Speaker of the House of Representatives John A. Boehner is on the brink of being forced to resign, and Democrats are mounting an effort to force a vote that could force him out of office. CNN's Peter Bergen and Jake Tapper explain why they think he should step down.
00:00:55.960I'm operating with the smallest margin in U.S. history.
00:00:59.300The only way to get a rule on the floor is that it requires a couple of Democrats.
00:01:03.400Johnson's move came after he shelved the Senate's $95 billion aid package for more than two months.
00:01:08.980Instead, he decided to split that aid package up into several pieces and to add to it other policy measures,
00:01:16.320such as a loan for Ukraine aid and a potential ban on TikTok.
00:01:20.260Yet the House is expected to tie those bills together in one big package and send it back to the Senate for final approval.
00:01:28.040The House will vote on a separate border security bill that won't be included in the final package that will be sent to the Senate,
00:01:35.400all of which a major rebuke to his right flank.
00:01:39.180That includes Congressman Thomas Massey, the second Republican to join the effort to oust him.
00:01:44.460The strategy is not to try. I think the strategy is to fall on his sword.
00:01:49.480But with just two votes to spare, Johnson will need Democrats to salvage the bill.
00:01:54.260Something likely to happen with President Biden announcing his support.
00:01:58.300Now the question, will Democrats save Johnson's job?
00:02:02.020Does he still deserve to be saved if it comes to it?
00:02:04.640Well, I've already committed to do that.
00:02:06.760Bottom line is we have to show that this chaos caucus does not have the power they think they have.
00:02:14.080I'll put it this way. If the speaker is deemed as working in the better interests of the American people, I would definitely consider.
00:02:23.100All as many Republicans warning hardliners not to seek Johnson's ouster.
00:02:28.340They want Russia to win so badly that they want to oust the speaker over it.
00:02:32.640I think they want to be in the minority, too.
00:02:33.980I mean, this is one of those WTF moments where you have Donald Trump waging this campaign to undermine the rule of law.
00:02:42.500Bill Barr knows all of this, and he's decided it's a binary choice because in his world, in order to stay relevant and viable, he has to put party over country.
00:02:54.060I mean, literally, when he uses the phrase Russian roulette, when he uses the term Russian roulette, he knows the danger he poses.
00:03:05.100Look, what is extraordinary is the contrast between what Bill Barr is saying and what the former Secretary of Defense, Mike Esper, is saying.
00:03:13.580Vice President Mike Pence is saying, no, I'm not going to endorse him.
00:03:20.840You are not required to look at Donald Trump and say, OK, because I don't like student loan forgiveness, I'm going to put a man who is clearly unhinged, who clearly tried to overthrow the government, called for terminating the Constitution.
00:03:36.920We could spend the next 10 minutes just walking through all of the things.
00:03:40.240Somebody who has been found liable for rape, put them back in the Oval Office.
00:03:45.680But I do think it is interesting, the contrast between Bill Barr and much of the rest of the cabinet.
00:03:52.260And we need to remind ourselves that never before in American history have so many people who work so closely with the president taken the position that, no, don't do this again.
00:04:24.700I mean, we ought to continue to be surprised by this.
00:04:27.240You know, up until like five minutes ago, nobody in America would say that a convicted felon should be elected president of the United States.
00:04:33.220Now, they are all saying it up and down the ticket.
00:04:36.820They have to defend what Peter Wiener calls the kaleidoscopic, the kaleidoscopic corruption of Donald Trump.
00:06:10.420Today we're going to have the Force Multiplier Academy starting immediately after the War Room.
00:06:16.760You saw right there, there are many fronts of this war we're fighting today.
00:06:19.620Number one, obviously, on Capitol Hill, a firestorm.
00:06:24.900And here's how, what a great job the War Room Posse has done in fighting this, is that there are no votes scheduled, just some sort of, you know, resolution-type vote on condemning Iran.
00:06:35.980That will take place at 10-15 to 10-30.
00:06:38.320We're going to try to get some of the participants, particularly Marjorie Taylor Greene, who's leading the efforts here.
00:06:43.720And that's picking up a lot of traction on removing Speaker Johnson from a speakership.
00:06:49.160But these bills are all an abomination.
