Georgia Republican Congresswoman
Marjorie Taylor
GREENE is now calling on GOP Speaker
Mike Johnson to resign.
And today,
she is threatening to introduce a motion
to vacate his speakership
if he doesn't step down.
John betrayed America.
He betrayed Republican voters
under his leadership.
He's passed the Democrat agenda,
passed the Biden
administration's policies,
and fully funded them.
We're going to fight in Congress
to do everything we can
to stop this type of unity
Party leadership.
Mike Johnson's speakership is over.
He needs to do the right thing
to resign
and allow us to move forward
in a controlled process.
If he doesn't do so, he will be vacated.
The Georgia hardliner is one of at least
three Republicans who have said
they will support a move
to oust Johnson, whose majority so slim
he can't afford to lose any Republicans
on a party line vote.
Should GREENE and her supporters
make good on their threat
to force a vote
on ousting him as speaker,
Johnson will
almost certainly need
to rely on Democrats to bail him out.
I want to ask you about Mike Johnson
and his prospects and if he
whether he can hold onto his job,
because Alex,
he angered a lot of Republicans
by bringing forward,
particularly this Ukraine bill,
which he had opposed for so long.
Marjorie Taylor
GREENE, rather
surprisingly yesterday,
said said she wasn't immediately
bringing this motion of it
forward, that she wanted
lawmakers to hear
from their constituents,
but she has called on him to resign.
So how much of a threat
is what Johnson did in terms of allowing
those votes yesterday?
A threat to his speakership?
Look, her threat is to Congress
getting things done.
She is such a
self serving member of Congress.
This is all about her fund raising,
her getting attention.
She's causing chaos and confusion.
The problem is
she doesn't have the army to back her up.
And the frustrating
part of all of this is
she talks about
putting forth this motion to vacate.
She didn't put forth a plan.
She has not put forth an alternative.
If she really had the balls to do this,
she would have done this
before this big vote yesterday
and put her money where her mouth is.
And she is certainly not doing this.
My hat's off to Speaker Johnson
while she's playing Real Housewives
of Georgia, throwing up tables.
He through this to prayer.
He prayed on this.
He put this in God's hands.
And thank goodness in this case.
God won here.
And he's not putting out
a fundraising letter
like Marjorie Taylor GREENE is.
Do you think that the Democrats
should have come to that, that
they should try to rescue him?
I mean, this was a rare
and remarkable show of bipartisanship,
getting this $95 billion
approved for for Israel, Ukraine
and the Indo-Pacific.
Democrats will always do
what's in the best interests
of the country.
And Democrats,
a majority of Democrats
have always supported money for Ukraine
because we know that
that's in the best interests
of our national security
and frankly, for the survival
of democracy worldwide.
The sad part of what is happening,
and I get that so many people
are giving kudos, even Democrats,
to Speaker Johnson,
but that is how low the bar has become
for a Republican speaker of the House
to do his freakin job.
This could have been done back in October
if Mike Johnson had had the wherewithal
and the spine to do it.
Now he's done it
six months later,
while Ukraine has lost
so much on the battlefield.
But yes, thank goodness
we are where we are now.
And with the help of Democrats, Speaker
Johnson has finally been able
to do his job.
Democrats will continue to do
what's right for the country
and in the future,
if this means coming to his saving,
if Marjorie Taylor GREENE does
put this on the floor,
we'll see if that occurs.
Again, it
it speaks to just how low the Republican
congressional leadership
has gone
in terms of losing control
of their own caucus.
And if if Democrats do have to come
to his to his aid,
I don't think it's going to be for free.
I think it's going to be
for some kind of power
sharing or something
that, again, will benefit the country
because Democrats are always going to do
what's in the best interests of America.
I think it's important.
Hats off again to Speaker
Johnson for showing
true leadership
in the face of potential
ouster by the vocal
minority in the House.
I think this is an opportunity
for Americans
to sit back and say,
thank goodness
Congress worked on a bipartisan fashion.
We sent a strong message
to Russia,
to China, to Iran,
to proxies in any of these other nations
that are want
to put a threat to democracy.
And I think everyone should
call their member of Congress
that voted for this
and tell them thank you.
We only have a couple of moments left.
But Alice, does that mean that you think
there's some fatigue
that's setting in in the Republican
caucus over all of this chaos?
Because how Johnson is acting
is not so different
than what Kevin McCarthy did,
and yet he was ousted.
Well, look, again,
I think when you talk
to rational Republicans,
I know you talk to them all the time,
they're really
they're tired of the chaos and confusion.
They're running for reelection.
Some of them are trying to help
get themselves reelected.
And Mike
Johnson is not focused on a few people
saying, we're going to kick you out.
He is laser focused on November.
He's going to hit the road
and raise money for candidates.
He's hitting a lot of the states
in the south.
That's where all of their focus is.
They're trying to save their own jobs,
but also save
the Republican majority in the House.
I think Alison made a good point,
which is they understand
that they're up for reelection.
And if they kept
acting the way
that they have been acting up until now,
which is a huge dumpster
fire in Congress,
they know that Democrats
would absolutely take over the House.
I still think that will happen
because Americans
do not want to see
the repeat over and over again.
And we still that
that could still happen.
And no doubt
they will get a lot of questions
on the campaign trail about Ukraine.
Record.
Alice Stewart, thank you both so much.
Appreciate it.