MCCARTHY SACKED: Why is the Republican Party eating itself alive?
The News Agents - USA
Global
4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, is ousted by his own party. The first time it's happened in US history. It's the start of a Republican civil war.
Why has it happened? Because he dared to find compromise with the Democrats.
What is going on in that party?
What does it tell us about the chance of the parties ever working together?
And later, Trump is on trial in New York. It’s a civil case that could cost him millions and see him stripped of assets, hotels and businesses. Trump and the courts meet once more.
Editor: Gabriel Radus
Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Producer: Will Gibson-Smith
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.3 | The yeas are 216. The nays are 210. The resolution is adopted. Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. |
| 0:25.0 | The office of Speaker of the House of the United States House of Representatives is hereby declared vacant. |
| 0:34.3 | This is an extraordinary moment in US history. |
| 0:40.1 | We are used to Donald Trump's firsts, |
| 0:44.2 | but this is the first time in the United States |
| 0:47.0 | that the Speaker, the third most powerful person in the US Constitution |
| 0:52.7 | after the President and Vice President has been kicked |
| 0:56.2 | out of office unceremoniously after a coup led by the ultra-maga Republicans. |
| 1:04.6 | One of their own. Just to put this in context for you, it is just after 10 o'clock on Tuesday night, we've run in from the rain as the news was breaking, to try and make sense of what has just happened. |
| 1:19.3 | And to explain to you why we think this is important. |
| 1:23.0 | The Speaker, Kevin McCarthy, Republican, the third most important position in the US, the top level |
| 1:31.4 | Republican in America, has been removed by the Republican Party. In favor of his removal, |
| 1:40.0 | with 216 votes in the House of Representatives, just 210 tried to save him. |
| 1:47.2 | It is the first time in history that a speaker has been removed by his own party. |
| 1:52.8 | Welcome to the Newsagents USA. |
| 2:02.8 | It's John. |
| 2:03.7 | It's Emily. |
| 2:11.6 | And this is Newsagents USA, where we have come back together late in the evening in Manchester where the Conservative Party conference is getting underway, and there have been some dramas here, |
| 2:16.3 | but nothing quite like the drama |
| 2:18.0 | that has unfolded in the House of Representatives where the speaker Kevin McCarthy who it was a battle |
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