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Jan 2025
49m 57s

Johnson Walks a Thin Line

CNN
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House Speaker Mike Johnson's bid to hold the gavel goes to a vote, putting the GOP's razor-thin majority to its first big test. Plus, the key details we're learning about the driver in New Orleans in the hours leading up to the deadly attack. And investigators try to find out why an active duty Green Beret orchestrated a cybertruck explosion outside of Donald Trump's Las Vegas hotel. 

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