Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) gave backup to President Trump when asked about the president vowing to begin testing nuclear weapons for the first time since 1992.

“The commander in chief wants us to be fully prepared. We are the last great superpower on the earth. China intends to be a near peer-to-peer advisory to us. But in order to maintain peace around the world, you have to show strength, and that’s what the president believes in. That’s what he’s demonstrated over and over,” Johnson told reporters Thursday morning.

“So the idea that he would make a public statement stating that he would want our nuclear arsenal to be fully prepared, it’s a deterrent, and that’s an important show of force for us,” Johnson said.

On Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed the Kremlin had resumed nuclear weapons testing and by Wednesday said they’d successfully tested........

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