Breaking!! GOP Will Make Trump House Speaker in 2022 + A Conversation With John Dean

THE OFFICIAL MEA CULPA WITH MICHAEL COHEN ARCHIVE

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Politics, News

4.8 • 8.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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The radicalization of the GOP hits a terrifying new low as the Republicans rally around Paul Gosar while floating the possibility that Trump will be made House Speaker should they regain the majority in 2022. If you’re not afraid, you should be! What’s coming next is far, far worse than anything we’ve seen yet. Former Nixon White House Counsel John Dean joins Mea Culpa to discuss the extremist GOP and how the Dems can push back against them.

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0:00.0	This is my mea-a-la-la-maud. This is my Mayo Copa. This is Michael Bow. This is Michael and this is my Mayor Copa.
0:26.4	This is Michael Cohen, and you're listening to the Mayor Culper podcast.
0:33.2	The chickens have come home to roost in a major way for the GOP's infatuation with political violence.
0:40.6	This week saw the forceful condemnation of Representative Paul A. Gosar's fucking sickening snuff film that depicted him killing New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and attacking President Biden with a sword.
0:49.2	Congressman Paul Gosar has been formally and publicly condemned, censured in the parlance of Congress, for posting
0:56.0	an animated video depicting him assassinating a democratic lawmaker and attacking President Biden.
1:03.0	For hours yesterday, Democrats condemned him and almost all Republicans defended him.
1:08.0	When the censure vote came, the House divided mostly along party lines.
1:12.6	The 223 to 207 vote marks the first time in more than a decade that the House has censored one of its members.
1:22.6	The resolution also removes Gosar from his assignments on the House Oversight and Natural Resources
1:28.7	Committees. Two Republicans, Representative Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, joined Democrats
1:35.4	in backing the measure. The yeas are 223 and the nays are 207 with one answering present.
1:47.0	The resolution is adopted and without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. The House will be in order.
1:54.0	Will Representative Gossar present himself in the well? By its adoption of House Resolution 789, the House has resolved that Representative Paul
2:06.5	Gosser of Arizona be censured.
2:09.4	That Representative Paul Gosser forthwith present himself in the well of the House for the
2:13.6	pronouncement of censure.
2:15.7	That represented Paul Goser be censured with the public reading
2:18.5	of this resolution by the Speaker. And that Representative Paul Gosser B and is hereby removed
2:24.8	from the Committee on Natural Resources and the Committee on Oversight and Reform. About a dozen Republicans
2:31.3	stood beside Gossar in a show of support as he was censored.
2:36.3	In remarks on the House floor ahead of Wednesday's vote, Gosar rebuffed calls to apologize.
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