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It is Friday, May 24th, 2024. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

Number one, the leader look. Number two,

how crypto spent its way into political power. And number three, Mike Johnson's new tax hand.

Let's get into it the day before Memorial Day weekend, or I guess this is actually the

beginning of the Memorial Day break slash weekend. The House and Senate are gone, long gone. They left yesterday afternoon,

and people are already heading out of town. A bunch of folks, a bunch of members are heading to

France to the 80th anniversary of D-Day. That's a big congressional outing. A lot of members are going in the leadership,

in the rank and file. And we are going to use this morning to give you a time-honored punchbowl tradition.

The leader look for summer, 2024. The heat is on. The heat is actually already on in D.C., which is kind of standard operating

procedure, but let's get into it. So we're going to talk about the four leaders, the core of our

coverage area, Mike Johnson, Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, and Mitch McConnell.

Tomorrow is the seven-month anniversary of Speaker Mike Johnson.

What a journey it's been for Speaker Mike Johnson, who was plucked from the rank-and-file to be Speaker of the House.

Quite an interesting political science experiment.

If I do say so myself, he has passed.

He's weathered every, nearly every storm imaginable the last couple months.

He helped pass and really was the engine behind passing a massive forward aid bill,

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