House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) addressed criticism that he only works to appease President Donald Trump, telling Politico’s Dasha Burns he frequently tells the president, “no.”

In a clip from The Conversation with Dasha Burns podcast, she began, “You know the criticism of you, that people think that you’ve ceded basically all congressional authority to President Trump.”

“But, like, do you ever tell him no?” Burns asked. “Because [Sen. John] Thune has had to do that publicly a lot more.”

“I do it privately, that’s the whole point,” Johnson scoffed, adding, “I roll my eyes at these ridiculous headlines” saying Trump regularly steamrolls him.

Burns continued, “Can you tell me, like, when’s the time you’ve told him no, or you’ve walked him off the ledge or something? I know these are private conversations, but is there an example?”

“Sometimes I talk to the president four times a day,” Johnson said. “He’s an ideas guy, as you know. He’s constantly pitching, discussing, taking ideas, processing them, coming up with ideas of his own.”

“You ever say, ‘Mr. President, that’s a crazy idea. Don’t do that?'” Burns asked.

“Yes!” Johnson exclaimed, “We have a very close relationship, and I talk him out of it, but I don’t make — that’s the, look — every president, every commander in chief needs people around him who will say what he needs here, not just what he wants to hear. And I’m that guy. And so we — there’s many times when we disagree.”

“You’re that guy?” asked an incredulous Burns.

“Yes! But we’re in the same party. The voters delivered to us again unified government,” Johnson said. “They expect us to work as a well-oiled machine because we have so much to fix. I don’t air grievances with the president in public; I do it behind closed door. I think that’s the most efficient and effective way to do it. One day I could write a five-volume set about the things we’ve disagreed on.”

Watch the clip above via The Conversation with Dasha Burns podcast on YouTube.

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Ohio Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) called for embattled Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) to drop his reelection bid amid allegations from his ex-wife that he abused her and their young daughter. Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) called Miller a “degenerate sociopath” in a statement urging him to exit the race released shortly before Husted’s comments.

Miller’s ex-wife, Emily Moreno, is the daughter of Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH), who has also called on Miller to step aside in recent days amid a heated public spat with Miller. Emily Moreno has accused Miller of physical and emotional abuse, including scalding her with hot water, holding a gun to her head, and breaking their infant daughter’s collarbone. Miller has vehemently denied the charges and sued his ex-wife for defamation.

“Anyone who commits domestic violence is not fit to serve in Congress. The House Ethics Committee should thoroughly investigate any credible allegations, and any member found to have committed domestic violence should resign from Congress immediately,” Husted wrote in a statement.

Husted is currently in a tough reelection battle against former Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) as Democrats appear poised to make gains in the solid red state come November. Miller, a former aide to President Donald Trump, has rocked his state party with the ongoing scandal and his refusal to drop out of the race.

“I know both Max Miller and Emily Moreno, as well as their families. I am deeply saddened that their personal lives have become such a public matter, especially as it relates to their daughter, Ruthie,” continued the senator, adding:

One thing they both seem to agree on is that Ruthie’s best interests should come first. Those interests will not be served by litigating these matters in public, but by addressing them privately.

Given everything they are facing, I do not see how a campaign for Congress benefits any of them. I believe Max would be making the right decision to step aside as a candidate and resign from Congress to focus on what is in the best interest of his daughter. Years from now, I believe he will look back and know it was the right choice for her.

I hope this decision leads to a more constructive conversation about Ruthie’s future and gives Max and Emily the opportunity, as private citizens, to do what is best for their daughter. My prayers are with them and their family.

Other Republican Senators have called for Miller to step aside.

Sheehy, echoing calls from Sens. Katie Britt (R-AL) and Roger Marshall (R-KS), released a scathing statement on Thursday saying:

What kind of person would treat their daughter this way? This guy is clearly a degenerate sociopath.

“Max should step aside and seek help. Staying in this race makes it far more likely we lose this seat and hand Democrats a majority to impeach President Trump,” Sheehy added.

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Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) couldn’t have been responsible for the broken collarbone his two-year-old suffered, he told Newsmax anchor Rob Finnerty on Wednesday, because he only watched her for two days during the period in which the injury occurred.

“Well, what I can tell you is that I didn’t do that, and the nine out of 11 previous days was within my ex-wife’s care,” Miller said when asked how the injury happened.

