Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Bucksexten show podcast.

Welcome in Clay Travis Bucksexten show.

Well, after we went off the air yesterday,

Kevin McCarthy was removed. There is going to be a new speaker selected.

Chaos has broken out. In the House of Representatives on some level, we will try to make sense of

that chaos with all of you throughout the course of today's program.

We have got invites out to several members of the House of Representatives who may be coming

on with us. We'll certainly give you a heads up if and when those interviews are confirmed.

There is a lot of moving parts here right now as the news continues to shift in real time

as to who exactly as going to be the the next member of the House of Representatives speaker

in the House fraternity. A little bit of news that just broke. Jim Jordan has announced that he

will be a candidate for Speaker of the House. I would bet if I were betting right now, Buck,

that the next speaker of the House will now be Jim Jordan because he founded the Freedom Caucus.

Many of the people who have been opposed to Kevin McCarthy are members of that caucus.

Jim Jordan did not seek the Speaker's office prior to now. He's been on this program a lot

he's a friend of mine. I like him a lot personally. I think he would do a good job. He is a fighter.

I think that could help to put to rest the revolution inside of the Republican party in the short

term. Is that the right word? I don't know. Eight members of the of the Republican caucus representing

4% of the overall membership voted out. Kevin McCarthy, presumably that same power will exist

going forward until we have a decision made in 2024 about what comes next. My big issue, Buck,

and I'm curious how you would assess this. My big issue is this. This is a distraction that takes

away from the failures of the Biden administration. And I don't think most Americans who were trying

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