Marjorie Taylor Greene's Speaker Plot / The NYPD Reclaims Columbia
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 1 May 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:20.0 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
| 0:28.0 | Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green announces she'll soon trigger a vote to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, |
| 0:35.2 | as Democrats say they're ready to help block that motion. |
| 0:38.3 | Plus, the New York Police Department retakes the Columbia University campus arresting busloads of anti-Israel |
| 0:45.0 | protesters in the process. Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:49.8 | We are joined today by my colleagues, editorial members Kate Batchelder Hotel and Colin Levy. |
| 0:56.7 | The last time that a backbench Republican brought up a motion to vacate the chair as it's called. It led to the firing of speaker |
| 1:04.5 | Kevin McCarthy and then weeks of GOP chaos that most in Congress do not want to |
| 1:09.6 | repeat. But Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green is furious, but the House passed a bill with military aid to Ukraine especially. |
| 1:17.5 | She has been threatening to punish Speaker Johnson by bringing up another motion to vacate and this morning on Wednesday she |
| 1:24.6 | pledged that she will pull the trigger on it next week here is a bit of what she |
| 1:29.1 | had to say now we have hakem Jeffries and the Democrats coming out, embracing Mike Johnson with a warm hug |
| 1:39.2 | and a big wet sloppy kiss. |
| 1:42.1 | And they are ready to they have endorsed him. They are ready to |
| 1:45.4 | support him as speaker. They want to keep it going, keep the band together. Why? |
| 1:50.1 | Because Mike Johnson is giving them everything they want. I think every member of Congress |
| 1:56.6 | needs to take that vote and let the chips fall where they may. And so next week I am going to be calling this motion to vacate. |
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