4-19-24 Hour 2 - What Should Speaker Johnson Do?
The Chris Plante Show
WMAL | Cumulus Media Washington
4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:20.0 | Look, I think there's a lot of support for Israel, obviously on the Republican side, clearly |
| 0:26.2 | on the Democrat side, they have a real division over that. |
| 0:28.5 | It's been pretty shameful, actually, that leading Democrats are turning their backs on Israel at this most desperate and important time. |
| 0:37.0 | Speaker of the House Mike Johnson who is finding himself in an interesting, awkward, uncomfortable position and I don't think he deserves to be in that uncomfortable position. |
| 0:50.0 | And I think that the Republican Party is walking down a road going down a pathway here |
| 0:58.5 | that they should not be going down with the Speaker of the House. Johnson says he won't change rules for ousting speakers after warnings from GOP hardliners. |
| 1:14.0 | Colorado Representative Lauren Bobbert has called the issue a red line. |
| 1:19.6 | If you want to change the rules because, you know, |
| 1:22.0 | House Speaker Mike Johnson on |
| 1:23.3 | Thursday quashed rumors that he was considering making changes to rules that |
| 1:29.6 | would make it more difficult to oust him or any other speaker from the leadership post |
| 1:35.8 | after Republican hardliners ABC News writing warned it was a red line he shouldn't cross. |
| 1:44.0 | Speaker Johnson in a statement posted on X |
| 1:48.0 | criticized the current rule allowing a single member of the House of Representatives to offer a motion to vacate the Speaker's |
| 1:56.2 | chair saying it has harmed the office and the Republican Party's majority in the House. |
| 2:04.8 | But he said that rule would stand for now. |
| 2:09.1 | He wrote on X, recently, many members have encouraged me to endorse a new rule to raise this threshold. |
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