'Bless her heart': Johnson suggests Greene not a serious lawmaker
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... House Speaker Mike Johnson responded to ouster threats from one of his Republican colleagues, saying Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene isn't proving to be a serious lawmaker.

Johnson made the comments in an interview with NewsNation's Blake Burman on "The Hill" where he discussed the ongoing campus protests, border issues and his future in leadership.

Ahead of a news conference Wednesday morning, Burman asked Johnson about his future in office and whether he thinks Greene is a serious lawmaker.

"Bless her heart," Johnson said. "I don't think she's proving to be." ...

Democrats laugh off Greene's plan to force Johnson ouster vote
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... One House Democrat speculated Johnson is "trying to bring this to a head so that Republicans are forced to decide between crazy and just plain old arch-conservative."

- - - But, the lawmaker argued, Greene "has no choice. Her brand is to be a firebrand and constituents expect it. If she doesn't file the motion she looks weak."

- - - "Filing it and losing is better for her crazy narrative about how all Republicans are Democrats now."

- - - Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) argued Greene's tactic will backfire and "make Speaker Johnson even stronger and encourage him to work with Democrats." ...

'You Hate MAGA!' Bannon Nukes 'Bald-Face Liar' Mike Johnson As MTG Pushes to Oust Him
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... Steve Bannon spoke to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Wednesday after she vowed to press forward with ousting Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and absolutely nuked the GOP leader, calling him a "bald-face" liar.

"Speaker Johnson needs to answer one basic question. We know you lied to everybody. You bald-faced lie to everybody to their face," Bannon raged on his War Room podcast, which is influential with the MAGA base.

"On securing the southern border. Bald-faced lie. In addition. What is going on with all of this, standing up for President Trump about a vast criminal conspiracy going on in a DOJ that clearly people in the House are working on it. Why is it not come out sooner and why, knowing what was in these reports? Because these reports have been worked on for months and are very detailed and very footnoted. How could you possibly fund the DOJ and the FBI before you had them down and had an accounting about this?" Bannon fumed.

Bannon, known for spinning far-right conspiracy theories, later doubled down on his criticism of Johnson over the border and what he calls a DOJ plot to destroy Trump. ...