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Speaker 1: He was clearly able to do that with Kevin McCarthy,

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Speaker 1: Do I think Speaker Johnson is like the most hardcore

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Speaker 2: Is he my perfect speaker?

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Speaker 1: No, but I think he's the best speaker we can get,

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Speaker 2: We have right now.

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Speaker 1: Now, there have been a lot of people pushing for

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Speaker 1: One of the reasons why I hate some of these

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Speaker 2: This is happening more often.

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Speaker 1: Now, how do I know this happening because I know

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Speaker 1: Now, to be clear, I have never accepted money for

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Speaker 1: It is truly incredible to me that we are even

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Speaker 1: So, Rachel, why did so many Republicans defy Trump?

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, John, in a lot of ways, I

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Speaker 1: By the way, you notice how all this is doom

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Speaker 2: This doom and gloom.

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Speaker 1: Look how terrible things are. Look how awful things are.

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Speaker 1: One after another, after another, after another after another. Doom

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Speaker 1: And so what I would say is, when you hear this,

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Speaker 1: and then this war between Speaker Johnson Donald Trump.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's really bad, folks.

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Speaker 3: Hellan Johnson. He wanted him to do this right after

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Speaker 3: the election. That they've been talking about this for a

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Speaker 3: long time. Johnson's folks have been sort of under the

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Speaker 3: impression that this wasn't a big priority for President Trump

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Speaker 3: until two days before the deadline when he came up

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Speaker 3: and sort of blew up the deal. Also, President Trump

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Speaker 3: was actually going to pass, and that's why he sort

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Speaker 3: of leaned in and tried to sort of say, look, Republicans,

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Speaker 3: you need to do this. If he had known he

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Speaker 3: was going to lose thirty eight Republicans, he wouldn't have

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Speaker 3: done this. And so the relationship right now, I mean

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Speaker 3: They've got some work to do if they want to

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Speaker 3: be effective next year.

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Speaker 1: Johnson, They've got some work to do, folks. I don't believe,

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Speaker 1: by the way, any of the craps you just said.

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Speaker 1: I think Donald Trump leaned in to cut fifteen hundred

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Speaker 1: pages of a sixteen hundred plus page bill, and that's

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Speaker 1: what he leaned in on. Did he get everything he

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Speaker 1: wanted to know? Our Democrats in control of the Senate? Yes,

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Speaker 1: is there a slim majority in the House?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Was this going to be tough to do right before

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Speaker 1: people are leaving and many people are leaving Congress forever

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Speaker 1: that lost reelection because they're one to stick it to

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump, including some Republicans at loss.

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Speaker 2: Yes. Do I believe in this doom and gloom the

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Speaker 2: way that they're talking about it? I do not.

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Speaker 1: I do not at all. And then listen to this

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Speaker 1: part where I are, well, now we got it. We

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Speaker 1: got a problem with Speaker Johnson.

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Speaker 3: But Speaker getywhere there it's the million dollar question right now,

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Speaker 3: john I will say people have underestimated Johnson quite a

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Speaker 3: bit in the past year, and oftentimes he's sort of,

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Speaker 3: you know, out last his naysayers here. But the situation

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Speaker 3: is different. I mean, I've talked to a lot of

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Speaker 3: Trump folks over the past couple of days, and Trump

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Speaker 3: has really soured on him. It feels like something in

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Speaker 3: this relationship has really broken the days it needs Trump

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Speaker 3: to get reelected. Absolutely he needs Trump, and not only

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Speaker 3: does he need Trump's endorsement, He's going to need President

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Speaker 3: Trump to lean in to actually get that gavel. And

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Speaker 3: right now I'm hearing from people that there's a real

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Speaker 3: question about whether Trump's going to lift a finger for

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Speaker 3: him to do this. I think the question Trump has

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Speaker 3: to ask himself is is ousting Johnson worth potentially upending

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Speaker 3: his agenda at the beginning of the year and creating

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Speaker 3: this sort of stall in momentum. I mean, look, we

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Speaker 3: remember the speakership chaos when McCarthy's. A whole month went

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Speaker 3: by and we had no idea who was leaving the conference.

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Speaker 3: Right now, this speakership vote is set for January third.

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Speaker 3: President Trump, his victory is set to be certified on

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Speaker 3: January sixth. I was talking to someone last night, pretty

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Speaker 3: high up and Republican on the Hill, who was saying

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Speaker 3: that without a speaker you can't certify his election, So

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Speaker 3: does he really want to do this. Does he want

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Speaker 3: to stall his agenda, but perhaps he feels like it's

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Speaker 3: worth it. I guess time will tell, all right, Rachel bag.

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Speaker 1: By the way, I want to tell you multiple reasons

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Speaker 1: why I disagree with the analysis that I just played

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Speaker 1: for you. I don't believe that their rift is anything

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Speaker 1: close to what they're trying to do on TV, which

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Speaker 1: is to trying to start a civil war. I believe

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Speaker 1: that Speaker Johnson and Donald Trump have a good working relationship.

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Speaker 1: They have done multiple events together recently. He's been down

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Speaker 1: at mar Lago recently. Multiple times. They had multiple events

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Speaker 1: together on the campaign trail. They helped raise money to

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Speaker 1: get others elected, Republicans elected, and they worked really well.

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Speaker 1: Getting Donald Trump into tight race is to make sure

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Speaker 1: that they were able to win a Senate majority, as

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Speaker 1: thin as it may be. A House majority, I should say,

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Speaker 1: as sin as it may be. I don't believe this

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Speaker 1: idea that Speaker Johnson is in serious trouble. In fact,

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Speaker 1: I would argue that Donald Trump is smart enough right

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Speaker 1: now to say, hey, I need to move forward with

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Speaker 1: an agenda with a conservative, and Speaker Johnson is the

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Speaker 1: best conservative that could get elected right now. What they're

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Speaker 1: hoping is that this is a party in chaos. But

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Speaker 1: remember this is all about doom and gloom, and I'm

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Speaker 1: warning you the propaganda is full speed ahead right now.

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Speaker 1: We have a Speaker who had a very tight majority

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Speaker 1: and got a deal done to avert a government shutdown,

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Speaker 1: which they would have definitely blamed on Donald Trump. That

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Speaker 1: didn't happen either. We have a debt ceiling vote that's

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Speaker 1: going to come up, no doubt about it. But the

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Speaker 1: reality is they've got now time to think about how

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Speaker 1: they're going to do it, and how they're gonna do

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Speaker 1: it in the best way possible. I will go back

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Speaker 1: to what I said at the beginning. I don't believe

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Speaker 1: that Speaker Johnson has a massive sourd relationship with Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump right now. I think that's a media telling a lie.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to start a civil war. You need to

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Speaker 1: remember they lie to you on purpose for a reason.

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Speaker 1: They lie to you on purpose because they want you

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Speaker 1: to hate Trump, and they want you to hate Speaker Johnson,

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Speaker 1: and they want you to think they can't govern, and

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Speaker 1: they want you to be angry.

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Speaker 2: Don't take the bait.

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