Mike Johnson says he made small talk with Kamala Harris by asking her if her parents are alive, and claimed he was “practicing his ‘poker-face’”. Since 2018, Mike Johnson has received campaign funds from Texas Ethane mostly owned by Russian Konstantin Nikolaev, friend of Putin who was once his transportation minister.
Speaker Mike Johnson: Look, there's a lot of memes going around tonight about my facial expressions, I didn't like the speech ... there wasn't much I could do about that, I guess I didn't hide that very well.
Johnson: I was prepared to introduce him but he jumped in there and began his speech. I didn't want to interrupt the president. It wasn't the speaker of the house that missed his cue, it was the president.