Today, we're going to talk about the long road to Kevin McCarthy's election of Speaker

and what the Republican hostage takers got in return for it.

I interview Senator Amy Klobuchar about the long-awaited overhaul of the Electoral

Count Act and what's being done to prevent another Taylor Swift concert ticket debacle

as far as ticket masters concerned.

And I'm joined by Democrat Lucas Coons to discuss his big announcement that he's running

against Josh Hawley for Senate in 2024.

I'm Brian Tyler Cohen and you're listening to No Lie.

So it took 12 years and 9,000 ballots, but we got there.

Kevin McCarthy has finally won the Speaker's Gavo in what was honestly one of the biggest

displays of dysfunction and pandemonium that I have ever seen.

There's a photo going around from an AP photographer named Andrew Harnick showing one

Republican lawmaker physically restraining another Republican lawmaker who was apparently

lunging at Matt Gates for holding up the Speaker's election after the 14th ballot on Friday

night around midnight, which I think is a pretty good microcosm of the entire last

few days.

But the fact that the whole process took so long was owed to the fact that a faction

of far right extremists within that party, and that includes Matt Gates, Lauren Bobert,

Biggs, Harris, and some other House Freedom Caucus members who decided to hold the election

hostage until they could exact concessions from McCarthy.

And I don't think that we have the final updated rules package yet, but just according to

reporting, those concessions include one member of the Republican House being able to introduce

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