 Republican caucus in Congress is split between a very small group of Republican Congress people who are clowns and who wish to Basically do their clown act on TV for money and notoriety and the vast majority of Republicans who actually would like to pass Bills that they believe are the best thing they can get for America That doesn't mean the best bill possible because the best bill possible is not possible when you have a Democratic Senate and a Democratic president But there's a group of Republican Congress people who have decided that it is very important that they be very famous And in order to be very famous they're gonna do things like challenge the speakership of the new speaker of the house Mike Johnson Who is more conservative on policy than any of them? This would be the same group of clowns who decided to oust Kevin McCarthy for no reason other than Matt Gates had some sort of Vengeance plan against Kevin McCarthy Mike Johnson should nuke this dumb rule right now And if he requires Democrats to help him do it and he should get Democrats to help him do it And if you don't like that you should blame Marjorie Taylor Green Who's the one who decided to bring the latest quixotic attempt to take down the speaker of the house for no reason? Other than to get her name on TV. There is no logic here. There is no rationale here There is no reason here I'm sick of watching the Republican caucus be dominated by people who have no interest in actual conservative policy and appear to only Want to get on TV and talk radio You just heard Ben Shapiro indirectly call Marjorie Taylor Green a clown for doubling down on her threat to oust speaker Mike Johnson Now I'll keep the rule. I don't really care what Ben Shapiro has to say. I'm just here for the show So at that in mind Marjorie care to respond He's a piece of shit. Wow, Ben thoughts f around and find out. Oh, that sounds like a threat Marjorie care to respond to that See I take it that her laughter is a bit of an indication that she doesn't take his threat seriously Ben How do you respond to that? Weird okay, it kind of just seems like they've both gone full joker mode at this point Look, I kid obviously I've got to say the amount of random sound bites that I have of conservatives on my computer is genuinely embarrassing but Let's get back on track Marjorie Taylor Green didn't respond to Ben Shapiro at least yet But the video that you saw of Ben Shapiro I think it really speaks to the genuine frustration that Republicans feel with Marjorie Taylor Green's threat to oust speaker Mike Johnson They think it's downright absurd and after weeks of snubbing Johnson They actually did meet and Johnson is responding to green by kind of low-key Bribing her in a sense. So I'll tell you about that in a moment But first I do want to talk about the lead-up to this meeting so that way you have more context But on top of that I do want to go back to the last speaker that was ousted because as Ben Shapiro noted Gates inexplicably ousted McCarthy because of some vengeance plan that he had and it turns out That's not actually wrong. We all kind of suspected but we now know why thanks to McCarthy who decided to spill the tea You made a lot of concessions In the negotiations. Oh, I did okay. Okay. Let's get to the bottom That is such a misnomer in life. Let me give you the truth about that now And I'll give you the truth why I'm not speakers because one person a Member of Congress wanted me to stop an ethics complaint because he slept with a 17 year old an ethics complaint That started before I ever became speaker and that's illegal and I'm not gonna get in the middle Did he do it or not? I don't know but an ethics is looking at it. There's other people in jail because of it and He wanted me to influence it That is pretty damning the former speaker of the house is saying his career ended and the entire house of Representatives was thrown into chaos for three weeks all because Matt Gates wanted to be shielded from a house ethics committee Investigation into whether or not he allegedly committed statutory rape Listen if you're innocent, there's no reason to oppose an investigation I'll just say that but as for Marjorie Taylor Greene's threat to house Johnson the same isn't true Although I do think that there is some truth to Ben Shapiro speculation about whether or not this move is for attention I think that's that's obvious right but to recap Green officially filed her motion to vacate Johnson before the house is two Week Easter break in side note. Don't you wish that you got two weeks off for Easter? I mean that's just such a long break but regardless during those two weeks She was talking a lot of shit for example She likened Johnson to Nancy Pelosi Hilariously enough and she even speculated about whether or not he changed his policy positions because he was being blackmailed And by the time the break was over the Washington Post reported that house Republicans were actually Dreading their return because they weren't sure what sort of a shit show they'd be coming back to and some Republicans are even getting the sense that Mike Johnson wants to quit because of all the bullshit as Politico reports some are also privately asking if Johnson even wants the job anymore in private conversations in recent weeks He's expressed his exhaustion and complained about a lack of sleep and the demands of frequent traveling when shit hits The fan members say he'll have some soul searching to do so dude hates his life right now And there's a lot of talk among his allies about how he should have handled the situation or should be handling the situation With regard to green because Politico also explains that some of his allies wanted him to just call her bluff and Dare her to force a vote on his ouster because they thought that it would fail Mike Johnson However, wasn't that confident clearly and instead chose to reach out to Marjorie Green, but here's how that