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Laura Coates Live

McCarthy’s six losses, abortion pill access, Damar Hamlin improving

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

The House adjourns again without electing a Speaker after Kevin McCarthy suffers six humiliating losses in his Speakership bid. The panel discusses what the chaos in the GOP means for democracy, and the if the deal McCarthy is now pushing to end the impasse will ultimately leave him with any real power or respect. The FDA is to allow certified pharmacies to dispense abortion pills to patients who have a prescription. But with the recent implementation of abortion restrictions in many states, will this move spark a legal backlash?Also tonight: The Bills’ Damar Hamlin is showing “improvement” but still remains in critical condition, and the Idaho student killings suspect arrives into the custody of Idaho County, ahead of the document that gave police probable cause being unsealed by a judge.Hosted by Laura Coates. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good evening, everyone. I'm Laura Cotes and this is CNN Tonight. And well, they're going

0:12.9

to come back and do it all again tomorrow. The house voting to adjourn until noon, I'm

0:18.0

probably that's congressional time as opposed to 9 a.m. And they just barely got the votes

0:22.6

to even do that tomorrow, giving Kevin McCarthy a few more hours to try to make a last-ditch

0:28.7

deal that would give him the speakership.

0:31.4

I think it's probably best let people work through some more. I don't think vote tonight

0:40.4

doesn't have any vote in the future. Do you have a deal with those guys right now?

0:45.1

No, not really, that's put a lot of progress.

0:48.3

Well, he says he's making well a lot of progress and our reporting indicates that some members

0:52.8

may actually be moving in McCarthy's direction, which may be a bit of a break in the clouds

0:57.7

for him. But there's no doubt the horse trading will go on well into the night, but it's

1:02.9

been a long and chaotic and frankly embarrassing display so far. We were three votes yesterday,

1:11.6

three more votes earlier today.

1:16.3

No member elect haven't received a majority of the whole number of votes cast. A speaker

1:22.6

has not been elected. A speaker has not been elected. A speaker has not been elected.

1:31.4

She's just recorded that and keep pushing play throughout the day today and maybe it might

1:35.5

happen again tomorrow because they still have not managed to elect a speaker of the house,

1:40.5

not yet anyway. And it's been a hundred years since this has actually even happened. Let

1:46.4

alone on the first round or the second or now maybe going into a seventh or more round.

1:50.9

And we can feel like it will be maybe a hundred more before they finally get all of this

1:56.5

done. Kevin McCarthy is really fighting for his political life and for the job that he

2:02.0

has been very, very clear that he's wanted all along. But it just shows you how hard really

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