| For Immediate Release July 21, 2024 Contact: Taylor Haulsee WASHINGTON — This morning, Speaker Johnson joined State of the Union on CNN and This Week on ABC News to discuss the Democrat Party’s anti-democratic effort to remove President Biden from the ballot and the forthcoming bipartisan House task force investigation into the security failures that led to the attempted assassination of President Trump. Click here to watch Speaker Johnson’s full interview on CNN Click here to watch Speaker Johnson’s full interview on ABC Below are excerpts from the interview: On the bipartisan investigation into Secret Service failures (CNN): We’ll be laying out the details of the task force tomorrow, Monday, when we return to the Hill. Right now, I’m heartened and thankful that our committees of jurisdiction have already begun to work. Director Cheatle will comply with the subpoena she has said and show up tomorrow in our House Oversight Committee. Rep. Jamie Comer will be leading that inquiry, and I think that will be must-see-TV. She’s got a lot to answer for. And these concerns are bipartisan Jake, I mean, the Democrats are just as concerned as the Republicans are about this because the agency is not a partisan agency. The fact that they have denied and now been forced to admit, as you noted, to deny that they didn’t give additional resources at the request of the Trump campaign, is something that to us is just beyond the pale. On top Democrats attempting to remove Biden from the ticket (CNN): Every state has their own election system. That’s our constitutional system, that’s the way it’s done. And in some of these states, it’s a real hurdle. They have a real problem of replacing the nominee at the top of the ticket. Remember Jake, I mean, Joe Biden was chosen after a long, ‘small d’ democratic process by 14 million people emerging through that primary. It’ll be very interesting to see if the so-called ‘Party of Democracy’, the Democrats, go into a back room somewhere and switch it out and put someone else at the top of the ticket. I mean, I think they’ve got legal hurdles in some of these states. And it’ll be litigated, I would expect, on the ground there. On DEI and criticism of Director Cheatle (CNN): I think the response that you’ve seen was to a video that has been circulated, widely circulated on the internet and elsewhere, where Director Cheatle said her top priority would be to diversify the workforce in Secret Service. No, ma’am, that is not your top priority. We want the most capable officers regardless of gender. Their job is protection, not diversity. And I think that that was such a frustrating thing for people to see, especially in light of the lapses that took place apparently last weekend. So that’s the backlash. There’s a lot of frustration. And Jake, it’s not just Republicans, it’s people across the board who just don’t understand why these basic tasks could not be taken. Remember, Director Cheatle also said the reason no one was on that roof that day was because the slant of the roof, and she was worried about the health and safety of her agents. I mean, that makes no sense to us whatsoever. I’ve got my own security detail through the Capitol Police. Those guys would go on a roof that was at a 90-degree angle. You know, I don’t understand what her responses are initially. They don’t make sense to people, and she has a lot to answer for. On a potential Kamala Harris Presidency (ABC): Many of my colleagues on Capitol Hill, Democrats who are friends and colleagues, have lots of handwringing over this right now. They don’t know what to do and they don’t have a viable plan B. Many of them don’t believe that Kamala Harris is a viable candidate at the top either and they’re running out of time. So it’ll be interesting to see what happens. From our perspective, Martha, it doesn’t matter who they put at the top of the ticket. If Kamala is the nominee, so be it. She is the co-author and the co-owner of the policies of the Biden Administration, and she owns all these policy failures herself. So we look forward to a vigorous debate about those policies and about the two competing visions for America, and I think the American people will side with the Republican Party. ### |
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