Dana Milbank: The Chair Was Already Vacant

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The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

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🗓️ 3 October 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Kevin McCarthy hasn't been doing much of anything all year as speaker, except lurching from crisis to crisis and leading from behind. Meanwhile, Trump is much more angry about being seen as less rich than potentially going to prison. Dana Milbank joins Charlie Sykes.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Bulwark podcast. I'm Charlie Seix. It's October 3rd, 2003, and where do we start?
0:15.1	Donald Trump is back in court.
0:17.0	John Kelly is confirming a lot of things,
0:19.5	as his experience is the former White House Chief of Staff,
0:22.3	and of course, we have the incredible
0:24.3	dysfunctional House of Representatives and what's going to happen with Kevin McCarthy.
0:29.4	Well, we are joined by Dana Milbank from the Washington Post who is live on Capitol Hill, but they put
0:35.4	you in a box over there.
0:36.4	I'm looking at you in this box.
0:38.6	Where are you right now, Dana?
0:39.6	I put myself in this box, Charlie.
0:41.6	In fact, you have to get here early. you have to write your name on a board and reserve it so this is a really a very high privilege that I've
0:48.3	acquired this morning so yeah I'm about three feet to my right
0:52.7	through this padded wall is the house chamber.
0:55.6	And then reporters are here on the other side of me.
0:58.7	And it's another zainty day on Capitol Hill
1:01.8	and nobody knows what the heck is going on.
1:04.0	Least of all Kevin McCarthy.
1:05.7	Least of all Kevin McCarthy, we'll get to that in just a moment because of course by the time people
1:10.0	listen to this podcast they might probably know what's going down so I want to talk
1:14.5	about this yesterday to the surprise of absolutely no one Matt Gates went to the
1:20.4	floor of the House of Representatives and filed the motion to vacate.
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