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The Byron York Show

E18. Inside a Maximum Crazy Day in the House of Representatives

The Byron York Show

Radio America

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In the course of a few hours, the Speaker of the House was put into timeout, her words removed from the record, and Democrats and Republicans drove themselves into fits — all over a tweet from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. We talk with Rep. Chip Roy, who was in the middle of the whole mess. Plus: […]

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another edition of the Byron York show. If you've ever

0:11.2

listened to this podcast you know we don't like to start

0:14.3

with a lot of chit-chat. We want to just get straight into it. And today we're going to get

0:19.2

straight into it with Representative Chip Roy, who is a Republican

0:23.0

Representative from the 21st District of Texas,

0:28.2

and has served in the House of Representatives

0:32.0

for a few months elected in 2018, right?

0:36.1

That's right. Yeah, six months veteran.

0:38.1

Congressman, welcome to the Byron York show. We are talking after the House did a bunch of crazy stuff in which the

0:49.7

Speaker of the House called the president a racist and her words were struck and

0:58.7

apparently she was putting time out or something for two hours where the speaker of the house actually could not

1:03.6

speak in the house and then a number of Democrats who have been you know

1:10.6

itching to vote on resolution of impeachment kind of jumped in and

1:18.8

and have been pushing that. So we're going to go to the tough question first of all. You're

1:24.0

probably not going to vote to impeach the president? No I'm not. Yeah I think they

1:29.4

ought to be presenting something a little more significant and high crimes and

1:31.9

misdemeanors mean something. Yesterday was a perfect example of this. something

1:33.0

yesterday was a perfect example of the you know complete distraction that that is the house

1:40.0

of the house representative right now and you know you think yesterday what we did is we spent

1:44.2

time voting on to strike down the words in the middle about a speech or discussions on

1:51.6

the floor of the House involving a resolution to

1:54.4

condemn a tweet. So that is what we, the greatest you know deliberate, well not

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