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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson was promoted in hopes that the House G.O.P. would function better than it did under Kevin McCarthy.

But as time goes on and as more and more foreign wars break out, it's looking at less and less promising for the new kingfish from

Louisiana. Though Speaker Johnson is right he has virtually no leverage his

biggest mistake is airing the dirty laundry on the Republican Party on television, network

television.

This is very simple.

I'm operating with the smallest margin in U.S. history.

I have a one vote margin.

In order to get something into this

underlying package we have to have the votes on the floor to pass a rule.

You know that's how the process works here. The rule allows for the substantive bill

to be put on the floor. I don't have all my Republicans who agree on that rule,

and that means the only way to get a rule on the floor

is that it requires a couple of Democrats.

Well, they're not for the border security.

That's not their policy.

Some of these folks like open borders. That's what their votes show and indicate.

And so we don't have a way. I literally don't have the numbers. I don't have a way to merge

it together.

Johnson admits not only the party's obvious crippling division,

but also that without the great MAGA real estate

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