He continued:

What’s so troubling about Child Protective Services, Rob, is that my daughter was never seen personally by a doctor from CPS. What they did is they looked at a photo. What I can tell you that two separate individuals ,who are, one, our parent coordinator, and another doctor helps us, Emily [Moreno] and ourselves, manage these issues.

They both attributed this injury to our daughter falling out of the crib in Emily’s care, and then that’s why she took her to the emergency room without telling me, and then therefore CPS investigation was opened. But she was only in my care for two of those 11 days.

The state’s OhioMeansJobs website does not indicate that Ohio CPS directly employs doctors.

Miller is on a campaign to distance himself from serious allegations of domestic violence against both his ex-wife and their infant daughter. On Tuesday, his attorney Aaron Minc apologized for accidentally releasing sensitive photos of the toddler, including one that could be classified as “Child Sexual Abuse Material.”

“I am solely responsible for what happened,” Minc later said. “I was the only person responsible for assembling, creating, reviewing, adding, deleting, redacting, or making any changes to the information and files that were in this folder.”

Moreno has accused Miller of having “scalded her chest and stomach by throwing hot water from a skillet at her body; held a gun to her head; pushed her against a wall and hit her head; and fractured their daughter’s collarbone and bruised her shoulder.”

Miller denies the allegations and said this week he will file to open a House Ethics investigation into himself to prove his innocence.

“In light of all the renewed interest in my family affairs I am going to file my own paperwork for an ethics investigation into myself to clear my name from these horrific attacks on myself and family. I have absolutely nothing to hide,” Miller wrote on social media Tuesday.

Watch the above via Newsmax.

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A construction worker who gave his name as Kama knocks out Democratic Congressional candidate Kirill Basin in a now viral beach brawl in Maui. Screenshot

A Democratic Congressional candidate in Hawaii was sitting behind bars instead of handing out campaign flyers after getting knocked out cold in a now viral beach brawl.

Kirill Basin — who is running against incumbent Rep. Jill Tokuda (D-HI) — was sunbathing Saturday in South Kihei when someone asked him to turn down his music, according to TMZ.

Basin allegedly argued with the couple who made the request and lost his cool, video of the encounter showed.

“He’s a child, he’s a child,” a woman can be heard saying in the clip.

“I’m a child? I’m 40 f*cking years old,” he raged before getting in her face.

“Well, you should act like it!” she responds.

“I will put you in the f*cking ground,” he seethed. “You will be in the f*cking hospital.”

He spits a profanity at the woman and starts to walk away as children can be heard in the background — then gets confronted by a bigger man, according to footage of the encounter at Mana Kai Maui hotel at Keawakapu Beach, in Maui.

Things got violent from there, according to the video.

The men briefly exchange words before Basin tries to shove the larger man, who mops the floor — or, sand — with him.

“Let’s go! Let’s go!” the man tells Basin, who gets up from the ground and grabs a beach chair before swinging it at his opponent.

The Democrat never had a chance, as the man knocked him down again before the chair made contact, apparently delighting witnesses, including one who proclaimed, “Chair thrower!” and another who said, “Lights out bro!”

The woman Basin exchanged words with can be heard letting out a loud laugh.

The bigger man puts his hand on Basin’s chest, telling him, “Wake up!” before putting his finger in the candidate’s face and telling him: “Watch your f*cking mouth, Haole boy.”

The term is a slur in Hawaii used to reference someone of non-Hawaiian descent.

The candidate was later arrested on two counts of first-degree terroristic threatening and held on $1 million bail, according to Hawaii News Now.

Authorities accused Basin of threatening to shoot the woman and threatening people with a knife. Basin’s attorney denied the man had a knife.

The good Samaritan told Hawaii News Now he watched as Basin became more unhinged.

“I’m like, maybe I should intervene, and then as I got closer and closer, he was just getting more irate and violent and then saying stuff. ‘I’m going to hurt you’ or ‘I can injure you’ or ‘You like scrap’ to the aunties,” Kama told the outlet.

“He put his hands on me and as soon as he tried to shove me, I hit him with a left and a right, and that’s when he stumbled and fell over the chairs,” Kama said.

The beach chair didn’t stop the construction worker from making sure Basin stopped his antics.

“Just block it and go for the KO. Just protect myself, which is why I had my hand up, and then I adjusted to block the chair,” said the dad, who said he had mixed martial arts training.

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