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Hey everybody, we got a great one today, you know, for a change, Dana Milbank.

Pinyon Columnus for the Washington Post joins me to talk about the new speaker of the

Maga House, Mike Johnson.

Who would have thought, you know, that Kevin McCarthy wasn't so bad?

I mean, ideologically, he is a Republican and would be anything he felt his caucus wanted

him to be, but this guy, Mike Johnson, if that really is his name, not Mike Johnson, is

his name.

Mike Johnson from Louisiana, evidently, not a terrible human being in the sense that

he's not Jim Jordan and gets along with colleagues, but a far right religious ideologue who believes

in terrible, hateful things.

For example, that same gender sexual activity is a sin against God, which fits his caucus.

It's a scary time.

It appears that like his caucus, he still believes or more likely pretends to believe that Trump

won the 2020 election.

And I am beginning to believe that Trump could actually win this election.

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