McCarthy's quest to become Speaker believed to be in serious peril

The ReidOut with Joy Reid

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🗓️ 3 January 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Joy Reid leads this episode of The ReidOut as Kevin McCarthy apparently plays "Let's Make a Deal" with the most radical members of the Republican caucus. Joy and her panel discuss how his long-time quest to become Speaker is believed to be in serious peril. Meanwhile, one vote McCarthy needs belongs to George Santos. Rep. Ritchie Torres joins us on the ongoing Santos controversy. Also in this episode, the first Gen Z member of Congress, Rep.-elect Maxwell Frost, claps back to the Republicans mocking his struggle to rent in DC as America faces a housing crisis. Finally, Republicans love to call themselves "Pro-Life," but in recent weeks, many of those same people have voted against bare minimum protections for women and children. Joy calls them out. All this and more in this edition of The ReidOut on MSNBC.

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0:00.0	Tonight on the Readout, leader McCartney, do you have the speech to vote for Speaker
0:09.8	tomorrow?
0:11.8	Okay, did you have the vote for Speaker of Lachlan tomorrow?
0:18.3	Hey, we have a good day tomorrow.
0:21.5	Kevin McCartney plays Let's Make a Deal with the most radical fringe members of the Republican
0:26.8	Caucus with his longtime quest to become a speaker in serious peril.
0:33.0	Or a comical peril, depending on your point of view.
0:35.7	One vote Kevin needs belongs to George Santos, the biggest liar in Washington since Donald
0:41.6	Trump left town.
0:42.6	We're getting a look at Trump's taxes, but where did Santos get his money?
0:46.7	Also tonight, Gen Z finally arrives in Congress.
0:49.3	25-year-old congressman elect Maxwell Alejandro Frost joins me in Republicans, love to call
0:55.0	themselves pro-life, but in recent weeks many of those same people were voting against
1:00.2	bare minimum protections for women and children.
1:03.1	And tonight, we're calling them out.
1:05.7	We begin tonight with a Happy New Year to all.
1:09.1	We are now in the year 20 Michael Jordan, big upset Dr. Ashby for that one.
1:13.0	And hopefully 2023 won't weirdly decide to play baseball instead of sticking to its core
1:17.4	competency.
1:18.4	Now, 2022 ended with a couple of somber notes.
1:21.8	The Great Barbara Walters passed as did a retired Pope.
1:25.6	But we also learned some things.
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