House GOP even more bitterly divided in aftermath of McCarthy’s ouster

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🗓️ 5 October 2023

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House Majority Leader Steve Scalice and Republican Rep. Jim Jordan have said they’ll run for speaker of the House after Rep. Kevin McCarthy was voted out and announced he won’t run again. There have been calls from some Republicans to expel GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz from the conference after he led the effort to oust the former House speaker. Republican Rep. Dusty Johnson is a McCarthy supporter and voted to keep him as Speaker. He joins AC360 to discuss the two candidates for the position and says the GOP conference needs to do a "better job of putting them in a position to win" than they did with McCarthy. Plus, the suspect in the killing of Tupac Shakur made his first court appearance since being arrested near Las Vegas last week. Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson tells Anderson Cooper his team wanted to make sure they "got it right" since the case has gotten so much attention.

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0:00.0	Tonight on 360, the dysfunction is coming from inside the house as Republicans fight
0:06.1	Republicans over what happened and will be the next speaker.
0:09.3	New York's attorney general, Letitia James, says the Donald Trump show is over as his
0:13.0	fraud trial continues and the former president heads back to Florida.
0:16.6	Plus, the first court appearance for the first person yet to be charged in two-pots of
0:19.9	course, killing 27 years after the crime will talk to the DA on the case.
0:24.4	Good evening.
0:25.4	Thanks for joining us.
0:26.4	Tonight with the dysfunction, infighting and backbiting among House Republicans, after
0:30.5	eight of them made their party leader, Kevin McCarthy, the first ever house speaker to
0:34.2	be voted out of a job.
0:36.1	That and why none of it should be surprising to him or anyone.
0:39.6	First, quickly the dysfunction got so bad after the vote, we learned today that Republicans
0:44.0	cannot even stand to be in the same room together for more than a few minutes.
0:49.3	There was a meeting last night as you may know of Republicans and that room would have
0:55.6	devolved into, I think, physical attacks on one another if people stayed in there for
1:00.8	a long period of time.
1:02.8	That's a Republican congressman describing the anger and resentment.
1:05.7	The left members last night unable to agree on a success or anything else except putting
1:09.4	off a decision until next week.
1:11.6	Today, other than Congressman Steve Scolese and Jim Jordan throwing their hats in the ring
1:15.2	in Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and saying the former president should get the
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