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of Realtors. Hey

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hey hey good morning I'm play

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the coauthor Rachel bade it's Monday,

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April eighth Congress returns from it's

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too weak Easter Recess and I

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gotta tell you, we are gearing

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up for a crazy ass month

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starting Wednesday. The Senate is gonna

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have to deal with an hour

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hundred my Orcas impeachment trial though

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again, democrats are gonna try to

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shove this fairly quickly. The center

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is also looking to take action

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to rebuild the collapsed Francis Scott

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Key Bridge in Baltimore. Though

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quick action on that would

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require bipartisan cooperation. On May

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tenth, the Federal Aviation Administration

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expires, so Congress is gonna

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have to reauthorize that and

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Schumer needs to figure out

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what if anything, he's gonna

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do with this house passed

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tic toc band. Then on

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the house side speaker My

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Johnson still staring down a

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possible mutiny. He's gonna have

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to navigate multiple thorny matters

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that divide is conference and

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only further jeopardize. His precarious situation.

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Needless to say everyone will be

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hanging on every single word uttered

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out of the mouth of Marjorie

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Taylor Green this month as Johnson

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prepares to roll out this house ukraine

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a bill that we wrote about

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last week that is not expected to

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come to a for a few

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days. however. So today for a

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playbook top we focus on the issue

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that is gonna come to a

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head soon. the phase A debate. Johnson

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is finally gonna bring to the

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floor a reauthorization of this. Foreign Surveillance

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law he has twice already planted on

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this matter due to G O P.

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In fighting. At the crux of this

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debate is a pair of contentious amendments

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that are being pushed by privacy hawks

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eager to sort of rain in Uncle

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Sam's ability to gather the data of

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Americans, and of course a coordinated effort

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by national security minded members. To

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Kill Those amendments. Now, interestingly enough,

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this doesn't break down upon party

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lines. There are these odd legislative

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bedfellows. people like she than Jordanian

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sheer number who I mean, have

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sparred. A lot over the years. They're

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on the same side of things and then

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you have people like Intel Chairman My Turner

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aligned with a Biden administration, so it's a

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little weird. I'm gonna break this down. For

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you this morning will start First. With the

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Data Privacy debate earlier this year

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at the urging of House Judiciary

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Can Serve as like Jordan and

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his ally Ohio Republican Warren Davidson,

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Speaker Johnson outlines this plan that

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would allow a Pfizer Amendment so

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to restrict data brokers from selling

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consumers information to law enforcement Yes,

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they can probably do that. The

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Amendment, however, or be a proposal

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to have a boat on this

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amendment infuriated Intelligence panel. Republicans like

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Mike Turner, the speaker delayed. That

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vote and now has backtracked. On

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that plan, the provision was found to not

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be germane to the. Size. A debate

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in the new base tax doesn't

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include it nor will and amendment

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be allowed on this issue on

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the floor. I caught up last

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night with Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner

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and he said books size is

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about surveillance of foreigners abroad. The

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issues of Americans privacy is unrelated

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to spying on foreigners. Conservatives, needless

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to say are not happy with

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this decision and they're taking an

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hour on Johnson. I also talked

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yesterday with More and Davidson his

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a champion of this idea. He.

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Said it's disappointing to watch Johnson basically

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flip flop on this matter. He said that

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Johnson, when he was a member of

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the Judiciary committee a few years ago, was

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actually a supporter of these ideas, and now

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he seems to be catering to people

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like Mike Turner. The big issue number two

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and one that hasn't been resolved yet

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is this question about new. Warrant

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requirements on sizer. Size.

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Of Backers will note that

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surveillance targets foreign threats, but

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these Privacy Coalition members will

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argue that sometimes. that sweeps

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in america information. If, for example,

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an American is in contact with

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somebody who is part of ISIS

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or another group that the government

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is surveilling, the government can be

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looking at American data. That's

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why you're seeing members like Warren Davidson

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team up with progressives like so Lofgren

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to require warrants for this kind of

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information. This matter is all going to

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come to a head. It will be

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voted on as an amendment to the

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FISA bill later this week. Turner

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told me last night that he's confident

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this is going to fail. He obviously

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doesn't want it to go through. He

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says it's going to actually infringe on

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our national security entrance and will destroy

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the intelligence community's ability to keep Americans

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safe. Behind

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the scenes, I report this morning in

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playbook that opponents of this amendment are

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actually preparing sort of a two front

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bipartisan campaign to kill this

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amendment. On the right, Republicans

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have been in touch with a pair of former

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House Republicans who are kind of

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national security celebrities now. Mike

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Pompeo, who served as the CIA director

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and Secretary of State for Trump, and

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John Ratcliffe, who is very well liked

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on the right and was Donald Trump's

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director of national intelligence. Both of these

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guys, I'm told, are going to be

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involved in some way and pushing back

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on this amendment. On the left, the

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administration has been working with national

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security minded Democrats to try to make

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this case that the warrant amendment is

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not good for the country and the

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administration, including officials with the CIA, the

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FBI and other top intelligence offices, will

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be briefing House members on Wednesday

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about FISA. So we can expect

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that there'll be pouring

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cold water all over this

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Warren Davidson, Zoelofgren amendment. Now,

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Davidson conceded to me last night

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that just like his now dead

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data privacy provision, this warrant amendment

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might actually go down on the

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floor. And again, he blames Johnson.

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He said Johnson has

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changed his position on FISA and how

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it should be debated. Three times

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now and he said that the speaker

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basically has adopted this posture as saying

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he's gonna allow a debate on this

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issue that actually make sure that it

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dies so he actually think sauce as

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against us to really sad and eating

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dynamics I am super obsessed with in

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this whole very wonky debate number. One,

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this ongoing feud between house

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republicans. In Ohio. As somebody who

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is from Ohio, it's visually interesting

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to watch Mike Turner her who

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is from my home town area

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of Dayton, Ohio citing Jim Jordan

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is from another part of Ohio

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and worn Davidson's who's actually the

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Congressmen for the place that I

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grew up in for my parents

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have right now. Seeing all these

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Ohio Republican says duking it out

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is freely fascinating so I keep

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an eye on that in. Definitely

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read playbook for some pointed close.

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Between these two members taking shots at

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each other, the other interesting thing about

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this dynamic is that warned Davidson was

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actually it's the top vote counter and

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whip. Or for Jim Jordan when he

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ran for speakers. Needless to say,

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Davidson doesn't like Speaker Johnson. And

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Johnson obviously his gavel very much

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is under threat right now. I

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asked torn Davidson about this effort

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by Marjorie Tiller Green to potentially

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oust him. Ah, he wouldn't exactly

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get into it, but I wouldn't

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be surprised right now if he's

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thinking okay, what could the next

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steps be for Jordan to try

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to launched Jordan into leadership Is

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Johnson happens to go down, so

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I will very much be watching

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how this dynamic impact. Johnson as

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laugh. And for the

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rest your schedule. Today the Senate

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will meet at three pm. four

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liters remarks them will vote on

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judicial nominations the houses out until

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tomorrow and present buying will spend

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the day in the Midwest. First

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in Madison, Wisconsin where he'll deliver

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remarks on lowering costs for Americans,

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Then he'll travel to Chicago where

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hill participate in a campaign reception.

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