No Republicans Fears the Wrath of Kevin McCarthy w/ Andy Levy

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🗓️ 2 July 2021

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So House Majority Kevin McCarthy says he’ll strip committee assignments from any Republican who deigns to serve on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Jan. 6 select commission. The New Abnormal co-host Molly Jong-Fast wants to know: Can he actually do that? Not by himself, says NBC News reporter Jonathan Allen. “In order for Kevin McCarthy to make good on this threat, Nancy Pelosi would have to allow a House floor vote on whether to take Liz Cheney off of her committees, as punishment for joining Pelosi’s select committee on Jan. 6.” Also on the show, comedian Andy Levy joins Molly and co-host Jesse Cannon to talk about Meghan McCain’s exit from The View—“a victory for passive-aggressive hairstylists”—and where she’ll go next. Finally on the episode, lawyer Daniel Goldman, who served as general counsel for former President Trump’s impeachment trial, weighs in on the new charges for Trump Organization CFO Allen Weiselberg and what it means for Trump and the rule of law. 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	Hi, I'm Molly Jongfast and welcome to the Daily Beast, the new abnormal.
0:05.8	I'm a left-wing pundit and an editor at large at the Daily Beast.
0:09.6	We're here to have fun, sharp conversations with some of the smartest people in media, politics, and science
0:16.4	that help make what's happening in the country and the world clearer.
0:20.2	Our world has been turned up to a down.
0:22.3	On the new abnormal, we'll talk about the people who got us into this mess and figure out how to get ourselves out of it.
0:29.0	And I'm producer Jesse Kennan. I'm here to make sure things don't go too far off the rails.
0:33.7	We have such a fun show today.
0:35.5	John Allen, who is an NBC political reporter and author of Gluckey, joins us to talk about what's going on in politics.
0:41.8	And then we'll talk to Daniel Goldman, who is the lawyer who got the first impeachment of President Donald Trump.
0:47.6	And he's going to talk to us about the legal jeopardy Trump is in now that Alan Weiselberg has been charged
0:52.4	and the Supreme Court's decision on voting rights.
0:55.0	But first, we're joined by comedian Andy Rivegan.
0:59.0	Hello, Andy Levy.
1:01.0	Hello, Molly, John Fist. How are you?
1:02.8	Welcome back to the new abnormal. This is becoming a thing.
1:06.8	It is a little bit. Yeah, don't tell anyone though.
1:09.1	That's a thing. I won. We'll keep it our secret.
1:12.0	Okay, cool.
1:13.0	So I feel like today was a victory for passive aggressive hairstylists ever.
1:18.0	Is this about Kevin McCarthy?
1:22.4	Yes, it is about Kevin McCarthy.
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