Mike Johnson vs Ilhan Omar: The Moment That Changed the Room (Full Exchange)

[0:00] Why did Speaker Mike Johnson, a man who privately called to check on Ilhan Omar's safety [0:06] just months earlier, publicly step down from his chair to deliver the most devastating, [0:12] career-altering censure in modern congressional history? Mike Johnson had called Ilhan Omar in [0:18] January to ask if she was safe. Yet, in April, he deliberately stepped down from the Speaker's [0:24] chair, walked directly to the floor of the House, and called for her immediate censure. [0:31] 233 members voted yes, 16 of them were Democrats, and the woman who had routinely heckled in his [0:38] chamber, smeared a M-times-ordered man, and filed a staggering $30 million financial disclosure [0:46] that mysteriously turned into $95,000, watched the names on the electronic board above his chair [0:53] turn green one by one. She watched until even the one name she had absolutely not expected, [1:00] Jerry Nadler, turned green too. You want to censure the American dream, Mr. Speaker? [1:06] Censure the refugee? Censure the immigrant? History will judge who was censured, and who did the [1:14] censuring. Ilhan Omar was pointing squarely at the Speaker's chair when she said it, but Mike Johnson [1:20] was already unbuttoning his jacket. He was already standing up, and 412 members of the United States [1:29] House of Representatives completely stopped what they were doing and watched. Because speakers do [1:35] not step down from the chair to address the floor, speakers preside. When a speaker walks to the well, [1:43] someone is about to hear something that absolutely cannot be taken back. What you are about to hear [1:49] is the Speaker of the House, the man who called Ilhan Omar after she was at TTT to ask if she was [1:56] safe stepping down from his own chair to tell her that his patience has officially run out. [2:03] Smash that like button and subscribe. The phone call was in January. The censure is today, [2:09] and the distance between kindness and accountability is far shorter than you might think. Omar had requested [2:16] time to defend herself before the vote. Johnson had granted it. That was exactly the kind of thing [2:22] Johnson did grant requests, follow procedure, and extend courtesy to colleagues who would consistently [2:29] never extend it back. And Omar had accepted the courtesy the exact same way she accepted everything [2:36] from the Republican side of the aisle, which was to say, she accepted it, and then immediately used it [2:42] as a WEP-0N. She stood at the lectern in the well of the House. Mr. Speaker, members of the House, [2:49] I stand here today because the Republican Party has decided that silencing a Muslim woman is more [2:56] important than governing this country. Her voice filled the chamber. It always filled chambers. [3:03] Ilhan Omar had spent seven years in Congress, learning that the rooms were big, but the microphones [3:10] were exceptionally good, and the cameras were always on, and the only thing that truly mattered was [3:17] whether the clip would play on cable news at 6-0-0. This clip was definitively going to play. [3:25] This resolution is not about Charlie Kirk. It is not about the State of the Union. It is not about [3:32] anti-S-3-mitism. It is about one thing, the Republican Party's obsession with punishing a black, [3:41] Muslim, refugee woman who completely refuses to be silent. She pointed toward the Republican side. [3:50] You want to censure me for what I said about Charlie Kirk? I condemned his ass at cinnation the day it [3:56] happened. Before the Speaker, before any Republican in this chamber issued a statement, I was first. [4:02] And because I had the audacity to point out, one day later, that some of his rhetoric contributed to [4:09] the toxic political climate in this country, you wrote a resolution to destroy my career. [4:17] Charlie Kirk called Islam a religion of V-Zero Lentz. Charlie Kirk called refugees invaders. [4:24] Charlie Kirk built an organization, Turning Point USA, that has been documented spreading [4:30] Islamophobic content on college campuses across America. I condemned his murder. I condemned it [4:38] unequivocally. But condemning a man as Mr. Dare does not require me to canonize his legacy. [4:45] And pointing out that A.M. Times-ardered man said inflammatory things is not the same as saying [4:52] he deserved to D.E. The Republican Party knows the difference. They are choosing not to acknowledge [4:58] it. Because the difference is inconvenient for this resolution. You want to censure me for the [5:04] State of the Union? I exercised my First Amendment right to dissent in the People's Chamber. The President [5:12] of the United States stood at that podium and used the name of a M. Times-ardered girl, a real girl, [5:19] a real tragedy, as a prop for an immigration policy that has terrorized my community. [5:25] ICE agents have raided churches in my district, Mr. Speaker. Churches. Houses of worship. And when [5:32] I raised my voice in this chamber to say that using a dead child as a political wep, 0N is wrong, [5:40] the Speaker of the House decided that my dissent was more offensive than the policy I was dissenting [5:45] against. That is what this chamber was built for. Not silence. Not obedience. Not standing ovations on [5:54] command. Dissent. The right to say no, when the powerful do wrong. And if the Speaker of the House [6:02] cannot tolerate dissent in his own chamber, then perhaps the Speaker does not understand what this [6:08] chamber is for. She turned to face Johnson directly. Mr. Speaker, you represent Louisiana, [6:17] a State that ranks last in education, last in health care, near last in every measure of human [6:25] quality of life. You have been Speaker for two and a half years, and Louisiana has not moved one spot [6:31] in any ranking. Not one. And yet here you are, spending the people as time censuring the people [6:39] as representative because she talks back. I am the American dream, Mr. Speaker. And you are trying [6:48] to censure the American dream because it has an accent you don't like. Rashida Tlaib stood and [6:54] applauded. Fourteen Democrats joined her. The gallery stirred. Johnson, sitting in the Speaker's chair, [7:02] watched Omar the way he had watched her for two and a half years. The way he had watched her heckle [7:08] the president. The way he had watched her take selfies at Columbia. The way he had watched her file a [7:14] financial disclosure that said $30, million, and then abruptly change it to $95,000. He had watched [7:23] all of it from the chair, and he had been profoundly patient. And now he designated a Speaker pro tempore, [7:31] stood up, and walked down the three steps from the rostrum to the floor of the house. The 412 members [7:39] went completely quiet. Members of the house, I want to begin with something that happened in January [7:45] something private, something I have not discussed publicly until today. Johnson's voice was not [7:54] loud. It was never loud. It was the voice of a man who had spent 20 years arguing constitutional cases [8:02] in Shreveport courtrooms, where judges expected absolute precision and punished volume, and who had [8:10] spent the last two and a half years presiding over a chamber of 435 people who literally shouted at each [8:17] other for a living. He had learned in both of those environments that the quietest voice in the [8:23] room is exactly the one people lean forward to hear. On January 28th of this year, Congresswoman [8:30] Omar was at-at-CKed at a town hall meeting in Minneapolis. A man sprayed her with an unknown [8:36] substance. The at-at-CK was frightening, and it was real. The President of the United States said [8:43] publicly that she had probably staged it. I did not say that. I did not believe that. And on the evening [8:50] of January 28th, I picked up my phone, and I called Congresswoman Omar. Not through staff. Not through an [8:58] intermediary. I called her personal number, which I have, because the Speaker has every member's personal [9:05] number, because that is part of the job. The call lasted four minutes. I asked if she was safe. She said she was. [9:14] I asked if she needed additional security resources. She said she had adequate protection. I told her [9:22] that political by zero lens is completely unacceptable against Democrats, against Republicans, against [9:29] anyone who serves in this body. She thanked me. I said, good night. That was the call. I am telling you [9:38] about this call, members, because I need you to understand the man who is standing in front of you [9:44] today. I am not a man who woke up this morning wanting to censure a colleague. I am a man who called [9:51] that colleague three months ago after she was a T at T, because the Speaker of the House has a sacred [9:57] duty to protect every member of this chamber. Every member. Regardless of party. Regardless of how many [10:05] times that member has heckled in my chamber, or smeared a M-Times-ardored man on national television, [10:12] or filed a financial disclosure with a $29.9 million error. I called her, members, in January, [10:24] because that is what the Speaker does. I am standing here today, in April, because this is also what the [10:31] Speaker does when a member as conduct utterly crosses a line that patience alone cannot hold. He paused. [10:38] He let the silence fully sit. Then I want to explain exactly where that line is. And I want to explain [10:46] for the Congresswoman, for this chamber, and for every American watching at home, exactly when and how [10:55] it was crossed. Members, I want to start with what happened in this room on the night of February 4, [11:02] 2026. The State of the Union Address. I was sitting in the Speaker S Chair, the very chair I just walked [11:10] down from directly behind the President of the United States. The Vice President was to my left. [11:16] The Joint Chiefs were in the front row. The Supreme Court Justices were in the second row. [11:22] 435 Representatives. 100 Senators. The Cabinet. The Diplomatic Corps. Every living branch of the [11:31] American government in one room for one night. The President was 43 minutes into his address. [11:37] He was discussing the southern border. Specifically, the ARR-3 Saint of 14 milliseconds won three members [11:45] in Houston, Texas, the previous week. He was reading the name of a victim, and one eight-year-old girl [11:53] named Sheridan Gorman, who had been M-Times-ardored by an illegal immigrant in a parking garage in suburban [12:00] Dallas. He was reading her name, members. He was reading a dead girl's name. And from the Democratic [12:08] side of the aisle, approximately 40 feet from where I was sitting, Congresswoman Omar and Congresswoman [12:15] Tlaib began to shout. I will not repeat what they shouted because the words are in the Congressional [12:20] record, and any American can read them. What I will describe is what I saw from the Speaker S Chair, [12:28] because I think what the Speaker sees matters, and I think the American people deserve to know. [12:34] I saw two members of this body interrupt the President of the United States while he was [12:39] reading the name of a M-Times-ardored girl. I saw the Joint Chiefs of Staff, four-star generals, [12:47] who have spent their careers maintaining absolute discipline under conditions that would break [12:52] most civilians turn in their seats. I saw three Supreme Court Justices look at each other with an [12:58] expression that I can only describe as institutional disbelief. I saw the First Lady in the gallery [13:05] close her eyes, not in anger, but in the particular agonizing pain of a woman listening to the name of [13:13] a dead child being drowned out by heckling. And I saw something else, members, something the cameras did [13:20] not catch, because the cameras were all pointed at the President. I saw Sheridan Gorman's parents. [13:29] They were sitting in the gallery. The President had invited them as guests. They were sitting 14 rows [13:35] behind the First Lady, and they were watching two members of Congress shout over their daughter's name. [13:43] I do not know what it sounds like to hear your M-Times-ardored child's name shouted over by politicians. [13:49] I pray I never know. But I saw their faces, members, and I will see their faces for the rest of my life. [13:58] And I saw the sergeant-at-arms, standing at the door of this chamber, look directly at me. He was waiting [14:05] for my signal. One nod from the Speaker's chair. One nod, and he would have walked down the aisle, [14:13] approached Congresswoman Omar and Congresswoman Tlaib, and escorted them entirely from the House floor. [14:20] That is well within the Speaker's authority. The precedent exists. The sergeant-at-arms was ready. [14:29] My chief of staff, standing behind the rostrum, had already drafted the statement that would be [14:34] released if I gave the order. I did not nod. I chose restraint, members. I chose to protect their [14:42] right to be in this chamber, even while they were heckling over the name of a dead girl. [14:47] I chose patience. Because I believed then, and I have always believed, that the Speaker's first duty [14:55] is to protect every member's right, to serve even the members who make that duty hardest. [15:02] I called Congresswoman Omar after she was at TT Ed. That was patience. I did not remove her from the [15:08] floor during the State of the Union while she heckled over a M-Times-ardored girl's name. [15:14] That was patience. I did not push for censure when members of my own caucus heavily demanded it six [15:22] weeks ago. That was patience. I want Congresswoman Omar to understand. I want every member in this [15:30] chamber to understand that patience is a choice. It is a decision I make every single day in that [15:37] chair. And today, after two and a half years, I am making a profoundly different decision. [15:43] Not because I have lost my temper, but because patience without accountability is not patience. [15:51] It is permission. And I am done giving permission. [15:55] You just heard the Speaker describe watching Ilhan Omar heckle the President while he was reading a [16:00] M-Times-ardored girl's name and choosing not to remove her. That restraint is exactly what makes [16:07] today's censure so utterly devastating. The man who protected her right to be in the chamber [16:12] is now the very man ending her committee assignments. Hit that like button and comment [16:18] patience, because the Columbia story is next. Members, in April of 2024, I went to Columbia [16:26] University in New York City. I went because