Annie Karni

And the pressure really intensifies on Boebert and Mace and Green.

Trump personally calls Mace...

and Boebert and is pressuring them himself.

We learn that Lauren Boebert is invited in to a meeting in the Situation Room with Pam Bonney, the Attorney General, and Kash Patel, the FBI Director, for a briefing on Epstein-related matters, which is just kind of unheard of to sit in that room with one member of Congress.

Right.

I mean, we don't know exactly what was said in the room, but Lauren Bowen's probably never been in this situation.

Just the whole staging of this was clearly, you know, shock and awe of the treatment she's getting in this moment when she's a critical vote.

But it doesn't work.

She does not remove her name from the petition.

And in fact, the extreme pressure campaign on her actually made her dig in more.

Mm-hmm.

She started to get even more conspiratorial about why they were so adamantly opposed to this.

And an interesting dynamic that unfolded during the shutdown was Mike Johnson recessed the House for a month.

So all these members were home.

And what I heard is Lauren Boebert, Nancy Mace, Marjorie Taylor Greene, all they heard from constituents for a month was...

You're brave.

Hold the line.

Stay strong.

We're with you on this.

None of the feedback they got from voters was that there was any repercussions for going against Trump on this issue.