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Speaker 1: Let's bring in Maryland Congressman and former House Majority Leader

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Speaker 1: Standing Hoyer joining us from the Capitol. Sir, thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for joining us. You're ready, I know, cast

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Speaker 1: your first vote under the new speaker. Tell me do

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Speaker 1: you think this is someone Democrats can work with.

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Speaker 2: I don't know Mike Johnson very well.

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Speaker 3: He's been elected speaker, he's relatively new and hasn't been

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Speaker 3: in the leadership before, so frankly, I don't know the

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Speaker 3: answer to that. But I think his speech today was

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Speaker 3: a speech that talked about working together to reach common ground.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we'd have differences, and I thought that was good.

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Speaker 3: But as I told him, that is easy to say,

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Speaker 3: it's hard to do. And very frankly, his record over

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Speaker 3: his time in the Congress the United States has been

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Speaker 3: a very hard edged message that will not create bipartisanship.

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Speaker 2: But we'll see.

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Speaker 3: He said good things that I hope that he follows

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Speaker 3: through on those and if he does, as Leader Jefferies indicated,

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Speaker 3: he will get a positive response from Democrats. We want

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Speaker 3: to work together, and frankly, we did work together, and

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Speaker 3: we saw that we didn't allow the American to default

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Speaker 3: on its debts. We made an agreement on what funding

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Speaker 3: levels would be for the coming year, and we did

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Speaker 3: not shut down the government. All of those were over

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Speaker 3: three hundred votes on those and on Ukraine we've had

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Speaker 3: seven votes that had over three hundred votes. So we've

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Speaker 3: had a bipartisan, constructive coalition working together. And I hope

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Speaker 3: the new Speaker follows that trajectory and doesn't serve simply

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Speaker 3: the hard right on his party, as his record would

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Speaker 3: would fly. But I want to give him the benefit

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Speaker 3: of the doubt. I had a conversation with him. It

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Speaker 3: was very brief, but it was very positive, and we'll see.

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Speaker 4: Congress and a lot of folks have made points that

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Speaker 4: he doesn't have enough experience to have enough enemies to

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Speaker 4: block his path to the gavel. I don't know if

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Speaker 4: you agree with that, but did you have to google

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Speaker 4: Mike Johnson this morning?

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Speaker 3: I don't think I googled it, but my staff came

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Speaker 3: me a memo, honestly. But the fact of the matter is, yes,

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Speaker 3: he's new, and I think your point is absolutely correct.

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Speaker 3: He hadn't made enough enemies as obviously others had. After all,

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Speaker 3: the Republicans went through their speaker, their majority leader, and

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Speaker 3: their whip, their three highest officers and rejected all of them.

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Speaker 2: And that.

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Speaker 3: Gives you somewhat of a sense of the challenge that

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Speaker 3: he faces on his side of the aisle. And it

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Speaker 3: took four different people to win the speakership, the first one,

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Speaker 3: the second one, we're hard right, and the third one

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Speaker 3: was more towards the center. And he lasted for four

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Speaker 3: hours before Donald Trump told his followers reject him, and

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Speaker 3: he dropped out. And then we came to Mike Johnson, who,

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Speaker 3: as you point out, nobody has a lot of record

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Speaker 3: on him. But the record that we do have is

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Speaker 3: he's very conservative, and therefore I think was obviously from

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Speaker 3: the Republicans standpoint, acceptable to the Freedom Caucus. Obviously they

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Speaker 3: all voted for him, but that gives some pause for

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Speaker 3: concern because they do not represent the American people and

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Speaker 3: do not represent the overwhelming majority of Americans who want

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Speaker 3: to see the Congress work together.

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Speaker 2: So many of their counts said, I don't want.

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Speaker 3: To work with Democrats, and I hope this new speaker,

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Speaker 3: Speaker Johnson, does want to work with people who will

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Speaker 3: work with him to achieve positive objectives for the American people.

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Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about some of those items that we're

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Speaker 1: going to need by Bartis support for to see this

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Speaker 1: Congress get them through. The first will be the most

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Speaker 1: immediate November seventeenth, potential government shutdown. Now, Speaker Johnson came

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Speaker 1: out and he said he would potentially put on the

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Speaker 1: floor continuing resolution for January or April. What are you

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Speaker 1: hearing regarding that stopgap measure?

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Speaker 2: Well, what you just said. He sent out a letter.

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Speaker 3: He indicated that we would probably have to have or

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Speaker 3: that he would probably support a continuing resolution to keep

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Speaker 3: the government open. That's a positive step. Now, whether he

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Speaker 3: can deliver on that, we'll see. Unfortunately, he has voted

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Speaker 3: against most of the crs that have been on the

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Speaker 3: floor in the continuing resolutions keeping government funded in the past,

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Speaker 3: so it's not a very hopeful sign that he has

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Speaker 3: voted against those in the past. Hopefully he will understand

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Speaker 3: shutting down the government is a stupid thing to do.

