Is Liz Cheney coming for Donald Trump?
The News Agents - USA
Global
4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
The race for the crucial role of Speaker of the House is in disarray.
Republican representatives are tearing each other apart.
Trump's former lawyers are pleading guilty to election interference in the Georgia trial - each a further potential nail in the Trump legal coffin.
And, out of all this a name is emerging - Liz Cheney who, we understand, is weighing up whether to take Trump on as the Republican's choice for president.
Could she be about to enter the race ?
We speak to someone who knows her well.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.3 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | This is not a time to play games. |
| 0:15.1 | This is embarrassing for the Republican Party. |
| 0:18.3 | It's embarrassing for the nation. |
| 0:19.6 | That is Kevin McCarthy, |
| 0:22.3 | the ousted Speaker of the House of Representatives, the most senior Republican in the country |
| 0:27.8 | in constitutional terms, the equivalent of the British Prime Minister. But it is day 21 in the |
| 0:34.6 | Republican household, and they still all hate each other, |
| 0:39.0 | and can't decide amongst themselves who on earth should be doing this critical job |
| 0:44.9 | which passes the legislation, which would help America to fund Israel, to help Ukraine. |
| 0:50.8 | It can't do a thing. There is paralysis. |
| 0:53.4 | And he's right. It is embarrassing because it speaks |
| 0:57.2 | volumes right now, not just about the race for Speaker, but about the state of the Republican Party |
| 1:03.6 | and its ability to govern as a whole. Welcome to the Newsagents USA. |
| 1:15.0 | Thank you. Welcome to the newsagents USA. It's John. |
| 1:16.0 | It's Emily. |
| 1:16.7 | And as we're recording, there are eight candidates for the speaker that are heading to Capitol Hill. |
| 1:23.6 | And there is a kind of elimination process going on right now, which might take us well into the night. |
| 1:30.5 | We're not going to go through every single runner and rider, because by the time you come to hear this, |
| 1:36.2 | they might just have whittled it down to a couple or the outriders, the ones who are most likely to get the majority of the votes. |
| 1:45.4 | But why we're looking at this subject particularly today is because of what it is telling |
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