House Republicans Deal Speaker Another Blow With FISA Bill
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🗓️ 11 April 2024
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Summary
A group of House Republicans dealt Speaker Mike Johnson another embarrassing blow on Wednesday when they blocked legislation to extend part of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA. They did so after former President Donald Trump posted to “kill” the bill on social media.
Meanwhile, Republicans struggled to deliver a coherent response to Tuesday’s Arizona Supreme Court decision that said an 1864 law banning almost all abortion was enforceable. Trump said Wednesday, that the ruling went too far, just days after he said the issue should be left to the states. Other Arizona Republicans tried to distance themselves from the ruling after previously supporting harsh abortion restrictions. We pulled the receipts.
And in headlines: The latest Consumer Price Index report shows inflation is still stubbornly persistent; the Biden Administration announced a first-of-its-kind federal limit on so-called “forever chemicals” in drinking water; and New York City officials want to give rats birth control.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, April 11th. |
| 0:03.5 | I'm Priyan Karabindi. |
| 0:04.7 | And I'm Juanita Tolliver, and this is what a day. |
| 0:06.9 | And y'all, what do we tell you about looking directly at the sun during the eclipse? |
| 0:10.1 | Like, did you not listen? |
| 0:11.3 | Apparently not, because Google searches for my eyes hurt spiked right away on Monday |
| 0:16.5 | and they have been up ever since then. |
| 0:18.9 | While you're at it, maybe everyone can Google where you can find some sense. We told you this. Yeah, you got to do better people. Please. |
| 0:30.0 | On today's show, House Speaker Mike Johnson was left adrift once again by his own party. |
| 0:36.0 | Plus, New York City officials vote on a plan to control the rat population by sneaking birth control into the bait, You know, totally normal behavior. But |
| 0:44.8 | first yesterday former President Donald Trump said that he would not sign a |
| 0:48.7 | national abortion ban if he was elected to a second term as president, which goes against a promise that he first made |
| 0:54.6 | as a candidate back in 2016 and maintained throughout his entire first term in office. |
| 1:00.3 | This shift comes as his party's liabilities around the issue of abortion rights have become increasingly clear, |
| 1:06.0 | and it follows the latest hardline abortion ban out of Arizona. |
| 1:09.3 | We covered this on yesterday's show, but give us a quick recap before we get into the latest out of the state. |
| 1:13.4 | Yes so as we told you Arizona State Supreme Court decided earlier this week to |
| 1:18.1 | uphold a near total ban on abortion with no exceptions for rape and incest. It is literally 160 years old from |
| 1:25.0 | before Arizona became an actual state. And of course, Democrats in the state |
| 1:29.4 | legislature are doing everything they can to fight back against this. |
| 1:33.0 | But Republicans have control and they are scrambling to avoid that. |
| 1:37.1 | In the state Senate yesterday, Republican leaders removed one such bill to repeal the law |
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