domestic threats.
29:19And federal law enforcement is doing their job.
29:21Those are the heroes, and we've got to protect them.
29:25And federal employees as well.
29:26And federal buildings and property, we're not going to let violent criminals destroy the property of U.S. taxpayers.
29:33President Trump has put his hand on the table and said, not on my watch, and we applaud that.
29:39So we're standing with him.
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