Okay, welcome. It's Tuesday, 20 May, year of allure 2025. An extraordinary morning already. It is, I got

Dave Brett Bright and shotgun with me. It is unheard of for the President of United States to go to Capitol Hill, to speak to a conference to whip votes on his budget. So already, this is pretty historic this morning. Did you ever see it when you were in

Congress? I've ever heard of it? No, no. Once in a while, I stayed at the unions, those kind of

things, maybe an offsite once in a while, but that's it. But no, no, no coming over.

To whip votes. And he's with the heart. Okay, here's what it's going to be a little heated because he came in throwing down hard.

There's some voices in there to say, hey, we've got to get our hands around Medicaid.

You're going to blow up the deficit.

We're going to play a cold open.

It's going to go through what the president actually said.

We're going to come back.

We're going to be covering this live all morning.

As soon as the president steps out, it goes back to the sticks. We're going to cut

immediately to this. Let's go ahead for the cold open to this morning's war room.

One of the challenges for Speaker Johnson is that he has tight margins and a lot of people wanting

a lot of disparate things at times, contradictory things. We've seen President Trump be very

successful in keeping the Republican Party in line so

far. He has had his priorities pushed forward on Capitol Hill for the most part. But at the end of the

day, Speaker Johnson needs to get the votes across the line. And there are, despite the, you know,

the passage or the clearing of this first

step in the house committee there is a lot of uncertainty about the next steps there are

moderates who are concerned about salt caps there are conservatives who are concerned about

Medicaid cuts not being aggressive enough there's just a whole lot to be figured out. And then, as you just

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