McCarthy loses historic three Speaker votes

The Beat with Ari Melber

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🗓️ 4 January 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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MSNBC's Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Tuesday, January 3 and reports on Rep. Kevin McCarthy losing three votes for Speaker of the House, with GOP hardliners breaking with their party to vote against him. Brendan Buck, former aide to Republican Speakers Paul Ryan and John Boehner joins, along with Democratic strategists Chai Komanduri and James Carville.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the beat on Maury Melbourne.
0:01.9	We are tracking this breaking news.
0:03.9	As Republicans suffer the first open speaker revolt in a century.
0:09.9	Republican Kevin McCarthy has begun this new Congress today with a humiliating failure.
0:14.0	The long time party leader and face of the House GOP lost the vote for Speaker today.
0:19.8	He lost 19 Republicans on that first ballot.
0:22.5	It's the first time any politician in any party has lost an open floor vote for Speaker
0:27.3	since 1923.
0:30.5	It's rare because of course this is a job where the votes are typically lined up.
0:35.6	The person who is becoming Speaker is above all else supposed to get count and keep votes.
0:42.8	In the orderly process of this first day of the new House, here's what it sounded like
0:46.3	on the floor.
0:49.2	The honorable Hakim Jeffers of the State of New York has received 212.
0:54.5	The honorable Kevin McCarthy of the State of California has received 202.
1:00.2	No person haven't received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname.
1:05.4	A speaker has not been elected.
1:08.7	A speaker has not been elected.
1:10.6	And this continued to play out today as I've said for the first time in a century where
1:14.6	instead of the typical swearing in and the kind of ceremonial aspect of this and a congrats
1:19.3	to the new speaker, there is no speaker tonight.
1:21.8	That's not chaos for the whole country of course because this will get worked out one way
1:25.6	or the other.
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