DAY 738: McCarthy defectors get top committee assignments

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🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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After a rough battle for House Speaker, Kevin McCarthy assigns extreme GOP representatives to powerful committees. It comes as a Solomon Peña, an ex-GOP candidate, was arrested in a string of shootings targeting Democrats in New Mexico. Plus, the U.S. prepares to hit the debt ceiling on Thursday. Luke Broadwater, Tara Palmeri, Frank Figliuzzi, Tim Miller, Juanita Tolliver, Michael Schmidt, and Kerry Sanders join.

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0:00.0	Tonight, a failed New Mexico GOP candidate arrested in connection with the string of
0:09.3	shootings targeting local Democratic leaders.
0:12.5	Then Marjorie Taylor Greene, now sitting on key committees after being removed for spreading
0:17.7	dangerous conspiracy theories.
0:20.0	And new reporting on Jared Kushner's advocacy for the Middle East while he was in the White
0:24.8	House, while his wife Ivanka wanted to upgrade her job.
0:28.5	All that more as the 11th hour gets underway on this Tuesday night.
0:37.5	Good evening once again, I'm Stephanie Rool.
0:39.8	Today, we saw another sign of what the House of Representatives will be like under the
0:44.3	new Republican majority.
0:46.0	Two of the party's far-right lawmakers, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar, were signed
0:51.1	to a key House committee.
0:53.0	Remember, Democrats stripped both of their assignments back in 2021 after inflammatory
0:58.2	social media posts by both.
1:00.4	Now they'll be sitting on the oversight panel, which has already made moves to investigate
1:04.7	President Biden.
1:06.0	Both, of course, are vocal Donald Trump supporters and 2020 election deniers.
1:10.9	Meanwhile, we are learning more about the arrest of a failed Republican candidate for a
1:15.8	New Mexico State House seat.
1:17.9	Solomon Pena is accused of paying four guys to carry out shootings at the homes of local
1:23.8	Democrats.
1:24.8	Officials say Pena was also a 2020 election denier, who disputed his own election loss.
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