00:06:52.500They're too irrelevant even to go through because you're going to have a, you're going to, we're going to break them all down.
00:07:45.220So, next thing you know, we've got to have a trillion dollar defense bill, and then we've got to come in a week after that stride,
00:07:49.960and we've got to put $100 billion into a supplemental.
00:07:53.280The second front of the war is in lower Manhattan.
00:07:56.980We're going to have Gavin Wax from the Young Republicans Club, New York Young Republicans Club, in a little while.
00:08:02.900We're going to talk about this amazing trip to the bodega in Harlem, which kind of changed the title.
00:08:08.720There's not the big media coverage you're seeing today in lower Manhattan.
00:08:12.120I think one of the reasons people realize that President Trump, Politico's got a huge story up there about President Trump kind of running for mayor of New York or governor of New York State,
00:08:20.700and how he's flipping the tables on Eric Adams and how he's flipping the tables on Alan Bragg and Big Tish James.
00:08:55.740That may very well be by design, Steve, because what you're seeing is President Trump is getting the people in New York here
00:09:02.640that really Republicans have not resonated with for 25, 30.
00:09:07.160I mean, from a presidential standpoint, you could say since even Reagan in 84.
00:09:11.840I mean, so it's been a very, very long time, I think, since New York saw a Republican that really resonates like Donald Trump
00:09:18.620in terms of what he's able to deliver, the message, the forgotten, the fact that Democrats have forgotten them, basically.
00:09:27.680And that trip to Harlem is a perfect example.
00:09:30.540It would not surprise me to see more of this.
00:09:32.060I'll tell you, Steve, one thing that does concern me that's being reported earlier today
00:09:36.400is the one juror who was sworn and was picked of the seven who said he was fascinated by Trump.
00:09:43.360The district attorney is concerned with that juror, and he has not supposedly, sources say, been sworn in today at 915 when they were walking in there.
00:09:55.360That does concern me because he seemed to be the one juror or one of the few jurors that really was unbiased in this.
00:10:04.520Just trying to read a little bit more into it, obviously, from my standpoint.
00:10:08.800As I said on Monday and as I'll stick to, all I'm looking for, I think all America should be looking for,
00:10:14.920is as many unbiased minds on that jury as possible.
00:10:53.660The first guy that's there, at least has been posted, is I think from Ireland, now a U.S. citizen.
00:10:59.580Although I would check that with that Montauk crowd out there, being Irish myself, I wouldn't trust any of the Montauk crowd that said their papers are in order.
00:11:10.540But he filled out something in the forum, or he said something that I just don't find.
00:11:15.860He said he watched both Fox and MSNBC.
00:11:19.140Now, brother, besides the war room team who bitch and moan every day about this, nobody in America watches both Fox and MSNBC.
00:11:30.600I think Jesse Waters is on to something.
00:11:32.740I think that there are activists that are lying.
00:11:35.260I don't know why Trump's people don't go for a mistrial right now, sir.
00:11:39.820Yeah, I think you're absolutely right.
00:11:41.600And I would not trust, really, any of the opinions that any of these jurors end up saying.
00:11:47.680You really need to dig into their social media histories.
00:11:51.000You need to dig into all the public records.
00:11:53.540Let's get, you know, your private investigators out there looking into the histories of these people and trying to see whether or not they could actually be unbiased, right?
00:12:01.820I mean, it is impossible at this point to not have an opinion on Donald Trump.
00:12:06.460What you really want is can you get 12 people or at least maybe it's four people that are registered Democrat, four registered independent, four registered Republican.
00:12:14.420We know that Mershon will not actually allow that and allow the defense to check what their political registration is.
00:12:22.920But, again, this is an example of the judge intervening on what should be a fair and unbiased process.
00:12:30.280In a place, again, like Manhattan, this deserves repeating, in Manhattan, 86 percent of Manhattan voted with Joe Biden.
00:12:38.180Eighty-one percent voted with Alvin Bragg.
00:12:40.680It's not quite as bad as D.C., where I think it's 96 percent in Washington, D.C., but we are certainly a swamp in Manhattan in our own right.
00:12:56.180Are you saying the prosecutor, is it Alvin Bragg that brought up this morning they're concerned about this one juror may not be biased enough and they're going to target him right now?
