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The Shadow Fight for Speaker

Start Here

ABC News

Politics, Daily News, News

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

With their caucus in disarray, Republicans begin throwing hats into the ring to be House speaker. Uganda’s anti-LGBTQ law, considered the most restrictive on Earth, sends gay citizens into hiding. And Kaiser Permanente employees stage the largest healthcare strike in American history. Vote for Start Here at the Signal Awards: https://vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting#/2023/shows/general/news-politics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's Thursday, October 5th, and if you always wanted to be speaker of the house, well,

0:04.7

here's your chance.

0:05.7

We start here.

0:07.0

House Republicans are vying to replace Kevin McCarthy, but do any of them have the votes?

0:13.9

I am not convinced that Republicans are going to be able to elect a speaker next week.

0:18.7

This is beginning to worry anyone who cares about, I don't know, getting laws passed.

0:22.8

They were disowned by their churches, now they're being hunted by their government.

0:26.9

What were they saying?

0:28.0

They were asking that, are you lesbians?

0:30.8

Then me, I told them no.

0:32.6

Our team goes to Uganda to witness perhaps the world's most repressive anti-gay law,

0:38.0

and nurses sound the siren on staffing.

0:40.8

I had patience, Carmen, what can you do for me?

0:43.8

And I couldn't do anything for them.

0:46.0

The biggest healthcare strike in American history is underway.

0:51.6

From ABC News, this is Start Here.

0:54.4

I'm Brad Milky.

0:58.7

There's a lot of hyperbole in politics, a lot of overstatements, but it is not a stretch

1:06.3

to say what's happened the last 48 hours is perhaps one of the quickest, most unexpected

1:10.7

political upheavals in modern congressional history.

1:14.3

The office of Speaker of the House of the United States House of Representatives is here

1:20.4

by declared vacant.

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