In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) tells Kristen Welker about how he plans to implement President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda and reacts to the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) vowed that there will be “hell to pay” if Hamas violates the ceasefire deal struck recently with Israel. Johnson joined NBC News’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, saying he was hopeful about the truce announced last week.

House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday there will be “hell to pay” if the Palestinian militant group Hamas violates any of the terms of its cease-fire deal with Israel.

Representative Rick Crawford will be the next House Intelligence Committee chair, following his colleague Mike Turner’s unceremonious removal by Speaker Mike Johnson Wednesday.

Relatives and friends of people killed and abducted by Hamas and taken into Gaza, react while photographs of about-to-be-freed hostages Romi Gonen, Doron Steinbrecher and Emily Damari appear on the screen in Tel Aviv on Jan. 19, 2025. | Oded Balilty/AP

The House speaker has reportedly bowed to Donald Trump in deciding to remove Mike Turner from his committee leadership spot.

Unlike past incoming presidents, Trump knows how to get his agenda done because he already had one term sitting in the Oval Office.

“Fox News Sunday” — Sen. Dave McCormick, R-Pa.; Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla.; Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Herzog.

The ICC is actually equating Israel and Hamas, even as Hamas still holds Israelis and American hostages. It is just absurd,” the House Speaker said.

President Donald Trump, center, takes part in a signing ceremony in the President's Room after the 60th Presidential Inauguration, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Surrounding the president are,

Rep. Elise Stefanik is likely to face questions at her confirmation hearing to become the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations about her lack of foreign policy experience, her strong support for Israel and her views on funding the U.

U.S. President Donald Trump (L) delivers remarks after being sworn in as the 47th president of the United States in an inauguration ceremony in the rotunda of the United States Capitol on Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C.