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The Lead with Jake Tapper

House searches for new speaker after McCarthy ousted

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

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3.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

The race for House speaker begins after Kevin McCarthy was fired in a historic vote. We analyze how we got to this political moment. Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) joins to discuss if Jim Jordan or Steve Scalise would be more promising regarding bipartisan legislation. Plus, the US will transfer seized weapons from Iran to Ukraine as Biden worries about the future of funding for Ukraine amid the chaos in the House.  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

Folks, I have warned you before, cranking your base up too much will blow out your speaker.

0:10.9

The lead starts right now.

0:14.1

Republicans need a new leader and they need that person quick.

0:17.9

The government runs out of money again next month.

0:20.4

So who should become the next house speaker and what deal will he make with those eight

0:26.0

house Republicans who toppled McCarthy?

0:28.4

Plus, Petty, Petty, Petty politics, first Nancy Pelosi, then Stenny Hoyer, both kicked

0:35.6

out of their capital office space.

0:37.6

We have brand new CNN reporting about who was really behind this decision and seeing

0:44.5

an exclusive $10 million in legal bills for Hunter Biden and exhausted efforts to find

0:51.7

more funds.

0:53.5

Here's a shady foreign billionaire when you really need him.

1:01.5

Welcome to the lead up, Jake Tapper.

1:02.8

We're going to start today on Capitol Hill where the race for house speaker is on.

1:06.7

Majority leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana and Republican Jim Jordan of Ohio have officially

1:12.6

joined the race.

1:13.6

Now that Kevin McCarthy has officially been fired and ignominious history making headline

1:18.8

for the Californian.

1:20.2

Because new speaker could be a fresh start for house Republicans or it could be just another

1:25.8

hostage sitting in the same office terrified of doing anything to offend the tiny faction

1:30.6

of his party.

1:32.1

So how did we get here for the very first time in American history?

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