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🗓️ 6 December 2023
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Josh and Kate bid a fond farewell to George Santos (and Kevin McCarthy!).
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0:00.0 | And the Oh, Hi this is Josh Marshall, and this is the Josh Marshall podcast with Kate Riga. |
0:37.9 | We actually have some breaking news that just moved maybe a half hour ago, something like that. |
0:44.6 | And we're recording just after 12 noon on Wednesday, |
0:49.4 | December 6th. |
0:50.7 | Kevin McCarthy just announced that he is going to be resigning from Congress at the |
0:56.3 | end of this calendar year so three weeks something like that And among other things with George Santos having been expelled, |
1:08.3 | becoming only the sixth person ever expelled from the House of Representatives with him leaving or him |
1:16.9 | leaving him gone and McCarthy leaving Kate and I were just talking about |
1:22.0 | this before the episode starts. |
1:23.8 | We think that's down to a two seat margin for House Republicans. |
1:28.6 | Now at the moment, no one seems to be passing anything. So maybe it's it's sort of a |
1:36.8 | theoretical issue. It could it could slightly complicate things whenever the House Freedom Caucus types get around to trying to boot |
1:48.4 | Mike Johnson, who now seems to be, I'm not sure he's in a he's in a honeymoon exactly it's not that |
1:58.4 | affirmative it's more that for the moment kind of no one cares freedom. No one care, you know freedom |
2:06.4 | caucus people don't care or whatever, you know, he's doing enough stuff for them to be happy with him. |
2:13.6 | But one thing that occurred to me, |
2:16.6 | you know, Johnson today is getting some flack |
2:21.8 | for the fact that he has agreed to release all of the Jan 6 |
2:28.9 | closed circuit TV footage that the House of Representatives owns and controls. |
2:36.2 | But as you've probably seen, he's decided that they're going to blur the pictures of the rioters inside the capital complex. |
2:47.6 | Why? |
2:49.4 | To prevent them from getting indicted. To prevent the Department of Justice from holding them to |
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