Welcome to the new edition of the Trump Trials. I'm Charlie Seax. We're joined by Ben Wittis of Law Fair. Boy, there is so much going on here. I mean, I need to have a scorecard. We have the document case down in Florida. We have the election subversion case in Washington, D.C. We have the racketeering case in Georgia, we have a

fraud case in New York, and, indeed, to forget, we also have the felony charges about paying

hush money to a porn star also in New York.

But before we get to that, Ben, there's just so many other things

that we just have to get to.

And I apologize in advance because I did not warn you

that there would be math today.

But I want to talk about the fact that at a moment of international crisis,

the House of Representatives is absolutely paralyzed.

No speaker can't get anything done.

As you and I are talking there's no there's really no

indication that anybody would want this. Hey I'm sure there's cool things about

being a speaker. I mean I've been in the office they got a great porch you know

get people call you Mr. Speaker, you get the

gavel. Kevin McCarthy gets the portrait, you know there's a certain amount of power and

ego, but it is I think objectively speaking the shittiest job in

Washington, but Steve Scalise wants it. And here's the math. The

Republicans get together to vote on a speaker and they vote 113 votes for

Steve Scalise, 99 for Jim Jordan. Actually it was closer than that. If you take out the

members of Congress that don't actually get to vote, Scalese only gets about

110 votes, which means that he has to flip 107 votes. In order to get, and

here's the key number, 217 votes to be elected.

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