republicans could not avert a lot of internal chaos. in fact, friday was a very, very bad day for house speaker mike johnson. not only is johnson facing a looming battle over his speakership, thanks to the motion to vacate filed by marjorie taylor greene, he is also dealing with a dwindling house majority, with wisconsin congressman mike gallagher announcing plans to leave congress next month. republicans will soon be able to lose just one vote, if all democrats put together on legislation. joining us now, mariana sotomayor, congressional reporter from the washington post. welcome. i have to ask you, is there more frustration in the republican caucus with marjorie taylor greene or speaker johnson? i would say, with marjorie taylor greene. it s something that i heard from even far right members of the house freedom caucus. they are not taking this too seriously, simply because, as many republicans pointed out, she is someone who seeks attention, so it will be interesting t
welcome back to the weekend. ascended dustbowl the senate approved a sending the bill to biden. while congress averted a government shutdown, house republicans could not avert chaos. friday was a very, very bad day for house digger mike johnston. not only is johnson now facing a looming battle to vacate marjorie taylor greene, he is also dealing with the dwindling house majority with wisconsin congressman mike gallagher announcing plans to leave congress next month. republicans will soon be able to lose just one vote if all democrats vote together on legislation. joining us now congressional for the national post. mariana, i have to ask you, is there more frustration in the republican caucus with marjorie taylor greene or speaker johnson? i would say marjorie taylor greene. it is something i heard from even far right member from the house freedom caucus that they re not taking this too seriously. simply because as many republicans pointed out, she is someone who s
the president makes it official. he s running for re-election. we made a lot of progress. let s finish the job. most voters think he s still better than the alternative. plus historic testimony. this is an astonishing moment in our legal and political history. like pence testified before a grand jury investigating trump s efforts to overturn the election. are prosecutors moving closer to indicting the former president? and desantis versus disney. the days of putting one company on a pedestal are over. the would-be presidential candidate may have picked a fight he can t win. so why doesn t he just let it go, let it go welcome to inside politics, i m manu raju in for abby phillip. this morning president biden wakes up marking the end of his very first week as an official 2024 candidate. biden launched his re-election bid on tuesday setting up a battle which he must convince voters that he deserves to remain in the white house for another four years. now
Me he needs to negotiate and people like mitt romney calling saying they ll stick with the house republican position and demand this negotiation. can the white house sustain that level of pressure? that is the key question around this. i think we see an increasing amount of that moderate slice of democrats trying to bring the white house to the negotiating table but that is not the party at large. they re trying to allow prooish president biden to maintain that position and as the default gets closer an the fear that democrats will be blamed for any type of financial economic downturn, that would put an increased set of pressure on the white house to come to the negotiating table. but i think when we look from the election side, where i sit, this all kind of adds up to the brinksmanship feeling that people feel about dysfunction in washington and that is part of the thing that biden said he would try to solve. exactly. there is a political pressure on him to make washington work
We had in the courtroom today were lawyers, and you know, they wanted to not be able to have the press not be able to see who the lawyers were because they could identify who they re representing. who the client was or the name they re discussing. yeah. but i don t think yeah, i think it sounds like a more lawyer to lawyer kind of conversation because there s no evidence of anybody big person coming. does this, in your mind, lead towards the president being caught up in at least one of these investigations at some point here when we talk about personal, professional all of them. presidential. it s like i mean, all of them. there s his fingerprints are on all of it. he s directing the, you know, the sex side of it. he s directing the election side of it. he s directing, you know, the family making money on the transition and the inauguration side of it. it s like, you can t be a rational human being at this stage and say, he had no idea of any of it. and i ll tell