Jewish students told my office they were physically afraid [16:33] to walk to class. I stood on that campus and I met a sophomore from Long Island who said she had [16:39] been spat on while wearing a Star of David. I met a pre-med student from New Jersey whose roommate had [16:45] told him that, Z, onists absolutely deserve what they get. I met a girl, 19 years old, members, a girl [16:54] who had come to Columbia to study English literature, who said she had stopped going to the dining hall [17:00] because the chanting from the encampment made her physically, CK. I called the university president a weak [17:07] and inept leader. I said it on camera. I meant it. Because when Jewish teenagers cannot eat in their [17:14] own dining hall at a university that costs $70,000 a year, someone in charge has completely failed. [17:22] One day later. One day, members, Congresswoman Omar visited the exact same campus. She walked into the [17:31] encampment. She took selfies with protesters. She posted on social media that she was in awe of the [17:39] students and that they were joyfully protesting for peace. Joyfully protesting for peace, Congresswoman? [17:46] While a one, nine-year-old Jewish girl was skipping meals because the chanting made her physically, CK? [17:57] I also want to note, and I think the American people will find this highly relevant, that Congresswoman Omar's [18:05] own daughter, Isra, was a student at Barnard College, Columbia's affiliate. Miss Hirsi was suspended from [18:14] Barnard for her participation in the protests. The Congresswoman's own child was disciplined by her [18:21] own university for participating in demonstrations that Jewish students described as terrifying. [18:27] I went to Columbia to tell frightened students that Congress saw them. Congresswoman Omar went to [18:33] celebrate the very people who were frightening them. That is not a policy disagreement, members. [18:40] That is a moral difference. And moral differences are precisely what censure resolutions are for. [18:47] Elise Stefanik spoke forcefully from the Republican side. [18:52] Mr. Speaker, I led the congressional hearings on Columbia in the fall of 2023. Jewish students [19:00] testified before my committee under oath that they were physically through, three-eightened, [19:05] verbally acid-ulted, and made to feel like enemies on their own campus. These were not political [19:12] operatives. They were kids, eighteen and one-nine-year-old kids, who wanted to study biology and write term [19:22] papers and call their parents on Sunday. And a sitting member of this body visited the encampment that [19:28] was terrorizing them and called it awe-inspiring. I want that word on the record. Awe-inspiring. [19:37] Members, Johnson continued, I want to address the financial disclosure that became public four days [19:43] ago. On April 18th, Congresswoman Omar filed an amended financial disclosure with the clerk of this [19:52] house. The original disclosure, filed last year, signed under federal law, reported household assets [19:59] between $6 million and $30 million. The amended disclosure reports assets between $18,000 and $95,000. [20:10] The difference is $29.9 million. I have been a licensed attorney for 23 years. I have reviewed hundreds of [20:19] financial documents in my career. $29.9 million is not an accounting error. An accounting error is a [20:29] misplaced comma. $29.9 million is an entirely different life. Let me walk through the specifics, [20:37] members, because the American people greatly deserve specifics. The original disclosure valued [20:43] Congresswoman Omar S. Husband S. venture capital management firm at approximately $7.9 million. His [20:51] winery in Santa Rosa, California, EST Crew LLC was valued at $1.5 million. Those two numbers are what [21:02] made her a multi-millionaire on paper. The amended disclosure filed four days ago says those same [21:08] businesses have absolutely no net value once liabilities are factored in. Zero. $7.9 million became [21:17] zero. $1.5 million became zero. In four days. The Congresswoman S. spokesperson told the Wall Street [21:26] Journal, and I am quoting, The amended disclosure confirms what we have said. All along, the Congresswoman [21:35] is not a millionaire. Members, listen to that sentence carefully. What we have said, all along. If the [21:44] Congresswoman has been saying all along that she is not a millionaire, then she deliberately knew the [21:49] original form was completely wrong when she signed it. That is not an error. That is a choice. The [21:57] amended filing also shows that Congresswoman Omar carries student loan debt and credit card debt [22:03] between $15,000 and $50,000 of each. Members, the original filing said she was worth $30 million. The [22:13] amended filing says she has credit card debt. I am a constitutional lawyer, not a financial advisor, [22:20] but I have never in my career seen a human being who is simultaneously worth $30 million and carrying [22:28] a balance on a visa card. House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, a Republican from Minnesota. The Congresswoman's [22:35] own state called her two days ago on national television a complete FR at UD. Chairman Comer has [22:43] called her a person of interest in the federal investigation of FR at UD in Minnesota FR at UD [22:51] that now totals an estimated 9 billion, 9 billion members. The U.S. Attorney for Minnesota has called [23:01] the state a national poster child for public corruption. And four days ago, while Chairman Comer's [23:08] investigation was deeply active, while the Department of Justice was intensely investigating, [23:15] while prediction markets were listing her among the top five most likely members of Congress to be [23:21] charged with a federal CRAR in 2026. Congresswoman Omar revised her net worth downward by $29.9 million [23:30] million and casually called it an accounting error. I called her in January. Members, I asked if she [23:39] were months. Three months later, I am asking exactly where $29.9 million went. The phone call was the [23:48] exact same duty as this question. The duty of the speaker to protect and the duty of the speaker to ask. [23:56] Representative Wesley Hunt stood from the Republican side. Hunt was 44 years old. He was black. He was a [24:05] graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, class of 2004. He had served as an army [24:12] helicopter pilot flying AH-64 Apaches in Iraq. He was the first black Republican congressman from Texas [24:20] in over a century. He spoke with the particular economy of a man who had spent his career in cockpits, [24:27] where totally unnecessary words could literally get people, K, lead. Mr. Speaker, Congresswoman Omar [24:35] called this resolution an attempt to silence a black Muslim woman. I am a black man. I am a West Point [24:43] graduate. I flew C-0 MBOT missions in Iraq, and I want to say something clearly so that there is [24:51] absolutely no confusion. Accountability does not have a religion, Congresswoman. It does not have a race. [24:59] It does not have a gender. 