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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) sparked yet more turmoil in the House of Representatives on Friday when she filed a motion to vacate the chair of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).

However, CNN's Manu Raju reports that there's a good reason to believe that Johnson will not suffer the same fate as his predecessor, former Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) — largely because House Democrats are signaling that they'll bail him out.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) created more internal drama for her fellow House Republicans on Friday when she filed a motion to vacate the chair of the speaker of the House of Representatives.

While speaking with reporters after filing the motion, Greene sent a pointed message to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) that his days leading the chamber were numbered.

Reacting to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) filing a resolution to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), CNN host Jim Acosta called what is currently happening in the Republican-controlled House nothing less than a "hot mess."

Greene's power move, coming as the 2024 election looms, has now thrown Republicans ready to leave for a two-week vacation into chaos, reported CNN's Manu Raju who questioned if it will come to a vote soon.

Predictions about the future of former President Donald Trump's presidential campaign, civil court litigation and financial standing were thrown into disarray Friday when news broke that his social media company had agreed to a merger that could net him $3 billion.

Trump, the Republican frontrunner trailing behind President Joe Biden in campaign fundraising and facing a looming $464 million deadline in his New York civil fraud trial, has reportedly been toying with the idea of declaring bankruptcy to avert financial disaster.

Former President Donald Trump's lawyers are scrambling to explain away his $500 million boast, posted to Truth Social Friday morning, after they said in court filings their client couldn't come up with that kind of cash, according to a new report.

Trump's attorneys told CNN reporter Kara Scannell Friday morning that Trump's all-caps claim that he currently has almost $500 million in cash — more than the $464 million he's been ordered to pay in his New York City civil fraud trial — wasn't exactly right.

Donald Trump's Truth Social rant Friday in which he claimed to be sitting on $500 million in cash was met by a mixture of skepticism and mirth on CNN, with co-hosts and legal experts suggesting he likely doesn't have the money — and if he does it just opened up a whole new can of worms for him.

In an early all-cap post, the former president boasted: "THROUGH HARD WORK, TALENT, AND LUCK, I CURRENTLY HAVE ALMOST FIVE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS IN CASH, A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF WHICH I INTENDED TO USE IN MY CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT."

A new deal with the Republican National Committee will see a percentage of donations funneled directly to entities that are paying former President Donald Trump's legal bills, a revelation which led former Republican Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson to have an "I-told-you-so" moment.

Appearing on CNN, Hutchinson was asked about a new joint fundraising agreement in which the RNC will direct donations to a PAC that's paying his legal bills before the RNC gets a cut of the action.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," on Friday morning, investment banker and former Donald Trump White House official Anthony Scaramucci claimed that Wall Street executives are laughing among themselves at the former president's attempts to raise nearly a half billion for his financial fraud appeals bond.

Speaking with the "Morning Joe" panel, the former White House director of communications said he has been in contact with Wall Street bankers, all of whom are skeptical of loaning the embattled former president any money at all considering his history of not paying his bills.

"He defaults on everything, you know, if you talk to interior designers, architects, construction workers, plumbing people, he doesn't pay his bills," he explained, "He's always been that way. You can't give him the money because you don't have the 100 percent certainty — I mean, if he was rated by Moody's, he'd be a C-plus debt rating, which is specious."

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"His problem now is going to be about the identity he presents to his audience," he continued. "You know, 'I'm the guy. I'm the business maverick' If you don't really have the money like you've been saying you've had the money all these years, I think it is a big Achilles heel for him."

Pressed on why he can't get the cash he needs from his son-in-law Jared Kushner, Scaramucci first smiled before elaborating, "He may end up getting the money. The question is, where did he get the money? Did he get it from Wall Street? From anybody who knows him? Where is the money?"

"He's not getting it from Wall Street. I can tell you that," he continued. "Because of a declarative 'no' from every distressed lender on Wall Street. There was a little giggle group chat among a lot of people saying, can you believe this guy is looking for a half a billion dollars with a 15 percent coupon?"

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Former Trump White House official Alyssa Farah Griffin said that his reported desire to bring convicted felons such as Roger Stone and Paul Manafort back into the fold could hurt him with voters he desperately needs.

Appearing on CNN, Griffin said Trump bringing back Manafort struck her as particularly problematic.

After spending a considerable amount of time documenting the multiple Donald Trump properties that will be at risk of seizure if the former president doesn't come up with $462 million for an appeals bond in New York, MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski noted the desperation of the Trump campaign to rake in every dollar it can.

With New York Attorney General Letitia James reportedly already getting the paperwork ready to go to grab Trump properties next week in anticipation that he will fail to find anyone willing to back an appeals bond, the "Morning Joe" co-host cited a pop-up ad featuring Don. Trump Jr. where he begs for cash.

After pointing out that President Joe Biden's campaign is now labeling Trump as "Broke Don," Brzezinski called out the desperation of the former president's campaign.

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"Just last night I got like one of those video ads that pop-up before you watch a video and it was like Donald Trump Jr's face saying, 'Give us five dollars. Chip in."' I was like, 'Wow, God, you guys are scraping,'" she told the "Morning Joe" panel.

"I mean, yeah, when they've got to email you?" co-host Joe Scarborough laughed along with the rest of the panel.

"It was like a video," she explained before grimacing and adding, "It was jarring. Very close up."

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