00:13:05.900They are concerned with the fact that he said he finds Trump fascinating.
00:13:10.360And because of that, supposedly, when the other seven, the other six jurors that were selected on Tuesday walked in, that juror was not in there.
00:13:21.880And so this is, again, I think, an example of how Mershon is stepping in here and might be ceding to the district attorney, to Alvin Bragg's office, rather than actually trying to see a fair and unbiased jury.
00:13:37.000He hasn't been struck from the jury yet.
00:13:39.540All I can tell you is that he did not walk in with the other six jurors.
00:13:42.720We'll have to follow that story, and I will follow up with you and the War Room Posse on that.
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00:16:03.040We're at the Ahern Luxury Boutique Hotel today, all day.
00:16:08.460We're going to do two live broadcasts here this morning outside the atrium and then this afternoon on the main stage where we're going to talk about machines.
00:16:15.980We've got all the Mike Lindell Supreme Court team is going to be with us.
00:16:19.700In between, we're going to do a force multiplier academy, very different than the one we did in D.C.
00:16:26.300because we're testing different modules out.
00:16:28.100So we'll stream that on Getter, Rumble, everywhere else.
00:16:31.140So make sure you watch Grace and Moe and they'll tell you where to go.
00:16:36.320Make sure you watch us during the day.
00:16:38.220Andrew Giuliani is in Lower Manhattan.
00:16:51.920But do you get a sense that the media feels that because of what Trump did in Harlem, what we're pushing back on, this criminal conspiracy against him, this thing about a mistrial because they're putting, obviously, activists are lying about getting on the jury.
00:17:09.900Do you think already the media understands they may have overplayed their hand here?
00:17:16.140I think when you look at the reason why there's so much less media today, I think they're saying, hey, look, maybe less coverage of this from our standpoint is better.
00:17:25.440I think there are more and more unbiased minds outside the jury box.
00:17:29.500I certainly hope inside the jury box as well that are looking at this for what it is, which is targeting the political opponent of Joe Biden.
00:17:37.880And because of that, I think the media may pull its punches.
00:17:40.620And, Steve, to the point that you're making, I know that Gavin Wax will come on later regarding Trump's trip to Harlem here.
00:17:46.660If I'm President Trump, that went off so well that I would basically look at every single post-trial day and do something, whether it's in New York.
00:17:55.880I do it also in New Jersey as well because New Jersey falls before New York.
00:18:01.480As you know, we're a 90-minute drive from Philly.
00:18:04.560We are a quick chopper ride from many places in the state.
00:18:08.040And I would make sure I would utilize the post-hearing days to actually go to these places where you can actually reach out to voters, not just in swing states, but in places like New Jersey and New York, who I think are looking more and more and saying, hey, we may not have liked Trump's Twitter in 2020, but we hate what's going on with our justice system here.
00:18:31.960You know, Politico, Andrew, said today that it feels like Trump is running from the bodega visit and the crowd response that looks like Trump's running for mayor of New York or the governor of New York state.
00:18:47.660And Politico said in the sub-headline, and it's working.
00:18:54.760I mean, look, you can see it with the polling, which is kind of the longer-term polling in terms of African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans.
00:19:02.380Trump may be winning the Hispanic vote, which is kind of amazing when you think about that.
00:19:07.280And same thing with the African-American vote, where he's improving by 20, 25 points that we've seen in terms of the tracking of this.
00:19:15.180So I think it's right, and I think, honestly, for the next six to eight weeks, a strategy of running for mayor of New York, running for governor of New Jersey, if you will, I think it's a good strategy here.
00:19:28.240And I think it'll ultimately ring really true, not just with New Yorkers and not just with maybe people that Republicans traditionally did not reach out to.
00:19:37.760But I think that's true of some of these people in Detroit, some of these people in Philadelphia, in Atlanta, in some of the other cities, in Milwaukee, that are swing states as well.
00:19:48.940Because let's face it, New York is the media capital for better or mostly for worse, sadly.
00:19:55.320And so Trump is going to ultimately take that.
00:19:57.800And, Steve, you and I know better than anybody.
