Watch: Reporter calls out Mike Johnson's effort to spin state of 'unleadable' GOP

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) did his best to put a happy spin on his party losing yet another special election on Tuesday, but Boston Globe Washington Bureau Chief Jackie Kucinich wasn't buying it.

Appearing on CNN Wednesday, Kucinich pushed back on Johnson's claims that it's actually Democrats who should be nervous about their eight-point victory in the congressional district previously held by disgraced former Rep. George Santos (R-NY).

"I mean, as for someone who said that he wasn't going to talk about... political talking points and political rhetoric, I heard a lot of political rhetoric and a lot of political talking points," she said of Johnson's post-election press conference.

Kucinich then pointed to the nonstop chaos within the GOP conference as a reason why Republicans keep getting beaten in special elections throughout the country.

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"The reason that Mike Johnson is even standing there as the speaker is because of Republican infighting," she said. "We've seen this throughout this entire Congress! They just can't seem to get out of their own way."

She then pointed to tensions in the party between the House and the Senate GOP when it comes to a bipartisan border package that would have also funded foreign aid to Israel, Taiwan, and Ukraine.

"Nothing else seems to be going right for Mike Johnson in terms of being able to lead this unleadable conference," she said.

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Paul Pelosi, the husband of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), could face criminal charges over a vehicle incident that occurred Friday in Northern California, The New York Times reported Saturday.

According to a news release from the Napa County Sheriff’s Office, Mr. Pelosi is under investigation as the driver of a vehicle that struck a parked vehicle before “leaving the scene,” the Times reported. Pelosi told investigators that “he knew he had hit something but didn’t know what and that he kept driving his car, which stopped running a short time later,” the Times reported.

Given Mr. Pelosi’s age of 86, the sheriff’s office plans to submit a request to the Department of Motor Vehicles to evaluate his ability to drive, per the Times.

“Mr. Pelosi has been involved in other car crashes, one as a teenager and another four years ago,” the Times’ report reads.

“When he was 16, he was behind the wheel of a car that crashed. His brother, a passenger, was killed. In 2022, he pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol in connection with a crash in Napa County.”

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As thousands of Great American State Fair attendees “wander the streets” of Washington, D.C. in an apparent attempt to wait out severe weather, a tense exchange occurred that involved a man wearing “a patriotic t-shirt” calling for another’s deportation, The New York Times reported Saturday.

Fair attendees were ordered Saturday evening to evacuate the National Mall after a Severe Thunderstorm Warning was issued, an order that initially sparked chaos as several hundred attendees refused to leave. While President Donald Trump has vowed to continue the festivities – even if it means waiting until “2 o’clock in the morning” – attendees may still have hours to wait.

“The restaurants in the area, largely fine dining, are packed. People seem exhausted and irritable, and it’s causing some tension,” wrote the Times’ Aishvarya Kavi, reporting from the National Mall.

In one tense exchange, Kavi described an incident that sparked one man to call for another’s deportation.

“Two men riding electric scooters veered too close to a couple on the sidewalk, [prompting] a short but heated exchange of words,” Kavi wrote. “Behind the couple, a man in a patriotic t-shirt said, ‘Deport them! Deport them!’”

The National Weather Service’s Severe Thunderstorm Warning is in effect until 10 p.m. ET, close to when Trump was expected to deliver a speech.

Following the severe weather evacuations at the Great American State Fair in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump remained defiant and vowed to continue festivities – which include a massive fireworks show and a speech by Trump – even if it means waiting until “2 o’clock in the morning.”

“We will wait it out, I don’t care if it’s 2:00 O’Clock in the morning, or in one hour from now,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

“Looks like it is going to pass, they always do. I will be there no matter what, but the ‘what’ usually turns out to be a good thing. It’s Saturday night, LETS HAVE SOME FUN, even if we are out late tonight. They say 11:00 O’Clock for the speech. Who cares???”

Chaotic scenes erupted at the fair Saturday evening after law enforcement officials directed attendees to leave the National Mall, and several hundred attendees initially refused to do so. The Secret Service suspended security screenings for the fair and urged attendees to “move to shelter immediately.”

“I’m not going to let some rain stop our 250th,” Trump wrote. “I’m leaving the White House soon. God Bless America!”

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