Mike Johnson: Hakeem Jeffries and I ‘Have a Lot More in Common’ than Most Think

Sean Moran 10 May 20248

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) praised House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) in an interview with Politico, saying that he and the Democrat leader have “more in common than people might think.”

Johnson said about Jeffries:

    I have. Hakeem is a good man. We’ve worked well together. We have a lot more in common than people might think. You know, he’s from New York and I’m from Louisiana. While we have lots of disagreements on policies and the fine points of policy, I think you can appreciate people for who they are as a person. I think that’s what we’re called to do. And he and I both kind of share the worldview on that. I can appreciate that he’s a good family man. We have a lot in common in that regard. And he lost his father recently, I lost mine three days before I got elected to Congress. We’ve talked about that.

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    And I think what we’ve appreciated about one another is that I believe that when Hakeem Jeffries is telling me something, I believe he’s telling me the truth. I believe he is a man of his word. And I think he believes that about me as well. That’s a big thing in Washington. You know, trust is a rare commodity around here.
Johnson also said that he has found it “really refreshing” to know that Jeffries is “shooting straight.”

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/10/mike-johnson-hakeem-jeffries-have-lot-more-common-than-most-think/

I listen to a ton of em... though not really in the podcast/radio format. Most of em have a yootoob show, so I tend to watch em there. Religious stuff mostly in the daytime, and bushcraft/homesteader/farmer stuff at night... though the bushcraft/homsteader/farmer stuff is more vloggy/presentational.

 Israeli war cabinet green-lights military push into Rafah over Biden’s objections: report
By Social Links for Chris Nesi
Published May 10, 2024, 5:14 p.m. ET

Israel’s war cabinet has approved expanding its Hamas battle plan to include Rafah, a move that could soon see Israel Defense Forces enter the densely populated city, which the Jewish state claims is the last bastion for the terrorists.

The decision came fewer than 48 hours after President Biden — dismayed by the rising civilian death toll in Gaza — told CNN that the US would withhold munitions shipments from Israel if it invaded Rafah.

Two sources with knowledge of the details claim Israel’s adapted war plan constitutes a “measured expansion” that won’t encroach on Biden’s “red line” on Rafah, Axios reported.

But a third source told the outlet that the approved expansion plan could potentially be viewed by the US as crossing it.

A majority of the war cabinet also reportedly told Israeli negotiators working on hammering out a hostage exchange and ceasefire deal with Hamas to continue their efforts despite the “expansion of the area of operation” approved Thursday night.

Hawkish cabinet ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, who have urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to invade Rafah, voted to suspend negotiations, the outlet said.

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https://nypost.com/2024/05/10/world-news/israeli-war-cabinet-green-lights-military-push-into-rafah-over-bidens-objections-report/

I don't like most of Trump's family that much, that one daughter comes off to me as a spoiled princess. But the only Barron annoys me is the first name. He's just going to be an at-large delegate, it's not like he was running for office or anything. Mountain out of a molehill.

He isn't going to be anything. He wasn't asked whether he wanted to be a delegate in the first place, and he has declined the offer.

"I knew these vaccines were not going to protect against infection, and I think we overplayed the vaccines."
-Dr. Deborah Birx


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