29.9 dollars million is not an Islamophobic number. It is a strictly [25:08] mathematical number. And a mathematical number completely deserves a mathematical answer, [25:14] not a press release about RAC-SM. A West Point graduate who flew Apaches in Iraq just told Ilhan Omar [25:22] that 29.9 million is a mathematical number, not a racial one. Comment do the math if you think [25:30] credit card debt and 30 dollars million cannot exist in the exact same disclosure because Omar is about [25:36] to fight back, and what she says about the speaker will deeply shake the chamber. Omar returned to the [25:42] lectern. She had absorbed the phone call. She had absorbed the so-to scene, the M times-ordered girl's [25:51] name, the sergeant at arms waiting for a nod that miraculously never came. She had absorbed Colombia. [25:59] She had absorbed 29.9 dollars million. She fought back, and she fought back harder than any villain in [26:07] any hearing room had ever fought back before. Because Ilhan Omar was not fighting for a committee [26:13] assignment anymore, she was fighting for her entire career. Mr. Speaker, since you want to put records [26:20] on the floor, let me put yours. You spent your career at the Alliance Defending Freedom, an organization [26:28] the Southern Poverty Law Center has designated a H at TE group for its decades-long campaign against LGBTQ [26:37] Americans. You personally argued cases to keep same-sex marriage illegal. You personally argued cases to [26:44] restrict women's reproductive rights. You supported the Dobbs decision that stripped bodily autonomy from 50 [26:52] million American women. You have supported book bans in public schools. You have called America a [26:58] Christian nation. Which, Mr. Speaker, the First Amendment explicitly says it is not. And you, a man whose [27:07] organization was designated a H at TE group, stand in the well of this house and violently lecture me [27:14] about tolerance? Let me tell you something else, Mr. Speaker. You mentioned Colombia. You mentioned [27:21] Jewish students. Let me remind this chamber, who is actually through three eightening Jewish Americans in [27:28] this country. Not college students with signs. Not a Congresswoman who actively criticizes Israeli [27:35] government policy. The actual through three eights are the white supremacists who marched in Charlottesville [27:42] chanting, Jews will not replace us. The man who walked into the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh [27:49] and M Times ordered 11 Jewish worshipers. The man who held hostages at Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, [27:57] Texas. Those are the third three eighties to Jewish Americans, Mr. Speaker. Real through three ats, [28:03] from real K. Lurs. Not from a Muslim Congresswoman who strongly disagrees with a foreign government's military [28:13] policy. And since you mentioned the State of the Union, I dissented. Mr. Speaker, I dissented because the [28:20] president of the United States has publicly called Somali refugees animals. He has called my constituents, [28:28] people who fled W at R and famine and built lives in America, animals. And when he stood at that podium [28:36] and used a M times ordered girl s name to deliberately justify his immigration crackdown, I raised my voice. [28:45] Because that girl s d three ath was a tragedy. But using her d three ath as a prop for a policy that [28:53] ruthlessly treats my community as Kron Meinels is also a tragedy. And someone in this chamber absolutely [29:01] needed to say so. And one more thing. You talked about your net worth. $500,000. You are one of the [29:09] poorest members of this body. I do not mock that. But I think it distinctly explains why you cannot [29:16] fathom that an immigrant, a refugee, can build a massively successful life in America without [29:23] committing FR at UD. Because in your experience, Mr. Speaker, people like me do not succeed. People like [29:36] me are supposed to stay profoundly grateful, and stay incredibly quiet, and stay permanently poor. I am [29:44] not poor. I am not quiet. And I will not be made small by a man from Shreveport whose imagination abruptly [29:53] stops at the parish line. Tlaib stood. Twenty-one Democrats stood. For 25 seconds, the chamber s energy [30:03] completely belonged to Omar. The ADF at T at TK was real. Charlottesville was real. Pittsburgh was real. [30:13] The animals, quote, was real. The net worth contrast was real. She had thrown everything she fundamentally [30:21] had, and everything she had was specific, documented, and exceptionally sharp. For 25 seconds, 412 members [30:31] were strictly not sure what the speaker was going to say. Johnson walked back to the lectern slowly, [30:37] the way a man walks when he has heard something that truly hurt, and is thoroughly deciding how to [30:42] carry the hurt. Not whether to respond, but how to respond without losing the exact thing that makes [30:49] the response deeply worth hearing. Congresswoman, that was powerful. I want to respond to all of it. [30:56] The alliance defending freedom. I worked there for 12 years arguing religious liberty cases. Cases that [31:04] strictly protected the right of people of all faiths, including Muslims, to practice their religion [31:11] without government interference. The Southern Poverty Law Center s designation is their opinion. [31:18] The voters of Louisiana have heard that opinion and sent me to Congress four consecutive times. [31:24] I respect the SPLC s right to intensely disagree with me. I do not accept their right to perfectly [31:31] define me. That is a policy disagreement. I will debate reproductive policy in a policy hearing. [31:39] This censure is absolutely not about reproductive policy. Charlottesville, Pittsburgh, Colleyville. [31:48] Congresswoman, I deeply mourned those at tetziques, every single one of them. [31:55] I mourned the eleven souls at Tree of Life. I mourned the hostages at Beth Israel. I unconditionally [32:02] condemn white supremacists by zero lengths with every fiber of my faith, and I have done so publicly [32:08] on the record every single time it has occurred. But Congresswoman, and I essentially need you to hear [32:15] this, because I believe it is the single most important thing I will say today. His voice dropped [32:21] in the Bible. I mourned all three. I mourned. I mourned all three. I wept for the eleven souls at Tree of Life, [32:33] who were brutally midtered while they prayed on a Saturday morning. I mourned all three. [32:38] I mourned. I mourned all three. I mourned—of my heart. I mourned... but mourning the mistreder of Jewish [32:59] worshipers in a synagogue does not somehow give you the right to take selfies with people who violently chant [33:05] chant from the river to the sea while jewish students barricade their dormitory doors [33:10] condemning the ass at sination of charlie kirk on september 10th does not erase exactly what [33:17] you said about him on september 11th and september 12th saying political vice zero lens is unacceptable [33:24] on monday does not miraculously give you permission to commit the sheer vice zero lens of character [33:31] ass at sination on tuesday there is a v zero lens that does not explicitly draw blee l0d congresswoman [33:40] a v zero lens that uses words entirely instead of wep zero ns a vi zero lens that essentially uses [33:49] social media posts and cable news interviews and selfies at protest encampments where teenagers [33:55] are fundamentally afraid to eat in their own dining hall and that vi zero lens the vi zero lens