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This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.

I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

This week, Marjorie Taylor Green is deciding whether to call a snap vote to oust Mike Johnson as House Speaker.

She has a list of demands, and if they aren't met, she will pull the trigger.

If so, Democrats seem prepared to step in and save Johnson.

By the time you listen to this, Green may have either backed off or reaffirmed her threat to forge ahead with trying to get rid of Johnson.

But either way, this whole mess raises a bunch of hard questions.

Can Democrats leverage anything in exchange for their willingness to protect Johnson from future efforts to oust him? Is there a real

possibility of some kind of coalition governing? How does all this affect the battle for control of

the House? Today we're talking to Representative Ted Liu, Democrat of California and the number four

in the House Democratic leadership, who's going to help us get to the bottom of all this. Welcome,

Congressman. Thank you, Greg. Honor to be on your show. So as of now, Marjorie Taylor Green

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