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The Bulwark Podcast

Aaron Blake: Kevin McCarthy Is Keeping a Secret

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

News, Society & Culture, Politics, News Commentary

4.6 β€’ 11.6K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 11 January 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Without his secret pact, Kevin McCarthy likely would not be Speaker. Now, the American public β€” and members of Congress β€” are in the dark about the terms of McCarthy's agreement. Plus, will Joe Biden's classified documents sink a prosecution of Trump? Aaron Blake joins Charlie Sykes today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.9

Welcome to the Bullwork podcast. I'm Charlie Sykes and Happy Wednesday. Although this is

0:42.2

one of those weeks where I woke up this morning and I thought, what, it's only Wednesday?

0:46.8

It feels like it should be at least at the end of the week. But of course, once again,

0:52.4

we just have one of those news cycles that just will not quit. Joining me on today's podcast,

0:59.4

to talk about a whole of this, Aaron Blake, Senior Political Reporter at the Washington Post

1:03.5

and he writes for the fix. First of all, good morning, Aaron. Thanks for coming back on

1:08.3

the podcast. Good morning. Thanks for having me. By the way, I'm definitely on Team Thursday

1:12.3

right now. I think I was surprised when you just said that that was only Wednesday.

1:15.7

Okay. So that I'm not alone on that. No, no, not just you. Have you ever noticed though?

1:20.1

How time sometimes is so elastic? There are weeks where you'll get up on Friday and

1:27.1

say, wow, that week went by so quickly. And this week just seems to be a slog. Maybe it's

1:31.7

because we all sort of had to work through the weekend because of the shabolic stuff

1:36.2

that happened in Washington. I think that's what it is. That's the psychology.

1:39.9

I think that had something to do with it. But yeah, it's, you're right. It's last week

1:44.0

just flew by even though everything was happening. And then this week is kind of, it's a little

1:48.3

bit slower. Yes. But it's morning in Congress again, right? Kevin McCarthy is assuring

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