🔰Mike Johnson will remain speaker, top Trump adviser predicts

A potential battle for the speaker's gavel looming as some of the GOP are doubtful about Mike Johnson's future. GOP Congressman Mike Lulov, though, warning of the hazards of not backing Johnson. These folks are playing with fire and if they think they're somehow going to get a more conservative speaker, they're kidding themselves. We can't get anything done unless we have a speaker, including certifying President Trump's election on Corey Lewandowski is a Trump 2024 senior official and was a Trump 2016 campaign manager and he joins us now. Corey, thanks for getting up with us. So what are your thoughts on this? I mean, could this cause problems if the Republicans don't back him? Well, I think it's very simple. Mike Johnson's going to be the next speaker of the House. I believe that Donald Trump is going to support him as the next speaker of the House. He's been a great partner for Donald Trump. There are very, very few people, if any, that are serving in Congress that would be able to do what Mike Johnson has been able to do, which is to keep a very, very small majority together to get big things done on behalf of America. So I believe this comes down to a one person decision. I agree with Congressman Lawler. There's nobody else is going to do this. And my prediction is that Mike Johnson is going to be the next speaker of the House. That's going to get done very quickly. Look, some people want to make some noise, but at the end of the day, he's the right man for this job. I mean, that is the question. If not Mike Johnson, then who? That said, that's not preventing people like Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massey from saying that he is not going to vote for Johnson. He's out. There's no way of getting him on board. If you listen to what he's been saying, several other Republicans remain undecided on Johnson's future. You see them right there on the right hand side of your screen, including Scott Perry. They're a very notable one as well. In your first answer, you kind of give the sense that Speaker Johnson is going to be reelected. But should we maybe not fully but partially prepare ourselves for a President Chuck Grassley, which is how the success and succession plan goes. If Trump ultimately is not certified and sworn in by January 20th, because that's quite a name to be in the presidency there, Corey. Well, listen, I have enormous respect for the longer serving U. S. Senator in country Chuck Grassley right now, the Senate pro tem. But but the reality is this. Donald Trump is going to be sworn in. The Republicans understand what's at stake here. We fought very hard over the course of the last four years to return Donald Trump back to the White House, and we're not gonna let a few rabble rousers say that he's not gonna have that privilege. So the American people have spoken. He's coming back to Washington D. C. With a mandate. That mandate is to make America great again. Mike Johnson is gonna be the person to make sure that that happens. And now that we've got a Republican U. S. Senate, we can actually implement the ideas that Donald Trump talked about in the campaign, which is closing our border, securing our nation and giving people the economic relief they deserve. So Mike Johnson's gonna be the next speaker. I have enormous respect for Senator Grassley, but I just don't think the people of this country voted for him. So let's put Donald Trump in the White House where he belongs. Corey, let's talk about some billionaires. Now they're cozying up to Trump with seven figure donations to his inauguration after previously feuding with him. The president elect received a million dollar donations from Amazon's Jeff Bezos met his Mark Zuckerberg and open A. I. S. Sam Altman. I mean, this is really no shock to me. I'm sure it isn't anybody else either. But isn't this what we want in a president is someone who feuds with people in the past and can have open dialogue and talk to them in the future? Well, you're exactly right. Listen, we have people on both sides of the political spectrum that have their difference of opinion, and most of these people didn't support Donald Trump. They were out either advocating for Vice President Harris or, you know, just staying on the sidelines. But now that Donald Trump is the president elect, he'll take office three weeks from today. What you're seeing is these individuals understand the importance of the most important job in the world, and they want to come and be part of that, or they're gonna get left behind. And look, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg don't even notice a million dollars. Unfortunately, they have such incredible wealth. It doesn't even fuel their yacht. So, you know, for them to write a seven figure check to the presidential inaugural committee to say that they're committed is a little bit of a fallacy. You know, I'm sure they could do much, much more. And their businesses, many of them have enormous contracts with the federal government. And so they're doing this from a strictly business perspective. We know what their real position is. We're happy that they're on the team, but let's not pretend that they're fans of Donald Trump all of a sudden. I think that's an important clarification. They are clearly doing this to curry favor in the most sort of unintrusive way possible. Here's a million dollars to your point, Corey. It matters nothing to them. But that said, it's good to see everybody kind of getting under the tent, maybe not fully under the tent, but at least one foot in. Yeah, I mean, Bezos wedding to Lauren Sanchez, like $600 million in Aspen. That's a drop in the hat. He denied it. He denied it. Corey Lewandowski, we appreciate your time. I'm Steve Ducey. I'm Brian Kilme. And I'm Ainsley Earhart. And click here to subscribe to the Fox News YouTube page to catch our hottest interviews and most compelling analysis.