good. and cnn this morning continues right now. suspicious letters were sent to election offices, potentially laced with fentanyl. just bringing fear to these election workers who are just trying to do the right thing. this is domestic terrorism. speaker mike johnson is struggling to come up with a plan to avoid a government shutdown. i think there s a honeymoon period here, might be shorter than we thought. the house is out of session, the senate is out of session. nobody is here. these folks represent the eyes and ears of mar-a-lago. just regular people working these kind of day jobs. the former president went, quote, ballistic. a political decision was made by a very politicized department. if i m a prosecutor, this is the best case scenario. the shakeup that could very well shift the entire balance of power in the senate. i will not be running for reelection. we ll see where he goes from here. democrats have no margin for error. joe manchin doe
the speaker shares procedural power with the democrats it is true that when republicans are not united, when we don t have our, when we don t have people backing in the speaker s play, then you do give a certain amount of power over to the minority. it s amazing to me. i mean, i tried to be a pretty good teammates. when you ve got a quarterback in the huddle with the 11th football players as gang, it s gonna be a running play. now it may be that somebody on the offensive line disagrees with that play call, but if you want to be successful as a team, you run the dam play. not all 11 players get to call their own play and now you can try it that way, but you re going to fail. and so that s the situation we re in right now. i wish people understood that we could get more conservative policy wins, which i desire if republicans stuck together i want to play something that you told my colleague, john berman, just days after the republicans, eight republicans ousted kevin mccarthy back in