went We exchanged text messages over the break The multiple times and and told her that I really would love to visit by phone or at her convenience And she said what she wasn't interested in that so okay in other words She is power tripping Hard and enjoying every fucking second of this and I've got to say I'm also enjoying it So I guess thank you Marjorie never thought I'd say that but thank you for all the wrong reasons, right now Mike Johnson was asked about some of the attacks lobbed against him by her and his response was funny because you know That he wanted to say more but he was butting his tongue because if he pisses her off any more It's over for him Marjorie Taylor green has been personal with this to you. I mean she says you're you know Basically a deep-state operative. She didn't use the word operative, but she's working for the deep-state in essence paraphrasing Also, she's attacked your faith Talked to me a little bit about that kind of personal reaction to the fact that she said some of this stuff Well, I try to follow all the biblical admonitions as I do every day and one of them says you bless those who persecute you I'm getting a lot of practice in that right now and that a soft word turns away wrath and that You know those who are opposing you you don't hate them and return, you know evil for evil you return good for evil And so that that's the way I live my life. That's where I operate And so I don't harbor any ill will towards Marjorie never have I like Marjorie. I understand why she's upset She's frustrated that we can't score touchdowns in every single play. I don't know it sounds to me like you just called you evil Marjorie You should probably do something about that now on a serious note There's a difference between being the bigger person and pure cock-holdry and what we saw was the latter I understand that he didn't want to engage in personal attacks or gutter politics But it felt like he was groveling at her feet Which is pathetic because he is the leader of the Republican Party who was afraid of one member now since then The break has ended and Marjorie Green has responded to his kindness by spitting in his face So she doubled down and renewed her threat to oust him So she sent out a letter to her colleagues presumably making the case for Johnson's ouster and here's how she claims that was received So you sent this letter out to your colleagues this morning. What kind of response have you got? mostly Support it's been pretty incredible. Everyone's flying into town today though So I haven't spoken with everyone, but most of the members I've talked to agree with what I've said They may not come out and publicly say it many are relieved. I've said it and I've even heard within the ranks of leadership There's agreement there. So there's agreement from members of the leadership With much of what I said in the letter This is difficult to do. This is not what I would like to be doing, but I believe it's necessary First we admit the problems first we admit the wrongs and then we come up with a plan for change I'm working on the changes that I would like to see and I'll be proposing with my colleagues And I look forward to talking with them about that is a changes in terms of specific people who would be the next speaker of the house I haven't gotten to that step yet, but that may be something I move toward of course That would be private conversations in our conference So Mike Johnson seemingly didn't want to call her bluff like his allies wanted him to because if he dared her to bring it to a Floor vote she might actually do it and I think that's Pretty evident now She claims that her colleagues responded well to her letter And I think that there is actually some truth to that for the fact that opposition to Johnson is actually growing at least With respect to another issue the current discussions in our conference meeting this morning is about FISA But it's pretty clear and obvious and being whispered among the conference Mike Johnson does not have the support of the conference The letter that I sent has been well received and it was basically speaking the quiet part out loud He's in there urging members to reauthorize FISA And I don't think he has the votes for it right now is what I'm gathering We're gonna be working on this we do not believe in warrantless spying on the American people Especially when this bill Carves out the ability for Congress to be notified when a member of Congress is going to be Looked at through the FISA court. That's completely unfair. The same thing should apply for the American people But Mike Johnson doesn't have the trust of the conference and that's become very clear Now she goes on to speak out of both sides of her mouth because she claims that she doesn't have a specific Line when it comes to bringing her motion to vacate to the floor for a vote But later she says that Johnson's handling of Ukraine and the FISA renewal is going to determine how the GOP conference Handles the motion to vacate so take from that what you will so she's not being clear with her intentions here And I do think that that's purposeful I think that she just wants the threat to hang over his head for as long as possible So that way she has maximum leverage and to the extent that it's her strategy I think it's working now she arguably does have momentum on her side At least when it comes to FISA and I say this because dozens of Republicans came out swinging against the FISA renewal And that includes Donald Trump who explicitly told Johnson to kill FISA via truth social Now it ended up failing a procedural vote on Wednesday So it turned out that Marjorie Taylor Greene wasn't necessarily wrong to point out the fact that opposition towards Johnson was building at Least with regard to this one issue now That's not to say that they're also gonna go along with her motion to vacate But it is true that I think momentum is working in her favor