The Space of Representatives in the end has a brand new speaker. After a bruising combat and a number of other weeks and not using a chief, Republicans have elected Consultant Mike Johnson of Louisiana to be the 56th speaker of the Space.

However how did this little-known, far-right best friend of former President Donald Trump turn out to be 2nd in line to the presidency? And what does Johnson’s ascension say concerning the state of the GOP and the rustic?

Becoming a member of the editor in leader of The Atlantic and moderator, Jeffrey Goldberg, this week to speak about this and extra are McKay Coppins, a body of workers creator at The Atlantic and the writer of Romney: A Reckoning; John Dickerson, the anchor of CBS Information Top Time With John Dickerson; and Nia-Malika Henderson, a senior political analyst at CNN.