On conservative host Benny Johnson’s show Monday, the senator resurrected a debunked assertion that a building in the center that was not among the twin towers directly hit by terrorist-commandeered passenger jets could not have collapsed on its own and was felled by a “controlled demolition.” Meaning it was perhaps an inside or government job.

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) rebuked Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) on Tuesday evening for “peddling conspiracy theories” about the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Johnson, in an interview