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This week, something really big is set to happen.

Mike Johnson appears ready to decide whether he'll move forward with a vote on funding military aid to Ukraine.

If he does, Marjorie Taylor Green has threatened to call a vote to oust him a speaker,

so this week may also decide whether she is able to take him down,

again throwing the House into chaos.

You'd think Johnson would fear such an outcome, yet something funny has happened. It's

become clear that a lot of House Republicans want to vote on Ukraine aid. Is there any chance it

might actually pass? How will Donald Trump react? How big is the pro-Putin caucus in the House

GOP anyway? To unravel all this, we're speaking today to Julia Iafi,

a journalist for the Puck News site who covers these matters in a very illuminating way.

Welcome, Julia. Thanks for having me, Greg.

Okay, so first, can you tell us about your personal connection to all this?

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