Can Republicans get their house in order?
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Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media
4.4 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Dersho, what on earth is going on in the House of Representatives? |
| 0:08.6 | Why can't the Republicans get their house in order? |
| 0:12.4 | They won the election. |
| 0:14.7 | There are more Republicans than Democrats in the House. |
| 0:17.5 | They have the majority. |
| 0:19.5 | Committee Chairman are waiting to take over and do to the Democrats. |
| 0:24.1 | What the Democrats did to them, that's certainly what Jim Jordan would like to do when he |
| 0:28.5 | becomes chairman of the Judiciary Committee and perhaps other chairman as well plan to |
| 0:34.6 | do that. |
| 0:35.6 | But they can't even swear in, members of Congress. |
| 0:38.6 | It's ironic. |
| 0:39.6 | The people who are now voting for who will be speaker of the House are not members of Congress. |
| 0:45.0 | They were elected, their members elect. |
| 0:49.2 | It's the day they're supposed to be sworn in. |
| 0:51.8 | All of their parents and grandparents and children and uncles and aunts and college roommates |
| 0:57.2 | are there to watch the swearing in, but no, no, no, it's not going to happen. |
| 1:02.6 | And the House of Representatives just adjourned for the night. |
| 1:06.6 | And so we've had these votes. |
| 1:08.9 | They in 1920 people voting against Kevin McCarthy for speaker of the House. |
| 1:17.7 | I want to make two analogies before we get into too much detail. |
| 1:22.4 | Everyone, same thing could easily have happened when the Democrats narrowly controlled the House |
| 1:29.1 | of Representatives, it wasn't as narrow as this. |
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