Speaker Johnson calls Biden 'off script' with threats to pull Israel support: 'I hope it’s a senior moment'

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said President Biden's caller menace to withhold munitions shipments to Israel was wholly unexpected and astir apt "off script."

Biden said successful a Wednesday CNN interrogation that his medication volition halt munitions shipments to Israel if the federation continues with plans to invade the city of Rafah.

"My absorption honestly was — 'Wow, that is simply a implicit crook from what I person been told adjacent in, you know, caller hours," Johnson told Politico successful a Wednesday nighttime interview. 

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks arsenic Republican statesmanlike campaigner erstwhile President Donald Trump listens during a quality league astatine Mar-a-Lago successful Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

"I mean, 24 hours agone it was confirmed to maine by apical medication officials that the policy’s precise antithetic than what helium stated there," helium continued. "So I anticipation that’s a elder moment."

The House Speaker said helium was already troubled by reports that U.S. enactment to Israel could beryllium delayed earlier Biden's interview. He told Politico that Biden medication officials dismissed his concerns and said delays were occurring with anterior tranches of weapons, not assistance precocious passed by the House.

Johnson speculated that Biden's comments whitethorn person been a "senior moment" and astatine likelihood with the remainder of the administration's plans.

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Israeli soldiers thrust a vessel astatine a staging crushed adjacent the borderline with the Gaza Strip successful confederate Israel. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

"I judge he’s disconnected script," Johnson said. "I don’t deliberation that’s thing that unit told him to say. I anticipation it’s a elder moment, due to the fact that that would beryllium a large deviation successful what is said to beryllium the argumentation there."

Biden told CNN’s Erin Burnett successful the Wednesday interrogation that civilian deaths successful Gaza person fixed him intermission connected supplying weapons for the planned Rafah invasion.

"Civilians person been killed successful Gaza arsenic a effect of those bombs and different ways successful which they spell aft colonisation centers," the president said.

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"I made it wide that if they spell into Rafah — they haven’t gone successful Rafah yet — if they spell into Rafah, I’m not supplying the weapons that person been utilized historically to woody with Rafah, to woody with the cities — that woody with that problem," Biden said.

Fox News Digital's Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this report.