of a [34:02] public servant who mourns with one hand and actively smears with the other that is exactly what this [34:09] resolution directly addresses you said i cannot imagine a world where a refugee succeeds congresswoman [34:18] i can absolutely imagine that world i remarkably represent that world there are vietnamese families [34:26] in shreveport who came to louisiana with absolutely nothing and built incredible restaurants and grocery [34:32] stores and sent their children to lsu there are mexican families in my district who started resilient [34:39] landscaping businesses and now reliably employ 30 people i clearly see immigrant success every single week [34:49] i deeply celebrate it i am exceedingly proud of it what i cannot physically imagine is a world where a [34:56] member of congress casually files two financial disclosures one saying 30 million and one saying 95 000 [35:06] and confidently expects the rest of us to passively nod and call it arithmetic that is not success [35:14] congresswoman that is a glaring question and the question has been conspicuously unanswered [35:21] for four solid days you firmly said my imagination stops at the parish line congresswoman my imagination [35:30] stops exactly where the math stops making comprehensive sense and 29.9 million permanently stopped making [35:41] sense the exact moment you signed the amended form i don't resent your massive success congresswoman i [35:50] question its actual arithmetic and i question it because i called you in january after you were at at ckt and i [36:00] asked if you were safe i extended the distinct courtesy of the speaker s office to you and in return you [36:07] aggressively heckled in my chamber over a murdered girl s name you recklessly smeared a murdered man on [36:14] television while his wife actively chose a casket you happily celebrated the harassment of jewish students [36:21] one single day after i personally stood with them and you filed a crucial document with a 29.9 million [36:30] discrepancy and bizarrely called it arithmetic i was patient congresswoman i was extensively patient for [36:39] two and a half years i was patient because my faith teaches me that patience is a virtue and my father [36:47] taught me that patience is a discipline and my experience as speaker has definitively taught me [36:53] that patience is the absolute only thing that keeps this institution from tearing itself entirely apart [37:00] but patience without accountability is definitively not a virtue congresswoman it is not a discipline [37:07] it is not institutional stewardship patience without accountability is undeniable permission and the [37:15] speaker of the house the person who sits in that chair who actively presides over this chamber who [37:23] securely holds the gavel that i am about to use to call this incredibly historic vote the speaker does [37:30] not have the luxury of giving permission indefinitely i called you in january that was the speaker dot s [37:38] distinct duty of protection i am standing here in april that is the speaker dot s profound duty of [37:46] accountability they are emphatically not contradictions they are the exact same duty and a speaker who [37:55] generously offers one without fiercely enforcing the other is utterly not doing his job i will [38:02] completely not fail the chair i will certainly not fail this institution and i will absolutely not fail [38:10] the american people who specifically sent me here to reliably protect it i don't fundamentally resent your [38:17] success i persistently question its arithmetic and patience without accountability is not a virtue it is a total [38:26] failure of the chair the speaker just undeniably delivered two phenomenal lines that will definitely [38:33] be quoted for years comment arithmetic because jerry nadler the jewish democrat from new york who has [38:40] vigorously defended omar for years is about to stand up and what he says will catastrophically change the vote [38:49] representative jerry nadler of new york was 86 years old 34 years in the house ranking democrat on the [38:57] judiciary committee jewish his district new york's 12th distinctly held the largest jewish population of [39:07] any congressional district in the united states he had successfully defended omar before when republicans [39:15] voted to dramatically remove her from the foreign affairs committee in 2023 nadler emphatically voted [39:22] against it when her anti s3 mythic tweets drew intense bipartisan condemnation in 2019 nadler heavily [39:30] supported the watered-down resolution that condemned all forms of b gottree rather than naming omar [39:37] specifically he had done these things because he resolutely believed in party loyalty institutional [39:44] norms and the powerful principle that a jewish man defending a muslim woman against partisan at at c s [39:53] was exactly what the democratic party was beautifully supposed to look like he stood mr speaker i request [40:01] one minute the chamber went completely still jerry nadler standing during a censure debate of a fellow [40:08] democrat was absolutely not an ordinary event the members who had served with him longest the members [40:14] who innately knew that nadler did not ever stand without having strictly counted every single [40:20] consequence completely stopped breathing i will be intensely brief i have honorably served in this body [40:28] for 34 years i am deeply jewish my district contains the largest jewish community of any congressional [40:37] district in america i heavily carry that profound responsibility every single day i walk into this historic [40:45] chamber i have faithfully defended congresswoman omar in the past i voted strictly against her removal from [40:52] the foreign affairs committee in 2023 i did so because i firmly believed the removal was strictly partisan [40:59] i believed it then and i was unquestionably wrong he paused the pause visibly lasted two seconds but it [41:08] perceptibly aged him i was wrong because i disastrously put party loyalty completely above the harrowing [41:16] testimony of my own constituents the jewish families in my district the resilient families who lost [41:24] cherished grandparents in the h0 low cost the hopeful families who send their brilliant children to [41:30] columbia and nyu and cuny those deeply terrified families told me then that i was terribly wrong and i [41:39] absolutely did not listen i am closely listening now i unequivocally cannot vote against this censure i [41:47] clearly cannot do it because the exceptional speaker has accurately presented a record that i simply [41:54] cannot effortlessly explain away the columbia visit one day after the speaker compassionately met with [42:01] jewish students who were genuinely afraid congresswoman omar joyfully went to take selfies with the [42:08] extremely dangerous people making them afraid the startling financial disclosure 30 million absurdly revised [42:15] to 95 000 and the horrifying pattern the benjamin's tweet the taliban comparison the foreign affairs removal [42:26] the charlie kirk comments but essentially more than the record and i deeply need to be perfectly honest [42:34] about this because my constituents rightfully deserve immense honesty i utterly cannot vote against this [42:42] censure because a one nine year old jewish girl at columbia