speaker s chair. drennan dan crenshaw thought mike johnson is a stronger position based on moving this foreign aid package which summer publicans did not like but some said they need to get this aid to israel and some are steadfast in their arguments for ukraine. here s the speaker of the house, mike johnson. reporter: i don t walk around this building being worried about a motion to vacate. i have to do my job, we did. i ve done what i believe to be the right thing, to allow the house to work its way out and you do the right thing and let the chips fall where you may. reporter: mike johnson remains for now. the house designed the package in a way that each individual bill is melded into one plan for the senate which expects to align with the house next tuesday afternoon. paul: why did marjorie taylor greene pull the trigger on the motion to vacate? reporter: it s about the
paul: the majority of republicans come 112-101 voted against aid for ukraine and it is a betrayal because of the democratic votes. i don t think so. he was for ukraine aid. we won a bipartisan agreement on this aid and i think he was right to push it through. as he said after, he decided this is the right thing to do. i am astounded the republican objections, when i think of these aid bills i don t think ukraine is real and taiwan. they are enemies. letter putin s russia, hamas, and iran and china and i think the republicans were good, johnson was good to stand up for it and get the democrats on his side and it tells you marjorie taylor greene, if that was so true that there was such
the people who voted against zeroing out ukraine aid but didn t vote for the final package, they may have been eyeing the fact $20 billion to buy us weapons for us forces in that package and would not have wanted that to go down in the end. paul: what does this tell us about the republican party, seemed to be deeply divided at the grassroots and loud voices in the online media, talk radio and so on. does this tell you they don t control the republican party after all? they remain a minority and that s important for people to remember. it has ever been so. this isolationist streak is certainly there but if you look at all the votes that have come up on these issues through congress they remain undecided.