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The Daily Punch

Readback: Johnson's FISA failure

The Daily Punch

Punchbowl News

Politics, Government, News

4.3707 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Punchbowl News Defense Reporter Anthony Adragna joins host Max Cohen to discuss all the latest FISA drama. Plus, a recap of Anthony's trip to Philadelphia to host a bipartisan panel of governors on all things energy, gas prices and permitting reform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello and we to the Punch Bowl News Readback podcast.

0:44.7

I'm your host, congressional reporter Max Cohen.

0:47.3

And this week I'm joined by Anthony Adragna, our defense reporter who was all over the

0:52.7

Eastern Seaboard this week in Philly, moderating a

0:56.2

National Governors Association roundtable before governors, and back in D.C. monitoring the FISA

1:02.6

mess. Anthony, let's start with FISA. We're recording this on Friday. Late, late Thursday night,

1:08.7

early Friday morning, the House passed a short-term extension of this

1:13.0

foreign surveillance authority. Talk me through the late-night vote and what you were watching.

1:18.1

You know, you and I have been at this for a while, and this has to have been one of the craziest

1:22.9

things that I've ever seen in terms of congressional failure by leadership on the floor.

1:29.7

Basically, Speaker Mike Johnson had been negotiating with a block of holdouts on extending this

1:34.9

program.

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