What is your response to Republicans who say this move
should cost you your job and that if you don't
resign,
they will try to oust you?
I am not resigning and it is.
It is, in my view,
an absurd notion that someone would bring a vacate motion
when we are simply here trying to do our jobs.
I regard myself as a as a wartime speaker.
I mean, in a literal sense,
we are. I knew that when I took the gavel.
I didn't anticipate that this would be an easy path.
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich posted a couple days ago on
his social media that.
This is the hardest challenge that's faced a speaker probably
in the history of the country and the moment we're
in right now,
he said. Arguably.
May be comparable to the Civil War,
but may be worse, a single vote margin at a
difficult time when the nation is terribly divided.
The way we get through that is we show unity
and we explain how we have answers to all these
great challenges.
We have those answers we shouldn't get in the way
of ourselves.