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The Dershow

Can Republicans get their house in order?

The Dershow

Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media

News, Politics

4.41.9K 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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