Annie Karni

He was strategizing from January about maybe there's a path for him. And he and his very canny chief agreed. But now his entire ticket to power is Trump. And he has acted more like a junior member of the White House staff than as a leader of a co-equal branch of government because he has no power without Trump.

He was strategizing from January about maybe there's a path for him. And he and his very canny chief agreed. But now his entire ticket to power is Trump. And he has acted more like a junior member of the White House staff than as a leader of a co-equal branch of government because he has no power without Trump.

He was strategizing from January about maybe there's a path for him. And he and his very canny chief agreed. But now his entire ticket to power is Trump. And he has acted more like a junior member of the White House staff than as a leader of a co-equal branch of government because he has no power without Trump.

the way he gets his members to fall in line on a bill he needs them to vote for is to say, well, you don't agree. You're going to have to call the president.

the way he gets his members to fall in line on a bill he needs them to vote for is to say, well, you don't agree. You're going to have to call the president.

the way he gets his members to fall in line on a bill he needs them to vote for is to say, well, you don't agree. You're going to have to call the president.

We wrote a lot about – there was a lot more behind the scenes going on of Johnson – working secretly with the White House to get this done.

We wrote a lot about – there was a lot more behind the scenes going on of Johnson – working secretly with the White House to get this done.

We wrote a lot about – there was a lot more behind the scenes going on of Johnson – working secretly with the White House to get this done.

The Biden White House. His chief of staff would meet with a top Biden advisor late at night in a dog park in their neighborhood and trade paper folders because they didn't want anything in writing. They thought that if these hard right members got wind of what they were doing, it would fall apart. So he was really working to get this deal done.

The Biden White House. His chief of staff would meet with a top Biden advisor late at night in a dog park in their neighborhood and trade paper folders because they didn't want anything in writing. They thought that if these hard right members got wind of what they were doing, it would fall apart. So he was really working to get this deal done.

The Biden White House. His chief of staff would meet with a top Biden advisor late at night in a dog park in their neighborhood and trade paper folders because they didn't want anything in writing. They thought that if these hard right members got wind of what they were doing, it would fall apart. So he was really working to get this deal done.

He had been convinced by the intelligence that if Ukraine did not get financial support, Putin would steamroll across to Poland and then we would have to get involved in a war. And he made the case and he did finally bring a funding bill to the floor.

He had been convinced by the intelligence that if Ukraine did not get financial support, Putin would steamroll across to Poland and then we would have to get involved in a war. And he made the case and he did finally bring a funding bill to the floor.

He had been convinced by the intelligence that if Ukraine did not get financial support, Putin would steamroll across to Poland and then we would have to get involved in a war. And he made the case and he did finally bring a funding bill to the floor.

At the time, this was seen as fairly remarkable in the same way that Pence, Mike Pence was remarkable in that you're not really doing anything particularly remarkable. You're literally doing your job, which was bring a bill to the floor and see if it has the votes to pass. But in a moment with the pressure on him, it seemed like he had actually stood up to the pressure.

At the time, this was seen as fairly remarkable in the same way that Pence, Mike Pence was remarkable in that you're not really doing anything particularly remarkable. You're literally doing your job, which was bring a bill to the floor and see if it has the votes to pass. But in a moment with the pressure on him, it seemed like he had actually stood up to the pressure.

At the time, this was seen as fairly remarkable in the same way that Pence, Mike Pence was remarkable in that you're not really doing anything particularly remarkable. You're literally doing your job, which was bring a bill to the floor and see if it has the votes to pass. But in a moment with the pressure on him, it seemed like he had actually stood up to the pressure.

And at the time, Marjorie Taylor Greene was threatening to oust him from his job because of this. So he actually did, you know, at the time, make a hard decision, which was, I'm going to potentially risk my job to do what I think is the right thing. And now we saw him at the State of the Union.

And at the time, Marjorie Taylor Greene was threatening to oust him from his job because of this. So he actually did, you know, at the time, make a hard decision, which was, I'm going to potentially risk my job to do what I think is the right thing. And now we saw him at the State of the Union.