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Welcome to the Bullwork podcast. I'm Trelle Sykes. It is January 5, 2023 and everything

is amazing. And I don't necessarily mean that in a good way. I mean, amazing and incredibly

shambolic, chaotic, shodden-froid inducing way. It's also a little bit scary. Joining me

to break all this down. Once again, Nicholas Confessori, reporter for the New York Times,

staff writer at The New York Times Magazine, and a political analyst for MSNBC. Welcome back

on the podcast, Nick. Hey, Trelle, it's great to be back. For regular listeners, we ran

in an encore edition of our last conversation where you did a really deep dive into Tucker Carlson's

program and how it was the most racist program on cable television, which is still a worth

reading. And you've done a deep dive into one of the more extraordinary figures, extraordinary

in quotation marks, extraordinary figures in the House GOP Elise Staphonic, who as of right

now is the number three Republican in an absolutely bizarrely chaotic House conference. She's

gone all in on Donald Trump. She described herself as ultra-maga. And I want to talk about

that in just a moment. But can we just start with this unprecedented series of events that

we've seen, the multiple votes for speakers, something we haven't had in a hundred years.

Kevin McCarthy continuing to engage in what I've described is self-guilding, surrendering

almost on every single point to the crazies in the caucus. It feels at this point is if

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