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Hello and welcome to the DSR Daily. I'm one of your co-host David Rothkoff. I'm joined today by

Chris Cottonware. How are he doing this morning Chris?

Doing well, thanks. And Riley Fessler who likes to call this the

DSR Daily Doom scroll. How are you doing Riley? Not too bad this morning.

Characteristically upbeat view of the world.

Chris, what's the number one story on your list?

So the Republicans are going back to the drawing board

to try to pick a House speaker. This is the third time that they're trying to figure

out who the candidate's going to be. Over the weekend we had, depending on what you've read, 8 to 10 folks throw their hat in the ring.

It seems that Tom Emmer has emerged as a front runner but it also doesn't

seem that he has the support of the Freedom Caucus I have no confidence that this is going to get done today or anytime

soon. I continue to be sort of dismayed over the fact that the likes of Lauren

...