McCarthy struggling to secure enough votes to become Speaker

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 3 January 2023

⏱️ 91 minutes

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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is struggling to secure enough votes to become the next speaker of the House. A group of at least nine Republicans have made it clear that they’re not sold on him leading the House GOP. Former Republican Congressman Will Hurd tells Anderson Cooper why he thinks the pushback McCarthy is facing is “a problem of leadership that goes back years.” Plus, new details are emerging about the suspect in the murder of four University Idaho students but key questions about the his alleged motive and his connections to the victims are still unanswered. Bryan Kohberger’s lawyer has hinted that his client will waive extradition and will likely be back in Idaho within 72 hours. CNN Chief Law Enforcement and Intelligence Analyst John Miller joins AC360 to discuss when more details could be revealed. 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.
0:01.6	We begin tonight with the very real possibility that House Republicans tomorrow will do something
0:05.8	that has not been done for a hundred years.
0:08.4	It's possible, perhaps even likely, that when the chamber's very first piece of business
0:11.8	comes up, choosing the next speaker something necessary for anything else to proceed, they
0:17.1	will fail to get the required number of votes to make former minority leader Kevin McCarthy,
0:21.9	Nancy Pelosi's successor as speaker.
0:24.2	And beyond the drama of the history that could be made tomorrow, if the first vote fails
0:28.9	and it goes to another, and then as many as it takes, there's also, of course, the irony.
0:33.4	McCarthy, who wants to succeed, Nancy Pelosi, a woman widely acknowledged, be one of the
0:37.5	most successful legislative head counters and armed twisters of all time, is still trying,
0:42.9	which is hours to go, to count enough heads and twist enough arms.
0:47.1	Do you have the votes for speaker locked in tomorrow?
0:50.5	I think we have a good day to watch.
0:54.1	Well that remains to be seen.
0:55.1	Just ask a fellow Republican.
0:59.1	I won't be both for Kevin McCarthy tomorrow.
1:01.5	He's part of the problem.
1:02.7	He's not part of the solution.
1:05.0	I was Congressman Bob Good speaking down Fox this morning.
1:07.9	He's won a five Republican to our hard knows enough on their own to deny him the speakership.
1:13.2	Nine others today said that they're not yet ready to vote.
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