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PBS News Hour - Brooks and Capehart

Brooks and Capehart on the latest round of chaos in the House

PBS News Hour - Brooks and Capehart

PBS NewsHour

News, Politics

4.51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join Geoff Bennett to discuss the week in politics, including House Republicans facing yet another fight over who will lead their conference, Donald Trump's trouble finding money to cover bond for his civil fraud penalty and the tensions between the Biden administration and Israel's government. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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With House Republicans facing yet another fight over who will lead their conference and

0:27.6

a host of other political stories driving this week's news, we turn to the analysis of Brooks

0:32.4

and Kapart. That's New York Times columnist David

0:34.8

Brooks and Jonathan Kapart, associate editor for the Washington Post. Great to see you all

0:39.3

as always. So House Speaker Mike Johnson is facing the first direct threat to his

0:43.7

speakership after a Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green filed what's

0:47.8

known as a motion to vacate against him today for working with Democrats to

0:51.6

fund the government.

0:53.0

Jonathan, this resolution is not privileged, which in plain English means the House doesn't

0:56.8

have to vote on it until Marjorie Taylor Green says so, which effectively means that

1:01.2

Speaker Johnson has this axe hanging over his head.

1:04.0

How do you see this playing out?

1:05.0

Well, the speaker has had this axe hanging over his head since the moment he got the job.

1:10.0

And when he got the job, the conventional wisdom was,

1:13.3

because he's from that faction of the,

1:16.8

far right of the house, he will have a honeymoon period,

1:19.8

that he will be able to do things that then Speaker McCarthy wasn't able to do or the things

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