And the Good evening. It's Wednesday, October 25th. Welcome to a new episode of

System Update, our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7

Eastern exclusively here on rumble the free speech alternative to YouTube tonight

the House of Representatives today elected a new speaker of the House the

nation's 56th Speaker.

He is Republican Congressman Mike Johnson of Louisiana and he may be one of the least well

known members of Congress to be elected to the speakership in years if not in history, which to me is already a point in

his favor given the utter failure that has come from electing those

deemed next in line or those who have squirmed their way up the establishment

latter, all of whom by definition are craven partisan hacks who have mastered the art of

backroom deals and horse trading so thoroughly that there's really

anything left besides that. Back in July we interviewed Congressman now

House Speaker Johnson after he had spent the day grilling FBI director Christopher Witt Ray about the role

the FBI had played in pressuring big tech to censor the internet, the political speech of American

citizens.

Both from that hearing and then the interview we conducted with him after I walked away

as I said at the time quite impressed a constitutional lawyer by training Johnson's

harsh critiques and relentless questioning of the FBI director were very well informed, very clever, and clearly based in genuinely held convictions, something great in Washington, genuinely held convictions about the massive abuses of power perpetrated by the

U.S. security state especially when it came to interference in our domestic

politics. But it goes without saying there's a lot more to being a speaker than just being able to flourish on a handful of issues.

Mike Johnson has just become the most powerful person in the Congress and third in line to the presidency.

And so what Mike Johnson thinks about matters of war and peace, especially now, is of the utmost

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