Speaker mike johnson and walk trump will make a public appearance with johnson, a big question is, will he give the Speaker A Public show of support . Johnson is facing a serious its challenge to his leadership. Gop congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene is Still Standing firm on her threat to force a vote to remove johnson as Speaker Trump and johnson are expected to deliver remarks on wait for it election, integrity. Remember, johnson played a key role in trumps efforts to overturn the logit jim, it results of the 2020 election. We are told the two are planning to draw attention to alleged efforts to allow ncitizens to vo. Wehould note currently federal law bans noncitizens from voting in federal elections if they do, which th often do not, they riskajor fines up to a year in prison and rtees i want to bring in cnns melani what more do we know about why speaker johnson feels that he needs to go marao to kiss theing mieah. Brianna, this is a big ment for speaker joson, on the line right
walks back into the capital, can he sell to his conference a respectful relationship with someone who many want to impeach? it s going to be a tough sell. we saw it with the speakership battle, he has an entire contingency of republicans that want to just go after the biden administration. some suggest they don t want to support raising the debt ceiling at all. if they re taking this tone, it s a good sign. i also think it sounds a little too rosie because time here is important. when you start having the pressure cooker getting in, that s when you have mccarthy in his best position to push biden, but neither want the impact of the economy landing on them. i don t know. they re talking a very good game. we ll see if that sticks. part of the subject here in this relationship, as you pointed out, phil, these are not
that s a deal and what most democrats are saying, they don t want to make a deal on this. they want to raise the debt ceiling and make sure that the u.s. doesn t go where it s never gone before. nicolle, it s a test for mccarthy, the first real pinch point for him and the one that we knew was coming. but if the herding cats of the speakership battle told us anything, that that is what we re in for too. and what ways did mccarthy weaken the speakership in ways that make this negotiation more difficult for him. when you look at that battle for him to become speaker and his decision to go to the floor, not once, not twice, but obviou lose, it just shows you he has a different frame of reference when it comes to leadership than speaker nancy pelosi, who the former speaker said, you never go to the floor if you don t have the votes. the interesting thing to watch is, how does mccarthy handle the
the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol was the largest domestic terrorist attack and what did marjorie taylor greene say about that attack? if she was in charge, we would have won. that s alarming. the committee oversees election security. she tried to overturn an election. it receives very sensitive intelligence. in the past she s accused the intelligence community of running deep state operations against americans. you worry what she ll do with the information she gets on that committee. donald trump is always a phone call away. she s in regular touch with him as we ve seen from pictures on the house floor during kevin mccarthy s speakership battle. republicans have placed six people who question the results of the 2020 election on homeland security, seven more on the