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The Daily Beast Podcast

No One Is Shedding a Tear for Kevin McCarthy

The Daily Beast Podcast

The Daily Beast

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4.6 • 8.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week on The New Abnormal, hosts Danielle Moodie and Andy Levy reflect on the downward spiral of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House. Plus! The Nation’s Elie Mystal stops by for a scary prediction if Trump returns to the White House in 2024. Then we talk to The Intercept’s Ryan Grim about his new book. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats.

0:11.0

So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's.

0:15.0

Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app.

0:20.0

Hi, I'm Andy Levy, former Fox News and CNN-H-LN guy, and current cable news conscientious

0:27.4

objector. I'm a former Libertarian who now sits comfortably on the left.

0:31.1

Hi, I'm Danielle Moody, former educator and recovering lobbyist, but today I'm an

0:36.0

unapologetic woke commentator on America's threats to democracy.

0:40.3

And I'm producer Jesse Cannon, and I'm here to make sure things don't go too far off the rails.

0:44.8

We're here to have fun, smart conversations with some of the most knowledgeable and

0:48.8

entertaining people in politics, media, and beyond.

0:51.8

Our goal is to try and make sense of our current crazy world,

0:56.0

our new abnormal, and hopefully even make you laugh through the tears.

1:00.4

What an excellent show we have today.

1:02.2

The nation's Ellie Mistal stops by to shine a light on a Trump appointed judge in the Eighth Circuit courts

1:07.0

plans to gut the Voting Rights Act.

1:09.0

Then we'll talk to the intercepts Ryan Grimm about his new book, The Squad, AOC, and the hope of a political revolution.

1:16.0

But first, let's have some fun.

1:18.0

McCarthy, we hardly knew ye.

1:21.0

Kevin. knew ye.

1:36.4

Kevin, poor Kevin, he of the limp gavel, his whole life just wanted to be speaker of the House and then finally got a hold of that monkey's paw and got what he wanted being elected speaker or chosen speaker after I think it was 934 times that he didn't get it.

1:46.0

He was then ousted as we all know and he now says that he will be resigning from Congress at the end of this year.

1:56.0

So he's not even going to finish out his term and I guess this falls under the

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