Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., tells ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ he tested negative for the coronavirus.
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Jedediah president Trump Hard
Jedediah President Trump hard
at work from the presidential
suite at Walter Reed calling for
bipartisanship in Covid 19
relief talks tweeting our great
USA, wants and needs stimulus,
work together and get it done.
This coming after House Democrat
S, pass their own
two dollars and twenty cents trillion bill, but without
support from Republicans
here with an update on where
talks stand, Louisiana GOP,
congressman MIKE Johnson
Congressman welcome to the show.
So it looked to me as of this
morning that there was yet
another standstill.
Has there been any progress?
Well, unfortunately, Speaker
Pelosi has weaponized the
stimulus bill.
You know they passed. It tried to
pass it along party lines on
Thursday night this past week,
but eighteen Democrats voted with us
on the republican side against
it, because its two dollars and twenty cents trillion
its not targeted and focused as
it needs to be, and her bill
mentioned the word cannabis more
than it mentioned the word jobs
its not what the american
people need, but many many people
are in desperate situations and
desperate times and thats. Why?
The president, the White House
and all Republicans in Congress
are continuing to push this.
I hope Nancy Pelosi will heed
that and will get back to the
table and get something done
because it cant happen too soon,
Jedediah so congressman. This is
going on for weeks now and its
honestly terrifying to so many
people around the country who
desperately need this assistance.
It seems to me that someone is
going to have to cave.
I just dont see any meeting in
the middle here. It looks like
compromise is not happening,
so whats going to happen here.
If no one caves and do people
not then get the relief, they
desperately need
its a terrible situation.
Ill tell you Republicans have
been working very hard.
We have a discharge petition, as
everyone has heard about on
the house floor and that be to
dislodge and authorize another
round of the paycheck protection
program funds, because that would
help us save jobs and save these
small businesses.
People are really suffering.
The White House has done its job
and bent over Backwards
Secretary Mnuchin on Wednesday
night before Pelosi, and the
Democrats passed their bill
offered. His offer went up to
one dollar and sixty cents trillion thats a lot of
money, and we do a lot of good,
but they refuse to budge and
ill. Tell you why its very
simple Jedediah
Nancy Pelosi made a political
calculation.
I genuinely leave. She wants to
hold out on this because she
believes its inflicting
political harm on the president
that somehow people will blame
him for the impasse, and I think
the voters are going to see
through this and its going
to back fire on them.
Jedediah yeah many have argued
and seen it that way and that be
despicable. Frankly, if that
were the case, given how many
people are suffering around the
country, something has to
give congressman, and hopefully
it gives soon because people are
in desperate need of help. But I
want to shift over to Covid 19
for a moment with you, because
you attended that White House
ceremony at the rose garden for
Judge Amy, Coney Barrett.
We now know that at least eight
people who were at the ceremony
did test positive for Covid 19.
So have you been tested and what
precautions are you taking right
now? Given that you were in
attendance
yeah, I learned about some
folks testing positive, Senator
MIKE Lee when I landed home
after final votes on Friday here
in Louisiana. So I called my
physician immediately.
We know the protocols we all
take. This very seriously went
and got a rapid test and tested
negative, thankfully, but per my
physicians, orders like some at
that event ill be self Isolat
ing at home,
quarantining for another week,
because we need that 14 day
window from potential exposure,
so I wont be out of my
quarantine until Saturday, so
ill be working from home as
well.
Jedediah yeah, I think, thats, a
very smart decision on your part.
Were you surprised at all by the
news that when you saw that
so many people, eight is a
pretty large number and more may
emerge tested positive? At
that event, you were at. Was that
surprising,
very surprised?
There are really extreme measure
s taken at the White
House
before you can enter the White
House complex. You have to go
across the street to the
Eisenhower building through a
medical regimen and get your
temperature taken and test taken.
We all tested negative or we
would not have been allowed on
to the complex. So I think it is
a big surprise,
im, not sure im, not convinced,
yet that it is that event that
is the cause so well see.
Jedediah. There have been a lot
of questions that have risen
about the rapid testing and
whether or not that adequately
shows whether asymptomatic
people are carrying virus.
Lots of questions still remain
to be answered. We appreciate you
being here and I think its
very smart. The precautions that
youre taking- and I appreciate.
Transcript generated on 2020-10-17.