Chaos or Conscience? A Republican Explains His Vote to Oust McCarthy.
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🗓️ 6 October 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From New York Times, I'm Micah Bavaro. |
| 0:04.3 | This is Idali. |
| 0:14.1 | The ouster of house speaker Kevin McCarthy a few days ago has demonstrated just how powerful |
| 0:20.5 | a small group of hard-right house Republicans have become, just how far they will go in |
| 0:27.0 | the name of ideology and just how deep their grievances run. |
| 0:36.0 | Today, a conversation with one of the eight Republicans who brought McCarthy down, Congressman |
| 0:44.1 | Tim Barchett of Tennessee. |
| 0:58.2 | It's Friday, October 6th. |
| 1:09.6 | Congressman? |
| 1:11.6 | Congressman? |
| 1:12.6 | Oh, Congressman, you are muted on your side of this. |
| 1:17.6 | Oh wait, let me take that off. |
| 1:19.6 | There we go. |
| 1:20.6 | Y'all hear me? |
| 1:21.8 | I can. |
| 1:22.8 | Hello, Congressman. |
| 1:23.8 | Hey, it's Tim. |
| 1:25.2 | I don't believe I'm allowed to call you anything other than Congressman. |
| 1:29.0 | I can call me Tim, too, don't. |
| 1:31.0 | And so I tell the custodians, all the custodians up here call me Tim because they are the only |
| 1:35.5 | ones up here working. |
| 1:37.7 | I believe you're working today. |
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