McCarthy Schism
What A Day
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🗓️ 4 January 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Republicans made history on Tuesday by failing to select a new House Speaker on the first vote for the first time in 100 years. Rep. Kevin McCarthy couldn’t get enough support from his own party in three rounds of voting, as his colleagues clashed over who should get the speaker’s gavel.
Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin remains in critical condition after he collapsed on the field during his team’s highly-anticipated game against the Cincinnati Bengals Monday night. Lindsay Jones, the senior NFL editor at The Ringer, walks us through what happened, and how it could impact the league.
And in headlines: Ukraine said that Moscow may step up its use of drone attacks, Southwest Airlines said it would give out frequent-flier miles to travelers impacted by last week’s holiday meltdown, and Sam Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty to defrauding FTX investors.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, January 4th. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Priyanka Eribindi. |
| 0:09.1 | And I'm wanting to tell you this is what a day. |
| 0:11.1 | Encouraging you to start the year by deleting all the distracting apps off your phone except |
| 0:14.9 | the ones that play podcasts. |
| 0:16.4 | Yeah, we want your phone to be so boring that you have no desire to do anything on it |
| 0:21.6 | except for listening to our show in the morning. |
| 0:24.4 | That's all you should be doing. |
| 0:25.4 | Yeah, your screen time will take a dive. |
| 0:26.9 | It'll be great for everybody. |
| 0:31.2 | On today's show, more flooding is expected in California as another atmospheric river |
| 0:36.6 | barrels towards the state. |
| 0:38.6 | Plus, Southwest Airlines is trying to make amends for its holiday travel meltdown. |
| 0:43.4 | Yikes. |
| 0:44.4 | But first, Republicans took control of the house yesterday at noon and the chaotic conference |
| 0:49.0 | didn't waste a second making their mark and making history by not selecting a speaker |
| 0:54.4 | of the house on the first vote for the first time in 100 years. |
| 0:59.2 | To add insult to injury, Kevin McCarthy made the Asinine Power Poster decision to move |
| 1:04.2 | his crap into the speaker suite of offices before the vote. |
| 1:07.6 | And of course, Republicans didn't hesitate in removing the metal detectors from the entrances |
| 1:12.3 | to the house floor, which mind you, were added post-January 6th and after, Republican |
| 1:18.0 | members threatened to bring guns to the house floor. |
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