BREAKING NEWS: Marjorie Taylor Greene Tears Into Speaker Johnson For 'Betrayal' With Ukraine Funding

8 months ago

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) slams Speaker Johnson over foreign aid legislation.

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00:00 Now that the speaker is open, there's some discussion, they're lobbying for him to change

00:08 the motion to vacate threshold, make it higher.

00:10 Does that mean you're going to move forward as soon as today?

00:13 Mike Johnson owes our entire conference a meeting, and if he wants to change the motion

00:17 to vacate, he needs to come before the Republican conference that elected him and tell us of

00:22 his intentions and tell us what this rule change to the motion to vacate is going to

00:27 be.

00:28 And I want to say something, Kevin McCarthy, while he was staring down the barrel of a

00:32 loaded gun, he never made a move like this behind closed doors and made deals with Democrats

00:38 to change the motion to vacate.

00:39 And we're hearing that's exactly what Mike Johnson is doing.

00:43 It's unprecedented.

00:44 This has never happened in history, and it's completely wrong.

00:47 He owes our conference the truth, and he owes Republicans answers.

00:51 Does that mean you will go forward today?

00:53 Will you go forward today?

00:54 I'm waiting to find out what's going to happen.

00:58 And this is the type of betrayal that Republican voters are absolutely fed up with.

01:03 You know, he really crossed the line with most Republicans across the country with what

01:07 he did on the FISA vote last week, being the final deciding vote against warrants and then

01:12 passing FISA.

01:14 And now he's moving forward, making funding to Ukraine, $60 billion to Ukraine, his top

01:20 priority, the most important thing he can do in a speakership.

01:23 And he's willing to work with Democrats to make that deal and get that done and change

01:28 the motion to vacate to do it.

01:29 Have you heard from other colleagues who say that this potential action could put them

01:33 more in your camp of wanting to motion to vacate sooner rather than later?

01:37 Absolutely.

01:38 Absolutely.

01:39 Do you need to see people?

01:40 Again, I've told you guys I will not speak for my colleagues.

01:42 That would be extremely disrespectful for me to do.

01:45 It's up to them to come forward and say it.

01:48 But if Mike Johnson goes in there and attaches to the rule, which is the Rules Committee

01:53 is meeting right now, so we'll see when that vote takes place.

01:57 If he attaches a rule to change the motion to vacate during and then uses Democrat votes

02:03 on the Rules Committee, he's going to prove exactly what I've been saying, correct?

02:08 He is the Democrat speaker.

02:09 I don't think that's ever happened in history before.

02:13 And that's going to be the message that that will definitely change everything.

02:18 Speaker Johnson was asked directly why he believes it's worth losing his job potentially

02:22 over putting aid to Ukraine on the floor.

02:25 And he said it's because it's the right thing to do.

02:27 What do you make of that response from the speaker?

02:30 He's serving Ukraine first and America last.

02:32 And that would be the worst thing to do for a United States House of Representative speaker,

02:37 third in line to the president of the United States, to do nothing for American citizens.

02:43 Think about this.

02:44 Monday was tax day.

02:46 So as Americans were paying their hard-earned tax dollars to this government, the Republican

02:51 speaker is hinging his entire ability to stay speaker on sending $60 more billion to Ukraine.

02:58 I can't think of a worse betrayal ever to happen in United States history.

03:03 And here's what's really ironic.

03:05 The constitutional attorney, Mike Johnson, is literally betraying the American people

03:11 in order to keep his grip of power on the speakership.

03:14 What about the idea that Republicans are increasingly frustrated with you, saying that you don't

03:18 speak for the party?

03:20 I think I speak for the people.

03:23 And the people are the party.

03:24 And that's everything wrong with the Republican Party.

03:27 Many Republican leaders have forgotten that.

03:29 And this is why Republican voters for many years now are so tired of the Republican Party

03:34 that writes strongly worded letters, has a great three to five minutes on Fox News, and

03:38 continues to just say, give these talking points, but never backs it up with actions.

03:43 Republican voters want actions.

03:45 They want to be protected from the destructive Democrat agenda.

03:48 And Republican leaders aren't doing it.

03:49 What's holding you?

03:50 Have you talked with Trump about this since Friday when he met with the speaker and he

03:55 said, I stand with him?

03:56 I'm not going to be declosing my conversations with President Trump.

04:00 I think President Trump made it clear when he said, we'll see what happens.

04:04 What's holding you back from moving forward right now, given that all the objections you've

04:08 been raising and the possibility of this motion of vacay being raised?

04:12 What's holding you back?

04:13 I'm a responsible person.

04:15 I've been a business owner and a successful business owner most of my life before I came

04:19 to Congress.

04:20 I, again, I'll say it again.

04:21 I respect my conference and I respect my colleagues.

04:24 I also, I also want to do everything I can to project our majority and keep it next time.

04:30 And so I'm not acting out of emotions or rash feelings or anger.

04:35 I'm doing this the right way.

04:37 And I'm allowing my conference to see exactly what I saw months ago.

04:42 And I called it out in my dear colleague letter.

04:45 We have to work as a conference.

04:46 And when the Republican Party figures out how to be a team, then I'll argue the Republican

04:51 Party will finally learn to govern.

BREAKING NEWS: Marjorie Taylor Greene Tears Into Speaker Johnson For 'Betrayal' With Ukraine Funding

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