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The Chris Plante Show

4-19-24 Hour 2 - What Should Speaker Johnson Do?

The Chris Plante Show

WMAL | Cumulus Media Washington

News, Government, Politics

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In hour 2, Chris takes more calls asking what Speaker Johnson should DO to keep his speakership and move the party forward For more coverage on the issues that matter to you download the WMAL app, visit WMAL.com or tune in live on WMAL-FM 105.9 from 9:00am-12:00pm Monday-Friday. To join the conversation, check us out on X @WMAL and @ChrisPlanteShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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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