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Unknown Speaker 1 (0:00)
Mr. Speaker, the President over this Meets the Press interview would not say if he would uphold the Constitution when it.
Unknown Speaker 2 (0:06)
Comes to laws for migrants.
Unknown Speaker 1 (0:09)
Wondering, is it constitutional? He said, I don't know.
Unknown Speaker 2 (0:12)
He was asked about is the president.
Unknown Speaker 3 (0:15)
Expected to be an expert on all Supreme Court cases? I think he'll love all the Constitution. He's demonstrated that over and over.
Unknown Speaker 2 (0:23)
That's MAGA Mike Johnson walking away from reporters. MAGA Mike Johnson is once again in the hot seat. His job is on the line as there is massive infighting in the MAGA Republican Party. In that clip I just showed at the outset of this video, MAGA Mike Johnson was asked why Donald Trump say that he doesn't know if he needs to follow the Constitution. To which MAGA Mike said, you can't expect Donald Trump to know about all of those Supreme Court cases. I do. I do expect the President of the United States to know about Supreme Court cases. But more fundamentally, MAGA Mike Johnson, I expect Donald Trump to know the about the United States Constitution and a very basic concept we have here in the United States called due process. But that's not why MAGA Mike Johnson is on the hot seat. It's because he's trying to push through what Donald Trump is calling one big beautiful bill through a reconciliation process between the House of Representatives and the Senate. And as we've reported before, under the blueprint that was originally passed by the MAGA Republicans, which calls for, you know, in theory, trillions of dollars in cuts. Those cuts are coming from Medicaid, those cuts are coming from education. Those cuts are coming from agriculture. Those cuts are coming from infrastructure, while the billionaires are getting massive, massive tax cuts. You know, the Congressional Budget Office came out with a report today at the request of Democrats and the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. Let me repeat, nonpartisan CBO analys analysis of various Republican plans for Medicaid spending reveals that under every scenario laid out by the GOP, millions would lose insurance. The GOP's plans would have a disproportionate impact on low income and elderly populations. Literally millions of people would lose their health care because there's going to be $800 billion plus and cuts to Medicaid. How do we know it? Because we can read their one big beautiful bill and see it. But you see what's happening right now, folks, is that the MAGA Republicans are fighting each other because they are seeing, whoa, whoa, Whoa. It's almost 2026. The midterms are getting closer. Could you believe that, folks? Yes. Hang in there. It's the midterms before you know it are going to be right around the corner. And these MAGA Republican Congress members are seeing Republicans get beat in seats during special elections. They're seeing Supreme Court races in states where Democrats have won big. And they're saying, oh, are we next? And the answer is yes. So they're saying you can't cut Medicaid. You know, MAGA Mike, because if you cut Medicaid, we're definitely going to lose. Our best shot of staying in power is if you don't cut Medicaid. Let's take a look right here at this article from cnn. House GOP infighting turns ugly over Trump's big Beautiful bill. That's what he's calling it and he's making all the MAGA Republicans refer to it as the big beautiful bill because they're fascist toddlers. It says Donald Trump's big beautiful bill is running into a wall in the sharply divided House Republican Conference with tensions sp over MAGA Mike Johnson handling of the party's biggest sticking point, overhauling Medicaid. As Johnson presses for a House vote before Memorial Day, the battle lines are becoming more pronounced. The Republicans in swing districts are saying the sweeping bill can't slash social safety net benefits, while GOP hardliners are saying bye Medicaid, we don't care if people die and get sick. And they're demanding trillions of cuts, many that would be in Medicaid. Those frustrations emerged in a two hour meeting in Johnson's leadership suite on Tuesday night in which the speaker huddled with a roughly dozen GOP centrist. How do you what's it GOP centrist today? But okay, I'll bite. A GOP centrist who have refused to back any Medicaid changes that could hurt eligible Americans who rely on the program. Inside the room, Johnson made one more attempt to sell those members on a contentious plan backed by the hard right House Freedom Caucus and others to sharply reduce Medicaid payments to states that expanded the program under Obamacare. According to two people in the room. His push drew a rebuke from multiple centrists. There's no such thing as a centrist when it comes to Republicans, but okay, centrist in the room who believe that idea was already off the table, that people said, quote, we laid down the law, one Republican member who attended the meeting said of the firm position many members took, that they don't want to shift the federal match, which was like 9010 right now, and move it all to the state, which basically Means based on certain trigger laws that states have, Medicaid would go away in most states under that plan. Zero Medicaid. It would eliminate Medicaid for people. So if you're in Medicaid, that plan, shifting it to the states is bye bye to your Medicaid. Johnson and his leadership team insist in the end the GOP members are going to all work together and they're going to make it all work. On the one hand you have Andrew Garbarino from a vulnerable seat in New York, MAGA Republican. He goes, I don't want to be mean. And I think anytime it looks like we're actually hurting people, that's going to piss off the American population. And if you them off, they're probably not going to vote for you. Notice that he says looks because if it didn't look that way, they'll be happy to be cruel and mean. They just don't know how to hide what they're doing right there. Um, and then you have all these MAGA Republicans like Chip Roy and others basically saying bye bye to your Medicaid. It needs to be cut. Let's take a look at MAGA Republican, speaker of the House MAGA Mike Johnson over here. Here. You know he's talking about the big beautiful bill and he's saying this big beautiful bill. You know those little girls gotta say bye bye to their dolls. Why? Cuz Donald Trump said that little girl shouldn't have dolls or pencils. They get one doll and they get five pencils because Donald regime does central planning and they say that's what little girls deserve. Donald Trump and his family get to what they make $2.6 billion more in their crypto schemes and their resort deals with Qatar and Oman and Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi buying their using their crypto coins. But your daughter, granddaughter, how dare she have more than $1. She gets one doll, five pencils and she's going to pay more for it. You understand? That's what they're saying. And here MAGA Mike Johnson says we got to do it. We got to do that to the little girls. We got to be the disruptors, we got to disrupt the system and it's going to cause you pain. But you voted for pain, right? Trump equals pain. That's what you voted for. Play this clip.