here now having said that I do also want to say that It's super discouraging to see liberals like Mueller. She wrote Shit on Republicans for wanting to not renew FISA for hacky reasons I guess now they argue that The reason why Republicans oppose the renewal of FISA is because they're in cahoots with foreign governments And just want to hide that fact, but that is totally irrelevant warrantless surveillance violates the fourth amendment period Liberals should not support warrantless surveillance. That's unconstitutional just because Republicans oppose it furthermore Even if it were constitutionally permissible We still shouldn't be okay with it because intelligence agencies abuse that power as the Snowden leaks taught us Hence why he retweeted all of the Republicans that were opposed to it And it's not just Republicans who opposed it. Pramila Jayapal for example chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus also criticized Johnson writing on Twitter This is so disappointing when Speaker Johnson was on the judiciary committee with me He was in our coalition fighting for major FISA reforms to protect sensitive data now that he speaker He's folding the spy agencies who want to violate your privacy She continues FISA bill says FBI to notify Congress members to spy on us But regular Americans can be spied on without a warrant our bipartisan judiciary bill required intelligence agencies to get a warrant before spying on Americans We need to pass the warrant amendment to protect Americans exactly So this is something that should be opposed on principle not due to party affiliation So it's sad that some liberals are choosing to go after Republicans the one time they've ever been correct ever Like let them have this fight because in this regard we all benefit if FISA is not renewed But with that being said the issue does highlight some of the frustration that Green and other Republicans have with Johnson He has flip-flopped on multiple issues since becoming speaker But I don't think that that's surprising because that position requires a degree of moderation by its very nature Right like it or not you have to work with Democrats especially when they control the Senate and the White House and Compromise is just part of the job if you want the government to just do its basic functions, right? That's not gonna change if you get a new speaker and Marjorie Green doesn't understand that so there is opposition to Johnson And that's not surprising having said that though Green might be overestimating How much support she has for her motion to vacate because even though other people might be frustrated with Johnson They're not gonna motion support her motion to vacate because that's just absurd You can disagree without going that far and some of them have come out and publicly vocalized support for Johnson It's an impossible job. The Lord Jesus himself could not manage his conference or this kind You just can't do it. I think Mike Johnson is a great human. He doesn't lie like the last guy I think people don't like this dysfunction So that's not good for our side and with the one seat majority doesn't only take a couple people to create dysfunction I think speeder Johnson is working his guts out doing the best he can with a lot of feral cats Small sample size, but you get the point even the Republicans who agree with green Simply don't want to throw the entire house into chaos again because they have a couple of minor disagreements with Mike Johnson And Green was actually asked about this by Manu Raju whether or not She's worried that she'd be doing the same thing that Matt Gaetz did and she said yeah, you know She's worried, but actually Mike Johnson already threw the house into chaos. So what are you gonna do? So the takeaway is that she is not backing down but I did mention a bribe earlier in the video and it did come up during the meeting that they finally had and CNN's Manu Raju explains after a 70 minute long meeting with Mike Johnson Marjorie Taylor-Green told us she aired her grievances with him told him not to move forward with any aid to Ukraine and drop his Viso plans. She doesn't say when she'd moved to oust him She also says that Johnson offered her a position on an advisory board of his so there you have it He presumably made up a fake position to bribe her with it. I mean It's a till as old as time right if someone threatens your power you offered them a little bit of power to co-opt them Now whether or not she's gonna Take that position or have a change of heart that she had to be seen But even if she did choose to back down I think that publicly she would still choose to drag this on as long as possible Because this does benefit her in the sense that she gets a lot of attention and press coverage for it And she can also fundraise about how she held Mike Johnson a rhino Accountable now to that I say good go Marjorie at least in this limited sense right because I think that Republicans are Genuinely ontologically evil and the more infighting and self sabotage that they do the better off will all be as a country and aside from the Utility of this ordeal. I'm not gonna lie. I just find this all incredibly entertaining I lost interest in reality TV a few years ago And I never really understood why it didn't resonate with me anymore But I think it's because Congress fills that void, right? This is the most entertaining batshit insane television show I've ever seen So I mean who needs the challenge or the bachelor or real housewives when you've got episode 32 of Marjorie vs Mike Johnson or possibly Ben Shapiro versus Marjorie Green like it's all so entertaining to me that like This is the only entertainment. I need when it comes to reality TV so keep it up Marjorie give them hell and Follow that motion make it official. Well, she already filed it But bring it to the floor Marjorie do it. I think that that's what a Jesus would want. Okay, follow your heart. Just do it