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The ReidOut with Joy Reid

McCarthy ousted from speakership role

The ReidOut with Joy Reid

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4.53.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Joy Reid leads this episode of The ReidOut with an historic moment--something that has never happened in the U.S. House of Representatives in 234 years of American history. Kevin McCarthy has been ousted from the speakership role, sparked by the motion to vacate filed by Matt Gaetz. Rep. Eric Swalwell joins Joy with his perspective. Plus, Banned Books Week is championed by actor, director, and literacy advocate LeVar Burton, as conservative book bans reach a record peak across America. All this and more in this edition of The ReidOut on MSNBC.

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0:00.0

Good evening everyone, we begin the read out tonight within a historic moment, something

0:06.5

that has never happened in the U.S. House of Representatives in 234 years of American

0:13.1

history.

0:14.1

Here's how it all went down.

0:16.4

The Yays are 216.

0:19.2

The Nays are 210.

0:22.0

The resolution is adopted without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table.

0:28.1

The office of Speaker of the House of the United States House of Representatives is

0:34.0

hereby declared vacant.

0:38.6

And I just want y'all to be clear, this was a catastrophe of Kevin McCarthy's own making.

0:45.5

It was Kevin McCarthy and no one else who after saying this after the January 6th insurrection,

0:53.6

President bears responsibility for Wednesday's attack on Congress by mob rioters.

0:59.1

He should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding.

1:04.1

These facts require immediate action by President Trump, except to share responsibility.

1:13.8

Got on a plane, flew to Florida, and crawled on his knees to Mar-a-Lago to kiss Trump's

1:21.2

ring and sell his soul to the Mug King.

1:24.8

He did that.

1:26.4

All in pursuit of the precious, the Speaker's gavel, which he held for just 9 chaotic, pointless

1:33.7

months in which he routinely lied on TV about who was creating the chaos, blaming Democrats

1:39.8

instead of his own fringe, made the occasional deal with Democrats and President Biden only

1:44.6

to routinely break them, while allowing Trump and Putin's literal helpers in his party

1:50.0

like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert and Paul Gosar and Jim Jordan to run wild

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