WASHINGTON – House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner, R-Ohio, was abruptly fired from his role by House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday, prompting concerns from some members about President-elect Donald Trump's approach to intervening in Congressional affairs.

Commenting to reporters, Johnson deflected blame away from the returning president, saying, “This is not a President Trump decision; this is a House decision.” He also said the decision was “no slight” to Turner, who had “performed valiantly in a difficult time under difficult circumstances.”

WASHINGTON – House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner ... to intervening in Congressional affairs. Turner told CBS News' Margaret Brennan that Johnson cited "concerns from Mar-a ...

Dayton, has been ousted from his position as chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, R-Dayton has been ousted from his position as chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, according to to several national media reports.

House Speaker Mike Johnson removed Rep. Mike Turner from his position as chair of the House Intelligence Committee.

House Speaker Mike Johnson recently removed the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, but promised he was not ordered to do so by Donald Trump. | TAG24

The once and future President is back to wielding leverage like a club, in the Middle East and on Capitol Hill.

WASHINGTON – House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner, R-Dayton, was abruptly fired from his role by House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday, prompting concerns from some members about President-elect Donald Trump's approach to intervening in Congressional affairs.

Rubio said that after three years of fighting the Ukraine and Russia are deadlocked in “a war of attrition, a stalemate of protracted conflict,” and the only way out is a negotiated ceasefire, with some form of security guarantees for what would effectively leave Ukraine as a rump state.

WHAT DOES THIS SAY ABOUT BIDEN: Tom Malinowski, former Democratic New Jersey representative, had some interesting thoughts about Biden’s and Trump’s relative strengths and weaknesses when it came to the Israel-Hamas truce. Malinowksi, a former assistant secretary of state in the Obama administration, wrote: