Trump's power play is backfiring as betrayed Republicans go rogue

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

MS NOW, Jen Psaki

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🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Jen Psaki points out that Republicans in Congress are increasingly losing their motivation to follow Donald Trump through his wildly unpopular vanity projects and destructive policies that are hurting Americans. On top of that are the number of lame duck legislators who ran afoul of Trump and lost primaries because of him and not have the rest of their term to exact payback as members of the "Yolo Caucus."

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0:00.0	Okay, let me just acknowledge that what I'm about to say is going to seem like a very weird place to start this show.
0:07.2	But I promise you it is relevant to one of the biggest stories of the day.
0:11.3	Okay, this is Jackie Heinrich.
0:13.4	She is a White House reporter over at the Fox News Network.
0:16.4	You may have seen her years ago questioning me from the briefing room.
0:20.4	And last year, Fox News reporter,
0:22.1	again, you see you right there on your screen, Jackie Heinrich, got engaged to this guy on screen,
0:25.7	Republican Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania. And that's the moment after he popped the
0:31.8	question. They're in a lavender field in France. It's all very adorable. Now, why am I telling you all
0:36.6	of this? You're like, what is
0:37.8	happening right now? Because today, that Fox News reporter tried to ask the president of the
0:43.3	United States a pretty straightforward question, and this is how he responded.
0:50.0	Do you have a problem with Prime Minister Netanyahu?
0:52.7	When her husband votes against me all the time, can you mind?
0:56.0	I don't know what's with him.
0:58.0	You better ask him what's with him.
1:00.0	Her husband, she's married to a certain congressman.
1:03.0	He votes again.
1:04.0	He likes voting against Trump.
1:05.0	You know what happens with that.
1:07.0	Doesn't work out well.
1:08.0	I don't know why he does.
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