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The Playbook Podcast

Nov. 17, 2021: McCarthy’s latest crazy-town headache

The Playbook Podcast

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🗓️ 17 November 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

If you want to know more about the state of the House GOP conference, today should provide a pretty telling snapshot. Ten months after rioters stormed the Capitol hunting for lawmakers, most House Republicans are expected to vote against rebuking one of their colleagues, Paul Gosar, who posted an anime video of himself stabbing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. And, voters have increasing doubts about the health and mental fitness of President Joe Biden, the oldest man ever sworn into the White House, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.” Subscribe to POLITICO Playbook. Raghu Manavalan is the host of POLITICO's Playbook.Jenny Ament is the senior producer for POLITICO Audio. Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO Audio.

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0:00.0

Presented by Facebook.

0:02.8

Hey, good morning, Playbookers, I'm Roguminovalin. It's Wednesday. And if you want to know more about

0:07.4

the state of the House GOP conference, today should provide a pretty telling snapshot.

0:12.6

This is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

0:19.2

Ten months after rioters stormed the capital hunting for lawmakers, most House Republicans

0:23.6

are expected to vote against rebuking one of their own colleagues, Paul Gosar, who posted an

0:28.9

anime video of himself stabbing Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the neck.

0:34.1

At the same time, the GOP Ranking file is having a heated debate about punishing the 13

0:39.2

centrist Republicans who voted for the bipartisan infrastructure bill. Never mind that former

0:44.1

President Donald Trump applied for a big bipartisan win like this while he was in office.

0:49.5

Fringe members, like Representative Marjorie Taylor Green, are pushing to strip the quote

0:53.2

traitors of their committee

0:54.5

assignments. She posted their phone numbers online, leading to harassing calls and at least one death

0:59.2

threat. The conversation that dominated Tuesday's GOP conference meeting wasn't about GOSAR's video,

1:03.9

but whether to boot moderate Representative John Katko from his position, his House Homeland Security

1:08.4

Committee ranking member, for backing the BIF.

1:12.4

Here's how the vote will go down today.

1:17.4

The Senior House GOPA tells us that leadership is confident that no more than a handful of Republicans, including Liz Cheney and Adam Kisinger, will side with Democrats in booting

1:22.3

Gosar from his committee assignments.

1:24.3

Here's why.

1:25.1

Reason one, an apology.

1:26.8

Leaders have told members that the video

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