Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) is chosen as the House Republicans' Speaker Designate.
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00:00 Mike! Mike! Mike! Mike! Mike! Mike! Mike! Mike! Mike! Mike! Mike! Mike! Mike! Mike! Mike!
00:08 Plug in the mic! Mic!
00:21 You good, TV?
00:25 Probably when the audio gets fixed, yeah.
00:29 What color do you have in you?
00:31 Um, 2400.
00:33 We want to thank all the press for waiting. It's been quite a process.
00:39 What?
00:40 Democracy is messy sometimes, but it is our system.
00:45 This conference that you see, this House Republican majority, is united.
00:50 [applause]
01:01 I'm honored to have the support of my colleagues, and what they understand about this is this is servant leadership.
01:07 We're going to serve the people of this country.
01:09 We're going to restore their faith in this Congress, this institution of government.
01:14 America is the last, best hope of man on the earth.
01:17 Abraham Lincoln said it, Ronald Reagan used to remind us all the time, and we're here to remind you of that again.
01:23 We're going to restore your trust in what we do here.
01:27 You're going to see a new form of government, and we are going to move this quickly.
01:30 This group here is ready to govern.
01:33 We're going to govern well. We're going to do what's right by the people.
01:36 And I believe the people are going to reward that next year.
01:39 But we have a lot of big priorities ahead of us right now.
01:41 The world is on fire.
01:43 We stand with our ally, Israel.
01:46 [applause]
01:55 We have a very busy agenda.
01:56 We have appropriations bills to get through the process, but you're going to see this group working like a well-oiled machine.
02:03 We owe that to the American people.
02:05 The people up here have been sent here by the people of this country to do this job, and we are going to do it well.
02:11 We commit that to you.
02:12 Thank you for allowing us to go through the process and get to this.
02:16 It was worth it, and we are going to serve you well.
02:19 [applause]
02:32 The intention is to go to the House floor tomorrow and make this official,
02:35 and so we will be doing that, and if there are any questions, we'll take a couple, but we're all pretty weird.
02:40 [laughter]
02:43 The intention is to go at noon tomorrow.
02:47 How many votes did you get?
02:49 All of them.
02:50 All of them.
02:51 All of them.
02:52 [laughter]
02:54 Yeah, we have some folks absent, and I'll be working with them tonight.
02:57 [inaudible]
03:00 I don't know.
03:01 Were there any questions?
03:02 We're united.
03:03 We're united.
03:04 [applause]
03:08 Mr. Johnson, you helped D.D. Eckers to overturn the 2012 election.
03:12 [laughter]
03:24 I am very confident.
03:26 [applause]
03:36 One more? One more question?
03:37 Yeah, why don't you give more room for the cameras, not the still, for the people who are taking the video?
03:47 [laughter]
03:50 Sol, you all right?
03:51 [inaudible]
03:57 Any other questions?
03:59 [applause]
04:18 Thank you, guys.
04:19 I said thank you.
04:28 Thank you guys, please head out.