Never Have I Emmer
What A Day
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🗓️ 25 October 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
The whirlwind saga to choose the next House speaker continues. After three rounds of secret votes late Tuesday night, House Republicans nominated Rep. Mike Johnson as their latest contender. The move came after Rep. Tom Emmer dropped out of the race just hours after he was selected as the GOP’s speaker designee.
One of the two Israeli hostages recently released by Hamas told reporters she “went through hell,” during her two weeks in captivity. More than 200 others are still being held by the militant group. Meanwhile, Israel has continued its bombardment of Gaza, despite calls from UN Secretary General António Guterres for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.
And in headlines: former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows was reportedly granted immunity by special counsel Jack Smith, more than three dozen attorneys general are going after Instagram’s parent company for features they say are hurting kids, and the United Auto Workers union once again expanded its ongoing strike.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, October 25th. |
| 0:08.2 | I'm Priyanka Aribindi, and I'm on you to Tolliver, and this is What A Day. |
| 0:12.0 | On today's show, even more of Donald Trump's allies are turning against him, plus a bipartisan |
| 0:17.6 | group of attorneys general are going after Instagram's parent company for features that |
| 0:21.9 | they say are hurting kids. |
| 0:24.0 | But first, another one bites the dust, and this time, it was in record time. |
| 0:29.6 | Republican Representative Tom Emmer dropped out of the House Speaker Race mere hours after |
| 0:34.3 | he was selected as the Speaker Designed by the Republican Conference. |
| 0:38.2 | Seriously, Emmer only had the spot for four hours, like, to the minute. |
| 0:43.8 | And it feels like every single day is a new opportunity for the Republican Party to show |
| 0:49.0 | the world exactly how unserious they are about their job, about democracy, Congress, |
| 0:54.9 | leadership, you know, all that stuff. |
| 0:56.7 | Absolutely, totally unserious, forcing us to learn names of people. |
| 1:00.6 | We have no business knowing that part, very unnecessary. |
| 1:04.4 | So what exactly took Emmer down so fast here? |
| 1:08.2 | Well, we got two things. |
| 1:10.0 | His vote to certify the 2020 election and a truth social post from Donald Trump. |
| 1:16.4 | Here's what Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene had to say about rejecting Emmer. |
| 1:20.0 | Couldn't support him for Speaker of the House. |
| 1:23.3 | His voting record is what turned me. |
| 1:25.8 | He had voted against President Trump's ban on trench-enders in the military. |
| 1:31.0 | He voted for the Democrat's gay marriage bill that opens up churches and other places |
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