the question is, is....

[Mark Kohut]

half-watching the health care Finance Committee mark-up sessions, I heard
Sen Menendez, D. NJ, speak. He is fluent in Spanish as well as English, I believe. Maybe neither one is a second language. 

Anyway, in articulate English, he has Doc's verbal habit of saying, "the thing is, is....etc."...

So my question of the more bi-lingual and intermixed-living (those who have lived among natural Spanish/English speakers) Plisters is, does that verbal habit come more naturally if one speaks Spanish as well as English?
Due to verb construction or whatever?