MTG, Mike Johnson, And The Depths Of GOP Chaos
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 30 April 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
New York holds a special election today to fill a seat vacated by Democratic Congressman Brian Higgins. The Democrat in the race, state Sen. Tim Kennedy, is expected to win. If he does, it would leave Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson’s majority as slim as possible: a single vote. Todd Zwillich, a longtime Washington journalist and friend of the show, explains how it will make Johnson’s job even more complicated.
And in headlines: Columbia University began suspending students at the Gaza solidarity encampment, a federal appeals court ruled that certain state insurance plans must provide coverage for gender-affirming care, and the Supreme Court refused to hear billionaire and Tesla and X CEO Elon Musk’s bid to challenge the SEC’s restrictions on what he can post on social media.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, April 30th. I'm Josie Duffy Rice. |
| 0:04.0 | And I'm Travel Anderson, and this is What A Day, where we are looking forward to the release of |
| 0:09.0 | Mufasa, the prequel to Disney's Lion King that stars none other than |
| 0:13.1 | Beyonce and Blue Ivy Carter. |
| 0:15.4 | And it's directed by Barry Jenkins. |
| 0:17.7 | This is going to be amazing. |
| 0:19.0 | The only way could be better. |
| 0:20.1 | So what was called Scar, |
| 0:21.5 | and it was about Scars origin story. |
| 0:23.2 | Not you want a whole different movie, Josie. |
| 0:25.5 | I want a whole different movie. |
| 0:27.7 | Related. |
| 0:31.2 | On today's show, a federal appellate court weighs in on transgender health care |
| 0:35.3 | policies. Plus we continue to follow the anti-war protests on Columbia's |
| 0:40.2 | campus. But first, New York is holding a special election today. Voters are |
| 0:44.4 | choosing a replacement for House Democrat Brian Higgins who held the seat for |
| 0:47.2 | almost 20 years. Higgins resigned in February saying Congress had gotten just |
| 0:51.6 | too dysfunctional. |
| 0:53.6 | The 26th District is centered in Buffalo. |
| 0:55.9 | It's heavily Democratic in the party's nominee, |
| 0:58.0 | State Senator Tim Kennedy, is expected to win. |
| 1:00.7 | He's running against Republican Gary Dixon a local town supervisor. |
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