Mike Johnson actually said...

"We want to damage the President. We want to talk about your private conversations."

"If my friends on the other side of the aisle of this committee wanted to do a confirmation hearing, they just ought to said it up front, and if they want to do a confirmation hearing as Senators, run ..."

"I really hoped that my friends across the aisle would have used this opportunity for more bipartisanship and less showmanship, but clearly I was wrong."

"This is not a confirmation hearing. This is a Department of Justice oversight hearing, supposedly."