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Ukraine split screen. And number three, vulnerable Dems find their footing on border messaging.

All right, everybody, happy Thursday. We have a ton to get through this morning in a very busy week on Capitol Hill.

We are starting with Speaker Mike Johnson's dilemma.

He is in an extraordinarily unenviable position.

More than 10 months into his speakership, Johnson finds himself in the same pickle that's plagued his GOP predecessors.

For Johnson, a real movement conservative who has a good relationship with former

President Donald Trump, the experience as Republican Speaker, was supposed to be different.

Yet, it's exactly the same.

With just 19 days until the federal funding deadline, that's September 30th,

Johnson is pushing a bill that most lawmakers and Congress watchers understand is dead on arrival. He's pushing that six-month

stop-gap package with the Save Act attached to it. The stated objective is to ensure election

integrity, which Johnson termed as a quote-unquote righteous pursuit,

and Trump says is needed to save the country. The practical objective is to try to establish a

House GOP negotiating position in the face of unified Democratic and White House opposition.

Johnson's detractors are a plenty, especially inside the House Republican leadership,

where the Speaker's seemingly earnest determination is being met quietly with

snares, jeers, and quite a bit of head-shaking.

Just days after Johnson unveiled his proposal, he pulled it from consideration Wednesday.

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