terrifyingly stopped eating in her own dining [42:52] hall and the astonishing congresswoman from minnesota enthusiastically visited the exact encampment [42:59] that made her completely stop eating and bizarrely called it awe-inspiring i definitely cannot look that [43:07] incredible girl in the eye if she is closely watching this historic vote today and i powerfully believe [43:13] she is and deceitfully tell her i cowardly voted to deliberately protect the woman who callously celebrated [43:21] her profound fear he sat down he formally folded his hands on his desk he absolutely did not look at omar [43:30] the stunned chamber absorbed nadler's momentous statement the exact way a family silently absorbs [43:36] the somber words of the eldest member who has finally said exactly what everyone has inherently been [43:43] thinking it was emphatically not the volume that made it so spectacularly devastating it was the [43:48] indisputable source jerry nadler who had passionately voted against omar s removal in 2023 who had [43:56] strategically watered down the anti s3 mitism resolution in 2019 who had consistently chosen [44:05] party loyalty aggressively over his own constituents heartbreaking complaints for years had just [44:11] courageously said on the massive floor of the house in front of 412 members and every single camera [44:19] in the room i was terribly wrong three heavily profound words the three most exorbitantly expensive [44:27] words in global politics because i was wrong unequivocally means that every single vote cast [44:33] previously in defense of the person you were ultimately wrong about now officially belongs [44:39] totally to the other side s dominant argument plaskett frantically grabbed omar's sleeve she was [44:45] whispering extremely urgently the panicked whisper of a woman who had agonizingly watched her closest ally [44:52] as entire defense completely collapse in exactly 60 seconds and was desperately trying to immediately [45:01] find something absolutely anything to say that could magically undo what nadler had miraculously just done [45:09] but there was literally nothing to intelligently say nadler had practically not at at ckd omar with mere [45:16] rhetoric he had brutally at at ckd her with his own painful admission and you essentially cannot [45:23] successfully rebut an admission you can only helplessly watch it profoundly land omar numbly [45:29] looked at nadler nadler steadfastly did not casually look back 15 feet between their massive desks [45:38] an entire continent between their monumental votes the unfathomable distance between i passionately [45:44] defended you and i was remarkably wrong reliably measured not in mere feet but in exhaustive years of [45:52] political loyalty that had just been publicly withdrawn on live c-span omar shockingly did not speak for [46:00] the incredibly first time in the lengthy debate for the astonishingly first time in literally any intense [46:06] debate she had famously participated in during seven dramatic years in congress ilhan omar stood quietly [46:13] in the house chamber and unbelievably did not ask for the prominent microphone nadler 34 impressive years jewish [46:24] fiercely defended omar for tedious years just dramatically said i was unbelievably wrong on the house floor [46:33] he poignantly said he emphatically cannot look a one nine year old jewish girl directly in the eye [46:42] if he wrongly votes to blindly protect omar comment nadler if you profoundly understand exactly what it [46:49] emotionally costs a seasoned man to ultimately say i was deeply wrong after 34 distinguished years the [46:58] monumental vote is flawlessly next johnson methodically climbed the three short steps right back up to the [47:06] imposing speaker s chair he decisively picked up the heavy gavel members absolutely before i officially call the [47:14] vote one extremely important last thing congresswoman omar you offensively called me an obedient employee of [47:23] donald trump i specifically want the historic record to clearly reflect that the so-called employee [47:30] courageously certified a highly contested election his own president furiously told him to illegally overturn [47:39] i incredibly did that exactly on the floor of this very chamber at two zero zero essentially in the morning [47:46] on january 7th 2021 with terribly broken glass noticeably in the damaged hallways subservient employees [47:56] blindly followed desperate orders true constitutional officers honorably followed the supreme constitution [48:05] i thoroughly know the unmistakable difference you intensely said that history will fairly judge exactly [48:11] who was censured and precisely who did the incredible censuring i thoroughly agree i agree absolutely [48:20] completely and i strongly believe that history will keenly note that the strict man who decisively [48:27] censured you was exactly the same gracious man who compassionately called you in cold january [48:34] after you were horribly attaciccate because history ultimately has a phenomenal way of impeccably [48:40] remembering both vital things the profound kindness and the unyielding accountability and inherently [48:47] understanding that they are fundamentally not glaring contradictions they are literally the exact same [48:53] noble duty flawlessly performed by the exact same chair for the exact same historic institution the crucial [49:01] patience was profoundly real congresswoman the private phone call was absolutely real and this historic vote [49:10] is unbelievably real he powerfully raised the wooden gavel the massive question is on the ultimate adoption of [49:18] house resolution 713 the clerk will completely call the sprawling roll the enormous electronic voting board [49:26] perfectly above the speaker s rostrum spectacularly lit up green absolutely for yes red vividly for no 40 feet wide [49:37] every single member s name exactly in alphabetical order 435 small bright lights patiently waiting to officially [49:46] declare themselves republican names rapidly turned green essentially immediately a massive cascade of bright [49:55] green green light swiftly down the entire right side of the massive board in the intensely first 30 seconds [50:02] 217 conservative names instantly committing to immediate censure with the incredible speed of a unified caucus [50:11] that had completely made its unyielding decision well before the intense debate even beautifully began [50:18] democratic names steadily turned deeply red red extremely red red the strict party line was desperately holding 100 solid red lights [50:34] 140 each and every one incredibly a democratic colleague strictly choosing partisan loyalty dangerously over the terrifying arithmetic [50:45] that johnson had flawlessly laid out perfectly on the floor of the house omar numbly watched the enormous board [50:52] precisely from her desk she was noticeably not eagerly counting her frantic staff was completely counting precisely [51:00] on a digital tablet nervously behind her urgently tracking specific names aggressively texting party whips but omar was silently watching the massive board itself entirely [51:13] the way the way a person fearfully watches a darkening sky that might catastrophically produce a massive storm [51:20] not focusing on the individual small clouds but the terrifying color