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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

EMERGENCY POD: McCarthy OUSTED As Speaker

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

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News, Government, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Politics

4.310.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Krystal and Saagar bring the news!

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0:00.0

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0:30.7

Hello, everybody. Some breaking news here in Washington. It's official. The house is voted.

0:35.5

Kevin McCarthy has been ousted as the speaker of the House of Representatives. Number three in line

0:41.4

to the presidency. Let's take a listen to the official declaration.

0:45.6

On this vote, the Yays are 216. The Nays are 210. The resolution is adopted. Without objection,

0:57.7

the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. The office of speaker of the House,

1:03.8

of the United States House of Representatives is hereby declared vacant.

1:09.7

Very, very high drama here in Washington. Kevin McCarthy, for those who want to know,

1:13.4

is now the shortest-lived speaker since speaker Michael C. Kerr, who served previously from December

1:19.6

1875 to August of 1876. He ended his speakership because he died of tuberculosis, or consumption,

1:26.9

I guess, as they called it, at the time. So eight Republicans voted to ousted speaker McCarthy,

1:32.0

which is really puts us in a massive what if phase. Their names are as follows. We've got

1:37.1

congressman Andy Biggs, Ken Buck, Tim Birchett, Eli Crane, Matt Gates, Bob Good, Nancy Mace,

1:44.0

and Matt Rosendale. So actually, all across the spectrum, seven of those is basically House

1:49.6

Freedom Caucus types. Nancy Mace, much more of like a centrist type, which has been helped by Kevin

1:53.9

McCarthy in the past. I'm just going to lay out three scenarios from where we go from here because

1:58.4

we genuinely have no idea. And the vote just happened. So McCarthy, he could just grind this out for

2:03.9

a few more votes. He could cut deals with some of the eight Republicans who voted against him.

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