Ron Johnson

I remember four years ago saying, at this time slot, the four years ago, saying after Charlottesville that Donald Trump is a terrorist sympathizer. The way that he talked about what happened in Charlottesville, the guy is a terrorist…

I think it is extremely important to create an accurate historical record of exactly what happened so the false narrative of thousands of armed insurrectionists doesn’t last.

We've seen plenty of video of people in the Capitol. And they weren't rioting. They don't -- it doesn't look like an armed insurrection when you have people that breached the Capitol, and I don't condone it, but they're staying within the…

From my standpoint, that amendment should have passed 100 to zero.

I have to admit I am shocked that now the fact that yesterday and today you are conceding the fact that it is going to get built.

I was part of the effort led by Senator Cruz and Senator Shaheen to impose sanctions to stop the building of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

Now you are engaged in further discussions with Iran. I have my doubts that you will end up with a better agreement.

I knew those were people that love this country, that truly respect law enforcement, would never do anything to break a law.

I think our hyper partisan politics is driving all of this.

The portrayal of January 6 has been highly biased. I don`t think it`s been particularly accurate.

It just didn't seem isn't like an armed insurrection to me.

By and large, it was all -- it was peaceful protests.

The fact of the matter is even calling it an insurrection, it wasn’t. You know, I condemn the breach, I condemn the violence. But to say there were thousands of armed insurrectionists breaching the Capitol, intent on overthrowing the…

We have not made any move whatsoever, for example, to purchase and put in place large power transformers that are incredibly vulnerable to either EMP attack or potentially a GMD event.

I think we have politicized the threats we face, and we are not keeping our eye on the ball on the things that really represent a real threat to this Nation, which right now border security is probably the number one, and we are ignoring…

Isn't that a threat? Isn't that an enormous threat?

I condemned what happened here on January 6th, but I condemn as well the more than 500 riots that occurred during the summer.

I condemn white supremacists. I condemn any act of violence. I do not categorize it whether it is right-wing, left-wing. I condemn violence.

We are supposed to concentrate on domestic terrorism as the greatest threat? Again, it is not.

We lose 70,000 people a year on drug overdoses.

What the Trump administration did is they ended the incentives, so they put in place Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP).

It does seem like we are in an utter state of denial.

This is as close to open borders as we could possibly have.

It is galling, quite honestly, to hear that this is a crisis inherited by this administration.

The surge started in April 2020.