Warning, you're about to enter the arena and join the battle to save America.

With your host, Sean Parnell.

But welcome to Battleground Live.

We are progressing through the week with all the normal chaos happening not just in the US House of

Representatives or on Capitol Hill but all around the world.

But as usual we have Brock who is of course Wendy Bell Radio's producer extraordinary and also taught me everything that I know about

doing live television shows and radio and things like that. He's in the chat being his feisty self and

what I like to call everyday fomenting insurrection and rousing the crowd in the way that he does so thank you

Brock and also I think Maggie said that her husband was going hungry because she's here for the show

Maggie I did I did not ask that ask for that but but thank you for your dedication and your sacrifice. We're glad that you're here. We love having you in the trenches with us. But so listen, still chaos on Capitol Hill. I mean, the stuff with the speaker race. I, I, They, Republicans just today, all this happened today,

that Republicans nominated

Tom Emmer for Speaker of the House.

Now, Tom Emmer is a congressman from Minnesota, very moderate, who is also the chair of the National

what they call the National Republican Congressional Committee, the NRCC.

The NRCC is charged with finding and recruiting candidates and helping them

fundraise and putting them in contact with other members with other

members can you hear it turn my with other they're 90 seconds behind you. So you're good now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.

Geez, again, total nube here. But so we have Emmer, right, who

defeated Johnson today and became the Republican nominee for Speaker of the House,

117 to 97.

Okay, that was the vote breakdown.

The first GOP speaker nominee, Steve Scal Scalise received 113 votes. The second GOP speaker

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