Mid-Day Update: October 4th, 2023
The Great America Show
Fawcett Strategies
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2023
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Lou breaks down some of today's top stories.
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| 0:27.5 | I'm Lou Dobs with this great America show, Midday Update for October 4th. |
| 0:32.4 | Promises broken and history-made Kevin McCarthy lost the speakership, |
| 0:37.0 | largely because he did back room and side deals with the Marxist Dims and Joe Biden. |
| 0:42.6 | He's the first speaker in American history to have been voted out of office, |
| 0:46.9 | and now the race is on to see who replaces him. |
| 0:50.6 | Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio has just announced he's running to be the new speaker, |
| 0:55.7 | the highly respected and well-regarded chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, |
| 1:00.3 | is in my opinion the most qualified and talented successor to McCarthy. |
| 1:05.0 | And the House Majority Leader, Steve Scalice, has said to be positioning himself |
| 1:09.8 | behind the scenes as well. |
| 1:11.6 | Whip Tom Emmer has also been mentioned as interested. |
| 1:15.0 | President Trump has said he'd be open to serving his speaker for a short term |
| 1:19.4 | if it would help the Republicans. |
| 1:21.8 | Newt Gingrich, no fan of the rough and tumble of the political arena and the Washington circus. |
| 1:28.2 | He called the Freedom Caucus and other conservatives in the House traitors. |
| 1:33.3 | Gingrich furious that his friend was betrayed, but he didn't mention that McCarthy flat out lied |
| 1:39.1 | to the conference and the conservatives, promising regular order that he wouldn't move legislation |
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