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Well, this is a cliché. I'm sorry, but it's true. We're living in a new political reality.

We say it all the time. It couldn't be more true than it is right now.

Let's start with the newly elected speaker of the house, Republican Mike Johnson.

He's a little Louisiana. Politico went out and took a straw poll of some of his colleagues in Congress.

The question that a lot of people are asking about Mike Johnson, which is what do you know about Mike Johnson?

He's an election denier and has been lawless in his pursuit of having Donald Trump.

Everybody likes him because he's a nice gentleman. He's got good character.

I go with him. And I know he's from Louisiana. And that's about it.

Humanitarianly wise, he took him a foster child, took him into his home, raised him.

He's a pleasant guy, that's what I can say.

The voices there of members of Congress, Deborah Ross, Democrat of North Carolina, Republican Don Bacon of Nebraska, Democrat Jeff Jackson from North Carolina, who just got drawn out of his district there.

Republican Ralph Norman of South Carolina and Democrat Jerry Nadler from New York City.

So what do we know about what kind of legislation is on the new speaker's agenda?

And later, we'll hear the latest on former President Trump's legal trouble.

I'm Todd Zwillick of Vice News Infergen White. You're listening to the 1A podcast where we get to the heart of the story.

Stay with us.

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