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Jim Newell to be my guide to the latest and loudest congressional beef.

Good morning everyone and thank you for taking the time to come out this morning. You know it's really...

This is a beef that was given new urgency last week when Marjorie

Taylor Green called reporters to the Capitol Building to issue a pointed threat

to the man some might consider to be her boss, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson.

Mike Johnson is not capable of that job. He has proven it over and over again.

At this presser, she officially called for Johnson's head.

The case against Mike Johnson, according to Marjorie Taylor Green, is simple.

He's too liberal, too willing to compromise with Democrats. And since any

member, just one of them, can trigger a motion to vacate, a vote to oust the speaker. Here we are. Does the members of Congress

support the Uniparty? Is this what they support? I mean she said Mike Johnson

gave a warm hug and a big wet sloppy kiss to

hakeem Jeffries because Mike Johnson is giving them everything they want everything they want

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