The House speaker's move comes after he removed Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, a defense hawk who advocated for providing aid to Ukraine, from the post.

Speaker Mike Johnson said Donald Trump wasn't involved in the decision to oust the Intelligence Committee chair. There's reason to believe otherwise.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will not make Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) chair of the House Intelligence Committee in the 119th Congress, a source familiar with the decision confirmed to The Hill. Turner had been the top Republican on the committee,