House adjourns after chaotic day without electing a speaker as McCarthy fails to lock down votes

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🗓️ 4 January 2023

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The House adjourned for the day without a speaker after Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy failed to get the support of his party and lost three rounds of voting. McCarthy is facing a small group of hardline conservatives but sources tell CNN he’s not giving up. Former acting chief of staff for President Trump and Republican Congressman Mick Mulvaney talked to some of the members who voted against McCarthy. He tells Anderson Cooper if they have a plan and whether their no votes are personal. Plus, Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin remains in critical condition and his uncle tells CNN that his nephew had to be resuscitated twice after collapsing from a cardiac arrest on the field. CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta joins AC360 to discuss what we know about Hamlin’s condition. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And good evening, take a look.
0:02.0	Only half of that building is functioning normally tonight.
0:04.6	The House of Representatives has no speaker.
0:06.7	For the last 100 years, it's taken no more than a single ballot on the first day in session
0:10.4	to elect one.
0:11.8	Today House Republicans, who are now in the majority, could not muster the votes needed
0:15.1	to make their leader Kevin McCarthy the speaker.
0:17.5	Instead, in a test of his capacity for humiliation, he sat there smiling at times as votes were
0:23.4	cast three times and the results were read.
0:28.2	The Honorable Haqueam Jeffries of the State of New York has received 212.
0:52.5	The Honorable Kevin McCarthy of the State of California has received 203.
0:58.2	No persons have received a majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname.
1:04.9	A speaker has not been elected.
1:07.8	No person have received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname.
1:14.5	A speaker has not been elected.
1:17.2	A speaker has not been elected.
1:19.8	Well, after the third rejection, Republicans moved to adjourn until noon tomorrow, and this
1:24.9	could all begin again.
1:26.5	In 1923, it took 9 ballots to choose a speaker.
1:29.2	The record is 133 over two months in 1856.
1:33.0	No one expects it to go that long this time, but today was still historic and unprecedented
1:38.0	in the modern era.
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