Sources: McCarthy expected to leave Congress before term ends

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🗓️ 6 October 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Sources tell CNN that just ousted Kevin McCarthy will leave Congress before the end of his term, perhaps as soon as a new speaker is elected. This as Donald Trump endorses a replacement for House speaker who once was called a legislative terrorist by a past Republican speaker. Plus, a bold message arrives in exclusively to CNN from a female activist behind bars in Iran who was just awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Kevin McCarthy says, bringing on and by it, I now mean a Fox News Contributorship.
0:08.2	The lead starts right now.
0:10.5	Sources telling CNN that just-austed speaker will leave Congress before the end of his
0:15.5	term.
0:16.5	Perhaps as soon as a new speaker is elected, this as Donald Trump endorses a man once called
0:22.6	a legislative terrorist by a past Republican speaker to be the next speaker.
0:29.0	Also ahead, eight years after Donald Trump came down the escalator and said Mexico is sending
0:33.8	rapists to the U.S. In a new interview, Trump says undocumented immigrants are, quote,
0:39.6	poisoning the blood of our country.
0:42.1	We'll get reaction from one of his Republican presidential rivals.
0:45.1	Plus, a bold message exclusively to CNN from a female activist behind bars in Iran,
0:52.6	who was just awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
0:59.8	Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper.
1:02.3	Well, this was eminently predictable.
1:04.0	Why bother to continue to represent the good people of Baker's Field, California,
1:08.7	as they elected you to do when there is presumably money to be made to money to be made?
1:14.0	We start today on Capitol Hill.
1:15.3	We're just moments ago.
1:16.2	Sources told CNN that austed house speaker, Kevin McCarthy, is expected to resign from Congress
1:21.6	before the end of his term.
1:24.5	He is expected to stick around through the election for his replacement, which is expected to
1:30.7	start next week.
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