‘Do You Have Nightmares About Her?’ Jesse Watters Grills Mike Johnson About Working With Marjorie Taylor Greene

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) joined Jesse Watters on Fox News on Wednesday evening after he spoke at Columbia University earlier in the day and blasted the protests there that he condemned as anti-Semitic.

“We met with a big group of Jewish students before we went to the campus, and they’re hiding in fear,” Johnson said while recapping his visit to the campus, adding:

They don’t go to class. They’re afraid they’re going to be assaulted. It’s not fair to them. Some of them have had to bring a federal lawsuit, civil rights violations that are being committed there. And taxpayer dollars should not be going to institutions that are engaging in this kind of nonsense. If you’re an administrator on a university campus, your number one job, the first and most obvious is the safety and security of your students. If you can’t guarantee that. We need to find somebody who can.

Watters then pivoted, “Yeah, a lot of taxpayer money going a lot of places. Joe Biden just signed a big package of aid that’s going overseas. A lot of Republicans are mad at you, speaker. They’re very, very angry at you. You said you they said you betrayed them.”

“It’s nonsense,” shot back Johnson, adding:

Listen, we’re dealing with the smallest majority in U.S. history. You have a one-vote margin. Some people are upset that we didn’t have border on the foreign aid bill. We fought all the way to the very end to do that. We’ve been fighting for the border every single day. We passed H.R. Two. It’s been sitting on Chuck Schumer’s desk for a year. The truth of the matter is, Jesse wouldn’t matter if even if we did get that signed into law, the president is not going to enforce it. We impeached Mayorkas. We passed resolutions. We have to have an election to have a president to shut that border down.

Watters replied, “The frustration is you have a majority in the House of Representatives, and Democrats are getting whatever they want. Schumer gets what he wants, Biden gets what he wants, and the Republicans in the House get nothing.”

Johnson hit back, “Well, that’s not true. We don’t have a functioning majority when you can only lose one vote if one person has a different idea.”
“So it’s like a coalition government?” questioned Watters.

“No, we’re trying to prevent that. We’re trying to keep the Republicans working together. And we’ve gotten better policy, better process, and we’re getting things done. But it’s very difficult when very individualistic, individual-minded Republicans don’t want to move together as a bloc,” Johnson replied.

“Is that Marjorie Taylor Greene?” interjected Watters with a smile.

“I’m not going to name any names, Jesse. You know, you know who they are,” Johnson quipped back.

“Do you have nightmares about her?” Watters asked.

“No, I don’t. I don’t think about her at all. Listen, some of my colleagues want us to throw a Hail Mary pass on every play. It’s not a game-winning strategy right now. When you have this margin is three yards and a cloud of dust, right? We get the first down, we put points on the board and we get to November and we take back and grow the majority,” Johnson replied.

“Well, I do not envy your job. That’s a tough spot. Speaker thank you so much,” Watters said as he ended the quick interview.

Watch the clip above via Fox News.

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