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Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our Three.

Hello, America. Welcome. It is Eric Erickson here across the nation. The phone number 877-97933-7-425. If you want to be on the program,ed to have you with me. Stand by on the phones.

I got to bring you up to speed. Jim Jordan lost 20 Republicans. He will not be Speaker of the House.

Bob Good of Virginia urging him to stay in as many ballots as necessary to wear him down.

I will tell you, a member of Congress texted me and he said,

uh, it can't reward the hostage takers. Can't reward the hostage takers. He believes this member

of Congress that by supporting Jim Jordan, who he's not, uh, predisposed to, he doesn't hate Jordan, but he thinks it's a reward to Mad Gates.

And he's still upset about what happened with Kevin McCarthy. And he's not willing to go along with Jordan because he believes that that was the ultimate in-game by Nancy Mason, Matt Gates and the others.

He doesn't want to reward them. so he's not willing to vote for

Jim Jordan. There were 20 Republicans like that. That's actually a worse outcome than what

Kevin McCarthy had to begin with. So the gap to close is bigger, and several of these people

are saying absolutely not because of like what this member of Congress texted me, that

this would be negotiating with the hostage

takers and rewarding the hostage takers. It would reward Matt Gates. This plunges the house,

of course, into further chaos. And we've got about 32, 33 days before government shutdown.

And you've got a military situation growing in the Middle East, among other things.

Jordan was willing to make compromises on Ukraine funding and other things. This is starting to

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