It is a truism in Washington that you can't survive as Speaker of the House without friends.

Mike Johnson, the latest Republican to try to keep the gavel, is learning that friends can appear in unlikely places including the Democratic Caucus.

We'll discuss all of this and the latest developments in the war between Iran and Israel

next.

This is Washington Week with the Atlantic.

Good evening and welcome to Washington Week.

So it seems that Mike Johnson, the unlikeliest speaker in recent memory, even Washington

reporters who know everything admit that they hadn't heard of him before his selection, might

not be falling off the tightrope quite yet.

The far right of his party has predictably

turned on him but Donald Trump hasn't so far at least and neither have the

Democrats. Is Marjorie Taylor Green inadvertently bringing back bipartisanship?

I'll talk about this and the consequences for Ukraine and Israel funding

with Eugene Daniels, a White House correspondent and co-author of Politico's Playbook.

Sungman Kim is a White House reporter with the Associated Press.

Vivian Salama is a national politics reporter for the Wall Street Journal,

and Graham Wood is my colleague and a staff writer at The Atlantic.

Welcome, all.

Sung Min, you're in the hot seat, just came from the White House.

So the House is poised to pass this $95 billion

foreign aid package, finally.

And if the Speaker gets this done,

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