This goes 16 minutes and it will drive you crazy. It’s House Speaker Mike Johnson being interrogated by NBC News’ Kristen Welker on Meet The Press Sunday with some of the stupidest questions you’ll ever see.

Welker is a partisan Democrat who’s masking that fact by asking “tough questions” to Johnson, but all she’s really doing is parroting Democrat narratives on the border.

Like, for example, when she accuses Johnson, who has said he’s not going to push this awful “border-security” bill which is full of non-starters like giving $2.3 billion in grants to the NGOs which a facilitating the border invasion in the first place so that they can continue running buses up through Central America and setting up transit camps all along the way, of standing in the way of fixing the border.

His response is that the House already passed a real border security bill nine months ago which did all of the things the Border Patrol union and the other security professionals have recommended. Those are the things Donald Trump did when he was president and illegal immigration had slowed to a trickle.

But, and Johnson doesn’t come right out and say this, and we wish he had, the House’s border bill was superfluous window dressing and virtue-signaling. It absolutely would have improved the situation, but only because it would have directly forced Joe Biden to do things he already has the power to do with respect to border security.

Like Remain in Mexico. Getting rid of Catch and Release. Mass deportations. And so on. We don’t need any legislation at all to shut this horror show down. All we need is a president who’s willing to enforce the law rather than facilitate a migrant invasion that holds the prospect of changing the demographics of the country.

Johnson does make that point. For his trouble he gets Welker arguing that executive orders will result in lawsuits. Which is just about as stupid and dishonest a point as it’s possible to make. For one thing, nothing changes with respect to those lawsuits if it’s Congress passing a bill as opposed to a presidential action. For another, all of the issues surrounding border security have already been litigated, and Trump won at the time.

Then she says that the House’s border bill was dead on arrival in the Senate, so why doesn’t Johnson work with the Senate on their bill. Which is the same as asking why he won’t just surrender to the least popular politicians in Washington.

Then she tries to play gotcha with Johnson about the impeachment of Alejandro Mayorkas, who has lied to Congress in every single appearance he’s made in front of them. She says “independent fact-checkers” have said Mayorkas is telling the truth, which isn’t the conclusion that the House’s investigators have come to.

Johnson does a good job of answering all this stuff, but he doesn’t get anywhere. This is very much the modern exposition of the old Mark Twain advice never to wrestle with a pig – you only get dirty, and the pig likes it.

Yes, this was us calling Kristen Welker a pig. We’re entitled; we had to sit through all 16:21 of this interview.