McCarthy suffers defeat on 3rd speaker ballot

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🗓️ 4 January 2023

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For the first time since 1923, the vote for House speaker has gone to multiple ballots leaving Rep. Kevin McCarthy without enough votes. GOP Rep. Chip Roy of Texas joins to discuss his vocal opposition to McCarthy. Former acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney also joins to answer how he sees the future of the House playing out. 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	Welcome to this special edition of the Leedum Jake Tapper.
0:07.0	We are following the messy chaotic first time in a century floor fight for the House Speaker
0:11.8	is Gavill, Republican leader Kevin McCarthy becoming the first majority party nominee for
0:16.9	the Speakership to fail on the first and it appears second ballot since 1923, the House
0:22.5	clerk is trying to call the House to order, let's listen in.
0:30.8	Will the House be in order?
0:42.6	The Tellers agree in their tallies that the total number of votes cast is 434, of which
0:52.0	the Honorable Hakim Jeffries of the State of New York has received 212.
1:09.6	The Honorable Kevin McCarthy of the State of California has received 203.
1:31.4	The Honorable Jim Jordan of the State of Ohio has received 19.
1:40.1	No person haven't received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname,
1:46.9	a speaker has not been elected.
1:50.4	For what purpose does the gentleman from Louisiana rise?
1:54.1	Madam Clerk, I rise to nominate Kevin McCarthy for the position of Speaker of the House.
1:59.6	The gentleman is recognized.
2:12.8	The gentleman is recognized.
2:14.4	Thank you Madam Clerk.
2:15.9	We all came here to get things done, to get big things done, to solve the problems.
2:24.2	And I hope when we get through today that all of the members on both sides of the I will
2:28.7	join together with us to solve the problems, to address inflation that is crushing middle
2:34.2	class families, to get control over spending, that's driving that inflation at work.
2:38.9	And we all know what those problems are.
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