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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene backtracked on her support for Speaker Mike Johnson Friday — just three days after she professed herself “sick of the chaos” and vowed not to oust her House leader, according to a new report.

The Georgia Republican told the Messenger she would be willing to file a vacate motion against the beleaguered House speaker if it meant killing a bipartisan deal to fund Ukraine aid and border security.

Earlier this week, Mediaite published a report claiming it had heard a recording of Trump-loving operative Roger Stone talking with a security guard about assassinating Reps. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and Eric Swalwell (D-CA) ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

Stone denied that he had ever said such a thing and taunted Mediaite for not producing the recording.

As the Iowa caucuses approach, some faith leaders in the state are speaking out against a viral campaign video that praises Donald Trump and depicts him as a vessel sent by God to save America, The New York Times reported.

“God looked down on his planned paradise and said, ‘I need a caretaker,’ so God gave us Trump,” a narrator in the video says, adding that Trump “is a shepherd to mankind who won’t ever leave nor forsake them.”

Long-shot Democratic presidential hopeful Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) is furious that he hasn't been invited to appear on MSNBC, the favored network for many liberals — and he's blaming President Joe Biden and his allies.

The Minnesota Democrat is polling 60 points behind the president in his Democratic primary challenge, but he blames that in part on what he sees as an attention deficit from the media, although he has appeared on CNN a handful of times but hasn't been given a town-hall event like some low-polling Republican candidates, reported Politico.

A CNN interview with Rep. Tom Massie (R-KY) by host Kate Bolduan dissolved into an ugly squabble when he continued to insult her and she hit back by asking if he was insulting her intelligence — to which he smirked.

What started out as a discussion about the Iowa caucus took a turn when the topic of anti-Semitism came up with regard to a House resolution that only he voted against. Massie then began to talk over the host, which caused her to cut him off and state, "I understand that you're passionate about what you want to say. Let me ask the question, then you can respond."

When Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) was confirmed as House speaker, the vote came down along party lines. No Republicans voted against Johnson, whose far-right Christian nationalist views and efforts to help former President Donald Trump overturn the 2020 election results have been drawing a great deal of scrutiny from critics.

But as far to the right as Johnson is, that doesn't necessarily mean he is immune to the fate that former Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) suffered when he was ousted as speaker in early October. No matter how much McCarthy attacked President Joe Biden and relentlessly defended Trump, he was never MAGA enough for Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) — whose "motion to vacate" led to McCarthy's ouster.

Despite the fact that they've become political foes, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is taking into consideration a request from GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to help investigate Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who's been accused of having an improper relationship with the special prosecutor in Donald Trump's election interference case, Newsweek reported.

Speaking to Newsweek, Kemp said Greene had "every right" to her request and that accusations against Willis are "very troubling."

A former attorney for Donald Trump says the ex-president's legal campaign has been left rudderless — and he reserved special criticism for his most high-profile lawyer, Alina Habba.

Tim Parlatore, who represented Trump during the FBI raid of his Mar-a-Lago estate regarding storage of classified documents, was talking to CNN’s Laura Coates when he made the remarks.

A lengthy review by Politico's Michael Kruse of court documents involving Donald Trump reveals that the former president has for decades used the legal system as a cudgel against adversaries, despite his current protestations that the system is horrifically biased against him.

"He spent most of his adult life molding [the legal system] into an arena in which he could stake claims and hunt leverage," writes Kruse. "It has not been for him a place of last resort so much as a place of constant quarrel. Conflict in courts is not for him the cost of doing business — it is how he does business. Throughout his vast record of (mostly civil) lawsuits, whether on offense, defense or frequently a mix of the two, Trump has become a sort of layman’s master in the law and lawfare."

Donald Trump claimed victory in a New York fraud trial he has already lost and issued some thinly veiled threats against the judge, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and court clerk he's barred from discussing.

The former president defied Justice Arthur Engoron, who had barred him from delivering closing arguments or making a campaign speech, and issued a six-minute tirade Thursday against James and proclaimed he was the victim of a political attack, and he elaborated on those themes of persecution the following morning on social media.

Rep. Elise Stefanik's (R-NY) decision to refer to the violent criminals who attacked the United States Capitol building as "hostages" is stoking some division within her own caucus and The New Republic's Greg Sargent believes that things are only going to get worse for them in the coming months.

In his latest essay, Sargent argues that Stefanik's rant portends "serious GOP mayhem ahead," as the divisions over the Jan. 6th riots will only grow as Trump seizes the Republican presidential nomination and reiterates his pledge to pardon the rioters.

A Democratic outside group is scouring the nation for everyday Americans who have been hurt by Donald Trump's first presidency and will warn voters of the dangers he continues to pose.

The group American Bridge 21st Century developed 732 leads and conducted 472 interviews before filming about 50 voters who will appear in a $140 million ad campaign aimed at women and working-class voters to remind them why they rejected the ex-president in 2020, the organization's leaders told the Washington Post.