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The Lead with Jake Tapper

Mike Johnson Re-Elected Speaker of the House After Dramatic Vote

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

News

41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Protest votes before Mike Johnson is re-elected as House speaker. Message sent today by a handful of Republicans, but was it received? And in New Orleans, barriers on Bourbon Street that were not there before, might they been able to stop the terrorist attack that killed 14 innocent people? Plus, the links between alcohol and cancer, risks apparently so urgent the US Surgeon General today, calling for warning labels - will those happen?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Once again, drama on the floor of the house.

0:34.5

The lead starts right now.

0:36.8

Protest votes before Congress and John

0:38.8

Reelected as House Speaker. The message sent today by a handful of

0:43.8

Republicans, but was it received? We're going inside those huddles

0:47.4

talking with members seen in the side conversations in a view we rarely get to

0:51.3

see from the House floor and in New Orleans, barriers on Bourbon Street that were not there before,

0:56.8

might they have been able to stop the terrorist attack that killed 14 innocent people?

1:01.0

CNN is digging for answers as the family mourning the loss of a young mother joins us ahead.

1:06.0

Plus, the links between alcohol and cancer risks apparently so urgent, the U.S. Surgeon General, today calling for warning labels.

1:15.2

Will those happen?

1:20.6

Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper, and we begin with our breaking news after a marathon first ballot in the vote for House Speaker Republican Mike Johnson of Louisiana

1:28.4

will hold on to the gavel by a splinter.

1:32.8

The Honorable Mike Johnson of the state of Louisiana, having received a majority of the votes cast,

1:39.2

is duly elected Speaker of the House of Representatives for the 119th Congress.

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