Fox’s Cavuto to Speaker Johnson: Are You Weaponizing the House the Same Way You Say Democrats Are Weaponizing the DOJ?

CAVUTO: “You know, there’s a sort of pessimism that it begins to develop, Mr. Speaker, that both sides are just playing this political game, a tit-for-tat game. What comes to mind is some of these actions that you have led post the Donald Trump convictions where conservatives want a floor vote on a bill that would allow current or former presidents to move any state case to a federal court. I know Jim Jordan has hinted at denying federal funding for state prosecutors investing — investigating Donald Trump, measures that probably won’t go very far. So why do them?”

Johnson: “Well, because we have a responsibility here. You know, Congress has very particular duties under the Constitution. We have the responsibility of oversight, and that’s what we’ve been engaging in. We have the responsibility to legislate and to appropriate. And when you’re talking about funding for rogue prosecutors and offices like Alvin Bragg, who by some estimates, our early estimates, he received almost a million dollars of federal taxpayer funds in the last year to do what? To have politicized prosecutions of a political opponent of his party. He ran on that. That was the premise of his election to district attorney.”

CAVUTO: “No, I certainly understand where you’re coming from, Mr. Speaker, but are you weaponizing the House the same way?”

Johnson: “No.”

CAVUTO: “You say Democrats were weaponizing the DoJ to get what they wanted. Are you just doing it in a bigger platform, the entire House of Representatives?”

Johnson: “No. No, there is a very clear distinction between what we are doing and what they have done, and weaponizing the judicial system. They’re undermining the people’s faith in our institutions, our system of justice itself. What we’re doing, Neil, is the opposite. We are trying to adhere to the rule of law. We are trying to use the authority and the responsibility that we have in Congress to ensure that people can trust our justice system. It’s absolutely essential to maintain a constitutional republic, and they are undermining the public’s faith in that. We are here to hold the line and say no, the rule of law has to be adhered to, and we can’t have rogue prosecutors using our courts for political vendettas. And that’s exactly what they’re doing to Donald Trump. And I can tell you that people around this country see that clearly. I’ve been — I’ve traveled now to 100 — done events in 123 cities in 29 states in the last six and a half months. Everywhere I go, Neil — east, west, north, south — it’s the same. There’s an energy out there because people are fed up with this and they see that the Democrats and the far left have pushed this pendulum too far. It’s going to begin to swing back and we have to do our job here in Congress to assist with that, to hold these people accountable and to ensure that the law is being adhered to. That’s the effort that you’ll see play out here in the coming weeks.”