What’s a Mike Johnson?

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🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

And the winner of the House Speaker showdown is ... Congressman Mike Johnson! You probably haven't heard of him, but his resume will sound familiar: election denial, a thirst to end Medicare and Social Security as we know them, a fondness for national abortion bans, and a desire to criminalize gay marriage, among many more MAGA favorites. Former Mueller prosecutor Andrew Weissmann joins the show to break down Donald Trump's week of bad legal news. And then: President Biden is about to face a new primary opponent. Should he be worried?

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0:00.0	Welcome to Puts-Ave America, I'm John Favreau, I'm Dan Pfeiffer.
0:23.0	On today's show, Joe Biden is about to get a primary opponent, Mark Meadows, flips
0:27.2	on Donald Trump and former DOJ prosecutor Andrew Weissmann joins to help us break down
0:32.6	the week of bad legal news for the criminal defendant Republican frontrunner.
0:37.6	But first, the new speaker of the house is allegedly a guy called Mike Johnson, a name
0:45.7	that seems intentionally difficult to Google.
0:49.9	Made that one up so you Google Mike Johnson, you don't know what you're getting.
0:53.8	The last three weeks, Republicans went from a Kevin to a Steve to a Jim to a Tom before
0:59.8	reaching outside their comfort zone and settling on a mic.
1:03.5	The 51-year-old Louisiana Congressman who seems just fine with being everyone's fifth choice.
1:09.3	Johnson won unanimous support from his Republican colleagues.
1:14.4	He's extreme enough for people like Matt Gates who calls him MAGA MIKE, MAGA MIKE, that's
1:21.3	what Matt Gates calls him.
1:22.3	Donald Trump's calling him too.
1:23.8	But he's apparently anonymous enough for the 18 Republicans in Biden districts who are
1:28.8	betting that their constituents won't find out they voted for a speaker who talks like
1:33.8	this.
1:34.8	You know, we don't live in a democracy because a democracy is too well in a land deciding
1:38.6	what's for dinner.
1:39.6	Okay, it's not just majority rules.
1:41.4	It's a constitutional republic.
1:42.4	And the founder set that up because they followed the biblical admonition on what a civil
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