The frigate is being built by Fincantieri Marinette Marine in Wisconsin. The shipyard is in the district represented until last month by Mike Gallagher. Now the committee he used to sit on just zeroed out the program.

This week on Playbook Deep Dive, Rachael Bade and I sat down with Speaker Mike Johnson. Lots of news:

➡️ Why he won’t support a national abortion ban
➡️ Why he’s open to the idea that a president should have absolute immunity
➡️ What he told Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 on the House floor immediately…

The ex-speaker who has spent months complaining about how Dems didn’t save him, is now complaining that the Dems helped save the current speaker.

McCarthy’s media tour continues its haphazard motions. The only consistent thing?
Plenty of Gaetz bashing.

thehill.com/homenews/house…

Characteristically great stuff from ⁦Carl Hulse⁩ nytimes.com/2024/05/09/us/…

Another reason to love the House: What other chamber could careen from an ouster vote one minute to a vote on mine waste storage regulations the next?

Schumer says the U.S. and Israel have an “ironclad relationship” and “I have faith in what the Biden Administration is doing.”

Why doesn’t YouTube TV carry C-SPAN? authored by former ⁦The FCC⁩ chair Tom Wheeler and published today by ⁦The Hill⁩ cc: ⁦YouTube TV⁩ thehill.com/opinion/techno…

Following his 2 hour meeting with Greene yesterday, Johnson begins his press conference with lengthy remarks claiming the Justice Dept is weaponized against Trump in a “borderline criminal conspiracy”

“Trump has done nothing wrong here”

Scoop: US is in talks with close partners to lead a group of allies that would give as much as $50 billion in aid to Ukraine, with the massive outlay being repaid with the windfall profits from sovereign Russian assets, sources told Viktoria Dendrinou Alberto Nardelli and me

SCOOP: An NYPD officer fired their gun inside Hamilton Hall during the Columbia raid on Tuesday, Manhattan DA confirms.

thecity.nyc/2024/05/02/nyp…

.Donald J. Trump arrives for a campaign rally at the Waukesha County Expo Center in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

Riveting radio reporting from Columbia's student radio station tonight. Recommend listening: cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/#

Romney says his dog Seamus story is different from Kristi Noem:

“I didn’t eat my dog. I didn’t shoot my dog. I loved my dog and my dog loved me.”

A beautiful, evocative look into life in the Arctic on a Navy submarine by ⁦Kenny Holston⁩ nytimes.com/2024/04/30/us/…

Great story that includes Emmer giving Comer a talking to after he slightly bloodied himself taking a wrong turn on an advanced motorbiking trail

““I suggested that maybe you don’t want to do that kind of stuff,” Emmer told Comer.”

I spoke with Michael Barbaro for an episode of The New York Times’ “The Daily” about “The Crackdown on Student Protesters” at Columbia University:
open.spotify.com/episode/3VEY8x…

I spoke with Speaker Mike Johnson to express my sincere gratitude for his leadership that ensured true bipartisan support for aid to Ukraine. I specifically highlighted the inclusion of long-range ATACMS systems in the bill, which are greatly needed on the battlefield. I also extended…

Good story from Andrea Ho here, with striking stats: DC’s Chinatown in the 1970s was home to 3,000 Chinese residents. Only 361 were recorded in the 2020 census. The last full-service Chinese grocery store closed in 2005

If you want to support the student journalists at Columbia University who are working nonstop to cover a story that has now become international news, you can make a tax-deductible donation to Columbia Daily Spectator here: specpublishing.com/checkout/donat…

Everyone’s focused on the stumble but for me it’s the pitch-perfect pronunciation of “flag” 🤌🏼🧀