From New York Times, I'm Michael Bobaro. This is the Daily.

Today, against all odds and expectations, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson keeps managing to fund the government,

inflame the far right of his party and still hold on to his job.

Now, as he prepares for his riskiest move to date, I speak with my calling,

Katie Edmondson, about why it may be Democrats who save his

speakership. It's Wednesday, March 27. Katie, I'd like to start with this dramatic scene that played out in the House of

Representatives a few days ago.

You happen to be in the room for it.

So just describe it.

That's right.

Well, I was sitting in the press gallery

in the House chamber Friday morning,

watching for a spending vote to go through and instead what caught my

attention was Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green the far right lawmaker from Georgia

striding down the center of the aisle on the house floor, and she

marched up to the house clerk's desk, and she put a piece of paper into the hopper, into the

basket for legislation that sits on the House Clerk's desk.

It immediately set off a rubber mill about what that piece of paper potentially could be.

And sure enough, minutes later, we learned that she was essentially

taking the first step in the process to call a snap vote to oust Speaker Mike Johnson.

And minutes later, Congresswoman Green walks down the House steps where I and a number of other reporters were waiting.

This is a betrayal of the American people. This is a betrayal of

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