Can GOP Rep. Kevin McCarthy Lock Down the House Speakership?
CBS Evening News
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3.5 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Just over an hour before the gavel strikes in the House of Representatives to decide its new leadership, CBS News Chief Election & Campaign Correspondent Robert Costa was live on Capitol Hill laying out where the vote stands and whether Rep. Kevin McCarthy has enough support to become Speaker of the House. Joined by CBS News Congressional Correspondents Nikole Killion and Scott MacFarlane, they brought listeners all the latest insights and impromptu interviews with members of Congress from the basement hallway where the press convened. This conversation was recorded through Twitter Spaces.
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| 1:00.1 | Hello, CBS Evening News podcast listeners. |
| 1:03.1 | This is Robert Costa just over an hour before the House of Representatives is set to vote on its new speaker. |
| 1:09.7 | I went live on Twitter spaces here at the Capitol with my colleague CBS News congressional correspondent Nicole Killian and Scott McFarlane to discuss whether Republican representative Kevin McCarthy has enough support to become Speaker of the House today and what might happen if he doesn't take a listen hey this is |
| 1:29.3 | a robert casso with cbs news thanks for joining us here on this twitter spaces if you can hear is |
| 1:35.0 | scott there you better believe it thanks for listening scott uh we're i'm in the capital basement |
| 1:41.1 | hc5 the majority's meeting room in the house. |
| 1:44.5 | It's windowless, some would say soulless, and in terms of just the air being pretty tough down here. |
| 1:52.2 | And they're all gathering. |
| 1:53.4 | There's meeting still going on for the House Speaker, ahead of the House Speaker vote. |
| 1:58.1 | In short, the House Republicans are meeting privately in this room, |
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