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our faces, not being able to choose a speaker and open congress and count the electoral votes and electronic the president. different incentive. philip: i want to talk about the partisan avenue and the bipartisan avenues in this congress. let me start with the bipartisan. so, one of the most important things to understand about recent years, which is the thing that i suppose gives some force to the objections of a unit party -- the spending bills, the defense authorizations, almost always pass with a very strong bipartisan majority. we are talking 300, 350 votes in the house, 75, 80 votes in the senate. sometimes even more than that. even amidst all the partisan rancor on a lot of these, keeping the gears of government turning, we do manage to end up with big bipartisan coalitions. is that still possible in the second trump administration? >> of course. and if you look back at the first trump administration, he was a far more effective bipartisan legislator than a partisan legislator. there were a lot of things that president trump would push that were not really sort of in the orthodox republican coalition. infrastructure, for examp

the aisle, and across the ideological divide, do you feel that that will remain in this 119th congress? philip: ok. and does anyone want to ask one last very quick question? roger: roger coach eddie. would anyone in the panel care to speculate on what it is that donald trump did to swing those two votes? was it a threat? was it a promise? was it intellectual persuasion? it may say something about how this congress will proceed, and what works and what does not work. everybody is wondering how did the flips take place. does anyone have an idea? philip: i will just answer that because that is reporting that i have read. mike johnson was asked what did he give up to get those two votes. he said nothing. trump said i did not threaten anybody. i just reminded them that we need to all be together now. so there was a sense that the folks slowing johnson down were not really all that determined to stop him. i think that would be fair to say. they wanted to put him on notice. they didn't seem to really expect to get that much. that is my best understanding from the reporting that i have seen. so that i

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philip. >> oh, yeah. i already raised my hand. look, republicans in congress are focused on one thing, that is keeping donald trump happy. and nothing is going to frustrate donald trump more than if anything happens to delay his becoming president. they are very adept at coming up with a temporary solution, and i am 100% confident that nobody wants to be the one that made it so donald trump's january 6th did not go exactly the way he hoped the last one did. >> 100% confidence from philip. >> rarely happens these days, philip. so we're giving you the first word on this, what you suspect it happened, and what happens next. >> that is the question, right? i think the one of the things that we saw today was that donald trump, of course, we know that he has the power to wield a hammer over the heads of republican legislators. but one of the things we saw today is the way in which the very narrow house majority really plays to trump's advantage. because this isn't the case that we had two years ago when we had any number of republicans who are complaining about kevi

philip munoz, you so much rich insight on the establishment clause in your book. you two rules that you derive from the history congress will make no law erecting religious establishment and congress shall make no concerning state level religious establishments. you have a really chart which helps us think through how would you call them natural rights would deal with questions ranging from state chaplains, state supported religious displays and how the supreme court justices would approach it. it's now time for a three minute closing statement. so i'm asking you to do a lot. but what's the what are the big lessons of history that you want our listeners to take away from about the establishment religion? and how do you think that the establishment clause should be interpreted in light of that history here? that's a big question. well, maybe maybe i can it this way and also answer a few of the questions that have been coming in on the chapter to answer some directly. the state can't act like a church, state can't say this is what you must believe. these are official tenets. you know, you must believe that god must be wo

philip: lurking in the background of a lot of these remarks, i feel like is the changed media environment that congressman operate in. we would be remiss in talking about the 118th congress if we did not mention matt gaetz. he on the right, along with alexandria ocasio-cortez on the left, have pioneered a new model of becoming a member of congress and using that as a jumping off point to become a social media superstar. it was making an hour and a half long podcast every day, holding forth, and lo and behold, he toppled the speaker. he became the first member in the history of congress to do that. now he easily won reelection in his district but he quit, of course, because he was getting appointed attorney general. that did not work out for him. he made a lot of enemies in congress, to say the least. frankly, he is not going to be too started to be in congress anymore because he launched -- he has got his millions of followers now. he is the firebrand. what is example that says for other ambitious members because matt gaetz did not spend his eight years in congress trying to be a legislator. i do think that sets us up -- i sympathize with the young ambitious members. i t