00:20:00.020Certainly you know better than anybody.
00:20:01.120There's nobody that understands the way the media works and how to utilize it to their advantage better than Donald Trump.
00:20:14.740Now you're saying one has been held back and coming to the jury box today.
00:20:18.440Your assessment, do you think actually we'll get the – because I think President Trump was kind of surprised at him.
00:20:23.240I don't know why his lawyers didn't tell him.
00:20:25.140He only gets, according to New York law, and they're not making any – Mershon's not making any exceptions.
00:20:29.340You only get ten that you can set aside after the questioning.
00:20:34.060So do you think that we'll have a jury actually instead of going two weeks that we actually have a jury by the end of this week and start opening arguments on Monday?
00:21:30.760I think those numbers have changed a little bit.
00:21:33.120But still, when you look at what the judge is allowing the defense, Trump's team, and the district attorney, Bragg's team, to actually look in with these jurors, it should take a lot more time than just a week.
00:21:46.220This should be at least a three-, four-week process.
00:23:28.400Somebody's got to get the ball rolling here.
00:23:29.860We're working diligently behind the scenes to make sure this happens because obviously this is a kangaroo court, and it needs to be dealt with.
00:23:37.740You have right now activists, pretty obvious you have activists that are trying to get onto the jury.
00:23:42.500And President Trump shouldn't have to – the burden shouldn't be on him to say anything.
00:23:45.920This should be the conservative media.
00:33:48.960Gavin Wax, I can't thank the New York Young Republicans Club, you, Vish Burra.
00:33:54.960Look, the event you put on a couple of months ago, which really President Trump came and he opened up like he's never opened up before, I think was one of the most important pre run ups to the general campaign.
00:34:06.960But yesterday was just a that was a stroke of genius.
00:34:13.960I mean, some of the inception for this idea started at the gala.
00:34:16.960You know, there was a lot of buzz in the air talking about a potential visit for President Trump to the South Bronx.
00:34:22.960There was a clip that had been released around that time that showed overwhelming support for President Trump on in very blue districts and very blue Democrat dominated neighborhoods here in New York and the Bronx and upper Manhattan.
00:34:35.960And I mentioned that to the president.
00:34:36.960He was excited and he said, let's set it up.
00:34:39.960And since then, we've been in communication, pitching things, pitching ideas.
00:34:43.960And one of the ideas that I pitched was, you know, visiting Jose Alba's, you know, former bodega where he worked at, you know, Jose Alba, for those who don't know, was a victim of the anarcho tyrannical regime of District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
00:34:57.960He was defending himself against a violent thug, a violent criminal with a rap sheet going back decades, years.
00:35:04.960And what happened to Jose Alba for defending himself, you know, stabbing his attacker that that that assailant ultimately passed away?
00:35:15.960And this mockery of justice went on for some time before the community, many of whom you're seeing in these shots right now, had public outcries against the district attorney's office and the charges were ultimately dropped.
00:35:27.960But it just goes to show that the the charges that President Trump is facing right now are similar to many other charges that are being faced by other New Yorkers who are just living their lives, who are living, you know, peaceful, civil lives.
00:35:40.960And instead of going after criminals, they go after law abiding citizens.
00:35:44.960But I want to point out something with these shots right here that, you know, these are tight shots.
00:36:45.960And he followed this up with an association with the Bodega Association's joint statement, you know, supporting his policy, supporting his make America great again agenda, which applies to all Americans, whether they're up in the heights or they're in the Rust Belt or they're in the southwest.
00:37:00.960So this was a historic event and compare it, compare it, Steve, to what Reagan experienced in the Bronx.
00:37:06.960You can watch 20 minutes of that old footage or he's getting heckled, you know, for 20 minutes, 30 minutes straight.
00:37:11.960This was nothing but nothing like that.
00:39:24.960You can't go to the West Village or Soho or somewhere closer to the court.
00:39:28.960I mean, he would it would be a completely different story.
00:39:31.960Those are the type of people that are reading The New York Times.
00:39:33.960Those are the type of people that are, you know, claiming all these ridiculous things about President Trump and his movement.
00:39:38.960If anything, you need to go to these authentic neighborhoods, the neighborhoods that Democrats have forgotten.
