"[Y]ou didn't answer it earlier this week, Sorkin said. And I think in a moment like this, when the country sees something like this and then sees the president make these comments, and then you were asked about them and didn't comment on them. So, I wanted to hear your thoughts."
"Well, I did comment at length, Johnson replied. They just didn't replay that part. No surprise here, Capitol Hill press corps. But what I said was straight from the heart. I heard about it coming out of an event in the morning when the news broke. And my comment was that, I mean, obviously it's an unspeakable family tragedy. And the Reiner family, I mean, just a horrible thing to think of."
"SORKIN: But what about the president's comments, Speaker? I think you can hold two ideas in your head at the same time, and say that you can praise the president about many things, and you can condemn the president's comments about certain things. And in this case, I'm asking you about that."
President Donald Trump claimed filmmaker Rob Reiner, who was found stabbed to death alongside his wife Michele Singer Reiner, suffered from “Trump Derangement Syndrome” and implied Reiner bore responsibility for his own murder. Their son Nick Reiner has been charged with first-degree murder. CNBC host Andrew Ross Sorkin pressed House Speaker Mike Johnson about the president’s comments on Squawk Box. Johnson said he had already commented but that portions were not replayed and described the killings as an unspeakable family tragedy, even citing scripture. Johnson avoided directly condemning the president, suggesting one can both praise and criticize the president’s statements.
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