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Speaker 3: We avoided it under a Speaker Karthy, but only with

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Speaker 3: the votes of a majority of Democrats and about twenty

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Speaker 3: less Republicans. But we did avoid it, and hopefully Speaker

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Speaker 3: Johnson will lead us to that same end.

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Speaker 5: It was an interesting moment last evening.

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Speaker 4: Congressman When Congressman Johnson became speaker nominee, he held a

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Speaker 4: very quick news briefing, if we can call it, that,

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Speaker 4: flanked by a large number of Republican members, and a

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Speaker 4: reporter tried to ask him about his attempt to overturn

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Speaker 4: the twenty twenty election results.

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Speaker 5: That reporter was met with booze.

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Speaker 4: And was told to shut up by another Republican member.

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Speaker 2: This is something that was miss Fox.

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Speaker 4: That's going to be an issue, that's absolutely We're absolutely right,

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Speaker 4: Virginia Fox told her to shut up, and then she

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Speaker 4: was not allowed to ask another question. Is that going

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Speaker 4: to be the future here for this Republican Conference? Every

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Speaker 4: member of the Republican Conference voted for this individual, who

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Speaker 4: is an election denier.

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Speaker 5: Congressman, how do you work with that?

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Speaker 3: It's sad. It's sad that an election denier. It's sad

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Speaker 3: that Donald Trump charged with numerous crimes and now his

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Speaker 3: chief of staff apparently saying that they informed him that

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Speaker 3: what he was saying was wrong, and his pursuit of

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Speaker 3: that effort has led a lot of people into legal trouble,

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Speaker 3: including himself, and the new speaker was an election denier,

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Speaker 3: as you say, wrote an opinion that Chip Roy, a

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Speaker 3: member of the Freedom Caucus, former Deputy Attorney General assistant

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Speaker 3: Attorney General in the state of Texas, said was constitutionally wrong.

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Speaker 3: So that's an area of concern. But as I say,

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Speaker 3: he's new, he hasn't been in leadership. We'll have to

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Speaker 3: see what he does. We know what he said in

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Speaker 3: the past, we know what he's done in the past,

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Speaker 3: and if he goes down that route, that hard right route,

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Speaker 3: then I think he's in for a rough time and

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Speaker 3: we're not going to get to the by partisanship that

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Speaker 3: he talked about and that later Jeffries talked about. So

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Speaker 3: hopefully he now sees with the responsibility of running the

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Speaker 3: entire House, not just a faction of the House, seeks

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Speaker 3: out to come together and have agreements that can have

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Speaker 3: a positive result on our legislative record, positive result and

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Speaker 3: helping people in a positive result, and keeping the government

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Speaker 3: open and operating, and said I might add, and supporting

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Speaker 3: Ukraine as well as supporting Israel.

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Speaker 1: Well you led me right there, Congressman. I want to

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Speaker 1: talk about both of those packages. Take a listen to

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Speaker 1: what Speaker Johnson had to say about.

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Speaker 6: Israel, our nation's greatest ally in the Middle East is

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Speaker 6: under attack. The first bill that I'm going to bring

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Speaker 6: to this floor in just a little while, we'll be

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Speaker 6: in support of our dear friend Israel, and we're overdue

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Speaker 6: and getting that done.

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Speaker 1: Congressman, how is your colleagues and the Democratic Party Party

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Speaker 1: dealing with the Israeli skeptics on the progressive way?

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Speaker 3: Well, let me say, we only had I think ten

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Speaker 3: votes opposed to the bill, with four hundred plus members

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Speaker 3: of the House of Representatives voted for that. So the

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Speaker 3: overwhelming number of Democrats and Republicans voted for the resolution.

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Speaker 3: And I was smiling because he says that was going

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Speaker 3: to be the first bill that he would bring to

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Speaker 3: the floor. Frankly, that bill would have come to the

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Speaker 3: floor three weeks ago had it not been for the

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Speaker 3: internal division and divisiveness and dysfunction of the Republican Party

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Speaker 3: who couldn't select the leader. So that it's ironic that

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Speaker 3: he claims credit for that being the first. Of course,

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Speaker 3: it was the first because it was so important that

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Speaker 3: we pass it three weeks ago in support of our

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Speaker 3: strong ally Israel, who was invaded and a carnage was

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Speaker 3: committed and an active war by Hamas. That is a

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Speaker 3: terrorist organization. So yes, he brought it to the floor

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Speaker 3: because over four hundred members were for it and had

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Speaker 3: co sponsored it. So I'm glad he brought it to

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Speaker 3: the floor. Is the right thing to do. As I say,

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Speaker 3: it's never too late to do the right thing, and

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Speaker 3: he did the right thing, Amory.

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Speaker 2: I was just gonna add.

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Speaker 3: Amory asked me a direct question the overwhelming number of

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Speaker 3: Democrats voted for this piece of legislation.

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Speaker 5: We always appreciate an answer.

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Speaker 4: Congressman, thank you for your time today and bringing the

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Speaker 4: Democratic point of view on a very important story. We

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Speaker 4: have a Speaker of the House after twenty two days

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Speaker 4: without