"Humiliating Kevin McCarthy." The Reporters" Roundtable Jan 6
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 6 January 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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The Humiliation of Kevin McCarthy. Trump Power Fail. Real World Consequences. Biden Showcases Bi-partisan Government Action. Remembering January 6th Matters. With Sudeep Reddy, Senior Managing Editor at Politico, David Jackson, National Political Correspondent for USA TODAY and Lauren Victoria Burke, writer for The Guardian and Black Press USA.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends of the Bill Press Pod. |
| 0:09.0 | Happy New Year and welcome to this first reporter's roundtable of the new year. |
| 0:15.0 | And it turns out that this first week of 2023 may be the wildest one of all. |
| 0:20.0 | Republicans made history this week, but not the kind of history they were hoping for. |
| 0:25.7 | They were planning to make history as the new sheriff in town, guns a blazon, going after Hunter |
| 0:31.0 | Biden, Joe Biden, and the January 6th committee. Instead, they're making history as the gang |
| 0:37.0 | that can't shoot straight, failing now |
| 0:39.5 | after 11 votes so far to elect a new speaker of the House and publicly humiliating Kevin |
| 0:46.5 | McCarthy. Will it ever end? How will it end? And what are the real world consequences |
| 0:53.0 | of such chaos in the House of Representatives? |
| 0:57.3 | Here's our panel, standing by to weigh in with the latest. Sadipe Reddy, senior managing |
| 1:02.2 | editor of Politico. Hello, Sadipe. Hi, Bill. Happy New Year. Thank you. Lauren, Victoria |
| 1:08.5 | Burke, writer for The Guardian and Black Press USA. Hi, Lauren. Welcome back. |
| 1:13.6 | How are you, Bill? And David Jackson, national political correspondent for USA Today. Hello, David. |
| 1:19.8 | Hello, Bill. How you doing? All right. No member elect haven't received a majority of the whole number of votes cast, a speaker has not been elected. |
| 1:30.2 | A speaker has not been elected. |
| 1:32.8 | A speaker has not been elected. |
| 1:35.5 | Well, there she is. |
| 1:37.0 | Cheryl Johnson, now 11 times making that statement with such, she's so cool at doing so |
| 1:43.7 | that some people have suggested the |
| 1:45.2 | ought to just elect her the speaker. So David Jackson, last Monday, January 2nd, I first |
| 1:53.6 | reach out to you about joining the roundtable this Friday. And you shot me an email back saying, |
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