hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing you day with us. the biden 2024 plan takes shape. the president will tour through what he calls america reborn, circling infrastructure as a big selling point and the new republican majority as a big target. two cities, two grand juries, two giant legal developments in the investigations of donald trump. if manhattan, prosecutors now reportedly presenting evidence about hush money payments. in washington, two witnesses in the classified documents case have testified under oath. plus, two more memphis police officers out. three memphis emts dismissed. tyre nichols family asks why now, what took so long, and what else might the city be hiding. a first for us though, the president on the road today, celebrating a past achievement and using it to shape the politics of this year and next. this hour, the president in new york to showcase a revamp of the rail tunnel burrowing under the
that kevin mccarthy has. the reason that they are not moving full speed ahead on the ilhan omar vote is because they may not have the votes to boot her off the committee. the speaker does not want a losing vote. that s a numbers problem. the reason that george santos is even still in the house or is, you know, allowed to persist and has not been under pressure from party leadership to resign is they need him. they need his number. they need his vote. he has proven that he will vote for kevin mccarthy as speaker. he will be, you know, sort of a vote when kevin mccarthy needs a vote. it is a key point in the sense you have many republican lawmakers who would like to say, okay, our majority is narrow but let s try to do something. let s take whatever leverage we have and try to use it against the democratic president to reduce spending, to change policy in areas where they have legitimate philosophic cal