'Run away!' Mike Johnson's 'Monty Python' style exit mocked by CNN conservative

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was ruthlessly mocked Tuesday by CNN analyst Scott Jennings — a former GOP campaign strategist and usually one of President Donald Trump's most faithful supporters on the network — comparing his decision to shut down the House rather than take a vote on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files to King Arthur and his knights from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" running away from danger.

"Is this going to work?" asked anchor Kasie Hunt. "Is Mike Johnson's attempt to get out of dodge going to help defuse all this for the president?"

"Reminds me of the scene in Monty Python. Run away, run away!" said Jennings, gesticulating while the rest of the table laughed.

"You know, honestly, I feel his and the president's frustration here," said Jennings. "For the president, you know, he wants to talk about all the things he's done over six months, which is — and you talk to the white house, they've just clicked off promise after promise that they've delivered on. And then for Johnson, he's trying to pass bills. He's got things to do. And now his entire operation has been held up over this issue. And he's trying to be deferential to the White House because, you know, what has Trump said? Put the grand jury stuff out."

The bottom line, he said, is that "Republicans who control Congress are paralyzed right now. They've done the bulk of the president's agenda. But there's more to do. And now Epstein is sucking up all the oxygen."

"But they're paralyzed by a problem of their own making," chimed in former Biden White House communications chief Kate Bedingfield. "I mean, it was Trump's attorney general who stood up and who said on TV that the list of clients was on her desk, and they handed out the binder to the influencers. I mean, they raised the stakes on this."

"I think the other thing to think about is there's a long history of recess turning the temperature up on an issue, not down," she added. "You're going to have people — you know, you heard [Congressman] Don Bacon saying in his swing district, he's hearing from people. So these members are going to go home. They're going to hear from their constituents. I suspect they're going to come back with more fire in the belly and not less."

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