Hour 1: The Republican party is not in disarray over the Speaker of the House vote, no matter what the liberals claim.
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🗓️ 5 January 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, chaos. We'll talk about that chaos. We'll get to Eric Adams. He really loves this show. He just spends all day and night coming up with ridiculous things to go out and say in public. So we have clips to play the next day. And we got plenty of them. We'll get to Harry and his goofy book and a whole lot more. So, hey, Joe Bartlett, |
| 0:24.0 | the next round is noon today, right? Kevin McCarthy. That will be the seventh ballot. And many |
| 0:31.5 | are whispering if he doesn't get it on the seventh, then that's it. He has to step down. |
| 0:36.0 | And it'll be somebody like Steve Scalise. These other |
| 0:39.1 | guys have kept saying, you know, they keep saying, not interested, not interested, that's |
| 0:43.1 | because they don't want to offend Kevin McCarthy. But if he officially steps down, you'll see how |
| 0:47.5 | interested they suddenly are. So it most likely will be Steve Scalise. I don't think McCarthy will |
| 0:52.4 | get anywhere on the seventh ballot. |
| 0:54.3 | Now, here's the thing. On the fake news, if you're watching that morning swamp, |
| 0:58.1 | Morning Joe, whatever that is, reading the New York Times, if you watch anything, all you hear, |
| 1:03.3 | chaos, it's chaos, it's chaos. Did you watch any of these proceedings? |
| 1:07.4 | Oh, it's, I didn't see any chaos. It looked very orderly. Exactly. It's just a delay. |
| 1:14.7 | It didn't look like. I didn't see any chaos. I saw a very drab woman who looks like a librarian |
| 1:19.2 | who said, Senator, Congressman Johnson, how do you vote? I vote McCarthy. All right, let's move on to Senator. |
| 1:27.3 | I didn't hear any chaos did |
| 1:28.7 | you no no remember the hindenberg that was chaos there's no chaos at all all of this is |
| 1:37.2 | happening because mccarthy god bless him but he's just a nothing guy he's what uh what nixon |
| 1:43.5 | used to call a first-rate second-rate guy he's just not a he's just, but he's just a nothing guy. He's what Nixon used to call a first-rate, second-rate guy. |
| 1:47.3 | He's just not anything. |
| 1:49.1 | He's just a mediocre character, a Washington guy, who knows how to... |
| 1:53.8 | See, well, the only argument for him, the only reason you'd want him, |
| 1:58.8 | well, he's a bland, mediocre, nothing guy, but some people might try to tell you, |
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