Mike Johnson: 'We're Not At War Right Now'House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) insisted the United States attacks on Iran don't count as war."We're not at war right now," Johnson said Wednesday, moments after saying "they have declared war on us.""We are four days in to a very specific, clear mission, an operation," Johnson said, adding the operation had two objectives: to destroy Iran's ballistic missiles and to "take their Navy down." Johnson's remarks represent the latest in Republicans' and the Trump administration's shifting justifications for the Iran war, which have ranged from regime change, to the need to re-obliterate Iran's nuclear program, to a need to preempt an Iranian "imminent threat" against Israel or the U.S. Johnson spoke as the House prepares to vote this week on a War Powers resolution to stop the war -- an idea Johnson called "terrible" and "dangerous."See All UpdatesClose