of the whole sprawling horizon [51:27] then a bright green light surprisingly appeared exactly where a solid red should have permanently been [51:34] nadler new york brilliant green omar horrifically saw it instantly before anyone else did she completely saw it [51:43] the painful way you devastatingly see the first terrifying crack in a car windshield shockingly small [51:51] intensely specific and hopelessly irreversible nodler s iconic name 34 impressive years judiciary ranking member [52:03] respected jewish leader new york the loyal man who had effectively defended her fiercely in 2023 radiantly glowing green [52:12] directly on the colossal board brilliantly above the solemn speaker s chair three agonizing seconds [52:19] exactly later gottheimer nj bright green josh gottheimer moderate jewish democrat famously from new jersey then [52:33] schneider il bright green brad schneider prominent jewish democrat strictly from illinois moskowitz florida brilliant [52:46] black green jared moscowicz outspoken jewish democrat effectively from florida davis north carolina glowing green [52:57] don davis an earnest black democrat directly from rural north carolina who had previously told his concerned staff [53:05] perfectly that very morning that he fundamentally could absolutely not easily explain 29.9 dollars million confusingly to [53:16] hard-working tobacco farmers who honestly filed their difficult taxes exactly on time and completely [53:23] expected their elected representatives to responsibly do the exact same the shocking green lights steadily spread [53:31] subtly through the largely democratic side of the massive board seamlessly the very way subtle cracks silently spread [53:40] violently through thin ice not absolutely everywhere clearly not essentially most of the names but visibly [53:48] enough to completely see loudly enough to perfectly hear deeply enough to utterly know that jerry nadler's [53:55] powerful name abruptly turning brilliantly green had incredibly given numerous other conflicted democrats explicit [54:04] permission to bravely follow their troubled conscience entirely instead of their demanding whip omar stood frozen at her [54:14] polished desk and helplessly watched exactly as each iconic name vividly appeared each single green light [54:21] was effectively a former colleague who had fundamentally decided carefully in the safe privacy of the reliable [54:28] reliable electronic voting system where precisely nobody actually had to visibly raise a hand or awkwardly meet [54:36] absolutely anyone's eyes that the compassionate phone call intimately in january and the suspicious [54:43] arithmetic horribly in april and the traumatized one nine-year-old jewish girl who terribly stopped safely eating [54:51] normally in her columbia dining hall were overwhelmingly louder effectively than the aggressive caucus whip s demanding [55:00] text message furiously asking them to desperately hold the fragile line the devastating final count 233 to 197 16 [55:11] astonished democrats successfully crossed remarkably over the speaker decisively banged the heavy wooden gavel on this [55:20] historic vote the impressive yeas are absolutely 233 the definitive nays clearly 197 the serious resolution is [55:32] officially adopted the representative remarkably from minnesota is formally censured omar stood completely at her [55:40] desk silently for eight torturous seconds perfectly after the loud gavel devastatingly fell she numbly looked [55:48] directly at the massive board she quietly looked exactly at the 16 shockingly green democratic names she painfully [55:56] looked instantly at nadler and why still radiantly lit deeply in bright green still undeniably visible still [56:07] permanently there then she slowly picked up her organized folder she numbly walked precisely up the wide center [56:14] aisle of the colossal house directly past the ornate desks exactly past the former colleagues who absolutely did [56:24] fundamentally not politely meet her eyes smoothly past the historic mace resting perfectly on its green marble pedestal there are [56:33] absolutely no convenient side doors precisely in the massive house chamber there is effectively one grand entrance and [56:41] exactly one colossal exit and exactly one colossal exit everyone who sadly leaves thoroughly walks exactly past [56:47] completely everyone who successfully stayed the silent chamber vividly watched her slowly walk 412 stunned members [56:58] the packed gallery the numerous cameras the historic mace which had effectively been elegantly on its pedestal [57:06] remarkably since 1789 and had incredibly seen ambitious members formally censured before [57:15] and would inevitably see foolish members formally censured again and fundamentally did absolutely not intensely care [57:23] essentially about absolutely any of it because the beautiful mace is immaculately made of pure silver and dark ebony [57:32] and fundamentally has effectively no political opinions and absolutely no boundless patience and completely no remarkable [57:40] memory of compassionate phone calls essentially in freezing january mike johnson warmly called his proud father [57:48] exactly at 830 perfectly that memorable evening pat johnson was 79 honorably retired specifically from the brave [57:57] shreveport fire department completely after 27 grueling years terribly injured valiantly in the dangerous line [58:06] of intense duty entirely in 1984 structural collapse tragically during a massive warehouse fire terribly on uri [58:17] drive uncomfortably walked bravely with a painful limp consistently ever since humbly drew a modest disability pension of [58:25] exactly one thousand six hundred dollars a month quietly lived exactly in the exact same cozy three-bedroom house [58:34] comfortably in shreveport precisely where mike had happily grown up michael hey dad i proudly watched [58:44] exactly on c-span your wonderful sister perfectly set it up remarkably on the ipad closely watched the whole [58:53] incredible thing and pat johnson was deeply quiet completely for a profound moment not the confusing [59:02] quiet essentially of a man awkwardly searching completely for difficult words the absolute quiet [59:08] directly of a man who had perfectly found the right words and was deliberately deciding exactly whether they [59:15] essentially needed to be warmly said or strictly whether his accomplished son somehow already innately knew [59:21] them you bravely stepped completely down directly from the chair yes sir purposely walked entirely to [59:31] the massive floor yes sir honestly said perfectly what you absolutely had to say i truly tried then you humbly [59:41] walked right back completely up and honorably did your job yes sir that is exactly what we reliably do michael [59:50] we dutifully go in we tirelessly do the hard work we quietly come out and we definitely don't carelessly [59:58] talk endlessly about it obnoxiously at the loud bar afterward yes sir your sweet mother would have been [1:00:06] incredibly proud johnson's loving mother had sadly died tragically in 2019 she had unfortunately never [1:00:14] miraculously seen him actually become successful speaker she had terribly never proudly seen him commandingly [1:00:21] preside preside over a colossal state of the union she had certainly never amazingly [1:00:25] seen him bravely step distinctly down remarkably from the prominent speaker s chair completely to [1:00:33] forcefully address the massive house directly from the historic well she had happily seen him successfully [1:00:40] pass the difficult bar she had joyfully seen him decisively win his impressive first race she had sweetly told [1:00:48] him perfectly the thrilling night he was wonderfully elected exactly that she incredibly didn't entirely [1:00:56] understand complicated politics but she perfectly understood her good son and her loyal son was [1:01:05] fundamentally a profoundly good man thank you dad michael yes sir that phenomenal arithmetic line which one [1:01:17] i don't deeply resent your massive success i closely question your bizarre arithmetic that was incredibly [1:01:24] good thank you your sharp mother would have perfectly said it much shorter how show me the receipts honey [1:01:33] done johnson genuinely laughed the warm laugh gently echoed beautifully in the massive speaker s office [1:01:41] exactly at 8 30 beautifully on a quiet wednesday night and for a fleeting moment the colossal office which was [1:01:54] vastly bigger entirely than absolutely any cozy room exactly in the modest house he'd wonderfully grown up delightfully in [1:02:03] incredibly felt exactly the profoundly right comfortable size go to sleep michael you intensely have a crucial [1:02:12] 7 00 tomorrow yes sir good night dad good night son he gently hung up he sat completely in the colossal office quietly for exactly another full minute the historic [1:02:30] washington monument was radiantly lit beautifully up gloriously outside the tall elegant windows the massive capital dome was spectacularly lit [1:02:40] perfectly up spectacularly behind him somewhere far in freezing minneapolis a formally censured congresswoman [1:02:50] was frantically drafting a desperate statement the furious statement would loudly call the historic vote [1:02:56] a profoundly rack saint acid alt viciously on diverse immigrant representation it would predictably get roughly 22 000 angry retweets [1:03:07] exactly by early morning the busy speaker definitely did totally not bother to read the pointless statement [1:03:14] he quietly turned completely off the small desk lamp he gently picked totally up the worn leather briefcase he [1:03:21] had comfortably been carrying exactly since his very first grueling year of legal practice precisely in shreveport [1:03:29] because mike johnson effectively did strictly not carelessly replace useful things that beautifully still [1:03:37] wonderfully worked and he peacefully walked precisely out entirely of the grand office perfectly passed [1:03:45] the large portrait brilliantly of sam rayburn exactly past the enormous flag that beautifully flew majestically [1:03:53] over the massive capital exactly the historic day he miraculously became powerful speaker directly into the echoing [1:04:01] marble hallway the immense patience had undeniably been completely real the compassionate phone [1:04:08] call had undeniably been utterly real the devastating censure had undeniably been absolutely real and the [1:04:16] principled man who had courageously made all three difficult decisions incredible patience genuine kindness [1:04:24] unyielding accountability was quietly going home perfectly to peacefully sleep deeply for exactly six hours [1:04:32] others thoroughly before a massive seven zero zero zero briefing because a brave firefighter dot devoted son [1:04:39] perfectly knew one profound thing exactly about exceptionally difficult days exactly that absolutely most powerful [1:04:52] people specifically in washington had terribly never miraculously learned you purposefully go in you tirelessly do the [1:05:01] grueling work you quietly come beautifully out and you definitely do completely not boastfully talk annoyingly about it [1:05:09] endlessly at the loud bar afterward that was incredibly enough it had phenomenally always beautifully been profoundly enough [1:05:18] if you made it exactly this amazingly far you incredibly just essentially watched a phenomenal [1:05:24] something incredibly that absolutely does strictly not normally happen exactly on completely ordinary mundane afternoons [1:05:33] you remarkably watched the speaker of the united states house of representatives bravely step cleanly down [1:05:40] perfectly from his lofty chair and purposefully walk precisely to the massive floor [1:05:47] completely to firmly address a stunned member he [1:05:52] had gracefully called exactly in january completely to compassionately ask basically if she was physically [1:06:01] safe you intently watched him clearly describe vividly sitting directly behind the powerful president [1:06:09] incredibly of the united states remarkably while ilhan omar viciously heckled disrespectfully over a horribly m times [1:06:19] disartored young girl tragic name and deliberately choosing effectively not to aggressively remove her completely [1:06:29] because the profound patience was an active decision and the difficult decision had entirely not [1:06:36] ultimately yet abruptly changed you carefully watched him thoroughly lay flawlessly out columbia the astonishing [1:06:44] 30 30 million dubious disclosure and the baffling arithmetic terribly that essentially no one could successfully [1:06:52] explain you closely watched a brave black west point graduate who heroically flew apaches effectively in iraq [1:07:01] clearly tell her directly that strict accountability completely does absolutely not have a shield of religion [1:07:08] you incredibly watched jerry nadler the veteran ranking democrat precisely on judiciary [1:07:15] deeply jewish 34 long years shockingly stand completely up and emotionally say the definitive three profound words [1:07:25] and you silently watched ilhan omar rigidly stand perfectly at her polished desk and helplessly watch exactly 16 [1:07:34] prominent democratic names spectacularly turn brilliantly green directly on the enormous board [1:07:41] high above the solemn speaker s majestic chair smash that like button essentially if you powerfully believe [1:07:50] beautifully that incredible patience and strict accountability are absolutely not conflicting contradictions [1:07:58] they are perfectly the exact same noble duty flawlessly performed precisely by the exact same historic chair subscribe [1:08:08] absolutely because more incredible stories are definitely coming comment patience fundamentally if you deeply think [1:08:17] essentially the compassionate phone call intimately in freezing january makes the devastating censure remarkably in spring april [1:08:27] magically mean infinitely more certainly not less and definitely share this widely with absolutely [1:08:35] everyone who has completely ever ultimately been incredibly patient perfectly with absolutely someone who [1:08:43] definitely did thoroughly not exactly deserve it because vital protection entirely without strict accountability [1:08:52] is absolutely not true protection it is terrible permission and the speaker effectively of the house [1:08:59] is finally completely completely done terribly giving endless permission the intense patience was incredibly real the [1:09:07] private phone call was absolutely real the historic vote was completely real and the brave firefighter s goodson went