Speaker Mike Johnson trying to tempt down a conservative revolt.

His tensions flare with hard-right Republicans

over his deal with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer

to avoid a government shutdown next week.

He didn't go in with the strongest hand,

and what I'm looking for now is a fighter.

I think it was a massive failure,

and we had no input into the conversations.

Do you think God's a bad deal here with Schumer?

I do.

This place is a joke.

Now trying to avoid the same fate as Kevin McCarthy, the first speaker ever ousted after he relied on Democrats to help keep the government open.

Johnson and Schumer cut a deal over the holiday recess to fund federal agencies at an overall level

of $1.66 trillion dollars similar to the deal McCarthy

and the White House agreed to last May. By the time we could even get back into

DC he had negotiated the terms of our surrender on the issue.

Do you think he's up to the job?

I think the problem is we didn't do the right thing up front.

So we focused on who should be the next speaker, we focused on a person.

In protest, 13 hardliners stalled action in the House this week.

Now those members want Johnson to back away from his deal and seek even deeper cuts while also imposing new immigration

restrictions moves that would almost certainly cause a shutdown.

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