Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) vowed that there will be “hell to pay” if Hamas violates the ceasefire deal struck recently with Israel. Johnson joined NBC News’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, saying he was hopeful about the truce announced last week.

House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday there will be “hell to pay” if the Palestinian militant group Hamas violates any of the terms of its cease-fire deal with Israel.

In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) tells Kristen Welker about how he plans to implement President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda and reacts to the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.

“Fox News Sunday” — Sen. Dave McCormick, R-Pa.; Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla.; Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Herzog.

The House speaker has reportedly bowed to Donald Trump in deciding to remove Mike Turner from his committee leadership spot.

Unlike past incoming presidents, Trump knows how to get his agenda done because he already had one term sitting in the Oval Office.

President-elect Trump is officially returning to Washington, set to be inaugurated on Monday for his second term in the White House as the Republican Party trifecta takes form. Congress is set to

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Relatives and friends of people killed and abducted by Hamas and taken into Gaza, react while photographs of about-to-be-freed hostages Romi Gonen, Doron Steinbrecher and Emily Damari appear on the screen in Tel Aviv on Jan. 19, 2025. | Oded Balilty/AP

The once and future President is back to wielding leverage like a club, in the Middle East and on Capitol Hill.

WHAT DOES THIS SAY ABOUT BIDEN: Tom Malinowski, former Democratic New Jersey representative, had some interesting thoughts about Biden’s and Trump’s relative strengths and weaknesses when it came to the Israel-Hamas truce. Malinowksi, a former assistant secretary of state in the Obama administration, wrote:

Pam Bondi, Donald Trump’s nominee for the next U.S. attorney general, refused to give a basic yes or no answer, during her confirmation hearing Wednesday, regarding her views on birthright citizenship, which is etched into the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution.