In an exclusive interview with “Meet the Press,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), ranking member, Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, describes the investigation into President Joe Biden, election denialism and today’s political climate.
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Full Johnson: ‘There is nothing [for the special counsel] to interview me about’
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Yeah, let the criminals have access to what the investigation information is … really??
Chuck Todd is a hack. Shamefully biased and ridiculous. Serious journalist…hardly.
Ron Johnson is a Senator who thinks he is above the law. Its pathetic that this is accepted. Why would Congress tell on themselves. Its a joke. This loser constantly tells lies and has not been held accountable. Standard GOP. Demand accountability for anyone but themselves.
He is lying from the very beginning. What Democrat has not been prosecuted who should have been?
Sick of their Hunter Biden BS! Johnson knows that Congress has NO right to the investigation information during investigation. They have no interest in investigating ANY Republican crime's of people in government AT ALL! But they want to investigate Hunter Biden who is not and has never been involved in government (and it's already been proven that Joe Biden was not involved in any of Hunter's business dealing's). Ron Johnson has been sitting here lying about everything that he was personally involved with himself as well (stuttering all the way through it, but he doesn't have a stutter or speech impediment – that is proof he is a liar). He was never smeared and attacked, he was simply asked for comment about his actions, actions that there is proof he took and was involved with). So Ron Johnson, freak and liar extraordinaire, please give us a break with your I'm a victim BS and I don't target individual's, nonsense!
Because of my commitment to being honest, I quickly overdose on liar Johnson.
Hunter, money laundering for one! $40,000 monthly rent on the house (one of many of Joe Biden’s houses, the 40 year public servant that how did he make so much money to own and pay taxes on?) some of the documents were found in the house Hunter lived in.
Insurrectionist ron johnson using the LAW on others but not willing to answer his roll in insurrection
When you bring someone your show and don't allow them to answer your questions, but rather talk over them you are a hack.
Sean Hannity does the same thing and it's a horrible political hack way to "conduct an interview ".
Why would congress need access to the investigation just seems like a waste of time
Too funny chuckie the dope says I'm a journalist i deal in facts… Took 5 minutes for me to stop laughing. It must be tough to be that stupid…
These pissant little media operations are just the laughing stock of the world. Go back to 6th grade chuckie…LOL
This isn't journalism he had him on to argue not interview exactly.. ridiculous! This is a big problem with MSM, sad some think this is okay its not! It's suppose to be unbiased
Chuck Todd is a rude liberal shill.
What's the big deal? Why not investigate?
I'm outraged too. I'm outraged Ron Johnson ever got in as a congressman. This clown shouldn't be nowhere near a position in anything except the last and the line for unemployment benefits.
great job not being a journalist chuck.
He's like Britney Spears of Congress…Poor Johnson…lol
Facts!!!! Answer the question you old fool!!!
The media is compromised…how do you guys not see that……you guys who think Todd did a great job during this interview either have a political agenda that is planted firmly on the left , or you are sheep…..straight up…..
I believe it was the Danish philosopher, Patches O'Houlihan, who commented on RonJon, saying: "you're about as useful as a poopy flavored lollipop."
Ron Johnson needs to be investigated for January 6
So he paid a prostitute but djt was never questioned about the pee pee tapes or guilianni with prostitutes in Ukraine.
He who runs with a fake phone call to avoid getting caught running fake electors into congress. Oversight of him is critical and needs to be removed.
Republican Senators Johnson and Grassley according to Derkach, who told Politico he sent anti-Biden materials to them and other lawmakers as part of the initiative he discussed with Giuliani.
Upon returning from his December trip to Kyiv, Giuliani told the Wall Street Journal that “Trump instructed him to brief the attorney general and Republican lawmakers” and that “he has been in contact with several Republican lawmakers.” The Journal added, “Moments later, Mr. Trump told reporters at the White House that his lawyer would deliver a report to the Justice Department and Congress.”
“Rudy Giuliani is acting as a conduit for a group of Ukrainians with ties to Russia who appear to be trying to feed questionable information to Johnson,” the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent and Paul Waldman recently wrote.
