1/5/23: McCarthy Loses 6 Times, GOP Civil War Explodes
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
-- On the Show:
-- Dr. Gloria Mark, Chancellor's Professor at the University of California, Irvine, has studied attention and stress in the digital age for over two decades and joins David to discuss multitasking, attention span, stress, anxiety, and more
-- Republican Congressman Kevin McCarthy loses House Speaker votes a fourth, fifth, and sixth time on the second day of voting, despite "help" from failed former President Donald Trump
-- A civil war explodes within the Republican Party over the House speakership, punctuated by a wild confrontation between Fox News propagandist Sean Hannity and radical Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, who threatens to nominate Donald Trump for speaker
-- Putting aside the optics and hilarity, the lack of a House Speaker is actually a national security risk
-- Radical Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert's unhinged interview with MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle over the House Speaker fiasco goes horribly wrong
-- Lying Republican Congressman-elect George Santos appears to forget his own name on the floor of the House of Representatives
-- Lying Republican Congressman-elect George Santos lies about having been sworn in on Tuesday, January 3, which he was not
-- Fox News guest and former David Pakman Show guest Steve Almond absolutely humiliates Fox host Laura Ingraham during a stunning appearance
-- Voicemail caller calls in about anti-vaxxers swarming to the Damar Hamlin story
-- On the Bonus Show: Millenials are shattering the older rule in politics, Southwest Airlines sued for not providing refunds after meltdown, court rules MAGA hat-wearing former teacher protected by First Amendment, much more...
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | . |
| 0:07.0 | . |
| 0:14.0 | Republicans have yet again failed to elect a speaker of the house despite being poised to |
| 0:23.8 | take control and swear in their new elected members like George Santos who has not actually |
| 0:30.4 | been sworn in yet, even though he said he was, we'll get to that later. |
| 0:34.3 | Despite the endorsement of the failed former president Donald Trump, Kevin McCarthy has |
| 0:39.9 | lost again and again. |
| 0:44.0 | And yes, again, that makes it six total times. |
| 0:48.8 | And this exposes number one, the complete inability to actually lead and get things done |
| 0:56.2 | productively, even in the easiest of circumstances like we have control. |
| 1:02.4 | Let's pick a speaker. |
| 1:04.0 | It exposes increasingly the potentially dwindling power and prestige to the extent, extent |
| 1:11.3 | that there was ever prestige of the mega portion of the Republican party. |
| 1:17.0 | And it also raises real national security questions. |
| 1:20.4 | When you don't have a speaker, there are national security risks. |
| 1:25.5 | We will talk about that later as well. |
| 1:28.6 | Rolling stone reporting McCarthy loses again despite nod from Trump. |
| 1:33.5 | The House of Representatives has rejected the California representative for a fourth and |
| 1:38.5 | probably not final time on Wednesday, subsequently rejecting him a fifth time and then a sixth |
| 1:44.4 | time and then the voting set to pick back up again today. |
| 1:48.9 | I'm sure by the time you listen to today's program, we may know more, there may have |
| 1:53.0 | been more votes. |
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