1/4/23: Republicans Fail on Speaker Vote, Greene vs Boebert Getting Ugly
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
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🗓️ 4 January 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I was assuming we would start today's show by talking about the new Republican speaker |
| 0:21.3 | of the House of Representatives, because after all Republicans took over, even though |
| 0:24.9 | it was by a small margin, the control of the House based on their wins in the 2022 mid-term |
| 0:29.6 | election, November 8th. |
| 0:31.5 | And it was time yesterday for them to select a new speaker of the House, but no, they |
| 0:36.0 | have not done it. |
| 0:37.0 | And Republicans are in the midst of what is one of the biggest humiliating, self-inflicted |
| 0:43.3 | embarrassments in recent American political history. |
| 0:47.6 | Republicans have suffered a true humiliation, failing to elect a speaker of the House after |
| 0:52.3 | three rounds of voting. |
| 0:54.7 | The House ultimately adjourning yesterday without speaker, and they will start again |
| 0:59.0 | today and they're likely already going right now as you listen to today's program. |
| 1:05.5 | Most Republicans voting for Kevin McCarthy, but not all. |
| 1:08.9 | There is a faction that has opted not to support Kevin McCarthy, and this actually led to |
| 1:15.0 | Hakeem Jeffries on the Democratic side, with Democrats united behind Jeffries actually |
| 1:20.8 | coming closer to the 218 votes that are needed, then McCarthy in some of the votes. |
| 1:26.3 | The NBC has a good, nice, concise article about it by Christina Wilkie. |
| 1:31.2 | The House of Representatives adjourned for the day Tuesday without a speaker. |
| 1:35.3 | After Republican leader Kevin McCarthy failed three consecutive votes to secure enough support |
| 1:41.7 | to be selected to the post. |
| 1:43.2 | This is a historic situation. |
| 1:44.9 | It's an historic situation, some are even saying. |
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