What the Media Will Never Tell You About the U.S. Capitol - Speaker Mike Johnson Gives Frank & Friends a Private Tour

I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST

Dr. Frank Turek

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

This week, Frank takes us behind the scenes of an exclusive, once-in-a-lifetime tour of the U.S. Capitol guided by Speaker Mike Johnson, who knows the history of our country, including its foundations in Judeo-Christian tradition. From hidden rooms and historic artifacts to conversations about faith, government, and America's founding principles, you'll get an insider's look at one of the most iconic buildings in the world!

Along with hearing some fun stories, you'll see:

Who else joined Frank on this exclusive tour and what were their biggest takeaways?
Why is a statue of Billy Graham inside the Capitol Crypt?
Is the Declaration of Independence a deistic or theistic document?
Where do our rights come from, and how does the media not know this?
What did Benjamin Franklin believe about God?
Where did the 6th President, John Quincy Adams, die? How did he influence the 16th President, Abraham Lincoln? And what important faith lesson did Speaker Johnson learn from the relationship?
The best photo op in all of Washington!
What sports memorabilia and priceless paintings are in the Speaker’s office?
Why did President Trump want to trade Jefferson for Polk, and how did the “Art of the Deal” become the “Deal of the Art”?
Why is there a bullet hole in the House Chamber ceiling?
What is Moses doing in the House Chamber?
What dangerous ideology threatens the foundations of Western civilization?
Why the Speaker thinks it’s important that Christians are informed and vote.
Why Americans should be grateful that we were born on third base.

You’ll also hear the most poignant letter anyone can write to a grieving mother. It was the letter President Lincoln wrote to Ms. Lydia Bixby– a woman who lost five sons in the Civil War.

As we remember the true meaning of Memorial Day and honor those who sacrificed their lives for our freedom here in America, meditate on the sacrifice of Jesus. He sacrificed his life for everyone--not only here on earth, but for eternity in heaven. Please share this one with others!

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, this is going to be fun.
0:05.0	You rarely get to do this.
0:08.0	I rarely get to do this to bring you along on kind of an inside tour, a private tour.
0:16.0	In fact, I've never had a private tour of the Capitol, but last week I had the opportunity
0:22.0	to get a private tour of the Capitol with none other than the Speaker of the House of Representatives
0:28.5	Mike Johnson. My friend Matthew Farachi is one of the producers of the Chosen and someone
0:36.1	who defends religious freedom and the pro-life
0:38.8	cause. And he invited me and about 30 other friends of his for this private tour with the
0:45.8	speaker. And typically, you don't obviously get to go with the speaker on a private tour.
0:51.3	And typically, you can't have it filmed, but a number of us had our
0:55.6	iPhones and they were, they enabled us to use the iPhone. So I want to take you along with us on this
1:02.7	private tour of the Capitol with speaker Mike Johnson. This is from Wednesday, May 20th. We started out with a meal in a old dining room
1:16.5	right there in the Capitol that is actually being renovated, the old house dining room.
1:22.5	And when Speaker Johnson came into the room, I was standing right near the doorway,
1:27.2	and he recognized me. I don't know how he recognized standing right near the doorway, and he recognized me.
1:28.3	I don't know how he recognized me. Well, I know how he recognized me. We have a great team that puts all of our content online, and it goes far and wide, and I guess the speaker has seen some of it.
1:40.7	He is an evangelical Christian. He calls himself a Southern Baptist. I'll tell you more about
1:45.4	him a little bit later. Anyway, we had a nice conversation before he got up to the podium. And one of
1:51.8	the things I said to him is I said that as an evangelical Christian involved in politics,
2:00.2	I'm very, I'm very emboldened and encouraged by someone like you,
2:08.4	who, like Charlie Kirk, was someone who would not talk about God in vague terms, but boldly
2:17.0	proclaim Jesus and the centrality of the gospel
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