00:39:42.960And that's where you're going to get the best reception.
00:39:44.960You're going to work with groups like the Bodega Association, like the National Supermarket Association, who was also involved, predominantly Hispanic.
00:39:51.960And these guys are on the front lines of dealing with crime.
00:39:54.960This bodega that we're looking at was held up by gunpoint less than a month ago.
00:39:58.960Less than a month ago was held up by gunpoint.
00:40:00.960So this is a recurring problem in these communities that no one is addressing.
00:40:06.960He can talk to the people and he's rewarded accordingly.
00:40:09.960And this is the kind of energy we need going into this election.
00:40:12.960We need people to think outside the box.
00:40:15.960And I think if he's going to be stuck in New York City for eight weeks, let's make the most of it, because it's a microcosm of the country in many ways.
00:40:21.960All the problems we're talking about, crime, corruption, the migrant issue, the illegal migrant issue, it's all in New York.
00:40:27.960You could touch on any one of these issues very locally.
00:40:30.960So they may think that they got him stuck here.
00:40:34.960But if he's going to follow up on these types of visits, you know, working with the club and other organizations, you know, he's going to have a ton of other memorable moments that will go down in American political history.
00:40:43.960I want to go back and look, as great as President Reagan was, you know, that wasn't a great trip up there.
00:40:48.960But right now, and this ties back to Capitol Hill, the reason President Trump go up there, he's not a neoliberal neocon.
00:40:55.960That crowd right there, if you look at that district, that district voted, I don't know, they say 90 percent Democratic.
00:41:02.960If you actually ask those people today a show of hands of how many want to send $60 billion to Ukraine versus a couple of billion dollars back in their neighborhood, the vote would be 99 to 1 against.
00:41:14.960This is why President Trump is a populist nationalist.
00:41:17.960It's his policies and his personality that make people gravitate to him.
00:41:45.960They know that he has he has a he has a connection to all Americans and he can go into a bodega in the middle of Harlem and get a hometown welcome like no other.
00:41:54.960I mean, no Democrat or Republican would have had the streets lined up cheering him the way he had the streets lined up cheering him.
00:42:05.960And honestly, for all the coverage and the coverage has been fantastic.
00:42:08.960I think even these these tight shots, you didn't really get to see the the crowds that were building up that were building up for hours, hours that they were there trying to see him.
00:42:32.960He went in there and talked about the migrant crisis.
00:42:34.960He went in there and talked about illegal stealing jobs from Hispanic Americans.
00:42:37.960He went in there, talked about the crime being out of control.
00:42:39.960He didn't change his position one bit.
00:42:41.960The typical Republican would go into these areas and start pandering.
00:42:45.960But President Trump's stuck true to his messaging, the same messaging in Flint, the same messaging he'd given Scranton, the same messaging he'd give anywhere else in the Rust Belt.
00:42:53.960He was giving in the Heights and he was well received because it's a populist message, it's uplifting and it's part of this Ascendant movement, Steve.
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00:49:59.960And a hat tip to Jason and the campaign team.
00:50:02.960Everybody knows they're thinly staffed over there.
00:50:04.960So just incredible to pull this off with you guys.
00:50:06.960Real quickly, because you're in the heart of the beast.
00:50:09.960I want to talk about the club for a second and particularly how you're driving the narrative.
00:50:13.960You're not just this is just not another standard neoliberal neocon guys in blue blazers and khaki pants, you know, sitting around having cocktails at the Century Club.
00:50:39.960You could tell you could tell that he's getting fired up for this.
00:50:42.960And eventually that's his dream is go to New York City, have a big rally in Madison Square Garden, pack the place, have all the streets absolutely packed with people trying to get in.
00:50:54.960Tell me about the club and what are you guys doing to drive the populist nationalist message in New York, of which it's getting traction in Queens, in the boroughs, everywhere.
00:51:15.960We're doing it in a deep blue city and we're seeing it pay dividends, you know, tenfold.
00:51:19.960I mean, we have never been larger as an institution going back over the last hundred plus years.
00:51:24.960You know, this is one of the peaks of our institution in terms of our growth, in terms of our, you know, publicity, our membership and all the other metrics you can use to quantify it.