Mike Johnson: “I appreciate you giving me the opportunity today to provide input for the fiscal year 2018 defense appropriations.”

That is what's going to happen.

I need to tell the White House what some of my colleagues think about that, and not everybody is in favor of the idea.

We've got to think through the policy implications of all that.

If, heaven forbid, we lost the majority, I would expect my colleagues would call upon me to continue to lead the conference in divided government.