The Wall Street Journal also reported that Giuliani had “dispatched” Telizhenko in advance of his December trip “to gather information from politicians there and ask them to participate in [a] documentary series” about the Ukraine conspiracies. Telizhenko told NBC News that he traveled with Giuliani in Kyiv to help produce the documentary. Derkach participated in the documentary in an interview with Giuliani, which was produced by One American News Network.
At this point, the question of what to believe from the senator about taking information from the Ukrainian operatives is itself open for discussion. The Monday letter is part of ever-shifting, false denials, elusive and contradictory statements by Johnson and his staff that deserves its own analysis.
Ron exposed Chucks biases. Chuck tried deflection to Jared Kushner. Hunter and Joe are connected by more than blood. After 6 years of Trump investigation, Democrats are crying foul. Come on man.
former chairman of the Wisconsin Republican Party said Republican Sen. Ron Johnson spoke to him weeks before Joe Biden assumed the presidency about having the state’s GOP-controlled Legislature, rather than voters, choose Wisconsin’s presidential electors, according to newly released documents from closed-door testimony to the House Jan. 6 committee.
Johnson, in a statement Tuesday, said he had no recollection of the conversation with Andrew Hitt and accused the committee investigating the 2021 Capitol insurrection of attempting to “smear” him by selectively releasing text messages.
“I have no recollection of the phone call referenced in the texts, and therefore do not know the context of any comment I might have made,” Johnson said in a statement. “My goal since the November 2020 elections has consistently been to restore confidence in our election system.”
Hitt, who resigned as state party chairman in July 2021, testified before the Jan. 6 committee on Feb. 22. The transcript of his interview was released on Monday. Hitt did not respond to messages from The Associated Press left Tuesday seeking comment.
Hitt provided the committee with a text message he sent to Mark Jefferson, the Wisconsin Republican Party executive director, on Dec. 7, 2020. That was just a week before Wisconsin’s electors met to cast their ballots for Biden, who defeated then-President Donald Trump by nearly 21,000 votes in the state. At the same time, Republicans were discussing ways around having the state’s electors awarded to Biden.
Senator Ron Johnson was an active part of the criminal conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 election, including just minutes before the Capitol was breached on January 6. As new evidence from the January 6 Committee revealed today, Senator Johnson attempted to hand then-Vice President Pence a slate of fake electors from Wisconsin and Michigan in order to silence the will of the people, despite knowing that Trump lost the election. Senator Johnson’s self-serving effort to break the law and go against the U.S. Constitution makes him unfit to serve as Senator.
“That’s why we need to elect Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes, who will always protect the freedom to vote, listen to the will of the people, and make certain the people of Wisconsin can have their voices heard and votes counted on the issues that matter most to them.”
"Brazil is Brazil"? How profound!!!!
Chuck lost.
Chuck Todd is a moron!!!!!!
Chuck Todd: poster child for a completely & unabashedly biased liberal media. The Facts, the Facts, they howl…. right.
Chuck, please, mute yr guest!
Lol who cares about this crap what a joke
Yea, right. Make the crime vanish in2 oblivion. "It's all old news", because Merric Garland never had a soul and never will.
Incredible! I don’t watch Chuck Turd — and this is why! What a smug weasel. Tim Russert is rolling in his grave!
Does anyone remember Richard Nixon? Jeez, Nixon was simple, Watergate. Trump goes way beyond a Watergate, he has sooo many wrong doings that everyone gets confused, I get to the point where, "Now what are we investigating? Which corrupt action are we on? He said what? He did what? He loves Putin? He loves Kim Jong Un? Hunter Biden supposedly did what? Does anyone care about facts anymore??!! The facts are being investigated by professional lawful persons in the DOJ. Period!
When he speaks I feel ashamed that I'm from Wisconsin,
It's hilarious that he says he doesn't investigate individuals. I guess in his mind, Hunter Biden is a company.
Ron Johnson is such a lieing POS!
https://youtu.be/eIVWSS8w7iQ
Unbiased my white 🍑.
Chuck Todd is Leftist trash.
So he wasn't even curious about what info they wanted him to deliver to the vice-president?
You are a election denier
What about Gatz,he sold under age girls..since all that has been going on,that makes Trump innocent
Chuck Todd is a journalist like I’m Michael Jordan