Scalise Throws Curveball in House Speaker Race, Northern Gaza Evacuates, Lawmaker Wants to Know Who Is Funding Anti-Israel Protests | Oct. 13
The Daily Signal
The Daily Signal
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | I'm Kate Trinco and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Friday, October 13th. |
| 0:08.1 | Here are today's headlines. |
| 0:21.0 | It looks like Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio might be the next speaker of the house. |
| 0:25.9 | It's been more than a week since California Republican Representative Kevin McCarthy |
| 0:29.7 | was ousted from his position as speaker of the house. |
| 0:33.4 | As you'll recall from our Wednesday show, Louisiana Republican Representative and House |
| 0:37.6 | Majority Leader Steve Scalice cured the GOP nomination in a vote of 113 to 99, defeating |
| 0:44.4 | House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan. |
| 0:47.6 | However, Scalice announced last night that he was dropping out of the race for the |
| 0:51.7 | speakership. |
| 0:52.7 | Let's listen to some of Scalice's remarks from Thursday evening via C-SPAN's X-Page. |
| 0:59.1 | I just share with my colleagues that I'm withdrawing my name as a candidate for the speaker |
| 1:03.8 | designate. |
| 1:06.3 | If you look at over the last few weeks, if you look at where our conference is, there's |
| 1:11.1 | still work to be done. |
| 1:13.5 | Our conference still has to come together and is not there. |
| 1:19.0 | There are still some people that have their own agendas, and I was very clear, we have |
| 1:23.2 | to have everybody put their agendas on the side and focus on what this country needs. |
| 1:29.6 | This country is counting on us to come back together. |
| 1:32.9 | This House of Representatives needs a speaker and we need to open up the House again. |
| 1:40.0 | But clearly, not everybody is there, and there's still schisms that have to get resolved. |
| 1:47.9 | I never came here for a title. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Daily Signal, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Daily Signal and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.