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thanks so much to list homeless get for us, director of the center of us politics at university college london. thank you. republican and mike johnson has been re elected as speaker of the us house of representatives. he faced tough bed holes for voters from his own party members as well as democrats and the board followed weeks of political wrangling in washington . l and fisher has moved from washington dc and having received the majority of the votes, cast is duly elected. speaker of the house of representatives for the 190, noted, straightforward as a whole. but after days of speculation about his level of support, republican mike johnson secured the speakers to come on. donald trump. once for the job, we have a mandate and that was shown in the election cycle. the people want that america 1st agenda. they hadn't had to massey m or it wasn't with a drama and the same to you, the public ins voted for other candidates while a number of others simply didn't vote. it meant on the 1st code, johnson fell short of the winning number, despite donald trump privately calling republicans over the lef

sees this one in which almost the gift is the director of the center of us politics that university college london, he says trump sentence will be ready and lenient is typically convicted. felons will face some type of punishment, especially when found guilty of multiple accounts of a crime. at the same time trump's age and the fact that he didn't have a prior criminal record made it unlikely that someone with his background would face actual jail time, but probation, or some other type of slap on the wrist would have been probable. you know, it is worth emphasizing that trump continues to maintain that any other individual alleged to have infringed a lot with the same pattern. we never faced them. indictment in the 1st place. additionally trumps legal team continues to get 10 that's failing to throw off the case completely, even mouth reaches some statute, safeguarding the executive transition and showing presidents from criminal charges . perception is everything, and this is going to be viewed through a partisan lines. clearly, you know, half the country thinks that this outcome means that dona

. >> politics at university college right here in london. but he joins me today from harrisburg in pennsylvania. thank you very much for coming on. thomas, first of all, i want to get to this donald trump sentencing. he's obviously going to be the first convicted felon to take office as president of the united states, but does this in any way make a difference or move the needle to anyone, really? well, thanks so much for having me, fred. >> it's great to be with you. >> i think the short answer to that is no. >> one thing that we've seen with donald trump is it doesn't matter what he does, right? scandal after scandal, mini scandal after many scandal. essentially nothing budges his approvals, particularly among his hard right republican base. so if january 6th wasn't able to change opinions toward donald trump, i don't think that, you know, the decision on this sentencing will. >> one of the things that obviously we were watching very closely yesterday was the vote in the house on the speaker. and mike johnson obviously won that vote. but e